Dawntide Roleplayers Community.

“As this is the RP forums this would be the best place to get this started. Not everyone want to or has teh time to run this kind of thing, but I will happily try to assist if someone wants to take it apon themselves.

If someone wants to start this as a project I would suggest setting up a forums user-group so that all wishing to participate can register and a flow of information can start.”

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This is something that’s been in my thoughts for a while, however its also something I need help with. I’ve created a group called Roleplayers Community. But I don’t feel that the group section of this webpage offers what such a community would actually need. Which is a forum where topics can be discussed and whatnot. The comment function in the group feature just doesn’t cut it and many issues could easily be lost amongst topics and regular banter.

Hence I would like to see if there’s a possibility to expand “The Tavern” forum into a Roleplaying Community forum. With features like an In Character section (for storylines, reports) and an Out of Character section to discuss various topics involving in and around Roleplay. It would also be good to have a section where the various roleplaying factions could put up information about themselves and their concepts (much like the current Faction page, just that it consists of roleplayers).

With that said, I don’t really think there’s a rush for such a feature. Currently I’m looking for people interested and dedicated enough to keep such a project running. Each Roleplaying community needs guidelines and rules that distinct them as a community. People needs to be on the same page regarding some things. And especially be solid about the things agreed. Otherwise it’d end with a blob of confusion.

Neither do I want to start this project by myself. As I come from a rather hardcore Roleplaying background, there’s a high risk that whatever project I start will be biased by that. Hence the need of other people and their opinions.

Regarding Game-masters involvement in role-play and storyline. I think the absolute best way is to have them act as reagents. Such as Kings and Queens of the various people of Dawntide. In UO there was two people assigned to just that (also a writer I think). Called Event Moderators. Its important that these people are not favoring any factions OOCly more than other factions. Because as soon as someone is favourised, others are left out. And people will become annoyed. From an In Character point of view, the various reagents(GMs) should act at the interest of their own people, or if its a tyrant, themselves personally.

My point is, for a roleplaying community, it is only important that event moderators lets the factions react on changes, and aid them on an out of character way to such a reaction. Say an event moderator plays a king that becomes a tyrant, even if its not his interest IC as that kings character to help a revolt, it should be his interest out of character just as much as it should be his interest to help a faction that would chose the kings side OOC.

I like the way you think Pathy I just fear that things like this can sometimes become “too controlled” and “too dependant” of the said GMs. However I defiantly think we’re on somewhat same track.
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“I would be say its difficult to ballance the level of interaction, and that would come down to some form of guidlines set out by the dev team. If these events are ongoing and regular with minimal rewards beyond a token such as minimal gold then the journey is more important than the reward so to speak. The events would need to be varied, in style, time involvement, time zones, risk and reward to allow as many people to participate as possible. There could be small hunting challenges, group conquest challenges, gathering and crafting objectives, exploration and orienteering objectives as well as more combat specific challenges. It could be a case of hunting and tracking a character played by a GM and killing them for a reward or simply making 10 sets of leather armour for the crown or even manufacturing 100 cups and plates for teh capitals orphanage. These need to be rewarded in some way, but never for more than a few token gold and a little name post in the weekly blog update.”
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This is very difficult to balance yes. But all in all, this will only attract some people. The others who does not find this interesting will continue doing whatever they find is fun. It’s like that. However there’s possibilities to get more people involved if GMs are open for feedback and constructive criticism.

But GMs acting as a reagent, as you claim would be an idea. And distribute tasks to certain factions (which have claimed their alliance to said kingdom that I put up a suggestion for on another thread) is a very very intriguing idea. It would keep factions busy and it would indeed be the only game I’ve personally seen to offer this kind of service.

However, I still think that giving Faction Leaders (and high ranked people ) abilities to form their own quests with a reward to the faction member from the faction itself would be highly appreciated.

• This reply was modified 120 days ago by  Grimnir / NathanielHawk.

…… God Bless you, Pathy. Reading this forum topic may have just gotten WAI another customer. It is so refreshing to hear it from a moderator’s mouth the honest intent to reacquire that sense of unity in game communities. Lets not forget, that the relationship between GM and Player is a hugely important part. AAA MMO titles of today are nothing more than customer service reps trying to fix a bug as you had said earlier, but GM’s who truly try to make the gameplay experience fun and endearing for everyone… that would be revolutionary. Even if Dawntide never becomes a MMO Monster like WoW, its little things like that which will make a game like this go a long way.

I am a hardcore RP’er myself, and any support a dev team is willing to give to its Role Play community ultimately is a huge deciding factor for whether or not I stay in a game. I played LOTRO for three years, the only MMO I’ve played consistently to this day. Not because of the game itself, though I did enjoy some parts of the mechanics, but rather… the amazing stories written there and the amazing players I shared those stories with.

If the dev team here would show support for the RP Community in a way no other MMO has done before, then I will do all I can to bring as much business to WAI as possible.