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[Spectre]

I have a good idea, but need a name.

Oh, and While I'm at it, I'm going to post the idea.

2246, Planet Reckt

You're a War-time Veteran who fought a great war between galactic empires and armies, and has decided to take a vacation exploring some planets. You find yourself on a uncharted, seemingly peaceful planet named Reckt; As you crash on the planet, you find yourself on one of its Darker, more mysterious districts with clans roaming freely.

You find yourself with only your weapon and equiptment you had on, you only have one mission, to survive, no matter what you must do, and eventually, get off the planet to freedom. Oh ya, and obviously, you're not going to be this guy in particular.

Ask away.

Edited by Durandel, 25 February 2009 - 01:22 PM.

[Vortigern]

What, we're all this guy? How is this going to work?

[Mórvír]

Yeah. RPs include various people, not to mention NPCs, so I suggest you elaborate a bit.

Not that I know anything.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

I have a question - why do you crash if you're on holiday?
Also I think Lost is taken already.

But yeah, more seriously, I like the concept, but Morvir does raise a valid point, if somewhat circuitously - it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot of potential for p2p interaction in there. Please do go ahead and contradict me

[Spectre]

Vort -
That's just one of the people, I forgot to add you can create your own character so he isn't that guy.

Morv -
I can't think up a Planets-Population worth of NPC names, thats for you to imagine, who is there? What do they do? All for you to explore without knowledge of.

Fire Ze Missiles -
This RP is suppose to be mysterious, you crash land on a planet (You can elaborate how you did) and you explore, I don't think if you were in that position that you would know what exactly you were going to encounter since you've never been to this planet. The Planet is like a sandbox, whatever you imagine.

[Copaman]

I take a couple of issues with this idea:

1. It's too free. I mean, you've got to have some kind of objective, some kind of direction, or else it'll never get anywhere. That's why so many of the RPs die after a couple months - they get too general, too vague, and the members are left saying "I say hi to XXX and then walk over there, looking for something to do."

2. We barely have enough activity as is, TBQH. Apoc Dawn is struggling to get off the ground, nobody is posting in Salvation except for Vort and I, and Arsencia isn't moving quite as fast as it used to. If we create more RPs (especially ones that seem doomed from the start), we'll spread our activity out over too many RPs and as a result, the division will die once again. It's happend three times since I've been RPing here, and it'll happen again unless we're careful.

[Vortigern]

Alright, here's how I see the RPG Frontier situation:

Icarus is dead, I'm going to archive it in a couple of days unless anyone objects with something I can use. Arsencia will pick up again in a bit, I've got it all planned out, I just needed my people around. With Copa on holiday and FZM having so little time at the moment, I was struggling to push it forward, but we should be OK now. Salvation's Anemia will get moving soon enough, I have faith in Ravnin to see to that. WoW is probably finished, because Nowe doesn't seem to be in the mood to revisit his old hunting grounds and without him it can't go anywhere. Apocalypse will get moving once FZM gets his time issues sorted, and until then I'm going to do my best to push it along for him.

The good news is that Mike is planning to start a Lord of the Rings RP here in a few days or so, and he has most of the BfME guys backing him on that. It's in here. The other hopefully good news is that, with Icarus ending, I'm intending to see what kind of reaction I can generate for my old idea of a Victorian gothic steampunk RP. Here's the original thread. Anyway, if I can get that off the ground, hopefully some new blood from the BfME posse and maybe a couple of other lurkers from around Revora and the internet in general will see the Frontier back on solid ground. We'll just have to wait it out, I think.

At the risk of jinxing this RP, I'd suggest calling it Chronicles of the Forgotten. It's a good title, and it's far more suitable for this than it ever was for the original of that name. My advice to you, Jenkins, is to come up with a storyline and a background. For example, we could be a recon team sent to discover whether or not new worlds are habitable for mankind, and we (as members of the team) are forced to make an emergency landing on this planet, wrecking our ship. We then have to go on a mission to somewhere to try and find something to help us get off the planet, or something else, I leave that up to you. However, I can guarantee you that leaving it up to the players what happens and who we meet will get this RP canned in days. Leading an RPG has to be a hands-on kind of thing, or nobody will pay enough attention to push it forward. As Copaman is so fond of saying, this is as much roleplaying as collaborative storytelling. There has to be a story or it can't work.

[Spectre]

Alright, I'm trashing this idea and moving on, please feel free to delete the topic, I need to wait until a better time, when Activity is at a reasonable amount.

I'm fearing that Revora is dieing.

[{IRS}Athos]

*jinxed*

[Byakuya Kuchiki]

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