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Isabella_Jaegerhorn

Isabella_Jaegerhorn

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23 years old, 24th of June, 1995.

Born in Kiruna, Sweden, living and studying in the Netherlands. I absolutely love gaming, drinking, friends, dogs, climbing, swimming and role-playing!

Since this is a site mostly aimed at writing I shall scribble down my favourite themes here for you future RP partners. I absolutely love adventure roleplay. Whether that's doing a very slow roleplay traversing unknown woods or high-action survival is all the same to me. As a history lover a historical (Realistic or Fantasy) setting is prefered, though I have quite some good memories of more modern RP's as well. The only thing I haven't done a lot of is sci-fi rp, but that is changing fast!
I also love exploration though I suppose that is mostly combined with my knack for adventure roleplays. I do not mind playing in canon worlds ( Think Dark Souls, Witcher etc...) but I do mind playing canon characters, it is simply not my thing.

My favourite games: The Souls series (Including Bloodborne, it's my favourite.) & most if not all paradox games.

The best drinks? Rum! Rum, rum and simple beer as long as they are both served in ample amounts.

The best friends? My four super sweet home mates.

The best dog? I used to have a very big Newfoundlander and a very curly bouvier but sadly they passed away some time ago. Now we have a Rottweiler and she's the absolute best!

Climbing? On everything! Trees, buildings or simple lampposts.

Swimming? Every pool that has a slide is automatically my favourite.

Roleplaying? Anything that lasts for a long time and grants time for characters to naturally evolve.

I have around ~4 years of RP experience but that experience is mostly RL sessions.

Generally very friendly, outgoing and open, but also relatively busy so sometimes I might forget to reply. Just give me a heads-up if it appears that way! As said before I am not from a country where we speak English as a native tongue so I do ask for constructive criticism rather than anger when it comes to language errors. I'll be sending out rp requests myself but feel more than free to hit me up if you have a great idea!
 
exocat said:
Paradox for the win! Victoria II is my favorite. What kind of roleplaying did you do in your real-life sessions?
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Oehhh I have bad blood with Victoria II! It was my very first game and it made me stop for quite a while, it was too overwhelming for younger me!. In the end I returned with eu4, but I really should go back to Victoria at some point in the near future.
The roleplay was mostly DnD and Dark Heresy. As DM in DnD and Player in Dark Heresy. What about you? You into those games?
 
Victoria 2 certainly had its frustrating moments, like a million revolutionaries destroying the country when I was desperately trying to scrape together 50,000 men to turn the tide of a war. The late-game economy never worked correctly, so I always had masses of unemployed people. I had some fun with Stellaris, but the game engine would choke and crash whenever I started winning. Victoria 2 makes incredibly interesting alternate histories, and I always turn the ending date off so I get strange things like fascist Britain fighting a Great War against the United States in Canada, Ireland becoming a colonial empire, and independent Australia becoming a great power.

Crusader Kings II is my current paradox game. I don't like it very much, but I'm trying to play through it so I can save the game and convert it to EU4. They should just call it the 'everyone dies of the sniffles and your new king is an ugly incompetent loser, hahahahaha' simulator.

I was acquainted with some people who played D&D. I liked the settings and the art more than I liked the game mechanics, which I felt bogged things down. You probably had a better experience with it (more focus on story, I bet). I read that Scandinavians have a different perception of tabletop roleplaying games than English-speakers. I used to play Call of Cthulhu, Elric/Stormbringer, Pendragon, Fading Suns, Ars Magica (very good game!) and some older games that are obscure (Aftermath, Morrow Project, Traveller). The adventures I had in those games got me started with creative writing ;)
 
*Pokes head in* Stellaris is the best Paradox game!!! *Vanishes*

Oh... And welcome to the Sanctum!!! *Re-vanishes*
 
exocat said:
Victoria 2 certainly had its frustrating moments, like a million revolutionaries destroying the country when I was desperately trying to scrape together 50,000 men to turn the tide of a war. The late-game economy never worked correctly, so I always had masses of unemployed people. I had some fun with Stellaris, but the game engine would choke and crash whenever I started winning. Victoria 2 makes incredibly interesting alternate histories, and I always turn the ending date off so I get strange things like fascist Britain fighting a Great War against the United States in Canada, Ireland becoming a colonial empire, and independent Australia becoming a great power.

Crusader Kings II is my current paradox game. I don't like it very much, but I'm trying to play through it so I can save the game and convert it to EU4. They should just call it the 'everyone dies of the sniffles and your new king is an ugly incompetent loser, hahahahaha' simulator.

I was acquainted with some people who played D&D. I liked the settings and the art more than I liked the game mechanics, which I felt bogged things down. You probably had a better experience with it (more focus on story, I bet). I read that Scandinavians have a different perception of tabletop roleplaying games than English-speakers. I used to play Call of Cthulhu, Elric/Stormbringer, Pendragon, Fading Suns, Ars Magica (very good game!) and some older games that are obscure (Aftermath, Morrow Project, Traveller). The adventures I had in those games got me started with creative writing ;)
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That sounds nothing short of truly interesting! I have the game in my library and I'll be sure to install it once I give my PC a proper fix. had a GPU failure three days ago... :(

I did love stellaris! I never played it singple player but me and two homemates went crazy with it. I've played that one up to the point where it became rather stale. Same with Hearts of iron IV. Space otters fighting space parrots never gets old though haha.

CK II I have but, like you I suppose, can't really get into. Once again playing with friends who get it but suck at explaining things. I'm mostly just making money and watching the years go by :/.

I don't know about us Norse having a different perspective on it but you sure are right when you say it's more story driven. I'm not claiming to be the best DM but I've held my group interested for over three years now with no more than... ~15 large combat encounters? I do make sure that each encounter is more of a climax to a story line than simply an xp farm. Plus I absolutely love rp'ing all the different npc's <3.

And Call of Cthulhu?! Ohhh you have to tell me what that one is like! My entire campaign is partially inspired by that mythos. Is it fun? As for creative writing, I've mostly been very active on rphaven whenever I did it via the internet. Since a year or so it seems to be beyond dead, leaving nothing but smut stories to be had. Any specific genres you love with creative writing?
 
JamesMartin said:
*Pokes head in* Stellaris is the best Paradox game!!! *Vanishes*

Oh... And welcome to the Sanctum!!! *Re-vanishes*
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Haha thanks, and thanks for having me! Nothing quite beats the absolute silly races you can have fight each other. Our custom races all had the most simple names in Dutch like: Tomato people or Apple Worms, but gosh did we have many laughs over tomato genocide. :D
 
Isabella_Jaegerhorn said:
CK II I have but, like you I suppose, can't really get into.
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Oh, I don't blame you, CK2 is kind of a boring clickfest. After I'm done with this playthrough I'm not going to play it again. A family management game with a minigame about gaining territories while the idiots on your own side rip everything apart isn't very exciting. Right now all my kingdom's neighbors are in a coalition against me, so I'm stuck managing my relatives' weddings. The game engine is slowing down too, with about 2000 people at my court. I used a mod that made every county independent at the start, so there were no kingdoms, no empires, just every count against every other count. It was interesting to watch the nations evolve. Now my empire extends from the Pyrenees in the West, to Lappland in the North, to the Volga in the East. The Pope blocked me at the Danube. Stubborn things, Popes.

Stellaris was fun. I really enjoyed making custom races and playing the game, but the game engine kept choking. It's my fault because I won't play with anything less than 3000 stars.

Call of Cthulhu is a very different game experience from D&D. It gave the group some of our most exciting sessions! I'll send you a PM about it.
 
Hello and welcome! I'm afraid I can't add much on the paradox side — never done tabletop, sad face — but I think we have similar interests on the fantasy/history/adventure side! Hope to see you around. :D
 
greyrock said:
Hello and welcome! I'm afraid I can't add much on the paradox side — never done tabletop, sad face — but I think we have similar interests on the fantasy/history/adventure side! Hope to see you around. :D
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No worries! Everyone has their own interests right :D. And oh, that's great to hear! We can always try and see if we can come up with a decent idea or two if you're game.
 
Sure thing! The links in my signature give you a bit more info about me and the sorts of things I usually play, but I'm very open to other ideas if you think there's something we'd do well together.
 
I have no ideas yet whatsoever! It's been a long day and my mind is ever so fried. Do you prefer your rp's to be somewhat gritty? Facing the odds. Or do you like having the characters themselves being sufficiently strong? or... or... well, or anything else in particular when it comes to story writing?
 
Good questions! Um, there's quite a lot of info in the signature links (I ramble, heh) but I'm not sure i covered that so thanks for asking :D I do like them to have challenges to face, even quite big scary ones, but what I love most about RP is worldbuilding and characterisation. So maybe some kind of political drama or a plot involving war, but focusing less on the fight scenes and more on the social and interpersonal difficulties that brings about? Not sure if that makes sense, but happy to chat more either here or in PMs if you like!
 
exocat said:
Stellaris was fun. I really enjoyed making custom races and playing the game, but the game engine kept choking. It's my fault because I won't play with anything less than 3000 stars.
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You might be pleased to hear that the lag won't be nearly as bad in the next update. They're removing planet tiles, apparently the main source of the lag.
 
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