The Roman Struggle

[Pontifex Maximus]

There's been some chatter behind closed doors, and I'm going to try to bring this game back with some much needed simplification and getting back to it's essence. The goal will be to recapture the original gameplay feel. Right away eliminating and replacing some systems will dramatically help. Trade will be gone, never to return, and political/military points and acumen will be simplified to simply convey 'auctoritas' across the board - no more pat, pleb, legion points. With everything under one system the whole intrigue problem should be addressed. Balancing will fix the obvious objections to this simplification.

The 2.0 rules will serve as the guide, much will be taken out.

Less involved foreign knowledge, less scripting, more focus on internal stuff

Battles will be less about rolls, more about strategy

Traditional start in 100 BCE

The current BP forum was the old TRS forum and would be the easiest starting point in terms of moving back necessary threads.

The reason the game failed and continued to fail was due to over complication of the rules (something I'm famous for), picking poor timelines and losing the essence of what made the game fun to begin with, and trying to hard to cover any area of potential conflict or RP. I'll take a much more ad hoc approach this time. The only way I can approach this is by taking away all the stuff that ended the 9 month long game in 2011-2012 and getting back to what worked well.

Forum Structure:

The Roman Struggle "A Roman RPG"
-The Forum Romanum "The cultural and political heart of the city"
-The City of Rome "The residences of important figures"
-The Empire "Foreign interactions including diplomacy, war, and the residence of governors"
-Res Gestae "The archives"

[Lucius Malfoy]

Throw me on as a moderator!

[Pontifex Maximus]

Throw me on as a moderator!

We're doing it!

[Lucius Malfoy]

You know it, bro! We're bringing it back!

I am glad to see simplicity and the art of strategy being emphasized in this restart. It will be a lot of load off the moderators and players alike.

[Zectorman]

So everyone plays as a Senator? Or how does that work? So this just goes on until Rome owns all of Europe?

[Pontifex Maximus]

So everyone plays as a Senator? Or how does that work? So this just goes on until Rome owns all of Europe?

Pretty much. I'd say we should own all of Europe in what, five years of playing time or thereabouts?

[Lucius Malfoy]

Pretty much. I'd say we should own all of Europe in what, five years of playing time or thereabouts?

Sounds about right lol. We barely managed to expand as much as we did in 9 months thanks to good activity.

[Adamat]

In.

[Rhapture]

Very much in. Also available to mod if needed

[The Stig]

Somewhere, across the wooded hills and bustling cities of Italy, across the stormy Mediterranean, past the fertile coast lands and deep into the vast desert overlooked by the beating sun, deep into the jungles of regions not yet known to the people of Rome, at the beating heart of the darkest corner of untamed Africa, the faint sound of an elephant's exultant trumpet can be heard.

[m_1512]

Excellent! I'll start reading the Story of the Romans again.

Throw me down as a moderator if you'd like. Also, could we have a map of what Rome would be like when we start?

[removeduser_456328]

Count me in! Always wanted to play a Roman RP.

[Rhapture]

Rome looks roughly like this at 100 BC:

[m_1512]

Then it is well, start small play big.

[Pontifex Maximus]

It will be roughly that, minus Asia Minor I think. Starting with Asia Minor makes Greece to ungainly to administer in game at the start

[m_1512]

I thought you were dropping Asia minor. But the map in Aernium shows control of Asia minor and whole of Iberia.

[Rhapture]

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