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Hmm, I think I'll let everyone describe what their own costume looks like. Give everyone a bit of customization to it, to match their characters class/personality type. For example, I was going to make my character a warrior type. This would give me the perfect opportunity to make fun of bikini armor, which, even though Im a guy, I LOATHE!

Seriously, a bikini look for armor? That isn't protective! If I were fighting a girl dressed like that, it would make my job easier, because now the main place where I'd be stabbing at, their center of mass, is completely exposed!

And even that would be crap protection. There's virtually no padding under that particular suit. The links may stop the cut, but that much psi under that small an area WILL break bones!

Not to mention the pinching from the rings and the horrendous and weird sunburn that results. There was a College Humor video that circulated recently that was about female fantasy armor.

Well, I decided to go ahead and stop while I was ahead. Im pretty sure if I thought it over more I would make the rules and everything too complicated. So, yeah, the magical schoolgirl RP is open under the name of The Defenders.

Alrighty, I wanna create a rp..... but.... I have like.. no ideas.

Give me some of your favorite shows/videogames/animes so I can kind of... jerry-rigg somethin.

I was toying with the idea of a somewhat different kind of setting.

I haven't really thought this through, so, bear with it, but I was thinking a setting based on the whole notion of globe-trotting adventurers from the 1930s, when men were men and women were dames or dolls. A team of treasure seekers in a propeller-driven seaplane travels from flashy glamour and seedy mob-scene of prohibition-era Chicago, to the nervous energy of a Europe quivering about the rising threat of Nazi Germany, the unexplored jungles of the Amazon, the untamed wilds of the heart of Africa, and the mysteeeeerious and inscrutable Orient - always finding high adventure and thrills. These gals would swing from adventure to adventure ranging from schmoozing in cocktail dresses to charging into action in riding breeches, safari hat and leather jacket with pistol in hand; they would be both femme fatale and two-fisted action heroines.

The flavour would be retro-chic, 20s- and 30s-style, like the kind of serialized pulp fiction stories that inspired Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Mummy. But it would also have the kind of "lost world" flavour from old adventure stories like King Solomon's Mines, The Lost World.

The story would follow a band of adventuresses on some kind of adventure that leads them around the world - possibly a race for some kind of ancient treasure.

Rawr.

Aw, I dunno if I can actually do it. I just kinda threw it out there to see if it would spark inspiration for someone. Something like that requires really good roleplayers - not just that they can roleplay, but that they understand they have to stay in the vibe, and keep that old adventure serial flavour going. Also, they would have to do some research on the time period so that they can properly fit into the rhythm of the setting, and not just be a bunch of anachronistic 21st century cosmopolitan girls wisecracking at how backward the 1930s was, and I seriously doubt I could get enough people that dedicated without a much bigger talent pool to trawl.

(Plus, I'd actually started to write the idea before Akai said anything, and didn't see her post until after I'd posted, otherwise I would've just let her ideas float a while.)