MANY of you have well-thought out, detailed concepts of your nation and your nation's history, strengths, and weaknesses. One Problem I see is that many of us post "News" and "Events" about our personal nations, and that is evidence of the care we all take in creating these beasties.
On the other hand, I personally think that our actual RP activities, using our actual nations, is a weak area in XKI. We post our nation's news, and maybe one or two other people reply, at most. I think it's time we actually interacted, with nations as WE created them.
This thread is an attempt to see who might be interested in creating a storyline as we interact together with our nations. It is for people who crave role-playing and story-telling and intrigue and story-lines....in essence, the kind of thread that would actually form the basis of a fantasy novel if we published it at the end.
If this is something you are interested in, post in this thread, and I will create a specific thread after we have enough sign-ups, whereby we introduce our disparate nations, and begin a story line.
I'm pretty open...I'd like a story line that actually integrates some of the pre-existing myths we have already created within out own nations, so t depends on who wants to play and what the 'heart' of their nation is all about
So OP, what you've basically touched on here is an issue that I've always had with the RP landscape of NS in general and not just XKI - that is, people spend a whole bunch of time on 'nation building' and not much time on anything else. It gives the impression that to even think about entering into any form of roleplay here and in NS that you need to have both written and be constantly referencing a triple-bounded, multi volume encyclopedia just to enter into the most basic of RP's.
As a result, over the ten or so years I've been casually playing this game I have never really been able to get into any serious roleplaying. Which is a shame, because back in the day before NS I used to do a fair bit of it and even these days I still kinda miss doing it.
At the same time I have no desire (or time) to compose the entire history and statistics of a nation that is supposed to have over 20 billion people in it and doubt that if I did, many people would be willing to read it. No, what I would like to do (and what I used to specialise in and have likely forgotten how to do properly now ) is character RP's - roleplay stories when the player only has control (and responsibility) over a single being, instead of a whole god d**n nation.
Now the best part of a character RP for XKI first of all, is that the majority of peeps who visit this forum already do this without really thinking - i.e all the silliness that goes into taco island + all the various bar threads. Secondly, accessibility is usually open to all - you sign up, the DM sets the scene and off you go, with either everyone taking it from there or - if it is story based - the DM both moderating and dictating the progression.
Now I've never really been a good DM, but I do have some ideas for some basic 'mess around' introductory threads that I'll think about starting up once I'm confident enough that people will actually pay them a visit. But for now, take a gander at my ramblings above and tell me what you think.
And that'll be two cents please.
Last Edit: Oct 23, 2014 8:56:23 GMT -5 by New Dracora
Post by TAS Asamania on Oct 23, 2014 14:37:53 GMT -5
I ain't paying you a single cent. You wrecked my solar cells and forced me to repair everything. If it wasn't for karma being nice to me, I'd still be going around the track.
Post by The Changeling Horde on Oct 23, 2014 16:51:36 GMT -5
(I know I am new but I do have some DM experience (at least writing and or storytelling, But i am horrible at keeping check on all item and or character stats) and i am for Character RP)
( to be honest to throw in my 2 cents as well. If we RP I would personally enjoy a d20 system to determine how well you do something or possibly when you create your character you have to balance your character)
(I also want to ask if we do a character rp do are characters have to come from are nations?)
I ain't paying you a single cent. You wrecked my solar cells and forced me to repair everything. If it wasn't for karma being nice to me, I'd still be going around the track.
It wasn't me - it was sunlight reflecting off swampgas... yep.
(I know I am new but I do have some DM experience (at least writing and or storytelling, But i am horrible at keeping check on all item and or character stats) and i am for Character RP)
( to be honest to throw in my 2 cents as well. If we RP I would personally enjoy a d20 system to determine how well you do something or possibly when you create your character you have to balance your character)
(I also want to ask if we do a character rp do are characters have to come from are nations?)
That's kinda the point - you can dictate what the rules are of the thread. It's completely up to you, but at the same time you'd be responsible for keeping it going just like a normal DM would.