Fandom Hunters Unite: Monster Hunter RP Overview

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Here is where you can read the nitty gritty details of the role play. If you have any questions about the setting, mechanics, or anything else, feel free to post your questions here, and I'll answer them as soon as I can. I'm also open to suggestions if you think something might improve the role play.

• Overview
• Setting
• Important Notes

• The world is an immensely treacherous place, filled with dragons, beasts with scythe-like claws and gnashing fangs, and creatures that could end the world by purely existing. With monsters lurking around every corner, it sounds impossible for people to relax, take it easy, and enjoy life. Imminent doom looming over a person's head does wonders for their mental health, and the thought of a precious home being smashed to pieces like a flimsy sand castle only adds to the fear.
  
  It is in this world, a world riddled with destruction and carnage, where you play an important role.
  
  You are a Monster Hunter, an honored and respected person in this society. It is your duty to brave the world of terrifying beasts, and slay them where they stand. You must do what few could ever muster the courage to do. You are a protector, a collector, and an aid to important research. Your work will leave you regarded as a hero, a savior to cities that could have been trampled under clawed feet and dragon fire.
  
  And your story is only just beginning.
  
• The setting will take place in the many villages and biomes of Monster Hunter. I'd say the only ones we'd be leaving out are the ones in Monster Hunter Online and Monster Hunter Frontier Online, since I don't think too many of us would be familiar enough with those games. I think the areas we'll be mostly focusing on will be the ones mentioned in the 3rd generation and above, as the later generations are the ones most people are familiar with. We'll also probably leave out the spin-off, side-story games and only focus on the main franchise as to avoid confusion.
  
  All locations are fair game when you're going out on a hunt either by yourself or with other characters, as long as you don't teleport suddenly from one area to another during a quest. For example, you can't be hunting a monster in the jungle area and then suddenly end up in the tundra. Go with what makes sense to you and the people around you as you go out on quests. You can make up your own quests or use quests in the game to help inspire you. Who knows? Perhaps things aren't as simple as they seem, and you'll be launched forward into urgent, world-ending missions with everything in the balance. Who knows?
  
  When you and your fellow hunters aren't busy gathering materials or slaying monsters, you'll be spending your time in the cities, mingling with the locals, getting to know the people around you. While you can hang around in any city you desire, you're more likely to run across fellow characters in the cities that have been dubbed as "Multiplayer Hubs" in the actual games.
  
  
  These Cities
  Dundorma
  Val Habar
  Loc Lac
  Port Tanzia
  Minegarde Town
  And Bherna
  (since it's directly connected to the Hunter's Hub)
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  If you'd like more detailed information on these places as well as those not mentioned, I would strongly recommend checking out the Monster Hunter Wiki, as it describes the monsters, gear, and locations way better than I could and in a much more organized manner.
  
• Certain mechanics in the game will be tweaked slightly to make the role play more realistic, so to speak, to add better tension when you go out on a hunt. The hunts will bring about a bigger sense of danger, and you'll find you'll want to be much more careful about your actions when you're in the field. The core principles of the game will stay mostly the same, and any changes will be mentioned here in this tab.
  
  
  Fainting Mechanic

  The role play's changes to the games' fainting mechanic will be very minor, but these minor changes make all the difference.
  
  In the games, if you faint three times during your hunt, you're deemed "too weak to continue" and are sent home. Each time you or another person faints, you lose money from the reward. This will still be the same, however, your character may not always be able to rely on a couple of helpful Felynes carting you back to the base camp so you can recover. Also, base camps are not completely, 100% safe. It's still possible for a monster to wander into your base camp, but the odds of that happening are highly unlikely.
  
  In the roleplay, the reason you lose money is because the Hunter's Guild pays these nearby Felynes to cart you to safety, but if the little cats decide that the area is too dangerous to dart in and drag you away, they may not do that. They may only drag you part of the way, they may be chased trying to get you to safety, or they may not be able to reach you at all. If this happens, you'll have to hope that your fellow hunters can either chase the monster to a different area, or have one distract it while another carries you away.
  
  
  Injuries

  In the game, you can get tossed about no problem, but here, you'll have to take injuries into account. You may sprain a limb, get a horrible scratch, or even worse. You may even perish out on the field, depending on what transpires in your hunt. You're not invincible, healing potions only do so much to help you on the field, and really just tide you over until you can find a healer to patch up your wounds. How badly you get injured also depends on how often you get hit, whether or not you block, and how tough your armor is.
  
  
  Status Effects

  Getting burned, shocked, and whatever else may happen to you on the field will have more substantial effects in the roleplay. Depending on what armor you have, it may not be quite as bad, but as long as you consider how bad it would be for your character to get shocked by lightning breath or literally caught on fire, you'll be good. For example, your character gets burned by a Rathalos, they will be feeling a burn wound where they got hit, be it the leg, chest, or face. The basic principles of status effects are the same, however. Nullberries help dull the pain, and this applies to all status effects.
  
  I did make a lot of changes to one status effect in particular, and that is the Frenzy Virus. Essentially, what I wanted to do with this was make it a much bigger issue if you got infected by it while out hunting. I wanted it to act more similarly to rabies, while still being it's own virus. Should you get infected, you won't be able to simply just attack things long enough to flush it out, you'll need to be quarantined and monitored heavily upon returning home until healers can effectively flush the virus out.
  
  Infection can be caused by either inhalation of the black clouds left around by Gore/Shagaru Magala, or caused by the virus slipping inside of open wounds. The virus will then slowly start feeding off of the host and using them to spread the infection to other creatures, slowly killing its host in the process. The Frenzy Virus will cause extreme pain and an itching, crawling effect that will agitate the host and cause it to become violent towards others and towards itself. Apex status is achieved if the monster (or human) survives the infection long enough for it to weaken, which gives them time to adapt and reap the benefits of the Frenzy Virus. To compensate for these more drastic effects, there's a longer incubation period for the virus, giving hunters enough time to catch it and flush it out. Symptoms will span over a few days to a few weeks and come off in stages of increasing severity, meaning the longer you go, the more bloodshot your eyes become, the more violent you'll be, and the harder it will be to fight those violent urges.
  
  
  Yeah, if it's too much, however, just lemme know and I can tone it back a little. Frenzy status is just a very unique effect and so I wanted to expand on it a little. Really, all of this here is to just give you ideas for tension, hardship, and drama while you're out in the field or at home. The main focus is to have fun and enjoy what unfolds as we go.