War of the Worlds

LordSaladin · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **LordSaladin** on Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:25 am

Firstly, I thought that a War of the Worlds RP would be pretty interesting - after all, it is an interesting story. My problem was how to run the roleplay without it being simply a group effort at retelling the story. Anyway, I came up with an idea that I think could work.

I'm pretty sure that a lot of you will know the story, so there's no need to give details of that. However, I will explain a little bit about how I envisage such a roleplay 'going down.'

Akin to the (fairly) recent movie adaptation of the book, I figure that putting the roleplay into a modern setting would probably work the best. Now, rather than people taking the role of those 'pivotal' to the plot, or who have any 'real' influence, perhaps it would be interesting for each player to roleplay an ordinary, everyday person. How do these people deal with such events? What drives them to survive? Can they survive? What happens after the Martians have been killed? Do families fall apart, get drawn together, or something else entirely?

That sort of thing should be the focus of the roleplay, I think. In terms of the canon plot, I will be Game Mastering the key events; most likely in the form of newspaper articles and TV news reports. That way, the course of events can be held true, but we simply react to them.

The setting will be in England (to stay true to the original), and characters will be ordinary people. No uber military people, or government officials etc. Like I said earlier, normal people like you and I.

So yeah, given where this thread is... Are you, or not?

Ylanne · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Ylanne** on Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:01 am

Hi Saladin,

I'm definitely interested in this sort of character-driven plot. When you have an official OOC and/or character sheets, let me know, and I'll add a character to the mix. (I'll be back Wednesday, so either get it up today, or you won't see a post from me til then.)

~ Ylanne

Frezak · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Frezak** on Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:26 am

I have to say I like the idea of playing secondary/unimportant characters.
So, in answer to your question: Yes.

LittleSun1 · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **LittleSun1** on Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:47 am

I would be very interested! The movie was pretty good, even if the book absolutely bored me to tears (I had to read it in LA a couple years ago.). Nothing to do with the story I guess, I just hate the 'Old Speak' style of writing.

But anyway, I've actually got character ideas already! Would it be possible for me to play a Father-Son/Mother-Young Child type combo? The child would probably be 12 to 2 years old incase that matters.

Great idea!
~Liden

HeartClutch · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **HeartClutch** on Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:48 am

I would totally be interested in this. Love the book and movie. And character-driven RPs. =P

Smokescreen · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Smokescreen** on Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:32 pm

A Saladin RP? Oh hell yea. Count me in.

Kronos · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Kronos** on Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:07 pm

Aye, aye, Saladin making an RP? I'm thrilled.

War of the Worlds, Modern Warfare edition?

In all honestly, if the aliens fall to the common cold, imagine what biological agents of today would do to them. And don't tell me about them not having the same infection vectors as human life.

Empathy · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Empathy** on Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:03 am

Well, it seems that if I'm going to start roleplaying here in my new home, I might as well start with something like this. Count one Empathy into the mix, if you please.

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