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In-Game Roleplay Events / Re: Event&Storyboard Proposal
« on: November 17, 2011, 06:46:39 am »Hi Eonwind!
I had a similar idea, and would like to see yours worked on.
The main difficulty I foresee, and probably one of the reasons why nothing like this is already up, is meeting the community's widely differing standards, styles and preferences for RP. What constitutes enjoyable RP is just always going to be subjective. Leaving aside value judgements (also subjective), there is a thread up that might be worth looking at, for ideas about what will or will not be popular (http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=40438.0;topicseen).
Players with compatible styles naturally tend to group - this is no bad thing unless it's snobby. So, one storyboard is probably not going to be enough to be inclusive of every active and aspiring RPer - the diversity of smaller RPs should remain. But if I understand you correctly - if the storyboard were the bare bones on which to flesh out smaller RPs, it might cure the "Hi, I'm bored" syndrome for a start, and might even be a way to connect our inevitable RP-cliques into a harmonious larger organism. (Yes I'm an idealist. And don't forget, in-game there's a nice guild for that.)
Hi! Thanks for replying
an nice to meet you on the forum too I think you caught the sense of my post very well, I like diversity in RPing styles and I think it shold be preserved and encouraged. In fact I believe the background storyboard should be just the bare bones as you say, giving opportunity to further RPing but without enforcing any RP styles.
As an example let's say that Jayose (for reason to be uncovered in the future) formally ally (himself and the whole library organization) with Talad's cult (or Drakkur's) so loosing his neutrality in the process. I wonder:
- what would the "knowledge seekers" do? Would they further their support to him? Would they get distant from his "political" position? Or may be they just do nothing an keep waching?
- what about the "brotherhood of Talad" or the "daughter of xiosia"? would they believe his sincerity about his sudden conversion or would they question that and try to uncover what lay beyond?
- what about "The One"?
Of course some organization or guilds won't be interested in the matter so the may just keep watching but eventually future events may involve evens which will have something to do with them, so one by one every aspect of the life in Yliakum will be involved letting (but not forcing) the players to get involved and ... letting them shape Yliakum history in the future!!
May be before the event Jasose library will have a new history book which tell's the smart action that took "the knowledge seekers" to uncover and unmask the unfair trade below the "false" conversion preventing (or braking) the alliance!
I really hope to see this coming in the future and I believe something like that can be organized even by players side, but obviosly we'd need the GM's support and aid.
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) for more than half of my life, and when designing stories I usually care more about the plot, the feelings and the player's enjoyment than about the rules.