Kaelith

Ok. I've played warhammer fantasy for most of my life (now that's scary). I gave up and lost interest in the gaming system about 2 years ago in favour of reading the books and enjoying the lore that surounds the game.

So on that basis I think I have quite a good grasp of the warhammer world in general.

Some ideas for an RP guild based in the warhammer world:

Empire

Empire militia - a band of humans (with maybe some ogres) who make up a rag tag mob of semi-well equiped fighting men. mostly halberdiers, spearmen, archers, crossbowmen. maybe led by a well equipped noble or just a militia captain or sergeant.

Empire household - a rich noble, surrounded by his advisors and personal knights. Would allow for a large number of options ranging from civilians to household mages and maybe a militia unit.

Chaos

Chaos cult - a band of chaotic humans. probably quite purely equipped. maybe led by a chaos warrior of somesort.

chaos warband - a large band of many forms of warriors, sorcerers and creatures from the chaos wastes. led by a champion of chaos.

Dwarf

Kings guard - a band of dwarf hammerers only.

Dwarf cave patrol - a band of dwarf iron breakers only.

Dwarf clan - much like the empire household. led by a dwarf thane, would allow for all types of dwarves to be part of it.

Greenskins

Orc warband - a Horde of various types of greenskins led by the biggest the badest and the greenest one of them.


My personal favourites are the Empire Household as our GM can be the noble and lead the guild in that role, or the Chaos warband for much the same reason. The other ideas are very limiting and especially not great for beta testing for this reason also.

Geronimo

Greenskin!

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Rolo

I think we'll be going Destro but yeh I like the idea of some of the chaos names. As far as a leader goes it'd be leader IC definately not OOC as I'd like to have no heirachy.
What do the rest of you think?

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Kaelith

I spose for beta it's better ot just leave it open, so a warband of some sort would be ideal.

Rolo

Anyone got any good idea's for a Chaos Warband?

XVth Chaos Legion or something.

My knowledge of Warhammer rp is appauling only played 40k when I was 12 or 13

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callumf

I just am reading Orcs! which has an Orc warband called the Wolverines.

Kind of corny but what the heck.

And greenskins or chaotic or undead for me! [but ill do anything really if we get in]

We need the Ozle + peeps here asap

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Kaelith

A chaos warband wouldn't have a number.

The 40k chaos marine chapters were once loyal to the emperor and retained their legion numbers when they turned traitor.

In fantasy a chaos warband would have a tribal name, The Ravagers, The Skull splitters etc. Much like Orcs, but a little more savage and grimly descriptive.

Aeribian IV

Nothing too heavy or stupid during Beta to be honest, I dont want to get into the beta to be bogged down by RP concerns, I will want to be testing the game, see if its any good and meets expectations (Inbetween bug reports)

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Rolo

Definately agree with that, we're not going in as an rp guild, we're going in as what ever you want to do. This is good though guys any concerns please write them down, I'll try to respond to them best as I can.

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callumf

ok

So heres my thoughts.

When I started playing WoW it was mainly as a true means of escapism from the "pressures" of playing UO which, if you want to take an active part in requires a lot of dedicated time - otherwise you just miss out on too much stuff and get left behind. I played it solo for about three months and it was a blast with some interesting little rp lite things going on.

Then I realised I missed the fun and camaraderie of a guild and the multi=player aspect of a mmo and so I hooked up with some ex-uoers on Defias an rpvp server in wow. Problem was I was already so far "behind" that I was never going to catch up and wouldnt want to ne some sort fo burden on the rest etc etc

This time around I want to go play a game with some mates - which is what I should have done in wow to start off with.

I always wanted to play a game "from the start" and this gives me an opportunity to do that very thing. I dare say after two weks Ill be lagging behind again - but I dont care - the chance to play a game with players I have always admired and liked givves me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Sounds a bit g-hey I know but there you go.

I will play any sort of race, alignment or species - I will role play , pvm , pvp , whatever it takes just to have some honest fun with the people I have come to see as people I can relate to and get on with.

And like Aeri/Ozle said soemwhere "isnt it time we were all in a game together again?"

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Kaelith

that's sort of what I thought the guild would be about

I just wanted to put some warhammer characterist type gatherings into a thread for people to get the grips with the warhammer world and stuff..

Rolo

Cal you pretty much rounded up how I envision the guild so don't worry about it.

And your part of wanting to be in the game from the start is a major part of why I'm in this too.

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Veggy

Chaos were Humans turned by chaotic magic like hundreds of years before the game is set. The deamons and the magic they brought with them were created in an accident by the Old Ones, which were creators of everything and they are preached too by the Slann [Lizardmen giant fat frogs].

Basically the Old ones did an oopsy with magic, that opened up like a wormhole/portal thing to a chaotic realm/dimension, they all spewed out of these northern lands and have absolutely no regard for other life. They are not so much Svagely like Orcs, but an Organised Race like the Empire

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Henry Winter

You can play empire priests aye? An empire fanatic based guild with plenty of priestly types and some militia to back them up.

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Kaelith

the realm and powers of chaos are eternally playing the minds of mortal men and their numbers vary constantly as they draw new people in with promises of great power and also from the great amount that die in the service of the gods of chaos. the realm of chaos has existed, as you rightly point out, since the old ones opened the portal at the top of the world and ever since then it has existed and effected the thoughts and alliegences of all creatures of the world.

the realm of chaos is a vast vast place with many layers, but it IS a savage place. it is a realm of total chaos, where war bands constantly fight each other and there is no structure beyond the internal hierachies of the tribes that dwell inside it's influence, a hierachy purely based on strength and power. great war leaders command their tribes and can only survive by fighting and constantly moving and worshipping the gods in the hope that they will bestow favours upon their tribes men on the great quest to becoming one of the gods chosen or even being elevated to daemonhood.

the only times when the chaos realm ever comes into line and unites is when an annointed is chosen by the gods and after carving a bloody swathe across te realm of chaos, eventually unites the tribes and unleashes them and the power of the gods into the mortal realm.

but the realm of chaos is a place of eternal warfare and is chaos in every sense of the word.