A new forum RP development thread?, Interested in those who are interested. Options

[Darkblade]

Wondering how many of us are interested in setting up a new RP for the forum.
What kind of RP would you all be interested in taking part in?

A little while back there were two being set up.
One based on a couple of guilds set in a city
And another was a plot set in World of Alsta
Way before that there was one based on a natural disaster set in a small town, it got
started but never took off.

Cant even go back and look for the threads since the forum changes.

Anyway, who is interested in building a new RP.

Questions for brain storming
What kind of theme? (Sci-Fi, fantasy, realism)
What kind of world scale? (Huge developed world or set in a little town)
What kind of plot? (Simple kill bad guy or something more elaborate)

[Darkblade]

Yeah, its very true, we are usually lacking in members.

I think that the only option that even has a shot is another RP like Deathnote. A simple RP based in an already popular and established setting.

Problem with doing an RP based on an existing franchise is the possibility of interested people not knowing much or anything about it but still wanting to join.
Although, I agree, something popular and established would be the best way to get interest.

Making a sci-fi project that revolves around a small crew's misadventures upon a ship, occasionally stopping on stations and planets in order to progress the story? That's more manageable, and if every scene within the RP contributes to the overall storyline, then it's more likely to reach its end scene and have a satisfying conclusion.

I think we might have had trouble moving an RP forward in the past, although now that you've brought this kind of setting up for an RP, I think having defined character roles (captain, engineer, that kind of thing) would help that a lot since a captain character would make a lot of decisions.
Trouble is, deciding who gets what role in that kind of setting. Was that an easy thing to decide on in your experience?
Of course it could be up to the user when creating their character, but small crew having bunches of characters with the same role on a ship seems a bit awkward.

[Eye of The Liger]

I think we might have had trouble moving an RP forward in the past, although now that you've brought this kind of setting up for an RP, I think having defined character roles (captain, engineer, that kind of thing) would help that a lot since a captain character would make a lot of decisions.Trouble is, deciding who gets what role in that kind of setting. Was that an easy thing to decide on in your experience?
Of course it could be up to the user when creating their character, but small crew having bunches of characters with the same role on a ship seems a bit awkward.

Well, you could say we had a lot of chemistry between us, which is one of the benefits of a small community - you start to learn eachother's roleplaying styles, and can adapt your own to compliment their's. As such, we kinda got lucky. We all had our own tastes, so we ended up with at least one of each "class", and we were all too modest to make a Captain, except for one of us who we could all agree had enough experience to hold the role anyway... Though he was quick to reserve the role for himself.

Honestly, without that kind of luck, a discussion could just be held before people are even allowed to sign up for the RP, where they reserve roles, each of which have a cap on how many there can be. Any roles that aren't filled can be taken by players making a second character, and if there's competition for a prestigious role like the Captain, we could simply have it be filled by whoever is the most experience roleplayer. And if he/she doesn't want it, then the second most experienced, etc.

There's really no truly reliable system for organizing these things.

This post has been edited by Eye of The Liger: Apr 21 2012, 04:45 PM