Fandom Mass Effect Andromeda [Open: 3 empty slots]

[SilverFlight]

((No spoilers in text, if you want to talk about the game then hide all potential spoilers))

I will just throw this idea out there, I want to see how many people bite:

The story will be in the Mass Effect Andromeda universe, thousands of colonists of varying species from the milky way have arrived in Andromeda to find their new home. They discover however, that their 'golden worlds' are not what they had hoped and the native people of Andromeda, the Angara are locked in a near-century-old war with an invading force of aliens known as the Kett. They also have to worry about specific factions of Milky Way peoples that broke away from the Andromeda initiative one year prior, fed up with the way the leadership was handling things. These outlaws are in it for themselves and pose a real threat to the initiative and to the Angara as well.

A collaborative effort between the Angara and the milky way species has given rise to a series of precision strike teams known as APEX. This will be the story of one of those teams.

In short, it's an rp based off the multiplayer game mode, but with a story I will develop as we go. You do not have to have beaten the game, or even have played it. This will be a separate story from the main one.
I will expect fairly literate players.

 

[Collidias Rex]

Questions:

1: How many players is your max?

2: Player selection: First-come first-serve? Or will you select from applicants?

3: How tough is the standard Apex soldier?

4: Are our characters going to be above-average in terms of combat or mental capability? Are we mooks? Elite mooks? Quirky miniboss squad?

5: Would you prefer that we stick more-or-less to canon roles (classes), or are you comfortable with customized roles?

 

[SilverFlight]

Collidias Rex
1. aprox 8
2. First qualified profiles get in, there will be guidelines
3-4. Newbies, just joined, though could have had basic training elsewhere. I.e. No N7s or seasoned asari commandos etc.
5. Customized is fine as long as they are not op. Use best judgement.

 

[SilverFlight]

bump

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

I'll join!

 

[Archdemon]

Interested!

 

[Lord Potato]

Interested!

 

[Melanin-Gxdess]

A Mass Effect inspired rp?

Im in!​

 

[SilverFlight]

Great, just a couple more and I'll try and get this up.

 

[SilverFlight]

gotta be more ppl however.

 

[SilverFlight]

bump

 

[wdinatx]

I'll join... if having beaten the game isn't required

 

[IrritatedMind]

I am interested if you are still looking for people. I do have a question though... In Andromeda, you don't have the tech armor skill that was in two and three, but instead, the sentinel profile gives you better shields. Would we use profiles like that, or could we have the skill? I know the profile thing is specific to just the pathfinder so...

 

[SilverFlight]

I am interested if you are still looking for people. I do have a question though... In Andromeda, you don't have the tech armor skill that was in two and three, but instead, the sentinel profile gives you better shields. Would we use profiles like that, or could we have the skill? I know the profile thing is specific to just the pathfinder so...

There is a skill called fortify, which does pretty much the exact same thing, just with a speed reduction. The fact that this is a text-based rp and won't have any real damage stats means you could use either if it suited you. Of course the tech exists so its logical that someone could have brought it to Heleus, even if it wasn't standard issue, if its the name of the thing that is important.

 

[SilverFlight]

I'll join... if having beaten the game isn't required

No beating game required. And I will limit talk of it to spoiler notes. I will try not to reveal any more than I did in that first post up there, save some small culture and biology bits about the species. No big plot twists.

 

[SilverFlight]

I think we might have enough ppl now, but I will still accept more applicants if they are out there. Expect the rp up within the next few days.

 

[wdinatx]

No beating game required. And I will limit talk of it to spoiler notes. I will try not to reveal any more than I did in that first post up there, save some small culture and biology bits about the species. No big plot twists.

Got it.

 

[SilverFlight]

What do you guys think of an opening letter from Kandros?

 

[wdinatx]

That's cool. Plus I'm (barely) far enough in the game to know what those names are.

 

[IrritatedMind]

SilverFlight Alright, this sounds good to me so far. I was actually looking for a rp just like this one. A few more questions if you don't mind though. I will just list them to get them organized.

1. Do you have a different form already set up for character sheets?
   
2. How will we be engaging enemies or exploring in the role-play? By that I mean will we just all say what we are doing and then you as the DM states what happens or will there be an order system where one person acts at a time and you tell what their action did before the next person acts.
3. Are there any restrictions that are to be placed on our characters. For example having someone like Jack who was experimented on in order to make the strongest human biotic possible (I am just making sure I remember how to do spoilers with BBCode, I am sure everyone knows who she is) would make the character border on being OP.
4. What all information do you want on the character sheet? I figure the basics obviously, Name, Age, Alien Race, and background Background, but was also thinking stuff like Former Training, some people prefer personality some don't, munitions training, and starting skills. I am asking because I will probably get started on building my character sheet right now and I can add or take out info if I put too little or too much. If I make the cut that is.
5. Is this going to be like a DnD type of thing where you roll the dice to see if our actions are successful or something more along the lines of you just going with the flow and basing success based off of what we are doing and who we are fighting?
6. How do you plan to handle someone dropping out of the rp, and how often are replies needed? I try to get on once a day, but if I am busy it might slow done to 1-3 times a week.

 

[SilverFlight]

SilverFlight Alright, this sounds good to me so far. I was actually looking for a rp just like this one. A few more questions if you don't mind though. I will just list them to get them organized.

1. Do you have a different form already set up for character sheets?
   
2. How will we be engaging enemies or exploring in the role-play? By that I mean will we just all say what we are doing and then you as the DM states what happens or will there be an order system where one person acts at a time and you tell what their action did before the next person acts.
3. Are there any restrictions that are to be placed on our characters. For example having someone like Jack would make the character border on being OP.
4. What all information do you want on the character sheet? I figure the basics obviously, Name, Age, Alien Race, and background Background, but was also thinking stuff like Former Training, some people prefer personality some don't, munitions training, and starting skills. I am asking because I will probably get started on building my character sheet right now and I can add or take out info if I put too little or too much. If I make the cut that is.
5. Is this going to be like a DnD type of thing where you roll the dice to see if our actions are successful or something more along the lines of you just going with the flow and basing success based off of what we are doing and who we are fighting?
6. How do you plan to handle someone dropping out of the rp, and how often are replies needed? I try to get on once a day, but if I am busy it might slow done to 1-3 times a week.

1. I have a form, I'm not sure what its supposed to be different from?
2. I'll have characters, but I will introduce the most of the main challenges. It will be like writing a book. Classical forum-based rp.
3. That much enhancement would be OP. There will be no "I'm the strongest biotic/warrior/whatever" I'd like our characters all to be on a level playing field. It'll be your creativity that gets you out of situations, not your power.
4. Name, age etc is all correct.There will be a description of the character's personality and a bio section, where you can write in the former training, though, as stated, it won't have been that long. Our pool is from the Nexus militia, the individuals with the training already have solid positions. As for skills, I'll have a section where you can list 3, maybe 4, as in multiplayer and ask that you give a one sentence description which you can just copy-paste from the official pages. I also tend to put a 'character flaws' section for development. Those can get very interesting. Personality and bio should be a minimum of two chunky paragraphs each. Those are all the main things.
5. No dice rolls, we just write. Some enemies you can write for, some you will need to wait for me to write responses. I will let you know which is which.
6. I'm not fussed with trying to coordinate a dramatic exit scene for people that have dropped out, I find it just simpler to continue without them. That posting rate is fine. I'm putting a minimum of once a week, but usually the threads I write are faster. I will be checking in about once a day.

I hope I got everything for you there. XD you can ask me anything else.

 

[SilverFlight]

Collidias Rex Lord Potato ThatGuyWithSouvlaki Archdemon Melanin-Gxdess wdinatx IrritatedMind

Ok, just a second tally, the thread is almost written.
Who is still in and, if I may ask, which species do you wish to play? It'll help me select my characters to balance.

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Still interested and Turian most likely.

 

[Archdemon]

Interested still, and I have no real preference on what to play as.

 

[Lord Potato]

Still interested and Salarian.