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You are an adventurer! Whether you are a mage, swordsman, ranger, or whatever else, you do jobs for people to make money. You're pretty decent with your abilities, but you also know you have a lot of growth ahead of you as well.

Whatever the reason may be, you found yourself in the small town of Centerville that day, relaxing at a local tavern. The mellow vibe of the establishment suddenly ended when a panicked sun cleric slammed the door open.

"The beast has attacked again! Are any of you adventurers? We need your help! Come with me to the mayor's office, he'll give you a good reward for your help."

Whether for the money, out of altruism, or another reason entirely, you volunteer for the mission. Now you find yourself working with strangers to help this town. Will you be able to overcome this adversary together?

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So the above is a little prompt I thought up of for a medieval fantasy RP. The world is pretty typical for the genre and can be developed as the story progresses; the focus here is on your PCs. You would RP as something like a swordsman or a mage. Your characters would be somewhere between novices and mid-level (maybe leaning towards the latter, depending on how everyone feels about it) with their abilities; they'll be able to fight well, but there will be room for growth. I structured this so that there is room to develop a sustained plot if the interest is there, but if not, this can be a shorter RP.

If you're interested, let me know, and if there's enough interest I can make an OOC thread. I look forward to writing with you!
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Interested
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Oh, I'd love to play a mage
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I'm glad to see everyone's interest in this idea! I'll get to work on a more detailed OOC thread later. This should be fun!
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There's a healer/spearfighter I'm keen to play. Consider me interested.
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This is the character I'm thinking of playing.

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@Thinslayer that is a lot of material, so I apologize if I missed any crucial details, but the character seems OP for the setting. Also, the background materials, while impressive seem to be directing the RP in a certain direction and I'd rather have more flexibility for the setting. Overall, the character just doesn't seem to be a good fit, so I recommend waiting for the OOC thread, as it may help with your brainstorming.

@Crimson Flame @CherryCrush @Darkmoon Angel (mentioning everyone so nobody is left out) I'm working on a OOC thread. I'm not sure if I should play as a cleric or just let you all handle the battles yourselves, but aside from that I'm making good progress on the thread!

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@Zapdos Yeah, I had a feeling that was too much. I'll rework it. Thank you for the feedback!
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@Thinslayer no problem, I've seen people who desperately want to write a character and try to force it to fit in a setting where it just doesn't work, and honestly it's no fun for anyone. I'll do my best to get the OOC out in a timely fashion, but my impression of the character is that it'd need to be changed so much to work here it wouldn't be the same one.
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woahh

i think i’m gonna hang around- see if my schedule’ll free up before I jump onto the bandwagon but I will be watching
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@Zapdos ...did I piss you off with all that lore detail? I didn't mean to. I'm sorry. I'm not at all desperate or trying to force a character who won't fit. Rue's core concept is "motherly elf cleric," and I can create several (if not hundreds) of different character configurations from that concept. I picked one that had a lot of lore-background, that's all. But I'm getting the impression it was especially discomforting, so I'm reworking it into a brand-new character entirely with a much lighter lore background (specifically an angry nun who heals out of spite).
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@Thinslayer I don’t think he was pissed at ya, bud. He’s just saying it’s too early to be making a character with so much lore right now, especially with the ooc not even being made yet.
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@Darkmoon Angel I guess I was just struck by the doubling down of the rejection. I said I'd rework it, but I'm told it's so inappropriate that there's no possible way to make it work. It felt unnecessarily distrustful, which is why I got the impression there was some annoyance behind it.

I dunno. I was excited, and the doubled-down rejection hurt more than I expected.
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@Thinslayer @Darkmoon Angel is partially right, I haven't made the OOC thread yet and I have so far deliberately leaving a lot of the world details vague so that it can be built upon in the story. It just felt like a lot of information that didn't leave me or the other players much room for flexibility or adding their own details. I will say that identifying the beast as something beyond what I intended was fairly egregious though, the GM has to control things to a certain extent (even if I do want this to be collaborative; finding the right balance is tricky).

Also, as I said, I wanted to avoid the situation where someone wants to play a character so badly they try to work it into the setting to the point where it isn't fun for them anymore. I've had it happen so I try to avoid that sort of thing to have a good experience for everyone.

So yes, I'm not mad, that's just my perspective.
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I'll just withdraw for now. Y'all don't need this drama so early in the RP.

Best of luck to everyone! :)
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@Thinslayer my apologies if I made you feel bad, I just try to do my best to be a good GM, and that will occasionally mean saying no to things. Best of luck to you as well, I hope your future RPs are fun
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@Zapdos might I ask how diverse the races are in your world? Or is it any fantasy race?
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@Darkmoon Angel sure! I'm thinking the PCs would be humanoid or human-sized creatures e.g. humans, dwarves, elves etc. for the sake of power balance. I'm open to different fantasy races if it isn't OP though e.g. a giant would be really boring because of how powerful it would be.

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@Zapdos More than helpful. Got a couple ideas floating around already :)
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