Post by Dustin on Dec 14, 2012 15:07:19 GMT -7
I'm not actually recruiting people for any particular concepts at the moment, but I (and several others here) played on a Neverwinter Nights persistent world where people would recruit other Players for themed organizations, like noble houses, cults, secret (or public) organizations, or other weird concepts. We talked on the Wishlist thread about how plots can be more fun with other PCs involved, and it reminded me of this phenomena of coordinating out of character on what characters to roll next or what existing ones might get together.
This might not necessarily be a great idea all the time, though. On the online game that I played on, there were about one or two dozen players active, so it was possible to get 4 or 5 buddies together and form some sort of theme group - a gang, or religious order or whatever, and there'd still be pleny of players NOT in your group. If 5 of our regulars made characters for a cult of Talona, we'd have like, 2 people tops who weren't in the cult, wondering why they're adventuring with so many evil plague people. Furthermore, most of our time interacting is done while clomping around in dungeons found through rumors. Secretly being a Cleric of Mask the while galavanting around a swmap may or may not be as exciting as secretly being a Cleric of Mask in the church of Pelor.
Either way, I thought we could either do recruitment for later concepts in this thread, or discuss why it's a good idea or not a good idea to have PCs doing theme groups.
This might not necessarily be a great idea all the time, though. On the online game that I played on, there were about one or two dozen players active, so it was possible to get 4 or 5 buddies together and form some sort of theme group - a gang, or religious order or whatever, and there'd still be pleny of players NOT in your group. If 5 of our regulars made characters for a cult of Talona, we'd have like, 2 people tops who weren't in the cult, wondering why they're adventuring with so many evil plague people. Furthermore, most of our time interacting is done while clomping around in dungeons found through rumors. Secretly being a Cleric of Mask the while galavanting around a swmap may or may not be as exciting as secretly being a Cleric of Mask in the church of Pelor.
Either way, I thought we could either do recruitment for later concepts in this thread, or discuss why it's a good idea or not a good idea to have PCs doing theme groups.
