Battleworld 2.0 was a direct reboot of the RP Battleworld, which was started by fellow TV tropes member Stratofarius, and began in 2015 by Meanken. Like the first one, this was a crossover RP where a deity known only as The Cure has taken lands from across the multiverse and thrown them together on a single world with the purposes of having them do battle with one another. This RP was thus focused on the interactions between these varied and different lands and factions with wildly differing goals and moralities. Although featuring an entirely new cast of lands and factions, this reboot only contains a few pivotal changes to adjust from the first Battleworld, in an attempt to avoid the issues the first RP ran into.
- The Common Room: Think of this as the main hub of Battleworld, a neutral area where all residents of the Battleworld can meet at any time and travel between the various locations instantly, bypassing that pesky issue of border crossings and such. This is intended to help spur more player interactions. To avoid the obvious issue of a player being able to teleport massive amounts of troops to invade someone else's land in a second, the portals to the Common Room (glowing blue vortexes) are mainly restricted in use to significant named characters.
- Chunkless Factions: Not every character is really equipped to be leading a faction that controls territory. That does not mean there can't be a place on the Battleworld for them. These are small groups (anywhere from 1-8 people each), who essentially serve as an independent group. They can choose to ally with a faction, hire themselves out to the highest bidder, or just do their own thing; up to them. This enables people who may not necessarily be interested in running an entire piece of land or who have a specific character in mind to do stuff.
Due to flagging interest following the conclusion of the Nyarthalotep arc, the game was merged with A Game Of Gods Season 4: Frontiers in October of 2022.
The signup thread can be found here
, and the RP itself can be found here.
Battleworld 2.0 contains examples of:
- Adaptational Wimp: Many characters brought to BattleWorld had their powers toned down by The Cure — Homura, for instance, had her Time Stands Still ability nerfed to a limited speed boost. The justification, both Watsonian and Doylist, is that massive power imbalances make for boring situations, both for The Cure and for the players.
- Alien Invasion: More or less — Day 3 is dominated by an all-out attack by the Galactic Empire and finished off with the destruction of the Death Star by various groups.
- The Alliance: An early attempt to form one on the eastern side of the continent spearheaded by chunkless SEES in order to ensure their own survival. As of this writing, there are plans for Mayor Norman Osborn of Manhattan to attempt to restart the effort at an upcoming diplomatic gala.
- Anachronism Stew: It's not quite as apparent as it was in 1.0, but you still have situations like a city of Transformers next to the techless land of Outworld.
- Arc Villain: Nyarlathotep (of Persona, not Lovecraft, though still inspired by the latter) served as this for an arc that spanned almost the entire history of the RP by the 6.5 year mark.
- Broken Masquerade: Hell's Gate Tokyo's Masquerade regarding the existence of Contractors is deliberately broken by Minako of SEES in a livestream on the Dollars website, in an effort to assuage concerns among Ikebukuro's populace in the wake of Nyarlathotep's hijacking of Mikado's Dollars Admin account. The Syndicate is very unhappy about this turn of events.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Several characters make deals and bargains that neither intend to keep.
- Eldritch Abomination: Featuring Nylarathotep, from
Lovecraftthe Persona series (and Philemon, for that matter)! - Fangirl: Minako Arisato squees in delight when she learns that giant robots and magical girls are real, at least in other universes.
- God's Hands Are Tied: Subverted. Nyarlathotep assumes this will be true of Philemon, just as in their previous "bets", a fact which the latter banks on in order to surprise the former with an attack that weakens Nyarly until he's easy pickings for the band of heroes that's come to stop him.
- God Was My Copilot: Philemon, possessing the shell of a fake Minako Arisato as his vessel, was with the protagonists all throughout their struggle against Nyarlathotep.
- Good Counterpart: Philemon, to Nyarlathotep.
- It Amused Me: The go-to explanation as to why The Cure brought characters from different universes together, some with their normal powers altered.
- The Masquerade:
- Averted as far as the Muggles of Mitakihara are concerned with Battleworld, as Minako explicitly spilled the beans about it to the city council. It remains in effect for their city's particular representative of Homura and the whole Magical Girl schtick, though.
- Downplayed by Sakura Dungeon, as the masquerade it kept in its own world was to avoid people discovering that the dungeon even exists - something that cannot be avoided in Battleworld when "The Sakura Dungeon" is displayed right on the map in the common room.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In trying to convince the Mitakihara Magical Girls to reveal themselves to the civilian government, Minako Arisato mentions it would not do to launch a coup. This is pretty much what Homura Akemi does via getting Oriko Mikuni to contract and gaining the power of suggestion, first using it on Acting Mayor Kurogane.
- Patchwork World: Each chunk border suddenly cuts off and changes to the next chunk directly at the border, leading to situations like a sunny California town suddenly changing into the eternal nighttime of Castlevania.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: With how quickly groups can come and go, those that manage to persist have to continually update their plans to account for the ever-changing board.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: Killing the leader of another faction gives the character control of that faction's territory, with Shao Khan killing Bowser in a Duel to the Death and Spookums ripping off Immortan Joe's mask, leaving him helpless when his wives show up.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Homura Akemi was this close to getting her happy ending where Walpurgisnacht was defeated and none of her friends die or become a Witch, then The Cure decided to throw her and her city into the BattleWorld.
