General RP Discussion topic

[Mirby]

Perhaps a recharge period after using each power? She can't use another until her energy returns?

[Mr. Haxwell]

That's the idea, I had in mind. Should she overuse them, she's likely to kill herself in the process.

[Mirby]

I'm thinking akin to RPGs with MP regeneration; special attacks drain them, of course, and over time the MP slowly regenerates. You can do a bunch of weak attacks to whittle it down slowly, or unleash more powerful ones that drain it at a much faster rate.

That kinda what you were thinking?

[Mr. Haxwell]

Yeah, something like that.

[Ahrzayl]

Two pokemon RPs.....Soooo. xD The current one is A LOT like a manga version and the new one will be like the show version...esque. I think I like this idea. o.o

As for me, I'll be making a rather big post (again) to make up for me being away. That'll be after a nice swim though, er sink. I cant swim.

An animal crossing RP? I think that'd be pretty cool since I'm just getting into the series.

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah I just wanted a silly one that doesn't have a serious plot like the other one.  I still need to know if people are interested.

[Rin]

I'm all for a non-serious/silly RP... but for the love of God, don't base it on a friggin' game, because not everybody might be familiar with it/enjoys it.

[Sakura Leic]

Sorry, I'm not good at setting things up.

[White-Jet]

Basing an RP off a game or show isn't too bad if you just want to target fans of said game or show, but it doesn't hurt to have an RP that is, more or less, based on the RPM world or someplace completely original.

[Rin]

Sorry, I'm not good at setting things up.

It's not a bad idea, something like Animal Crossing... for example, where everybody moves in to a town and wacky [parasitic bomb] happens. Or something like that.

Just make it not related to the game, but feel free to use some game elements if you wish... but explain it beforehand in like, the first post or something.

At least this is how I think it should be done. I mean, I have nothing against game specific roleplatys... but I myself was thinking about creating an RP with a similar world to DOT HACK, but not basing it in its world, because not everybody plays/watches dat [parasitic bomb].

To further elaborate, I wanted it to take place in an online game, similar to .hack... or even that [parasitic bomb] called SAO. You know, you use goggles and special controllers and play the game as if you would be really in its world.

I wanted to also make it less plot heavy, with some plot, but mostly focusing on aspects of the game world, newbies, player killers (kinda like in .hack) and in general less drama heavy stuff. Just takin' on quests, discovering mysteries of the game and [parasitic bomb] like that. Also HEAL, ZENNY, ITEMS.

I was even ready to make a thread, but then I backed out because I was afraid nobody would want in.

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah I see what you mean, I just wanted to gage interest before I go ahead and do it. 

[Protoman Blues]

Yeah I agree with Tron on that one.

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah the more I thought about it, the more I didn't like that I thought about it in the first place.

So any ideas how to set up an RP like that?

[Protoman Blues]

Make it similar to Animal Crossing. Have Vixy (or someone) start building a town called RPM (or something to that extent) then have citizens move in.

[Sakura Leic]

Okay then what do we do in the town?

[White-Jet]

Now that I think about it, Animal Crossing doesn't have a whole lot of major, central plots, so the RPM version could end up like Busy World and its bastard offsprings if we don't at least work out what is and isn't allowed in the parodied town.

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah that's what I'm worried about.

[Quickman]

That's pretty much what happened to the Pokemon RP.  It had no plot, and was meandering around with flashbacks and downtime, from what I saw when I joined in.  Then, it got a plot, followed by more plots, and more plots, and its tone changed drastically.

I'm just not sure how you'd be able to keep a lighthearted atmosphere when plot is introduced, unless the plot is matchstick-thin and every campaign plays out like an episode of Busytown, or a similar kid's show.  And keeping it as a sandbox might have it devolve into pointless drama.

An option I just thought of could be to have town competitions and set some basic rules.  This way, you'd have structure, but could still maintain a sandbox atmosphere.

[Phi]

I have no idea what Busy World was like, as I didn't RP back then.

[Quickman]

I wasn't RPing then, either, so I don't know what it was like.  Apparently, it devolved into fights and drama, or something, indicating that if a plot or other defining structure isn't present and everyone is left to their own devices with no checks and balances in place, then the RP becomes a problem.

[Police Girl]

I wasn't RPing then, either, so I don't know what it was like.  Apparently, it devolved into fights and drama, or something, indicating that if a plot or other defining structure isn't present and everyone is left to their own devices with no checks and balances in place, then the RP becomes a problem.

Well from what I can remember...

-Archer (Roa/Ruri/whatever) had a story arc where he went crazy and evil and [parasitic bomb], god sue mode and such. Some people (Flame especially) hated this.
-Some people had too many characters.
-I was [parasitic bomb] and attempted to turn the story over to my favor far too many times.
-LOTS of fighting and anger, sort of like what happened with MCH in Wilypocalypse.
-In the sequel (Busier World), I went far overboard with the PSG stuff, and I pissed people off more.
-Everything was a confusing mess.
-Hell if I remember correctly the RPMVania RP spun off from people who wanted to do castlevania without doing it in the Busier World stuff, and that one actually ended!


So yeah, not that I wouldn't want an Animal Crossing RP, but we'd need to set some ground rules and at least some sort of story parameters.

[Sakura Leic]

How many characters is too many characters?

[Mr. Haxwell]

Is five characters too much?

[Quickman]

I just tackle mostly NPCs, with two characters under my belt in the Pokemon RP.  I guess you could count Domino as one of mine, along with Giovanni, but they're still technically NPCs.  Same with any named Team Rocket grunts.  I gave a few of them names because I simply needed to distinguish them, and eventually, they became more recurring.  But, at most, I have four, if you count Domino and Giovanni.  I officially count two, Quickie and Mewtwo, and even Mewtwo is somewhat an NPC.

[Sakura Leic]

The thing with me is that I do have a lot of characters in the Wilypocalyse RP, especially the Pokemon, but they are minor characters and whenever I battle with them in the RP I always limit myself to 6 per battle and 4 moves per Pokemon, unlike in the Pokemon RP where the move limit has been removed.