Master Bruce

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I hope as time passes we embrace the "One Universe"-ness of it more and more, too.

I think it's tempting to kind of hedge your bets and focus on the ultimised aspects of your character but essentially keep their supporting cast and villains the same – or to do the opposite and keep the characters roughly the same and integrate a slightly more mixed cast.

With the F4 I've kind of done the latter but I'm hoping to do both more the further I get into things – and from talking to a few of you away from the OOC thread, some of you have similar plans. Which is exciting.

@Morden Man

I'm actually just about to introduce a Marvel character into the fold in Gotham, as a replacement for the ashes that were once my big grand Black Widow romance (), but I'm definitely trying to be careful of doing anything too gimmicky with Bats. It would've been easy for me to say that Bruce trained in Wakanda or, as I've seen with other Batman players in these One Universe type of scenarios, train with Stick along with Matt Murdock, but I wanted that to just be stuff that Bruce kind of happened upon instead of having direct personal ties with at the beginning. Though to again talk about the Black Widow arc that'll never happen ( ), Bruce was going to have done a brief stint in Siberia under an undercover Natalia Romanova as established through flashbacks.

But I'm very keen to have more Marvel stuff interweave with Gotham. Especially the street level people like DD, Iron Fist, ect. and some of the villains from that side of things. I can't imagine how Batman and The Kingpin would fare in a rivalry, but I might get the chance to explore that in future seasons once HenryJonesJr has tired of Wilson.

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Also, @Master Bruce, @Byrd Man, and @Morden Man. I've mentioned this to others in PM, but I wanted to bring this topic up to you three. I'm personally of the mindset that games like these are better off when players are kept to a single character. If they want to swap in the future, sure, but having multiple, simultaneous characters I feel has historically always caused issues for these particular games. Just as villain NPCs tend to do, though to a more extreme degree.

I know a couple others feel the same way. I can guess that Gowi will be opposed to this idea. But I'm curious where you all stand.

@Retired

I hesitate to say it's always caused issues, just because I've played simultaneous characters many times in the past myself and am biased on the subject, but there was definitely a reason I wanted to hold off of allowing that for this season. While I'd love to throw up an application for Daredevil or some other character, I personally just don't trust myself to stay active if I divide my attention away from one character. It's more of a case-by-case basis, to me. Some people can handle it, some people can't, and some people think they can handle it but are woefully mistaken. I'll see where this season goes before making a decision on whether to expand the rule, but for now, the limit is one per player.

As far as Villain NPCs go, I'm not sure what you mean. That tends to have a negative effect on a game? Because when we ran our games over on the other site, one of the biggest problems we had was getting people to sign up as villains. I had planned on perhaps opening the villain side of things up for play in Year Two, but I felt that it was imperative that people get a sense of control over their own space in establishing these new versions of characters before popping that cork.

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Never have I ever disliked a post more in my entire life.

@Sep

Not that I'm actively trying to make everything about Batman (it just happens), but... the Wayne family canonically hails from Scottish ancestry. It's covered pretty well in this book:

Hider

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@Master Bruce We should do what the DCEU did and for convienence just have all the major cities surrounding a bay so we're close together.

@Sep

Why stop there? We can just have each city be it's own borough of New York. Gotham is Brooklyn, Metropolis is Manhattan, Gateway City is Harlem, Central City is Queens, Bounce's space posts are actually revealed to all be on Staten Island. We'll be elbow-to-elbow in no time!

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I also like that we have a nice balance of geographical locations. US-wise, anyways. I have always hated when in past games there are a dozen Gotham characters and only a small handful elsewhere.

@Retired

For once, me being a giant control freak of the Gotham-based characters actually pays off!

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Look, I'm sure we're all at least in some form of appreciation of Dick, but you gotta have Dick in moderation. Otherwise you get too much Dick, and too much Dick just leaves everyone uncomfortable.

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And on July 4th, no less.

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Yeah. Ass you could write, but asshole got censored.

@Byrd Man

Lord knows the amount of times I wanted to call you that, too...

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MFW @Sep essentially threatens to rape my character.

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@Master Bruce You can pull whatever face you want baby, Iris gets what she wants.

@Sep

I need an adult. I NEED MY PAREN---

Oh, right.

So wait, was SHH just a giant free for all in terms of content?

@Lord Wraith

Not at all, but I was curious as to what the Guild's perspective was on such things. For one thing, openly cursing wasn't a thing we were used to over there, given the system automatically converted "fuck" to "****". So there are certain liberties to migrating over here.