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Topic Started: Aug 2 2013, 10:49 PM (255 Views)
Sonwe
This is the Announcement thread where I'll be posting important notices regarding the RP. It may be pertinent to the RP as a whole or just to a character and/or player, so please check this thread every time it get's a new post.

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And for the first announcement...

I've been putting a lot of thoughts on this ever since this RP started and I concluded that the Gameplay system for this RP is lacking. I feel that the way the RP currently is will affect both me as a GM and you as players when it comes to make this game enjoyable. The current system is pretty much a "cast magic and whack enemies" and I believe that this system is quite lame because it doesn't actually give the player a choice to customize their chars and fight in a logical way, because even tho there are weapons with numeric stats, there isn't anything else to define what makes a weapon or enemy strong or weak. It would pretty much resume to me deciding if you char is ok or not to kill a beast and that's not cool. So, after a lot of examination, I decided to add a new gameplay systems and elements to this game. And they are:


  • Gameplay Thread to explain how the systems will work.
  • Numeric Stats and (some sort of) calculation to define success of hit.
  • Armor System to go along the Stats
  • A system of professions for Magic Users (Alchemy, Enchanting and Scrying) to balance the Job system of Forgottens.
  • Special "bonuses" for the Jobs and Stats that can be acquired through special missions and events
  • Character specific special weapons (I've mentioned this before, but now I make it real)


To explain things quickly, the Stats System is pretty much because since I already gave stats to the weapons, I should end up making the whole thing. However, the RP won't have a Level system, and your character's stats will be defined by the armor they are using. I also plan to explain in-setting how can be calculated.
As for the Job system for Magic using races (non-Forgotten), this is merely to make the RP more fun. However, don't think of this as a limitation for what your char can do outside battle. It's still about being creative on storytelling. This only prevents your char from being way too efficient in battle by happening to be able to make that super item that kills the boss in one hit.
The bonuses will be just a fun thing I'm planning to add to make things more spicy.

Things that won't change are the no-MP thing. I still want the players to be quite free when it comes to magic using.

Again, this is not to limit the players creativity nor to make the RP complex and hard to play. This is to limit my powers as GM and make things clear and well defined (so no cheating on my part) and to make sure you have fun by preventing Godmodding.

Feedback, suggestion and even criticism to this idea will be welcomed.
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Sonwe
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Last month, it made 2 years that this RP has been created. 2 years and we still haven't finished the prologue. I believe it was partially my fault, for making the begining of the prologue so boring and with lacking of interaction, but I also believe it was also partially the players' fault, as the RP is not entirely made of the GM. There are players who simply stopped posting, those who never posted to begin with and many character profiles are still not finished.

However, there are already 6 characters in their hotel rooms, Arthur is pretty much ready in London and I can as easily get Sasha and Matt to their hotel room, totalling 9 chars. It's not as much as I wanted, but I'm really tired of waiting. I want this RP to move on. And that's why I leave this announcement:

In the deadline of 2 weeks, I ask you players with chars still not in their hotel to post. Those who are already close to the hotels, stop delaying, finish your business and hurry up onwards. Those who are still talking to Lizbeth, please give your replies so that the conversation may move forward. And those with unfinished profiles, try to finish them. If by the end of these 2 weeks, there's not posts to get the game going for the characters that stayed behind, I'll move on without them.

But it doesn't mean the characters that stay behind will be cut off, scrapped, deleted from the RP. You guys can still play with them normally as if the day haven't ended and I'll come up with something to explain the issue with time. Also, if you think you are no longer apt to continue this roleplay, I ask you to follow Aekari's and grathmeld's example and formally step out. I won't get angry, I won't hate you. I may get sad, disappointed, because I love all characters and have things planned for almost all of them, but I love my RP more and I want it to go somewhere. You'll still be welcome to return whenever you feel like.

I'm sure most of you have your reasons for not posting/taking so long to post, and I understand. However, I've been patient enough and sadly, I can't take this hiatus any longer as can't many players who are eager to continue Roleplaying. I ask you to also be considerate of those players.

Also, tomorrow I'll (probably) be going to a trip and I shall return Friday. But please, don't make that hinder you from posting, for I'll reply to every post as soon as I come back. After all, there are many people to post and I doubt they'll all post exactly tomorrow, heh.

Thank you for your consideration. And may the Trinity Goddess cast Her magic upon your journey.
Edited by Sonwe, Jan 6 2014, 05:58 AM.
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