Game of Thrones: Sign up

[Tiaexz]

The Game of Thrones is a dangerous game all men and women aspire and those who do not, end up as pieces, pawns if you will, of this gigantic struggle for overall supremacy.

As previously envisioned by many players and hosts, this will be a grand strategy game. You will become very emotionally involved as you plot and scheme, battle against the odds, to find yourself seated upon the fabled iron throne. People will cheer, others will cry, this will be blood thirsty and cruel as you have to battle with sheer determination and ambition to get where -you- want to be.


The game is involved on many levels with a wide variety of dynamics :

Faction [Alliances to place a King or Queen upon the throne.]
Region [ The North, The Riverlands, The Storm Lands. ]
House [ Lannister, Stark, Bolton, Greyjoy, Tully. ]
Personal [Tywin Lannister, Melissandre, Renly, Stannis.]



If you are interested in participating, please state your top three choices publicly in the order you would like them. The game will start with the various regions and the houses sworn to them, from here, you create your own factions and lead the destinies of your characters as you chart the oceans of deception and intrigue.



Region - Capital
Crownlands - King's Landing
Dorne - Sunspear
Dragonstone - Dragonstone
Iron Isles - Pyke
North - Winterfell
Riverlands - Riverrun
Reach - Highgarden
Stormlands - Storm's End
The Vale - Eyrie [NPC]
Westerlands - Castery Rock

Definite NPC's:
The Wall - Castle Black
King's Council / King's Guard
King Beyond the War
Targaryen
[etc]


Turns:
The Game will progress every Real Life week, which translate as a Month in Game.
Deadline for Orders will be 23:59 on Sunday's
Orders Processed over Monday and Tuesday.
Clarification Results/Questions will be given out on Monday.

NPC's:
Each AI will have an 'Behavioural Construct' which varies.
An NPC accepting a condition will not mean another will accept it.
By default, Lesser NPC's will have "Stormtrooper" intelligence, Major NPC's will have "Dark Lord of the Sith" intelligence.

Results:
Orders may be 'simplified' in order to make them manageable.
The 'Story' reflecting the results will simply be the Story which tries to convey the results of those actions.
There will be a degree of 'common sense' applied to orders.
There will be positive and there will be negative results. Host isn't liable for disappointing results.

Players List:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Crownlands:
Cersei Baratheon-Lannister - Erebus
Sandor Clegane* - BSmith

Dorne:
Doran Martell - Montmorency
Oberyn Martell - Rajpoot

Dragonstone:
Stannis Baratheon - Count Arach
Melissandre* - Gurkhal
Davos Seaworth - Zack

Iron Isles:
Balon Greyjoy - The Stranger
Victarion Greyjoy* - Jarema

North:
Robb Stark - White_Eyes:D
Roose Bolton - Skooma Addict
Wyman Manderly - Khazaar
Theon Greyjoy - The Celtic Viking
Brynden Tully - Kival

Reach:
Mace Tyrell - Kagemusha
Alester Florent - Ishmael
Paxter Redwyne - Fisherking

Riverlands:
Edmure Tully - Scottishranger
Walder Frey - Visorslash

Stormlands:
Renly Baratheon - Double A
Bryce Caron - God Emperor
Loras Tyrell - Diamondeye

Westerlands:
Tywin Lannister - Greyblades
Kevan Lannister - Captain Blackadder

Rogue:
Beric Dondarrion - Craterus
Euron Greyjoy - Arjos

'Free' Agent:
Tyrion Lannister - Atheotes

*Agent character but start the game already aligned.

Vacancies:
Interested in joining?
Either list/pick low populated faction(s) or request for a 'Free' Agent.

[Arjos]

OMG I might not be Oberan! :O

1. Dorne
2. Iron Isles
3. The Reach

If possible I would like to be The Red Viper again ^^
Otherwise I can settle for Crow's Eye Greyjoy and start separated muahahahahah

[Ishmael]

Despite getting into some troubles with it, I still love Highgarden.

1. The Reach
2. Riverlands
3. Dorne

EDIT: And if I do get the Reach, dibs on being Willas again!

[Montmorency]

No, I'm Doran! I called it!

[Tiaexz]

If you want to play the same character, add that to your sign up post. I will allow you the possibility to continue like that from the Westeros game.

[Greyblades]

1.House Lannister.
2.House Stark.
3.House Baratheon.
I still want to be tywin.

Is the story reset?

[Kagemusha]

1. Tyrell
2. Lannister
3. Baratheon

I could continue as Mace if possible. Its not like anyone else wants him. :P

[Captain Blackadder]

Well I want in but I don't want to be leading the factions or anything so whomever will have me I will be happy to go to them. If that makes me Berric again then so be it. But since Berric joining Renly was a balancing thing done by John so that Renly had some good characters.

[scottishranger]

1. Ironborn (Victarion again)
2. The Riverlands
3. Starks

If the Riverlands are playable I would definelty not be abject to playing them!

[Tiaexz]

Well I want in but I don't want to be leading the factions or anything so whomever will have me I will be happy to go to them. If that makes me Berric again then so be it. But since Berric joining Renly was a balancing thing done by John so that Renly had some good characters.

Pick which Region you would like to be in. I want to do some random role casting anyway to make things a bit more interesting.

Just as a note, if you picked a house, I am converting that to 'Region'. So if you put "Stark", I am converting it to "North - Winterfell" and you might be a Stark, or you might be an Umber, or Bolton, etc.
Exception being for example what I said in Post 5.

[Montmorency]

Just to be clear, all my choices are Dorne.

So do a "random" toss in my favor, please!

[Kival]

I'm in but have to think about the faction etc. first.

[Arjos]

Beskar, is it possible to end up with Euron somehow? :P

[Tiaexz]

I am considering making The Vale an NPC, but they will be recognised as a faction in game play terms. Because their game-play is effectively "We sit here and do nothing."

The Crownlands and Westerlings are separate, even though House Lannister has the most influence in both. Cersei pretty much did her own thing in in the Crownlands whilst Tywin/Kevin Lannister ran the Westerlings from Casterly Rock. This reflects better the difficulties they had in communication and co-operation then them both simply being the same banner. However, they are in the same Faction (Alliance) at the start the game.

Also technically, Dragonstone is part of the Crownlands but because of the political situation, they are separate. They can be "re-united" through actions of players within the game.

[The Stranger]

sorry for my tone :P

i want to be Balon Greyjoy

[Greyblades]

So... Is it ok if I reveal the QT's from the 2 turns?

[Ishmael]

I think we agreed that we weren't going to, as it could reveal troop strengths and the like which might be unfair for this game.

[White_eyes:D]

I guess the order would be....

1.North
2.Dorne
3.Crownlands

[Kival]

I think we agreed that we weren't going to, as it could reveal troop strengths and the like which might be unfair for this game.

Actually the strategists of the books have a good idea of the strength of the enemies, so that would probably more accurate then having no idea at all. The numbers will be changed though, so the QTs will not do much here.

[Montmorency]

Our previous experiences are enough. It fits what you describe well.

[Captain Blackadder]

1.House Lannister.
2. House Barathoren
3 House Dorne

Then but in reality I have no real preference so if you want to move me somewhere else for gameplay that is fine by me.

[Kival]

I could not decide, so chance has to decide:

1. The Riverlands
2. The Reach
3. The Stormlands

I would be fine with all other except Ironborn and the Vale, I think.

[Skooma Addict]

1. The North
2. Dorne
3. Stormlands

Honorable mention: The Iron Isles

[Yay!]

1. Aeron Greyjpy
2. The North
3. The Westerlands

[atheotes]

1.Winterfell.
2.HighGarden.
3.Casterly rock.

[Tiaexz]

I think we agreed that we weren't going to, as it could reveal troop strengths and the like which might be unfair for this game.

Troop Strengths, etc are being rebalanced. I am using the A Song of Ice and Fire RPG campaign book as a guide so all the strengths would be similar to what they are in the series. I might not use exact numbers though but a more abstract measurement of strength. I know John had idea's for his game on strengths, so the results of this is that it will be different to his game unless he did the same himself, then you would sill only have a rough idea.

Edit:

Actually the strategists of the books have a good idea of the strength of the enemies, so that would probably more accurate then having no idea at all. The numbers will be changed though, so the QTs will not do much here.

Correct.

On another note: If you want to reveal your quicktopics, you are free to do so, but this isn't the new OOC topic for John's game.

Another note: It is very interesting to see that a lot of people are interested in the Riverlands! Though, surprisingly, no one seems interested in Dragonstone or the Crownlands. I would request if you know anyone interested, to prompt them to sign up. There going to be a nice variety of characters (including a few 'special' ones) so with more people signed up, I can assign these out!

[Tiaexz]

I am planning to start sending things out Tuesday night / Wednesday morning the latest. If there is a few more before then, I will be assigning roles (asking if they are happy with the choice as well) and start shifting things together for a possible early start, to allow more questions.

Characters will be a two main categories at the start "Landed" and "Free". Landed characters will start with castle/towns (home/economic/defence) and standing army under their possession. Free characters will start with simply a retinue in their possession and have the freedom of movement of where to become 'Landed' (if approved by the Region's current leader).

"Free" characters can also provide regions and factions their services in areas Landed characters may not be so willing, such as espionage duties, or they can perform a duty at your court for a bonus. (If they feel they are getting adequate payment of course!

(Landed characters can become 'Free' under conditions as well.)

[Double A]

1. Littlefinger
2. Renly
3. Highgarden

[CountArach]

Another note: It is very interesting to see that a lot of people are interested in the Riverlands! Though, surprisingly, no one seems interested in Dragonstone or the Crownlands. I would request if you know anyone interested, to prompt them to sign up. There going to be a nice variety of characters (including a few 'special' ones) so with more people signed up, I can assign these out!

I'll take Dragonstone if no one else is interested.

[Tiaexz]

If anyone is interested in Signatures, there is a Signature thread from Westeros: Total War. Only request is that you make sure you put up the faction/house/character you are in this game. Would be confusing have two different Tywin signatures for example.