Rping ideas

[teehee100]

Is there anyone who has a new idea for a roleplay? The other ones have been left alone since some of the main people haven't been Iately and I would like to do something new. If you have any ideas please elaborate.

[RandomPasserby]

Off the top of my head and sticking within the HP theme.

Magical university (either the founding of or just a typical year at it)

Hogwarts' first year after being founded (how do you convince witches and wizards to send their children miles away to be taught by four relatively untried witches/wizards)

Something set around the year of Slytherin's departure

Something set around the institution of the Statute of Secrecy (so, late seventeenth century) focusing on the tough decisions being made by muggle born and muggle raised witches and wizards.

1066 from a wizarding point of view.

Scottish Wars of Independance and how that impacted Hogwarts (yeah, Scotland and England spent a really long time fighting a lot, which must have made things really interesting in Hogwarts)

Hell, the Wars of the Roses from a wizarding point of view.

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OK, so most of my ideas are history + magic but what can I say, I've thought about these things kind of a lot.

[physicssquid]

I'm sure there are plenty of other historical events that could have affected the Wizarding World over the years, which means there are a lot of ideas about how the wizards and witches might have reacted. I can't imagine there not being magical involvement in the Hundred years War, or the Wars of the Roses, or even the Unification and subsequent division of Ireland.

That last is even more relevant, due to the fact that JK had at least one person from Ireland in the story. What side were Seamus Finnigan's ancestors on, and how were they affected by the events surrounding the split between Eire and Northern Ireland?

Here are some of my other thoughts:-

What about the English Civil Wars? - How was Hogwarts affected by the divide between the Royalists and the Roundheads?

What about the Napoleonic Wars? - What did the Wizarding world think of the French Revolution and the war that led to between England and France?

And thinking about some things that are really rather important this year: What was the Wizarding World's reaction to the beginning of the First World War?
Was the Wizarding World involved in the D-Day Landings in forty-four, and if so, How?

[teehee100]

I like the idea of the first year at Hogwarts a lot. Any ideas about the set up?

[RandomPasserby]

Maybe keep it to one thread for the time being and maybe Kitty can move it to a subforum (like the other RP's) when she gets back.

The four founders could be playable characters (I call dibs on Godric) and it wouldn't matter if we didn't have many other teachers because that could just be part of the dynamic. And the students could probably have a little larger age range since I doubt it would be quite so standardised as it was later.

[eskimoRock]

I like the ideas! The founders one would work, for sure.

We could also do something based around World War Two, maybe? Just because I know grindelwald links in at around the same time and it would be interesting to play out what happened then, because obviously we know what happened in the war against Voldemort!

I could speak to kitty on Monday about a thread, she'll be back by then?

[teehee100]

Hopefully she'll be back then. I think both founders and students should be playable, Dibs on Helena.

[Kitty279]

Kitty is indeed back, and while I am not into RPG, if you need a new subforum or anything, just let me know - after you have decided on the title

Have fun!

[RandomPasserby]

Since we're setting this in 10th century England I'm going to drop a couple of links for reliable 9th/10th century naming.

Mostly because I'm a little anal-retentive about naming. (Helga was probably Helge and likely had strong Viking ancestry, Godric is actually period-appropriate even if the movie sword is nowhere near, Helena is also period appropriate and Salazar is iffy but if he had Navarese ancestry it might work)

www.s-gabriel.org/names/

fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CONTENTS.htm

In a pinch, Behindthename's Anglo-Saxon, Ancient Celtic or Roman lists work.

[Kitty279]

Um, here Helge is male and Helga female, so I have some doubts about what you said here. For me, Helga is perfectly right and Helge for a female is more than a little weird

[RandomPasserby]

You'd probably know better. Germanic languages aren't my forte.

[teehee100]

What do we want the title to be? "The founders" could work.

[RandomPasserby]

I really want to make some kind of pun relating to the name Hogwarts but I can't think of any funny ones.

And 'Hogwarts: The First Year' is a little trite.

[Kitty279]

Well, German is my first language, and I have both names in the family. But admittedly, some names change gender in different countries. It confuses me when I see 'Andrea' used for a male in Italy, because here that is female and the male version is Andreas. Just as an example.

Pun sounds good, though I can't think of anything, either. Well, in the worst case you can give me an provisional title and I can change it in case you can think of something better later on. The only name I can come up with right now is 'Hogwarts - the real history'. Just let me know when you have decided.

[teehee100]

Ooo. I like "Hogwarts- the real history" anyone else agree?

[RandomPasserby]

I like it.

[teehee100]

Great. How many sub folders do you think we need? I know we need ones for the great hall, dorms, staff lounge, medical wing, and classes. Any other ideas?

[RandomPasserby]

I wouldn't know. I've done a fair amount of forum RPing before but it's always been confined to a single thread rather than spread out over multiple ones.

[Kitty279]

I'd suggest I open a subforum for you, like for the other ones, and you can start as many threads there as you want. Are you all right with that?

[eskimoRock]

That sounds like a good plan to me!

[Kitty279]

Ok, done. Have fun, and just let me know if you need anything.

[teehee100]

Thank you. I would like to be Helga and if need be I'll be Rowena, is that how you spell her first name? Also who will be Salazar?

[Nahara46]

*casually pops in*

Is this RP planning I sense? Perhaps I could be of use .

[teehee100]

Yes it is, feel free to join in.

[RandomPasserby]

So we've got a Godric, a Helga and possibly a Rowena.

I was wondering, do we need a villain?

[eskimoRock]

I'd be willing to be Rowena, she's my favourite

Also, ARA! JOIN US!

[RandomPasserby]

So we're at 3/4 founders which is pretty good.

[eskimoRock]

A villain would probably be good because it's always more exciting if we have a conflict... Of course, there's always the fact that Salazar is portrayed as a villain, but we could maybe create a couple of ministry figures/ malfoy-esque parents?

[teehee100]

That could work. After all convincing parents to send their children to a school in Scottland would not have been an easy task. There had to have been parents who were against it.

[RandomPasserby]

This is supposed to be the early years though, Salazar wasn't really villainous until before he left.

I'd go for the parent because the Ministry as it is in the books wasn't founded until the 1600's though there was a Wizard's Council.

It could well be a concern that they were trying to seize power by getting the children (and possible heirs) of major families in one place under their control. Not to mention poorer parents whose children would have been needed to work (although getting them out of the house over the winter would have been appreciated) and those who had been home-educating who might be pissed off at perceived slights to their education.

That's not to mention the English parents who would have really objected to sending their children to Scotland.

Oh and the language/cultural differences - 10th and 11th century England wasn't anywhere near unified. Alfred the Great only controlled Mercia, Egbert only held Wessex and briefly Mercia, Offa conquered most of southern England but that disbanded when he died. Aethelstan was the first one to hold all of England but that's not wholly England as we know it today.

And the Danish conquest.