Suggestions on RP-Heavy hosted game?
 

Hey all,

I'm contemplating hosting a role-playing heavy game, era yet to be determined. By role-playing heavy, I mean that players will be actively encouraged to play via diplomacy and "in-character" discussion, nations that are historically at war will be expected to at least begin play in that regard, players will be asked to make posts to the main thread once every ten or so turns with some flavor about what's going on in their campaign, etc.

I saw at least one Dom2 game (Council of Wyrms) that went in this direction. Any thoughts from would-be players on fun themes or ideas for such a game? Given my time contraints and my prior commitments to three other ongoing games, I can only host one that I will participate in myself, but I'm curious to see if this format intrigues enough people to get a committed group playing.

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YEah! I've always wanted to play something like this!

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I love roleplaying, (A)DnD and other pnp rpgs, but role playing seemd missing from strategy games like Warhammer Fantasy/40k or Confrontation on tabletop. I think to play an online strategy game with role playing elements is a great idea. I would like to try Man in Late era in this case. I think the background story in manual is a great idea, but it's not developed enough, so a good role playing ground. (Figh between the old ways and the new frontiers, witchcraft versus scholarly ordes...)

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good idea! Id like to take a part...

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Oh yeah I'll play Patala if it's going to be Late Era. Since I'm assuming Jayded, you're taking Dreamland? If not, then I call Dreamland. =)

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*smile* Very cool to already have some interest.

What would suit you most in terms of such a game? Toss out ideas of what you would and wouldn't like to see in terms of frills that a normal Dom3 game doesn't immediately implement. For example, the Council of Wyrms thread in Dom2 is great because of its emphasis on politics and role-play (lots of voting and discussion), its rules re: Pretender creation (if you play a Dragon, you get to vote; if not, you don't), and the way it implemented those to make a second form of game above the Dominions baseline experience.

Ideally, I'd like to do something that also creates that sort of a second game. Not Wyrms per se, but perhaps something that fleshes out some of the nations in Dominions or that gives individual Pretender choices more flavor, something that makes Death/Blood nations a bit more reviled by nations that don't resort to such tactics, etc.

Not sure what Era I'm leaning towards. I love the dying feeling of the Late Era, but I'm open to ideas. If nothing else, I'll just use the enthusiasm generated here and come up with something on my own as a test run for this sort of experience.

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I would love to play Ashen Empire Ermor. Evil is always fun!

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I thought that Council of Wyrms turned out to be a total mess? I seem to recall players constantly looking for replacements so they could get out of it.

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To be honest, I have no idea. All I have to go with is the pretty amazing website that they created for the game that shows a -lot- of player activity and the hundred or so posts that they tossed into the Dom2 MP thread which seemed to indicate that it had legs beneath it and that people were having a good time.

If there was unhappiness there, I wasn't around to see it. I've only the record to look at.

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To be fair to everyone, I'm not going to take placeholder choices of nations until I settle on an Era and rules and people commit to playing long-term under that paradigm. I'll put out an introductory post after everyone's offered suggestions and I have an idea of what I want to run, at which point if folks're interested, it'll be first-come, first-serve for the various nations. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif