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Hi.
I'm rather new on the forum, but really keen for some RP. Sadly nothing interesting is still open so I thought I'd open a new one.

What I have in mind is an RPG set in a world similar to ours with the technology and cutlture from the 1920ies- 40ies,
I'm thinking of a world where Zeppelins, Airships and Prop Airliners fill the sky, the Automobile is still impressive and new, and the wonders of electricity just started to appeal to the masses.

The Main difference would be that in this world, the nobles and ruling class are Canine Anthros, while the mass of workers and farmers are felines. The humans are part of the ruling class as well, and while there are no human aristocrats, there are many wealthy merchants, industrialists and advisors and bureacrats among them. Mostly this is because they are spared from the otherwise rather racist ideology of the canine class, who view the felines as having inferior intellect and not able to control their feral instincts.

The RPG would mostly take place in the city state of New Suzette, a metropolis near the South Coast of the New World. It is not only a major port on the continent, but the very important transcontinental railroad also has to pass through because of the impossible to pass high mountains in the north.
Thîs makes the city very important for National and International trade, and as such the streets are crowded with people of many different races and from all countries of the world making their living as workers of the many factories, dockers and longshormen, railroadworkers, or as poets, artists,actors, dancers and singers in the masses of cabarets and fancy night-clubs.

The city is set at the estuary moth of a large river, and on both sides surrounded by swamps and bayous, where many Felines still live as they have always lived,in small wooden cottages living from what the country provides, where old woman give their traditions of Hoodoo and Candomble on to their descendants.

I guess you noticed that the City is based on a heavily romanticised New Orleans. ^^

Another difference is that in this world magic truely exists, although most of the so-called civilised word did not believe it for a very long time. In this bold new times it is something that scientists try to measure and research applying terms like mesmerism, animal electricty and mixing the equally new and unknown results of their research of actual electricity and galvanism in.
But it is also used by the Feline Priestesses and Witch Doctors in a more shamanistic and natural fashion. They, and most other Felines are heavily opposed to the Scientific approach of magic, feeling that it should not be controlled and put in numbers lest to anger the old spirits.
In any case, the general populace is very skeptic of magic, especially because they just recently dropped their skepticism regarding technology.


I doubt that anyone aside from myself would be interested in such a concept... ^^
If you are though, it would make me really happy.
Please drop a bio of your character including appearance, race, abilities and backstory if you're interested.

If you would like to join if it wouldn't be for some minor (or major) part of the setting you find awkward, I'm very open to suggestions.
Same for questions of any kind.
feel free to ask ahead ^^

EDIT: I think I forgot to make a few things clear: With Canine I mean all kind of animals that would fall under the canine family, like wolves, foxes, dogs, coyotes etc while felines are obviously cats, cougars, tigers. I'm not sure wether other anthro-kinds like rabbits,mice or weasels should be included but if they are they'd be on the same social position as humans.
Also, the government IS a democracy, but all important positions are kept by canines. The Aristocracy is only wealthy and important, not actually in charge. All of the canines are settlers that came from the old continent, or descendants of immigrants. On the old continent, felines do not exist. Decause they did not have as advanced civilisations as the explorers did, they were looked down upon as savages from the very beginning.

Will you have Orginized crime? Please.. I can be Scarface "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!!" *whips out Browing Automatic Rifle*

Name: Jack Takemoto
Race: Wolf Anthro
Gender: male
Age: 27
Appearance:6'5", usually wears a pair of Japanese robes, red in color.
Abilities: master swordsman, mastered several different martial arts styles, great singer.
Background: Jack is the son of a Japanese samurai and an American (both wolf anthros), he traveled to America out of sheer boredom, looking for some excitement. he has stumbled into this town hoping for something fun to do, no matter what it was. he's heard of the crime here and is looking to either fight it or join it, either way it doesn't matter since it'll be fun either way. he's been treated like royalty since hes been here and it's been driving him crazy since he came here trying to get away from that.

Name: Khain
Race: Human
Gender: male
Age: 21
Appearance: 5'8", wears a coat, gloves and a high hat. He's albino.
Abilities: Master engineer, gunsmith, marksmen.
Background: Adopted son of the merchant Kazat Enginlore, he was raised in wealth. Kazat had hard time learning Khain, since he was so lazy. He does show an extreem intelligent side, but he's lazy most of the time.

Yes, there will be organized crime, most definitely so. ^^

In fact, I've already planned some plot including that.
What I also forgot to mention is that the police is very hard edged and not very gentle at all.You could almost say the country is a police state.

Also, seeing how many of the felines are really poor, the organized crime consists mostly of them, because they feel thats the only way out for them, since the law is controlled by racist canines mostly.

There will be strict mafia like "family" crime organisations, hired killers, and gangs of youngsters fighting each other.
Also, some student groups protesting against the racist government, even using violence and sabotage.

Characters look okay so far.. ...I guess we'll start with 4 people? Or should we wait for more?

So i can bring in a Rabbit "mage"?

I'd say yes.

But you have to keep in mind that the traditional magic here is religious/tribal in nature.
Like Voodoo or Candomble, or Native American Shamans.
So there are no "academies of magic" or spells, but rather charms and hexes, talismans and totems, and the ones using the magic believe they can only do so because the natural spirits let them do that.

If he/she is, for example, an apprentice of a witchdoctor or voodoo priestess in the swamps that wanted to check out the city, that's totally okay.
The European people don't really believe in magic, except... maybe prague cabbalists? Gypsies? Occultists? Aleister Crowley and Edward Arthur Waite were still alive in that time period.

The other kind of magic is experimental and not really in control, worked by scientists with strange machines and alchemic processes. So, not what you'd usually call a mage.

Just post your idea and I say wether it's acceptable... just think more in terms of witchcraft, occultism and shamanism rather than high fantasy bearded wizards.

i have a question, any reason for the name? or did you just type it for the heck of it?

Actually Dieselpunk is a genre.

It's not exactly the kind of setting I describe here, but rather close.
I was torn between Steampunk and Dieselpunk, but actually it's neither. ^^;

Steampunk usually describes a victorian era world where steam technology is so advanced that all manners of science-fiction machines exist based only on steam.
Dieselpunk is kind of similar, but instead of technology based on steam you have Diesel-driven machines.
I don't know much about it, except that the term comes up in an RPG called Children of the Sun.
But I don't know anything of that.
Just thought it sounds nice and fits the name of a heavily technologically advanced 19th/20th century setting with magic. ^^

Hmm. Maybe if I sign up on this, people will stop mistaking Lohti for a tiger...

Name: Lohti
Race: FOX (not tiger!)
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Appearance: 5'9", Wears casual clothing when not at a meeting of great import, in which he wears dress clothing.
Abilities: Diplomacy, orginization, strategy, marksmanship
Background: The current Don of the Valia crime syndicate, rumored by the members themselves to eat babies and spit bullets. This was a clever move on his part to demoralize opposition, and it has bolstered the Valia family to a rather big one. They have holdings over a lot of the police force and numurous buisnesses. They do not openly pull heists or rob, as that is just plain stupid. "Leave that to the udda families." he once said, addressing that idea.

he does not go anywhere without his bodyguards, whom I'll leave open in case any players wanna play them.

Is that good? not too imposing? let me know so I can change!

I wouldn't mind, my guy is bored and is looking for some excitement, no matter where it comes from, and how can anyone mistake you for a tiger? your avy alwaysed looked like a fox ta me. also, ya need a way to pick me up as a bodyguard or thug, because my guy just came to town.

Got nothin' else to do.

Name: Gordon Myst
Race: Couger Anthro
Gender: male
Age: 25
Appearance: 6'6", denim jacket (open) .303 rifle casing on a string around his neck. black jeans, blue baseball hat
Abilities: pickpocketing, lockpicking, hotwiring.
Background: born and raised in the slums, he picked up various illegal skills that helped make a living while working a steady job as a low profile smuggler (mostly guns/ammunition, and small amounts of drugs). escaped from prison recently after doing three months of a one year sentence for theft and assaul with a weapon (a stick, but a weapons none-the-less)

Well Godhand, you never mistaked me yourself, but others have, and I hope to avoid it. And for an idea, maybe somthing like you causing trouble in one of the Valia family's buisnesses or something... does that sound good?

Hmmm, a japanese wolf anthro causing trouble for the mafia.... BRILLIANT! sounds good, now i just need something i could do, like interrupt a bribe from a shop owner to the mafia... what do you think?

or... you could cause a scene when some of the goons start using their muscle around you. I doubt he would willingly guard the head of the criminal family he had purposefully stopped the income from...