Dragon War FQ

[Ashla]

World wide world be more epic in my opinion.

[Quentin Boone]

Yep, I completely agree.

[Witchblade]

As I mentioned in the podcast I have a dragon Beastiary that I was in the midst of creating for Dheathain. It's obviously no longer going to be used for that region, semantics and all that, but it would be nice if some of my hard work could actually be used on Althanas. If you guys like, I can finish it up and post it up for you guys to take a lot at and then tweak it as you guys would like to better fit this FQ. It has several types of dragons in it, acid spitters, elemental...etc. I can add or subtract as needed.

[Warpath]

Awesome, folks! Glad for some feedback and show of interest.

Completely agree with a thread that chronicles what's going on, and I'd say it's probably an absolute necessity.

Warpath: Well, according to Sei, FQ's tend to be limited to a single region, with 'Main Quests' being Althanas-wide. Honestly, it just sounds like semantics to me, and if needs be, we can just reterm it a main quest if people really want this to be world-wide.

A few questions for people, though:

-- Should the dragons just be developed as site-wide NPCs? If so, how do we manage that? Make profiles for the different types of dragons? If not, who do we get to write them? How do we decide who?
-- I suppose there should be a poll, so... Do you think the FQ should be limited to a single region or be an Althanas-wide crisis? If a single region, which region?
-- How should we actually manage the FQ? I've never been involved in one, but I've been told it's a bit like a DnD session with a game master 'dictating' the plot. How should this be done? Decide an over-arching plot before we start and let the community manage itself from there, or do we get a 'committee' to oversee things? If a committee, how do we decide on them?
-- I saw that the Xem'Xund (or whatever his name was) FQ had its own sub-forum for its duration, is this something we'll need? If so, can we have one, admins?

Dein: I completely agree about it getting people to work together. Think it should make for some interesting allegiances: The Order and the IK have just waged war with each other and now they're gonna have to (probably) work together to stop the dragon threat. Will definitely be some very interesting dynamics.


I have also updated the first post to make it better presented, and will keep updating it so that it can act as an overview of what's been discussed. I've added the idea that the dragons should be intelligent, and also an idea about the outcome/end game of the FQ. Let me know what you think.

Yeah, I forgot about MQ's. Let's just call it something like a Community Run Event. Or something.

I think something worldwide would be better. I don't really see a downside to it since this'll be community-run and we shouldn't need any mods to keep everything organized. Everyone writes at different paces, too, so it'd be nice to let everyone have their own slice of the event without having to worry about anybody else waiting on them, unless they want that. I mean, I also don't see a problem with it being a little bit of both. Maybe the dragons awoke in Eiskalt and most of them are still there, but others have spread out to test the rest of the world.

I do like the idea of there being an over-arching plot, but I vote it remain somewhat basic and we let the community fill in the blanks. Say the dragons are based in Eiskalt, but they have branched out across Althanas as well. I think we ought to have someone overseeing the event and deciding what the dragons are doing and why in Eiskalt, but anyone can start a thread in the event in any other region, and as long as it follows the established canon it will itself be canonized once finished. So the ultimate battle for the whole thing will be in Eiskalt, but somebody like Marduk could have a thread in Fallien wherein he establishes some kind of following revolving around a dragon that has traveled there. I imagine it ought to be structured, too, so maybe in phase one everyone gets chased out of Eiskalt and dragons begin appearing across the world, in phase two there's some concentrated attack on a major city, and then in phase three everyone comes together for a series of massive battles in Eiskalt that are decided upon based on the canonized threads. So if Marduk's following really takes off, maybe the rest of us have to deal with a huge dragon cult in Eiskalt before we can even think about taking on Big Mama Boss Dragon.

Hell, if we DO decide to end it with the dragons having their own established rule, maybe one set of threads will involve a faction within the dragon tribe that doesn't want to necessarily wipe out the rest of the world, and we have to work with them to overthrow the dragons that want to wipe us out. It'd be pretty cool if that's the only way we could possibly win, which would raise the stakes: it would mean the unified dragons are an overwhelming force and we'd otherwise be screwed.

Since Quentin already stepped up to get the ball rolling, I'm just going to go ahead and nominate him to be the one to organize this thing and keep it going. If he wants to appoint a little committee to help him out, cool, if not, whatever. I think he's got the community's best interest in mind here. If we do decide to create a few major NPC accounts, I vote they remain in the control of whoever we decide on to lead this thing, and maybe his or her committee. They should exist to unify and canonize things. And it'd be neat to have something that fights back in the final epic battle.

Final thought: I'm okay with the main bulk of this thing to wait until after the Clan War, but unless anybody has any major objections I don't intend to wait to start a small or solo venture. I'm already eliminated from the war, so my thinking is that my participation in this now isn't really going to impact the war itself, especially because only one judge is handling the war. If we decide to break this thing into phases, we could start phase one as soon as we're ready and leave it low-key and low-obligation. I think that's a good idea, if only to ride the wave of interest we've got going here.

[Philomel]

Hmmm just a general thing - I am in. I have a character I am currently in the process of creating who is of dragon-kind... you'll see *winky face*
But I want to be a dragon please

[Warpath]

Hmmm just a general thing - I am in. I have a character I am currently in the process of creating who is of dragon-kind... you'll see *winky face*
But I want to be a dragon please

Personally, I'm 100% for people being dragons, drakes, dragon-people, whatever, and siding with the dragons. I hate stories where the enemy is just an unknown evil without sense or motivation, so having the flipside of what the dragons are doing would be nice.

[Flames of Hyperion]

I think Warpath covered my thoughts amongst the many points he raised - kudos to him for the post! And before I forget, kudos to Quentin as well for floating this idea here.

I would support the idea of factions amongst the dragons, as well as allowing player characters and player-designed NPCs amongst the dragon hierarchy. Having the entire site defend Althanas against a faceless menace is cool and all, and I think we'll be able to milk this aspect of the war for the first couple of phases at least, but I agree with Warpath that the above suggestions give the 'enemy' a lot more depth.

My only real concern would be to ensure that phase one (call it the preliminary stage, the silence before the storm, the portents of doom, whatever you might) extends for a couple of weeks after the war as well, to give characters the time to 'catch up' in their involvement.

[Max Dirks]

I think you guys should talk with Sei before this gets too involved!

[Warpath]

I think Warpath covered my thoughts amongst the many points he raised - kudos to him for the post! And before I forget, kudos to Quentin as well for floating this idea here.

I would support the idea of factions amongst the dragons, as well as allowing player characters and player-designed NPCs amongst the dragon hierarchy. Having the entire site defend Althanas against a faceless menace is cool and all, and I think we'll be able to milk this aspect of the war for the first couple of phases at least, but I agree with Warpath that the above suggestions give the 'enemy' a lot more depth.

My only real concern would be to ensure that phase one (call it the preliminary stage, the silence before the storm, the portents of doom, whatever you might) extends for a couple of weeks after the war as well, to give characters the time to 'catch up' in their involvement.

Yeah, agreed. I don't want people who are out of the war to be left with nothing to do, but I also don't want people IN the war to feel left out. Phase One would become something of an activity net, yeah? As people let out of the war (either due to elimination or the completion of the war), they have Phase One to drop into.

EDIT: Dirks, what's up? I know there were rumblings about doing another tournament after the Eiskalt war, but I haven't personally heard of anything beyond that. I don't think anybody is trying to step on the toes of the staff or anything if you guys had something planned.

[Witchblade]

Althanas is run by players, I see nothing wrong with us organizing our own event away from the staff,