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.

[Dantrag]

Just to point something out - avoiding 'large scale' doesn't mean restricting the areas that are open for travelling, it merely means avoiding the whole armies and political leaders thing.

I thought Fuzzy's idea was excellent.

And about the setting, my opinion is that we shouldn't use somewhere that's already in a game. I mean, in AMU, we used Cyrodiil (which at that time, was not in a game) and we just made up the setting as we went, allowing for more freedom, and that way, the people that don't have Oblivion are equally knowledgable.

[Kiln]

Just to point something out - avoiding 'large scale' doesn't mean restricting the areas that are open for travelling, it merely means avoiding the whole armies and political leaders thing.

I thought Fuzzy's idea was excellent.

And about the setting, my opinion is that we shouldn't use somewhere that's already in a game. I mean, in AMU, we used Cyrodiil (which at that time, was not in a game) and we just made up the setting as we went, allowing for more freedom, and that way, the people that don't have Oblivion are equally knowledgable.

Exactly, everthing I thought was in that post, we don't need to restrict it to a certain space, just keep it to a few characters and not have huge battles involving 10,000 "npc" characters.

Also, I agree that it should be done somewhere that isn't in a game. We should use Skyrim(cause I like nords ) or some place else but not in Cyrodil just so all the roleplayers have an equal playing field and people aren't like,

"And I walked to the river to take a drink."

and then someone else is like,

"Dude there are no rivers near where we are."

Those sort of things won't happen because nobody is familiar with the land and the stuff going on there, we'd be making it up as we went along.

Hope you understand what I'm talking about but if not then just pretend you didn't read that whole thing.

This post has been edited by Kiln: Apr 16 2006, 02:36 AM