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RPG Award Discussion Thread

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@Hank

Repeating for posterity.

Quick update

Hello,

With Mahz back to do some work on the Guild, I've now formally stepped down from the co-admin position. Some of you may have already noticed I wasn't very active anymore, so consider this is just a finalisation of my resignation.

But this site has been my home away from home on the internet for 15 years now, so I'm staying on as a moderator in a cool and mysterious advisory capacity. The rest of the team will remain your first point of contact for day-to-day housekeeping.

Stay frosty,
Hank

Feature Request Thread

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@Kuro

I don't have actual "admin" access to the site in any way that matters. I have the ability to promote and demote moderators, that's about it.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Todd Howard, I beg you. Starfield. I need it. Tell me more. A release date, another trailer, some gameplay footage, anything.

ELDEN RING

Alright, it's clear that option 3: a group of Tarnished warriors is the most popular option, with an emphasis on narrative over game mechanics, set shortly after the Shattering war. I like this premise too; it gives us leeway to make our own NPCs for the Roundtable Hold and in the rest of the Lands Between. We could even make it so that the inhabitants of the Lands Between haven't entirely lost their minds yet, potentially allowing us to communicate and reason with the knights and soldiers that serve the various demigod armies, or the peasants that live in the forts and villages throughout the world.

Now for a few other issues. Personally, I think there are several other game mechanics we should also ignore:

• No respawning, both for us Tarnished and for NPCs/enemies. Dead is dead.
• No Flasks of Crimson/Cerulean Tears from the get-go. Let healing be done with traditional remedies or restorative magic, and let FP/mana/whatever-you-want-to-call it simply regenerate over time. Healing potions or crystal tears with special effects could be found as loot throughout the world instead, and the ability to craft them (like the perfumers) could be part of a PC's skillset.
• No sites of lost grace, or at least not in the way that they function in the game. The guidance of grace being visible as rays of light makes sense and should stay, and perhaps this light converges at locations that would make for good resting spots, but that's as far as it should go. It doesn't have a useful place in a written narrative, in my opinion.

Then there are some game mechanics that I believe we should keep, but adapt to make them fit:

• The strength of runes, the ability to become more powerful by defeating enemies, should probably be a sort of passive effect that we use as a vague excuse for our characters growing in strength over the course of the story, if we don't ignore its existence entirely. I also don't think runes should be the active currency; Patches uses the word "coin" when describing wealth, so let money just be gold coins or something.
• The Roundtable Hold. I'm not very fond of including Melina in the story and her ability to teleport us to a version of the Roundtable Hold that exists outside of the world. I don't think fast travel in general is a good idea. Unfortunately, we don't know how other characters like Roderika or D are able to travel to it. Do we say that there are portals throughout the Lands Between that can take us there? Maybe it's a place we visit in our dreams? Or does the illusory Roundtable Hold just not exist yet, and we have to fend for ourselves in the Lands Between until we reach the Fortified Manor in Leyndell?
• Spirit Ashes could be reworked into an ability or a school of magic, like I suggested for alchemy earlier.

Let me know your thoughts and opinions.

ELDEN RING

No promises because of my schedule but you got my attention.

@POOHEAD189

Hey Ben. Any answers to the questions I posed?

𝙽𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙵𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝙰𝚠𝚊𝚢 - 𝙰 𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚞𝚗𝚔 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚕𝚎

Interested.

ELDEN RING

Hello hello.

This is a very barebones interest check. I don't have a fleshed out premise, or fancy character sheets, or even a system that adapts Elden Ring's stats into something workable for play-by-post. I'm not even sure I have the time to GM anything. The only reason I made this thread is to ask a question: is anyone even interested in writing an Elden Ring RP? And if so, what would you want such an RP to look like? If anything, this thread serves to spark a discussion.

"Share them with me, your thoughts, your ambitions, the principles you would follow."

• Do we want to explore the Lands Between before the Shattering happened, during the heydays of the Golden Order?
• Or do we want to explore the Shattering itself? Perhaps an AU where we create our own demigods and fight a continent-spanning war?
• Or do we stick to the world as we know it, and play Tarnished warriors that aim to stand before the Elden Ring and become Elden Lord, navigating the dangers of the Lands Between in a smaller and more personal story?
• How important should the stats be? Do we give vague descriptions of the skills we're good at, or do we want to have hard numbers and lists of spells with names and all?
• How do we approach canon characters? Playable? Controlled by the GM? Absent entirely?

Or perhaps there's no interest at all. That could be the case as well. Either way, I'm all ears.

Oblivion: Wrath of Akatosh

Nice to see that the TES RP tradition on the Guild isn't dead yet. Keep up the good work soldiers!