timpookie
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| 22 Jun 2014 08:00 AM |
In my RPs, I add in a small detail in the hopes that it would make the world seem more real. Before I know it, it's a major plot element that I have pages of ideas for what to do with it on my OneNote pages for RPs. Same goes for NPCs.
So let's take Arcane Order of the Green Tower (If you've seen it, good for you. If not, I won't provide the links as this is not about advertising) as an example.
I introduced some books, The Book of Hilorik and Relics of Elemental Power, as names to fill the bookshelf! Well, not the Book of Hilorik, I had ideas for that, but I didn't expect them to come into play so soon. Now, I have to juggle dozens of ideas for both, and have a fortnightly series based on one of them!
I introduced two other NPCs, Henry and Martin were their names, as supposedly unimportant placeholders, to be background characters with names while the main story goes on and them as just bystanders. Lurkers, Duck14s and Supermariomanias, you can see how badly that plan went.
While this can be a good thing, it also makes these threads take forever. Arcane Order of the Green Tower has some 600+ replies and is still on day one. I anticipated the three-day-long thing that it takes place over to be done by the 25th page at the very most, but at the moment it seems as if it'll stretch out into well over 50 pages (Day 1, day 2 and the final exam on day 3). Actually, now that I think about it, the only bad side effect of this is the amount of time it takes, other than that it's really not that bad...
So yeah, just a quick question - Does this happen to anyone else's RPs, or just mine?
͇B͇͇a͇͇n͇͇n͇͇a͇͇n͇͇a͇͇c͇͇h͇͇a͇͇i͇͇r͇͇ ͇͇1͇͇5͇͇K͇͇ ͇͇u͇͇n͇͇l͇͇e͇͇a͇͇s͇͇h͇͇e͇͇d͇! |
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duck14
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| 22 Jun 2014 08:18 AM |
| At least I got to name Martin and Henry. :) |
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timpookie
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| 22 Jun 2014 09:09 AM |
"At least I got to name Martin and Henry. :)"
True.
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JoshWesty
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| 22 Jun 2014 09:19 AM |
does no one remember Fallen Stars or the other one which I can't remember the name of? they both got to around 50 pages for the first out of 8 major events
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timpookie
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| 22 Jun 2014 09:20 AM |
"I actually like that."
Then you'd love RPing with me.
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JoshWesty
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| 22 Jun 2014 09:24 AM |
I also love being able to kill NPC-
Wait, what about a RP where you can kill NPC's, even the ones important to the plot? That would be great.
Like a fantasy RP where the king sent you on a quest, but when you returned, you realize he was killed by another RP'er. |
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Riku1257
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| 22 Jun 2014 09:24 AM |
Mayhaps you are just a good storyteller, and as such what was once a small insignificant idea explodes [so to speak] into something more.
thats a 4/4 string ostinto in D minor! Every sailor knows that means death! |
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timpookie
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| 22 Jun 2014 09:26 AM |
Josh, you seriously need to join my RPs if you like that sort of stuff. There are no badguy PCs yet in my Arloth series, but, should you join Siege of Dorthol, you might be able to be at odds with other players and kill off important NPCs... So long as they're not too important to things that I won't even name yet, that is...
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