Cyclone

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

@Eviledd1984

We'd be glad to! We could actually use some more people.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

Continue it is, then. I can't spare the time now but expect a post out of me soon.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot Int. Check)

Can we post the sheets here instead of PM them? It would be nice to see what land is already taken and such.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot Int. Check)

Stop arguing! The end decision is mine to make anywho.

@Voltus_Ventus

I thought that it was already made and that we're using that fantasy map that Willy posted.

He asked so I explained; it's not a big enough deal to be worth a continued argument so it'd probably be best if you just decided now.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot Int. Check)

<Snipped quote by Cyclone>I liked your nation a lot but I think a HRE style nation could be similarly fun if not moreso. You can add Austrian/Habsburg elements combined with Prussians and WW1 Germans, too.
Does it mean you'd rather play in an Earth-style map? Asking since the current opinion is very much between that or the world of Ace Combat.

@Willy Vereb

Thanks for the feedback. As in for your question, I remain opposed to an Earth map.

Also the idea that it'd feel wrong to have dwarves or fantasy elements on Earth is strange when they originated straight from here. Myths telling these races were putting them in our world.

This logic starts to crumble when you extend it to say that Jedi, the Borg, giant green slimeball aliens, the blue people from Avatar, and anything else that has ever been conceived would fit in great on an Earth setting, just because humans imagined them.

Look, when you say elves I think of Lord of the Rings or World of Warcraft, not Earth. All I'm saying is that I'd find an Earth setting really strange in this context and I don't think I'm the only one.

Then there's the part where I dislike excessive parralelism to real life in a story. While the theme of an altered history with our fantasy nations instead of real ones might be appealing to some, it isn't to me and I don't think that's what was intended as the genre for this.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot Int. Check)

Well, as far as nations go I'm torn. I could do the Sultanate of Tin again (that radical, extremist, and absolutist hellhole of a monarchy) but I've also been thinking about something inspired by what might have hapened if the Holy Roman Empire survived all the wars that ravaged their land, centralized somewhat, and then underwent massive industrialization. They'd be like modern Russia with a grand history of being a superpower yet now somewhat overshadowed by new superpowers. With a touch of USA-inspired manifest destiny and all.

Anyone want to help me decide?

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot Int. Check)

Woah, I had unsubbed from the last thread and just wandered into the nation section to discover THIS. A grand revival! Count me back in.

I favor Voltus in that we shouldn't have an Earth map. Granted, my reasoning is mostly "just 'cuz" and because elves and that dwarves on Earth would give me huge cognitive dissonance. Still, I see zero good reasons to not just use that map that @Skepic gave aside from Willy's accurate observation that it is too blank and would cause massive nations.

The solution is to simply break up that huge supercontinent. This would offer some strategy that would discourage just grabbing a huge swathe of land: there's the option of lots of open and fertile yet indefensible land, some rugged land rich in metals and easy to defend that makes transportation a nightmare, or maybe just a small island to offer some breathing room at the expense of having to import resources not found on your island.

As far as technology goes, I favor WWII-era tech like most of the others seem to.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

So..., is everyone really busy or something?

@BBeast

Well, I'm pretty busy nowadays but not to the point of being unable to post.

Really what it comes down to is that I'm starting to give up on this RP. The rate of posting has slowed drastically and despite having something like 20 people show up in the interest check, we probably have only 5 or 6 fairly active people left.

So everybody, I'd like to gauge how many we still have left, and what the general attitude is.

I can see a couple of options:

1) We give up on this RP and let it die. Maybe we could start yet another Dungeon Keeper RP like this was inspired from if there's interest in that. For those of you who weren't there, this RP was a spinoff of a series where every player was a Keeper who had their own army, with the GMs controlling the humans and neutral factions.

2) We restart the RP. Same concept and all, but just a fresh start to hopefully get some new people to join.

3) We keep going. Honestly I think that The Horde of Evil is already half-dead, but maybe I'm just being pessimistic and we still have a fair few people around who just don't know what to post. In any case, as GM I'm willing to continue as long as the rest of you are.

Any thoughts regarding all of this would be appreciated.

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@Rtron

When I said a fresh start, I meant a FRESH start. As in forget about literally all that transpired in this RP.

To be clear, that's where I stand. I would be sacrificing as much as anyone else with a total wipe, but it would be both preferable to me and more likely to succeed in garnering the interest of new people. It's somewhat offputting to jump into a RP that's a part of a huge series that has tons of backstory you don't know about.

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@Kho@Cyclone

I'm not so sure #1 will work. We'd have to decide who did what and who won what war. Unless you mean the gods arrive just as the earth is already populated?

@Rtron

Well before we get into any specifics whatsoever we'd have to answer this question,

Perhaps a fresh start, or perhaps with some of the stuff from this as a backstory; that detail could be decided later.

Basically everything else would depend on whether we view this as a remake or a continuation. I'm dubious as to how successful this could be if it was a continuation so I definitely favor the idea of just restarting with a fresh and blank slate. Granted, I realize that everybody gets attached to the storyline and their characters and so just totally restarting might not sound appealing, but summer is a long ways down the road and I've already forgotten what I was going to do with Ialu. In any case, while it might not be ideal it probably has a much better chance of actually succeeding.