Proposal for a Mount and Blade Warband RPG

[Lucius Malfoy]

Greetings fellow roleplayers!

This is your friendly neighborhood Death Eater Lucius Malfoy speaking. I hope you all have been having a good day and enjoying this weekend. I have seen various roleplays fall and rise, both fictional and non-fictional...and after all that I have seen (and realizing my new addiction) it came to my mind: "why have I not seen a Mount and Blade RPG proposal?"

So people, before a proposal can even be made, I have come to ask you which you would like to the setting to be?
- The setting from original Mount and Blade Warband (where the roleplay would happen in one of the six kingdoms and we would play to conquer all of Calradia and gain the title King of Calradia)

or

-The setting would be from a mod of Warband called Prophecy of Pendor (Information here: http://pop3.wikia.com/wiki/Prophesy_of_Pendor_3_Wiki; same involvement of uniting the continent of Pendor by playing as one of the major factions.)

Here are some videos on Prophecy of Pendor: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ECD3170E7006F4F

It is your choice people! Give your opinion and vote! This poll will decide the future proposal. This poll will be closed in 10 days!

[Gandalfus]

Having already been informed about the majority of how it works, support.

[Roxas]

So a fantasy version of Gstk pretty much? ^^

[Lucius Malfoy]

So a fantasy version of Gstk pretty much? ^^

If we go with Swadia, then yeah. Here is the reflection for each Kingdom of the vanilla Mount and Blade
Swadia = Western European
Vaegirs = Slavic/Russia
Nords = Scandinavian
Rhodoks = Italian and Germanic
Khergit = Mongolian/Turkic
Sarranid = Middle Eastern

Myself and my fellow creator were thinking that Vaegirs, Rhodoks or Sarranids would be awesome to do. Seeing as Swadia would be a GSTK fantasy version.

[Gandalfus]

No.

[Nesimî]

Pendor sounds fun, Eventide FTW!

[Lucius Malfoy]

Pendor sounds fun, Eventide FTW!

Speaking of Eventide...with Pendor, once requirements are met...nobles may be able to levy and upgrade teir troops to units of certain orders that their kingdoms sponsor. Especially if a chapter of the Order exists in certain cities.
The Major factions are:
- The Kingdom of Sarleon
- The Kingdom of Ravenstern
- The Fierdsvain
- The Empire
- The D'Shar Principalities
- Kingdom of Pendor (once certain requirements are met; only made under a unified Pendor)

The orders are:
- Order of the Lion
- Order of the Dragon
- Lady Valkyries
- Order of the Shadow Legion
- Empire Immortals
- D'Shar Windriders
- Order of the Griffon
- Order of the Falcon
- Order of the Raven Spear
- Order of the Radiant Cross
- Order of the Clarion Call
- Order of the Ebony Gauntlet
- Order of the Silvermist Rangers
- Order of the Dawn
- Order of Eventide

So say...a chapter of the Empire Immortals exist in the Empire's capital of Janos, then Empire lords can upgrade their troops to include Empire Immortals and their various troops (if they meet requirements).

So requirements to levy these elite troops:
- You must be a lord within a certain nation (Say an Empire lord)
- A certain degree of honor (Honor of 10 for Empire Immortals)
- The nation you serve must have chapters in certain cities

- Ex: A chapter of Empire Immortals must exist in Janos so that Empire troops can be upgraded to troops of the Empire Immortals

It is not known of all of these orders will be available, but at least one or two will available to the nation we choose to roleplay as...if Pendor is chosen. We may also give people the choice of joining an order as well to add some flavor to the game
Note! This is just suggestions and speculation, official information to come if Pendor is chosen
All information on Orders (joining, building a chapter, etc etc):
- http://pop3.wikia.com/wiki/Knighthood_Orders

[Gandalfus]

I liked the one you talked about over steam.

[Lucius Malfoy]

I liked the one you talked about over steam.

That would be Vaegirs.

[Adamat]

I can't vote right now, because i'm on my phone. But i would support the Vanilla game with Vaegirs.

[Stildawn]

I love MnB.

How would this work exactly? Would we all RP within the Warband (like Companions? Or even just men?), or would we RP as each of us having our own Warband but within the one Kingdom?

Put me down as a interested, would like to see more how it would actually work however.

And phoey I like Swadia.

[Dirty Chai]

I support Rhodoks as the faction.

[Lucius Malfoy]

I love MnB.

How would this work exactly? Would we all RP withing the Warband (like Companions? Or even just men?), or would we RP as each of us having our own Warband but within the one Kingdom?

Put me down as a interested, would like to see more how it would actually work however.

And phoey I like Swadia.

We would actually play as one of the Kingdoms. Basically one of the mods would be King (Me! ) And these ranks would be available for players:
- Boyar/Count/Lord
- Village Elder/Baron
- Mercenary Captain
- Bandit/Bandit Captain
- And probably more...

As well as the offices of:
- Marshal
- Chancellor
- Spymaster
- Steward

So you could roleplay as a landed noble that owns a castle and two - three villages. Or be the leader of a bandit group or a mercenary captain and raid villages or join as hired hands. As one of the kingdoms, we would diplomatically and militarily conquer all of the continent for the throne of Calradia or Pendor...whichever one is chosen.

Players could even conspire to usurp the throne for themselves or place a new King upon it (such as a younger heir/claimant who is more capable or perhaps someone easier to control)

I support Rhodoks as the faction.

As for factions, we are highly considering being Vaegirs seeing as its different in nobility terms (based of the Russians). But we have also considered Sarranids and the Nords. But it seems we are fixated upon Vaegirs. Further information to come on this.

The problem with the Rhodoks is that they are similar the HRE (Rhodok Crossbows = Genoese Crossbows. Pikemen = Flemish Pikemen) which we have been tried on the roleplay forums before in IRG. And Swadia would be like GSTK. So...not really a good idea to repeat ideas in a different format.

HOWEVER!! Once we conquer areas of Swadia as well as Rhodoks, we will be given access to recruiting their natives thus be able to use their troops in our armies (so we could have armies with: Swadian Knights, Rohok Pikemen and Crossbows, Vaegiran Archers and Nordic infantry...which would be boss).

However, if Pendor wins, we will give the players the chance to look up the factions and vote on which one we should focus in as the nation we will be playing in.

[Nesimî]

Pendor is amazing, look it up before voting. It trumps vanilla in every respect.

[Stildawn]

I vote vanilla, mainly cause more of us will be familiar with vanilla than any mod we choose. Thus would be able to immerse into the world easier, one of the things that I think makes new RPG's fail (and restarts fail) is that people jump into something unfamiliar. Vanilla would solve a lot of that, cause everyone joining I would assume would be a Warband fan, and would at least have a working knowledge on vanilla.

Ok, though I did like the idea of the whole RPG based within one warband, then we could actually play the game and the events would filter into the RPG lol.

So my next question, will we be actually running a Warband game? Or is it purely a setting/theme for an offline RPG (like GSTK was).

I vote Vaegirs if we can't be swadia lol. Never like the Rhods.


EDIT:

On thinking about it more, I really think we should give a decent look at RPing just our own Warband. This would be good for a few reasons:

1. We could actually run a real game easily and would give the RPG a sorta community AAR feel.
2. Pretending to run the whole Kingdom of (insert faction here) would be quite hard to do in the real game, for one the player can never be a King of an existing fashion in game.
3. RPing just a single Warband would keep the game nice and small and managable which would be great for the limited number of players that a new RPG has. The problem with lots of start up RPG's is that they dream to big a scope for the player base to handle. A game start Warband would be the perfect size.
4. There a lots and lots of ranks in an actual Warband. Starting from peasant all the way up to lvl 5 and 6 troops, and even going further into companion territory. We could use the game to run all this for us, and even kill us haha.
5. We can easily imput some revolt/rebel things into a warband scenario also, with the goal to take over the leadership position.
6. Allows room for the game to expand naturally, by getting a larger and larger warband, and eventually owning multiple villages, towns, castles etc creating more and more room within the RPG. This can also include state positions (if we use a few mods, I recommend Floris mod cause it includes all the cool ones).
7. The game will generate lots of RP for us lol.
8. We could even post the RP into some AAR comps lol.
9. The game would handle all the economic crap for us really, as each rank already has a wage etc.
10. We could create a "Captain" like rank, and give players command of their own troops (within the Warband) etc to add another dynamic into the mix as well. That way we could also have literal fighting revolts etc within the group.

[Lucius Malfoy]

I like your ideas Stildawn. And that is the warband/kingdom we feel would be fun to do. Vaegirs are limited in cavalry yes, but have some very good heavy infantry and the best foot archers in the game.

It will be similar to all rpgs here where its an offline RPG. Having an online one would be a lot of work in my views and some of us don't have the time due to school, work or other duties in real life sadly.

We actually planned to have the vanilla troop trees, but once the Vaegirs say conquered...the Nords and/or the Swadians, they would adopt a new title, such as from the Floris Mod like...the Grand Prince of the Vaegirs and we would add the expanded troop tree for more possibilities. Sort of like a military reform.

You got msn or skype, stildawn?

[Stildawn]

Well in regards to an online game. It would really only be the "Leader" who would need to do anything in the actual game, so yes while it might be work for that one person, the rest wouldn't have huge commitments. Just a thought though.

[Lucius Malfoy]

So from the looks of this, the vanilla may win.

[Stildawn]

Since this has disappeared? Would you mind if I work on a proposal based just around the single warband?