carabadgermum
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Post by carabadgermum on Nov 13, 2007 11:56:27 GMT -5
It seems to me that the whole point of role playing is to play a role. That is to develop a character and then interact with other characters. Plot is secondary. If it is necessary at all it provides a framework so the RPer knows where to go with his or her character. I have been known to create a character just to advance the plot but it wasn't so much that as to create a character so that someone else would have someone to interact with. I think developing intricate plots and creating necessary characters for others to adopt defeats this purpose. I prefer free RPing and I just wanted to know what everyone else's thoughts are on the matter.
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Post by Gratis Swiftarrow on Nov 13, 2007 12:48:23 GMT -5
Totally agree with you Cara. Hence no plot on TF yet. Plots start to develop naturally anyway eventually just from the free RPing.
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Post by jack on Nov 13, 2007 13:40:11 GMT -5
I know. I agree. And that plot I pitched well the thing about it is it all evolves around the whole plot that came up from the moll and teague. And I find that sometimes pre made characters are better because they fit even with free rp. Those pre made characters I made fit with free rp. The fact being one it gives more to sampetra and two it gives more to the place they are in. I felt that there needed to be some sort of quest and those two Talder and Gorth are always out in like the mossflower questing. So you see that is free rp with that. I find that right now Teague wants to take over Redwall and Salamandstron. But when he learns of the Marlfoxes and Riftguard working together then he withdraws that idea and gets the idea of trying to make an empire. He develops in the end to a character that is non peace yet non war. Because if he did get an empire he would not take slaves or anything but when going somewhere he choose random goodbeasts to become the oarbeasts for the journey. See how he changes. I just wanted to have him take over Redwall or Salamandstron but when this riftguard and terramort and marlfox came in it all changed it. So now I have an idea of what he tries to do and thats about it.
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Post by Tibbar on Nov 13, 2007 17:02:58 GMT -5
Like the Matrix....
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Bark Snowfur
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Post by Bark Snowfur on Nov 13, 2007 18:04:35 GMT -5
I agree with you Cara. The basic summary of RPing is that you take up the role of the character and interact and make decision with the surrounding environment. Plots are fun but not the elaborate plots where everyone already knows whats going to happen and the characters have to do a certain thing. I like the site how it is now, free RPing.
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Post by Calvin "Freckle" McMurray on Nov 13, 2007 18:49:05 GMT -5
Plus, The plot is changed and contorted by the amount, skill, and decisions made by the characters...so characters are more important...
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Post by jack on Nov 13, 2007 19:54:42 GMT -5
Listen I do not want this site to end up like a site I was part of. No one had any plot ideas that the site came down to 3 active members. There has to be a small plot otherwise one year with no plot that happens.
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Post by Bark Snowfur on Nov 14, 2007 15:34:06 GMT -5
Blue the plot isn't that important. The plot is a basic outline of whats going on. Everyone is having fun free RPing right now, so unless that fun is gone we should keep doing what we were doing.
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Post by jack on Nov 14, 2007 15:40:52 GMT -5
That is what I hate. I find that a site with no plot is a boring site. See this is what I think is good. When one person starts something that then ends up becoming a plot without intending to. For example on this vermin only rp site I am part of. Before I joined someone who played a goodbeast started making small raids with a band on small groups of vermin. That little thing turned into this huge plot that is still yet to start due to admin inactivity that is a rebellion plot. See what I mean. When something small happens it makes a plot.
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Aalai
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Post by Aalai on Nov 14, 2007 16:02:02 GMT -5
Not always Blue. Like you said it gradually envelops everyone in the site, and they all want to participate. Not be directed and given a limited choice of canon characters that are nothing like their current ones.
Plots are fine when done right, and not forcefully pulling in those who do not want to particpate. Yet it is not vital to run a site. A theme is though mind you.
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Post by jack on Nov 14, 2007 18:07:05 GMT -5
I KNOW
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Post by Exia on Nov 18, 2007 12:32:02 GMT -5
I've been in a lot of pen&paper RPs and it's been my experience that it's the characters that count. The plot is really just the backdrop for the characters' interactions. This is usually why in RPs the "plot" is made up of short, unrelated plots. At least, that's how I've experienced it in the pen/paper world, and it seems to be fairly similar in the online variant as well.
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Post by jack on Nov 18, 2007 14:14:35 GMT -5
What is pen and paper rping?
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Post by Exia on Nov 18, 2007 17:41:46 GMT -5
Like Dungeons and Dragons. You use a stat sheet and dice. I never did D&D, though. I did more obscure ones like a Star Wars one.
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Post by jack on Nov 18, 2007 18:16:04 GMT -5
oh cool.
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