Space Opera/Court Intrigue RP - Interest Check

Hey, everyone. I'm planning to run a game somewhat inspired by Dune, Warhammer 40K, Fading Suns, Stellaris and Crusader Kings, amongst a few others.

Effectively, the player characters would be members of the court of an interstellar empire, after the old Emperor has died, and his inexperienced 18 year old son takes the throne. The players could be members of the Imperial council, the church, the military, the mysterious order of sorcerers, or a family member such as the emperor's mother and uncles. Whether you seek to guide him into becoming a great monarch, or exploit him for your own power, is up to you.

Success of player actions will be decided by dice rolls, with equipment and traits providing bonuses or maluses to various rolls.

So, yeah. Post if you're interested.

 

I don't know how well I will do with a space setting, but I am willing to give it a try regardless – intrigue games are always fun.

 

I'd be interested in that. I do prefer "Space Western" but court intrigue could be fun.

 

Sounds fun, count me in!

 

I can see where it goes maybe

 

I'd be interested, sure.

 

I've just recently become interested in 40K again and so this thread interested me. Unfortunately the only characters that are coming to my mind could be considered... incompatible.

 

Out of curiosity, what did you have in mind?

 

Well, for anyone who's paid attention to my past portrait photos both here and on the main site, one could discern that my favorite 40K army are the Night Lords. I love me my VIII Legion.

So my character idea would be much the same along the lines of Konrad Curze. He did for the old emperor what the Night Haunter did for... well... The Emperor.

Planetary Governor in charge of a world that'd been subjugated and brought into the Empire. "The Emperor and Empire isn't worth our time and we're seceding."

The Emperor: "Send ____"

Planetary Governor in charge of a world that'd been subjugated and brought into the Empire. "Wait! I-I've changed my mind!"

 

Yeah, I know Curze. A terrifying psycopath, but one with a pretty sad backstory.

 

Precisely why I commented that the idea was incompatible . He's too dark and violent a character for smut game.

 

I would be interested.

That brings memories of our cooperation, years ago, on 40k story.

 

Are player characters supposed to be humans if they are in the same court? Or are they separate empires?

 

I would still love to do a 40K RPG, but with less war/killing/murder and more lewd/exploitation into lewdness. But cutting down on the war/killing/murder goes against pretty much everything that 40K is so not really sure how that would work. Plus if you wanted to play as an Astartes there's that whole non-sexual problem they have so you'd have to have them be corrupted by Slaanesh or some other thing. There's just a bunch of problems with doing a smut 40K campaign. I know, I tried. @GenericEditor168 suggested another one a little bit after that that we both expressed interest in but no one else did and nothing came of it. That made me sad . But yeah. I totally get why.

I suppose it still could be possible with the same or similar aesthetic which is what I think interested me in this one.

 

The PCs are all part of the same Empire, but they can be aliens. Basically the lore is that some groups of humans have been so mutated by thousands of years in different planets that they've become essentially different species, though they're all under the blanket banner of humanity (think Asari from Mass Effect, Vulcans from Star Trek or Twileks from Star Wars. Humanoid aliens, basically.)

There are also actual aliens of non-human origin, from other empires in deep space, or from individual planets. For whatever reason, one might have left their home and made their way to a human court (These would be non-human looking aliens. Krogan, bug monsters, reptilians, etc.)

 

I mean if it's similar to Stellaris/Warhammers, most empires really don't like mixed species, but might be something to do. I was also debating maybe a pc and a race that was originally human but changed from exploring the Warp/Chaos Realm/Dark Space/Whatever they want to call basically the same thing. I don't know what I'll do yet. Possibly some equalivent of a psyker or a scientist

 

I found a few I liked. Would be good to hear from other people though.

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They all look great to me

 

All of them are pretty good, though I'll admit a preference for the third and fourth ones depending on how physically radical you want their changes to be.

 

I mean, I'm not totally sure if I'll go with an alien or what yet. I usually just find character designs I like and go from there so I don't really have any concrete plans yet.