A thought about Arch-combat- Please Read!

[Mr. Wolf]

Ive had a few people approach me about this subject, so I thought it best to broach it now before it becomes an issue.


As most of you should know (As I assume everyone voted on the poll regarding freeform or ranks!), most of us are hoping that the rp in this room wont require very complex ranking systems for your CS.

I personally think this would be great, it would save me and snow lots of work!

However, for this to work we need everyone to help out. I've noticed the characters grow a bit more powerful here and there. And thats fine, we are trying not to force everyone to just play little Fables.......however.

However this means that those who ARE wanting to play more godly powerful, destructive characters must be shinning examples of respectability and rp thoughtfullness.

Today someone pics up a character that can blow up a city, pisses some people off so that tomorrow they pick up characters that can blow up a state, who piss of more people who then pick up a character next week who can devour whole worlds.

It is not an arms race I want to get into.

So I am imploring everyone up front, be good!!*L*


We dont really see Fabletown as the type of room where fighting and blowing things up is a central theme.


Its a story, a story of great loss and suffering that comes from having ones cherished home torn away from them by shadows of greed and evil. A story of strangers finding each other in those shadows and forging on through the night together, only having each other. A story of hope that cannot be extinguished, that even ordinary (well, ordinary fairytales) people can perhaps one day amend for their sins and bring light back to their lost lands.....and find home again.

Or maybe its just a story about how horny immortals get after being seperated from harems and forests filled with sex nymphs and all the other tawdry fairy tale fare!*L*


The story can be a thousand different things to a thousand different people, one of the reasons I liked the concept of this room when we first started with the idea, is that with all the source material from hundreds of years of literature in the english world, hell you could explore billions of different themes and characters, create endless stories in a rp like this!


But we dont want the room to just be a big wresling match. Every rp shouldn not end in someone getting beat the hell up. Every rp should not be about how much cooler you are than the next guy, or how bad assed you need to be to prove it.


Having said that, yes there are going to be plenty of fights and roleplay explosions to go around. Every good story has a good battle scene after all. And we are not saying to avoid having fun with fights either.

I personally like the larger, wider ranging fights to have a purpose within the rp, part of the story directing it to a certain end in mind.

So please, if your thinking of a character and find yourself just adding on death power after death power....pause and think for a moment. If your character doesnt have much to rp outside of killing everyone it can find........wont you get pretty bored of rping pretty quick?


Also, and some of you who rp in our Marvel room man already know this, things that may effect the rp universe of the room, that is "room wide" concequences of your effect, certain things like that we ask you talk to council. I understand some people abhor this, but we work hard on the room, and ask for just a bit of respect for our Room wide rp plans in return.


So, dont just go and blow up the statue of liberty, empire state building and the met up all in one evening because your bored, or even because you have a neat idea.


Anyway I think I am wandering off topic, so Ill wrap up. To recap:

Please dont focus solely on combat or making the most unkillable character you can think of. Thats not the spirit of this room. And PLEASE be courteous to other rpers. This is a game, a hobby we do in our spare time, its meant to be fun...for everyone. We dont want anyone to just come in to prove how much better you are than everyone because you can kill them.

I believe you, Im sure your more awsome than Hulk Hogan, Optimus Prime and the JLA put together, no need to prove it to us!

Thats all! please help us keep the room a fun enjoyable place, that wont need a ton of rules and rankings in place to force people to behave so others can have fun.


thanks all!

[¤†Herzleid†¤]

*claps* Well said. I just have to object to one thing:

"hundreds of years of literature in the english world"

The english world?!!? Helloooooo ;D The world is bigger than anglosaxon literary tradition and I'd be very sad (plus lose a character idea or two) if you're going to limit the world of fables to that....

*waves a lil swedish flag around*

[snowflake]

Actually, The Big Bad and I were just discussing that last night. *g* In the comics, so far, the Adversary has only conquered "European" fable homelands. So I think he meant "literature in the European world," not just English. In the later comics, we discover that The Adversary has started to invade the Arabian fables' homelands, but we decided not to do that just yet in the room, so we have something to work up to. And no, we're not expressly limiting the characters to just characters from European stories, but we will take a much closer look at non-European characters to see how exactly they might fit in.

~Snow~

[Mr. Wolf]

Well the "European" Fables seems to extend from america to russia, but much like star trek they all speak english!

I just assume they are all the translated fables!*G*

[¤†Herzleid†¤]

*<3's on Snowy*

European fables, much better thank you *g* And I'm glad to hear there's a possibility for non-european fables too eventually, it's not like I need 3 chars RIGHT NOW. I'm perfectly busy with the ones I have

[Cyber Ghost]

*KABOOM!!*

Hehe.

No seriously, good point and good post. Unfortunately, there are people out there who think they have to fight every day or prove they're the biggest thing in the room in order to enjoy a rp.

What ends up happening is those people get ignored, or run out of things to do..and then complain about how bored they are. It's just a fact of online rp that some of your over powered story characters simply don't work as rp characters.

People don't like to downplay, either. Understandable, but smaller characters are easier to write a rp for than the big ones usually are. If they want to play with the "smaller" characters, then that is just something they need to do..learn to adjust down in order to make their character work with the others.

Besides, it's not like they can actually kill anyone in the room. Might as well think of something else for their characters to do. ^^