Power Struggle

Power Struggle (PS) is a series of role-playing (RP) games held in Brazilian's Mapping Chat. It has had five official installments: Power Struggle 1 (2018), Power Struggle 2 (2019), Power Struggle 3 (2021), Power Struggle 4 (2021), and Power Struggle V (2023-2024), as well as two unofficial installments: Power Struggle 4.5 (2022) and Power Struggle 4.75 (2022-2024).
Originally created by Brazilian and Rayan, the basic premise of the RP is the death of Brazilian himself in an universe where BMC (usually called EBM, short for Empire of Brazilian Mapping, in the RPs) is an established monarchical state. This results in chaos within the Empire, and players, part of Brazilian's fictional family tree or otherwise, are prompted to participate in intrigue and conspiracy with the ultimate goal of seizing power. Investigations on the Emperor's death and resulting trials are a recurrent theme as well. However, after the end of PS4 and the lack of official sequels, the fan-held unofficial sequels became far more broad RPs, being notorious for their inclusion of interdimensional travel.
The entirety of the Power Struggle series has taken place on Discord text channels, sometimes with the aid of custom visuals, especially maps. The use of alternate accounts ("alts") to allow for a person to play as more than one character at once is a tradition of the RP and has been present since the first edition, although then limited to the gamemasters for the purpose of having diverse non-player characters (NPCs). From PS4 onwards, this device has become widespread among players themselves.
== Installments ==
=== Official ===
* Power Struggle 1 (December 25th, 2018 - December 30th, 2018)
* Power Struggle 2 (October 31st, 2019 - November 15th, 2019)
* Power Struggle 3 (February 18th, 2021 - February 28th, 2021)
* Power Struggle 4 (August 3rd, 2021 - October 11th, 2021)
* Power Struggle V (December 21st, 2023 - January 5, 2024)
=== Unofficial ===
* Power Struggle 4.5 (January 5th, 2022 - August 14th, 2022)
* Power Struggle 4.75 (August 20th, 2022 - April 26th, 2024)