Brainstorm Thread, For a new RP of course Options

[Dantrag]

Ahem,

Judging by previous conversations as well as the low activity in WoH, the plotlines are simply too involved and confusing for any newcomers as well as old participants. (yes, I can use big words like 'participant') So, brainstorm time.

Things we have figured out based on experience :

- No 'all powerful' characters (ex. Arcyakt - he just made things complicated and caused a lot of argument, considering the fact that he had no limit to his powers, and kind of made defeating him illogical)

- Too many factions = bad. It just makes things hectic and hard to put together, expecially since with each new faction, you need at least 3 more characters, usually played by someone that already has multiple characters.

- Large scale = bad. I mean, in WoH, it's all large-scale political schemes that go nowhere. There are no epic duels, huge arguments (Hey, the Sel vs. Niran stuff got old, but it was interesting), etc.

- Feel free to add anything else.

So based on these main no-no's, we need plottage. I was thinking that some kind of plot with two (somewhat equal) sides would be good. WoH was too much, but AMU was too one-sided. I'm sure Kiln and Shogun got bored RPing with only Arcyakt. If we could balance out the sides a little more, it would be good. And of course, there has to be some good old internal conflict.

If most agree with these points, we can get into more specifics.

[Fuzzy Knight]

All I want to say is that I would love to play in Cyrodiil insted of the province of Morrowind, first of all - I haven't played Morrowind in so many years, so I don't remember anything, cities, people, factions etc. Now as I'm currently playing Oblivion, I know the setting pretty good. But this is only my part, many don't have Oblivion and haven't played it - but all our RPs so far have been based in Morrowind, so all I would really want was a RP based in Cyrodiil, maybe around Skyrim and Hammerfell too

Since we don't want a large-scale RP it's good to have a solid small one that would contain a lot of information so we would have something to play on, not so we would finish it within a week or two...

As I said I also think we should test out the good vs evil, having the good group that wants to prevent the evil groups plan to do something. Don't really got many ideas.

Can post some... Let's see... these wouldn't fit into the current setting of Oblivion, but as Danny stated we could try to alter things a bit and such

1. I've always loved the control of a Count or Countess in a city and keeping things within the city. Since some mind-control spell or such wouldn't really involve everyone, only those who are affected by this. Like my RP idea in Beyond Oblivion forums - That the Count of a city had been bitten/controlled by what we could call a greater Vampire (leader of a Vampire Faction) or a powerful Sorcerer and he would use politics and military power of the Count for his advantage - from there it's just putting in ideas for why he/she would do this and how to stop this.

Here the evil players could be like a group of elite soldiers, capable of doing certain tasks, fighting, spellcasting, manipulating - so it would need all kinds of characters. And of course, let's say the Count/Countess of a city in the same county would be threatened, but he know he is watched by this evil - so he sets up a meeting, calling in the local hero's people who would be capable of stopping this without giving off as much attention as a legion of soldiers marching against the city since they don't know what they are up against...

So this RP would require a lot of investigating from both parts and in the end; the Evil group would have to silence the Count/Countess of the opposite city taking control of this one too which would lead to greater things, while the good group would have to kill the leader (also prove he was evil of course) and kill the evil group...

To keep this from a large scale, we would simply keep it within as few cities as possible, as long as it's not to thin - giving the RP a long duration and action and fun all the way That's just the idea I thought of now...