Massive Epic thread (every one read)

[Mariner]

The Mariner is baaaaaaaack. I think Calus presented some excellent ideas. Training divisions between all classes is very inventive. I believe that we should go with bare foundation characters and build them up from there. Maybe a new regiment outside the Knights of Sol. and Neraka(just an idea). How about something that would help in the resistance of the Minotaur nations on the elvin outskirts. So many ideas to go with so we, shall see what is going to happen.

[Heron]

Here is a rough outline for the structure or core structure...



· Campaign Index
· The Yard (Training Thread)
· The Key of Destiny (Sample Core Campaign)
· Knights of Solmania-Empire Cometh! (Sample)
· Sanction Blues (Sample urban thread)
· ES Dagger Slice (Sample Minotaur/various ship thread)
· Even Workings(News Bulletin-In & out of game)
· Home Guard( Sample back up story thread)

[sticko_69]

Talk has been thrown around of a mass thread where every role player is incorparated that means some 30 odd posters and the ideas arnt bad heron calus myself and a few others have talked briefly and lengthy about what is to ocure for this thread or threads to work.

curently we have many threads with few people in them or they have died off some very sucessful thread are starting to dwindle also. this thread is to put forward ideas one post from each person so dont fill this thread up with small posts "like thats a good idea" we wont to hear whos interested and what ideas they have.

mariner tried this befor with the mmg unfortantly it got clogged up with crap and he had other things to do.

the idea at the moment is to have a thread for new players called bootcamp or something similar and two or three story threads depending on numbers, the leader of these threads will be the ones that ster the story line and once finished with boot camp a rp can join into which ever thread he wants. every one will be limited to one post a day though due to me being in australia and calus being in england and grimgor in denmark etc etc. im sure other have trouble staying in stories that move 20 to 30 posts in a day. also ooc will be limited and only used in the boot camp. but these are only ideas for now.

so please post your ideas so we can get an understanding what ever one wants.

sometime this week a charater thread will be started for every one to post their charaters in that want to try and be a part of this.

[Calus]

OOC: Well obviously I like the idea and I like the ideas that we discussed in the other thread and have been related above. I would like to take part, not sure of which capacity DM or character.
this is from the other thread which I like alot, which by a happy coincidence is what I said. :eek:

Well if we do a newbie thread I think it should be about training an army up, cos this is like real-life, we are training these people up to post in the league of the core roleplayers. It just feels apt.
We could have a thread for wizards, them learning magic and casting spells.
Elven rangers/archers can be trained in some kind of forest.
It could be cool if we can make the threads a bit fantasy and a bit real advice. Like a newbie posts, 'He lifted his bow and arrow up to the target, drew back the string and the arrow hit the target dead centre." My thoughts is that is ok, but they could do better so then I would post, "Antinus took the bow off the elf and said, "this is how it is done." Antinus fitted an arrow to his bowstring, he quickly brought the arrow level with his eye and looked along it to see the tip of the elf's arrow, withen a breath he had drawn the bow string back and let go with startling speed. The power from the bow coursed through into the arrow, the arrow sped closer to the target swivelling and cutting it's way through the air. With splinters reaching a three metre radius, Antinus' arrow had obliterated the elf's and now Antinus's arrow stood proudly in the center."
A bit like that so it as a training thread for newbies, but also within the storyline it is training there as well.

[Aspen]

I really like the idea of this Epic thread but my concern is that a training thread would get clogged up or would die off which would defeat the purpose of having one. Or the forum would get clogged up with little training threads and just make a big mess. So after brain-storming with a friend we (or he) came up with the idea of one-on-one tutoring.
Newbies would send PM's to a designated person who would train them. They could work on a story development over PM's, creating a character with more depth that good or evil and gaining experience in how to writing something everyone will enjoy reading. When the tutor feels that they are ready, the new character can go on to join the ranks of the edvanced threads in the Epic.
It's an idea. What do you think? :)

[Morcalivan7]

Many of the poeple here post in 2-6 different threads, and although adds up to many characters is really only a few users.

Imo the more active of those users should stick to a thread in a well planned adventure that can actually keep up with each other instead of getting halted by one or two poeple, and allow those really active poeple to post their hearts out instead of playing 4-5 different characters, allowing them to really work in their favourite character and advance the storyline.

[kendercommander]

Well, i have the army of perfection thread rght now. If anyone wants, they can join this. The army can support many characters and many storylines and with the experienced players already in it, we can help new people out with their roleplaying! It has almost every race available in it, so no problem there and you can be a cleric, warrior, archer, assassin, mage, or whatever. Unfortunately, due to the time period, no female Draconians!

Anyone think it would make a good "massive epic thread"?

[Kyra Starleaf]

I really like the idea of this Epic thread but my concern is that a training thread would get clogged up or would die off which would defeat the purpose of having one. Or the forum would get clogged up with little training threads and just make a big mess. So after brain-storming with a friend we (or he) came up with the idea of one-on-one tutoring.
Newbies would send PM's to a designated person who would train them. They could work on a story development over PM's, creating a character with more depth that good or evil and gaining experience in how to writing something everyone will enjoy reading. When the tutor feels that they are ready, the new character can go on to join the ranks of the edvanced threads in the Epic.
It's an idea. What do you think? :)


I agree with Aspen, a newbie tutor would accually work out better because as Aspen stated the thread would eventually die out as well as fill up and there are not many people who want to read 20-30 pages of posts...which is what would end up happening. Along those lines, maybe the tutors could be asked and assigned by the Mods ( If they would take on the responcibility) then the newbies would just PM the Mods, then they in turn would assign them a tutor...or at least something along those lines so we don't have things like a newbie on one side of the world paired up with a vet on the other side with no time to comunicate. Just my thoughts.

[Heron]

Hrmm not readying previous posts of a game your playing in is a pain in the but for other players who are currently interacting.

here is a training template:

Drill rules:

Newbies! Don't make new posts on the Drill Camp thread asking what you should do. Go directly to the Joining thread and they will help get you started.


Current DL members are not accepted onto the Drill Camp for training. This is unnecessary and it wastes time. You already have the knowledge and skill needed to know how to play. The Camp- is a place for NEW players to learn and go through training. Not old members!



Drill Camp members are NOT to go and ask other GMs for other story joining info. Once you have completed your training you will be assigned to a open slot thread. If you wish to join another thread with another character after you graduate from the Camp, then you can ask other GMs for joining info on other threads. Or check Thread Updates to see what is open.

Also, when you are on the Camp as Recruits you are required to post at least 2 times a week minimum. If you don't post then the countdown starts. We give you an additional 3-6 days to make a post. If you fail to post after the countdown has started, you the player is considered AWOL and we boot you out of the Camp.. That means you will have to go through the Joining Process once again by creating a new character. You must pass the Camp to have authorization into an Core Campaign Thread and into the other teams etc on the DL RP Forum.


What you guys think for a starter?

[beardies221]

I am with Aspen and Kyra on this one. I think the tutoring program could work great, although I would feel sorry for whoever got stuck with me...:)

[Calus]

Well Heron I think that seems all abit too complicated whereas the one-on-one tuition is much easier and gives better first hand experience. I read the post Aspen great idea ;) it does actually work as well, because some newbie in the Draconia thread wants me to teach them how to post. So I have but an added suggestion is that you can talk over MSN or any other chat thing as it gives immediate feedback to posts. Sorry Heron :o

[Heron]

Well Heron I think that seems all abit too complicated whereas the one-on-one tuition is much easier and gives better first hand experience. I read the post Aspen great idea ;) it does actually work as well, because some newbie in the Draconia thread wants me to teach them how to post. So I have but an added suggestion is that you can talk over MSN or any other chat thing as it gives immediate feedback to posts. Sorry Heron :o

well I advocaet threads over PM for severl reasons:

1. Most Board PM services limit amount of text and other features

2. Second personal tutoring is the same as GM teaching a newbie over and over again. Amount of work is increased as well. The tutor would have to handle possible multiple PMs at once with different levels of structure or pacing to them, in a thread this limited and controlled. A;so a thread is there as long as the forum a PM Tutor has to sleep, so the Newbie has to wait till they get to them to post their character, etc.

3. The training thread would not die off as it would be one of two only threads (The other being the Joining Thread) on the RP forum that they could post.

4. What if that tutor becomes unavail;able to due off net reasons? With established training section of this forum, stickys are in place with update events, story, procedures for newbies to follow....however, this is not a personal board and the amount of room and freedom has to be worked on. Also clogging is handle by old posts, threads etc are deleted...

[Calus]

What I like is that Kendercommanders thread does actually fit the criteria for an Epic thread as it has potential to go anywhere.
Also we might have to take some kind of vote, for a thread or PMs/Chat thingys. I think all that needs to be done is for Kendercommander to write a post in about making it an epic thread and say the rules that Sticko has, and we are away.
As I have said I am already teaching one person how to post, it isn't hard. So if more of us are willing to help then the Epic thread should run smoothly.
We just need people to compromise, Heron we can't use all of your ideas for this as this will ruin threads, as everyone has said. I have to compromise as I am teaching someone, plus not being a DM. Kendercommander if he wants to use his thread as the Epic thread then he will have to compromise to the rules listed by Sticko.
So People lets sort this out, who wants to use Kendercommander's thread as the Epic thread, or do you want to start a new one, or even start Kendercommander's one anew? Also we need to sort out training who wants to use PMs/Chat thingies (i.e. Msn) or do you want a thread(s)?
It seems that we agree to the rules Sticko put down, so atleast we have something sorted. Lets get the two above things sorted, training and epic thread, then we will talk about logistics.

[Heron]

heheh, I am not offended in anyway, just offering my asistance/experience as asked by Stiko_69. I agree with the fact implement my idea would take a huge change in how things are here. I just, myself, do not have time to individually tutor newbies. Just not the time and worry if others who volunteer can be consistent. remember not everyone here is on the same time frame.
However, I am not against being involved on some of the technical level. What I would like is to have more people posting here and offering their input before a move has been made. What about the Board Admins and Moderators, what of their thoughts?

[beardies221]

If we decided to make kendy's thread the huge epic one, I would have to think that we should restart it and let everyone know that this will be the huge epic thread and be the thread to play in. Hehe, this sounds greedy of me, especially since they already seem to have a good 2 page game going, so I think that maybe there could be two Army of Perfections, just so that we don't put anyone out who has already invested their time in the current Army thread...

[kendercommander]

I personally wil gladly restart it and use it as an Epic Thread. I apoligise i may have missed it but what are sticko's rules for posting?

For the epic thread i can control the seargeants, guards, and Commander to make sure the thread does not stray off topic or explode, etc, etc...

I will also make every character type available, minus the Draconian females for time period reasons...

I will have to ask all characters if they are ok with the thread restarting...

[Heron]

Master Of the LanceI am dead against it to I do not like the idea of the epic theard. I do not like the idea of posting only once per day and the reason of its not to my greatest intrest. Because it is hard for pepole to follow a thread that moves 20 -30 post a day with 20 -30 posters it will and besides that ; That is hy there are lots of threads started. And teaching newbies how to roleplay well I started here not even haveing read a dragonlance book i didn't no the currency I didn't know what kender where but i got a breif description from kg. Everyone were rooks and tried in threads and made it and thats the fun of it. I know alot of posters don't like me in there treads but I will not be envoled in any so called "epic threads''.

This is a perfect example of why those wanting this to happen need to do some more research and critical thinking on how/why/when/where/who... :)

[Morcalivan7]

I just wonna post...

[Heron]

I just wonna post...

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