A Song of Ice and Fire Forum Role-Playing Game

[Leonardo]

I vote pre-conquest, we can use my blank map for the south if you want(all regions labelled), or I can go ahead and flesh out a full map of all the kingdoms. I also have one for the North as well. Pre-conquest means no targs or at least very few people with dragons and they've only got tiny holding much like Aegon did. People don't realize that if one of the dragons had died at the field of fire, the whole of westeros history may have taken a different turn as the remaining soldiers rally up to try and kill the other two dragons. So I'm not against someone being from Valyria or whatevs, I just personally have no real interest in such.

Yar that sounds good having two 'main' turns. I mean the way I see it is that it's a bit hard to expand your actual territory and rule the whole kingdom/fiefdom, but your individual actions you have much more control over.

Yup yup I'm on board wherever we host it, I'll try and rally a few players as well.

[jorahthemormont]

I say all of Westeros if we have enough players, the North and beyond the wall if we don't.

I like the idea of playing during or after Aegon's Conquest, maybe later, like the Blackfyre rebellion?

[Olligarchy]

Alright, I've made a decision: The game will take part in an indeterminate time between the Age of Heroes and the Conquest, a time when the Seven Kingdoms are still, but an idea and the continent is dotted with small kingdoms. I'll give more of a background fluff text soon.

We will be using the rules I provided above for House Creation. Houses will be restricted to Old or YOUNGER Houses. You will all presumably want to start independent, but if you wish you may take -1 Influence purchase cost on your title to a minimum of one (such as Minor Lord which costs 4 points becomes 3) to be a vassal of one of the already established Kingdoms. Leonardo, could you send me the blank maps you have of Westeros? Both North and South please.

And you may begin recruiting, but we will need a place to play this so start looking for forums if you would. We can roll with Myth-Weavers if we want though.

[jorahthemormont]

Myth weavers works well from my experience with it, but I'm up for anything really, I just want to play what sounds like it's going to be a very fun game.

[ficenzi]

So,I just came upon this and I am wondering like wtf,will this be a forum game or on an engine like VASSAL?I want to play,cause I love the show,but I'm confused a lot about wtf is going on here.

[jorahthemormont]

We plan to play on a forum, the ASoIaF Forums do not allow such games to be played on here(I believe) And we have not yet made a decision on where we would play instead, as you probably noticed, Myth-Weavers is a thought, do you have an opinion or suggestion friend?

[Leonardo]

Actually the main thing that they don't want is a bunch of role playing and what is essentially fan fiction. As long as our posts aren't long winded IC posts and instead were only playing the game(the rpg rules are licensed by grrm) then we could theoretically host it here, though on mythweavers wed be out of their hair. I hosted Diplomacy in forum games. It depends on what format we end up using. I mean grrm himself is an avid tabletop gamer from what I've read

Still gotta dig my maps off my old hard drive but I'll have em soon oligarchy ;D

[Olligarchy]

Do you think it could work? I mean I can see the strategic turn going just fine, but what about personal tasks such as arranging marriages, tourneys and assassinations?

[Leonardo]

Well it depends on if everyone is playing or we use a GM hehe

A way I see it going is the opposite of what I did with my version of diplomacy, and go with the original way of everyone revealing turn orders at the same time and then solving them in some kind of order, possibly random. It would still require a rule master but they'd be a part of the game as well. The only really tricky part are secret actions like espionage and assassinations

[Olligarchy]

Can you clarify? It sounds quite interesting if we don't have a GM?

[ficenzi]

I think that what he means if for example in the same turn someone sends an assassin to kill Tywin Lannister at King's Landing,and Tywin at that turn decides to go on an adventure,so would the assassin come before he leaves or after,and if he comes after Tywin leaves,could he find him

[Olligarchy]

Hmm, that would probably be best decided with dice roll or something. :D

[ficenzi]

And you could make your own forum just for this game,at weebly or webs or something like that

[jorahthemormont]

So fic, are you going to join us?

[Olligarchy]

I am still in the process of trying to find time from my rather busy work schedule to think and write things down. Any suggestions on rules, where to host etc will be well received. :)

[ficenzi]

Just go to webs.com and make your own free forum for the game

[Leonardo]

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1657/y5d5.jpg

Apparently most of my maps no longer exist >.<

I'll have to rehost em I guess, but I usually have these types with the names of each region filled in.

Been working on the logistics of this

Ideally we want a game where one person is not GM and can't play, correct?

[jorahthemormont]

Soooo, any plans for the future of this game?

[Leonardo]

Well we are currently restarting Diplomacy, which, if you look at the rules, is the closest we're going to get to a game like this and still be able to host it here.

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/113499-were-bringin-diplomacy-back/

The rules are in my sig