French Revolution RPG? Look here!

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Toujours Libérer is a role-play game based within the French Revolution. It is slash-friendly, focused on the intrigue and passions of the time. Play as any European nationality or an American observer, as a poet, politician or aristocrat. Even a serving maid. Will your character escape France and resettle in England or will they help French aristos to escape? Will they betray their ex-employers or will they risk all to keep them safe?



Toujours Libérer is open. There is a chance for characters to interact, alliances to be made and duels to be fought at The Ambassador's Ball

The game is open to players 18 and over, and is an original game set in Revolutionary France.

Toujours Libérer Character Wishlist
We would dearly love some revolutionaries, some servants, and some non-French characters. Some foppish poets, some soldiery, disillusioned priests, maids, criminals, and other characters along these lines would also be welcome. We would give our first guillotine to have some more revolutionaries as currently they are massively outnumbered by aristocracy. Of course, if you want to play a member of the aristocracy we won’t hold that against you.

Contact the mods at: toujoursliberer.rpg@googlemail.com

Comments

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Quelle horreur. Trop d'aristocrates. Et vous venez recruter de villains révolutionnaires? Naturellement.

[leaveyoufordead.livejournal.com]

Revolutionaries as baddies? We're not taking sides, just saying what we'd like to see in the game. I certainly don't think revolutionaries are the villains and I play one.

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

You must admit that your description of the RP does sound...um...horribly biased, I think the word is? "Hundreds are fleeing"..."Many are trying to make it across the Channel to avoid Madame Guillotine"..."handing escapees back to Robespierre's men"...and of course, you list "Those who make a choice, those who flee, and those who join the revolutionaries" and immediately follow it with "spies, heroes and villains". Usually, when two lists immediately follow each other, it implies some sort of correlation, ergo: make a choice=spies, flee=heroes, revolutionaries=villains. Particularly as you immediately follow it up with a request for more revolutionaries!

Note that you then say: "Will your character escape France and resettle in England or will they help French aristos to escape? Will they betray their ex-employers or will they risk all to keep them safe?" So the choices are: escape France, help the émigrés, OR be evil and betray them?

Do you blame us for assuming that what you want is more revolutionary villains to balance out your RP?


...lastly, "Robespierre's men" is probably a bad thing to say whilst in earshot - or typing-shot - of any Robespierrists, because it sounds like you're accusing him of personal evil/dictatorship/immediately what sets off all our counter-revolutionary/propaganda alarms? Better say that it's the Comité, or the Convention, or the Assembly, or whoever you think is in power when your RP is set, because it's marginally more likely - besides, by the time Robespierre was able to influence policy the way he wanted, hadn't most people had left that were going to leave? And if you were a rich aristocrat and you were in fear for your life, what in the world took you until the Terror to decide that it might be a good idea to leave...? *shrug* The Comité certainly had spies, no one is denying that, but we have many of their names, and, well...you see the reason for skepticism.

[leaveyoufordead.livejournal.com]

I think you're reading a lot into this, actually. It's just written in a way that we thought would appeal dramatically as it is an RPG and not a university course. In no way are we saying you can only do certain things in the RPG, nor would we want to. Sorry if you read it this way.

No, I don't see revolutionaries as being villains. I'm sorry again. I was actually appealing for revolutionaries from here because having read the comm. I thought people here would be less likely to play one-sided unbalanced revolutionaries who where just the sort of bad cackling villains you see in movies about the revolution. I was hoping for well rounded characters, not villains.

And besides, in the terror you had executions of revolutionaries who had fallen out of favour and normal everyday people -wouldn't they want to flee?

Really, using Robespierre is to appeal to large number of people because to those who haven't studied the French Revolution he is the only one they know about. In the actual game we make it more than clear it is the Comité, not one individual.

It's not meant to be massively historically accurate, but I in no way intended to give the impression we where touting for revolutionaries as villains, or that aristocrats where nice guys - we have a number of villainous aristocrats in game.

Honestly, I just thought this would be a little bit of fun.

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

Don't think I'm insulting you! I'm just saying that even if you were phrasing things "dramatically", you should have probably have explained yourself and your game further if you didn't want people to turn up their noses. One does not make an appeal to a community of historians with the same wording as to a general audience, even as you said.

[leaveyoufordead.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. I must admit the comm didn't look like a solely based history comm given the comics and other fun things in it. I'm a historian myself and so is my co-mod and we didn't feel there was a problem with dramatic phrasing given that it is in all just fun.

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

Ah, don't worry about it. I just read it as RPG-pimping.

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

I was just pointing that out. And yes, there are comics and stuff, but there's also actual historical links, and we wouldn't be in a historically-themed community if we didn't have some appreciation for history. There's no harm in 'all in just fun', I'm just saying, judge your audience before you say something if you want to avoid negative commentary. A group devoted to RPs in general? Go for the lurid. A group devoted to a historical time period? Assume that somewhere in the group is a devout historian. You might get ignored, but at least you won't be insulted.

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

Ha, I should warn you somewhat belatedly that, like, 98% of the people here are rabid Robespierreists, myself included. However, since you are asking for non-evil, well-rounded revolutionaries, I'm all for it! ^^ Yaaaaaay well-rounded characters! What kind of characters do you want in particular
(i.e.more call for male or female characters when it comes to revolutionaries)? I've looked over your 'wanted' character sheet; should I leave comments of the journals of people who asked for characters or is there some better way to contact them?

[leaveyoufordead.livejournal.com]

Hi!
That's alright, I'm sorry if I offended anyone even mistakenly. We're about equal right now with male and female characters so the choice is really yours. Commenting on character journals is really the best way to get in contact at the moment!

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

I'm interested too. Do we have to pick a character off the "Wanted Character" list or can we make up our own? I certainly can provide a revolutionary ;-).

[leaveyoufordead.livejournal.com]

Both are equally welcome! Whichever you are more inspired to do. :)