[quote=@ImportantNobody] I'm fine with this even if it means Evvie's out. We can still do other multiverse battles outside of this roleplay, after all. Perhaps I'll at last find inspiration to get a new character out once this setting develops. From my point of view, persistent worlds could be the best if you have a thread for each location. For example, if a group of characters want to go to the Olde Woods, there would be a thread labeled as such as you jump into. I believe we did something similar in the past but not on large scale. This style of roleplay is best if the forum itself is dedicated to it, unfortunately, as it would take up a lot of threads and organization would be an issue on here. If we made another forum then getting a lot of people involved would be a separate issue, as we'd need advertisements and stuff. [/quote] I think that Rilla had something different in mind to this, and I agree. In the many failed old attempts, we had loads of threads dedicated to varying locations, and the problem was simple. There were too many of them for too few players. Everything got spread way too thin. This idea revolves around having the setting laid out, and then having individual 'campaigns' as such popping up. Each campaign would be like an ordinary arena fight, characters in a location with a goal of some kind. But, the result of said thread would impact the overarching world. Me and LeeRoy have been talking about it. My humble suggestion is thus: We start small, smaller than we have in the past. The setting is a sprawling med-fantasy city surrounded by wild and wonderful places, and inside that city two (or perhaps three) mercenary guilds (preliminary idea for factions) are vying for political control. In order to further their aims, the members of each individual faction get involved in crazy situations, both PvE and PVP, with the other faction or with bandits or criminals or anything really. We make the city the OOC thread, and the IC for when people have down time between 'events'. We give out 'quests' or the like in this thread, and people go and do them in new threads, recording the results and having it impact the world. Things can start pretty small, with limited impact beyond fatalities and the like. But eventually rivalries will grow, political figures will rise and fall, and we can introduce more of the world and bigger threats at will. That's what I would like to see, at any rate. Opinions?