Fox Owen Xavier
12-29-13, 11:17 AM
So I was trying to update what I wrote for the Orphan's guild and try and get it approved. However, I was thinking up some ideas I thought might be interesting but I'm not sure would be allowed. Hence the reason for this thread.
Some background just so it hopefully makes more sense. The Orphan's guild idea I had in mind has a few parts. First, there are orphans (children, animals) that are be brought up in the Orphan's guild and hopefully can find a good parent to adopt them. Second, I would like the guild to have a department for skill/ability development for both the orphans as well as outsiders if they are interested. Finally, another part I would like to include is kind of a help department for players new to the site (Guess you could consider them 'Orphans' although in a different sense).
So with the background (assuming you read it), here's some of the ideas I had related to those missions of the guild.
Adoptable NPCs
Crafting threads
Mentors
Peaceful Promenade Threads
For the adoptable NPC idea, that would be the children or animals being taken care of by the guild. They would be open to adoption by characters. Would this be ok? I guess the ROG folk would probably see them as familiars and so it would fit into the current system.
Crafting threads is another idea which is basically just wondering if it is possible to allow very short threads (maybe 3-4 posts, 1k words, or whatever might be decided) for the purpose of allowing people to craft very basic items. By very basic, I mean for a case like my character Fox, it would just be a small pain relief potion or a small healing potion capable of only healing small burns, cuts. My thought is that the threads wouldn't necessarily receive gold/exp but just allow crafting of small things without having to go through a whole quest or something.
Mentoring is something for the newbies to Althanas. If possible, I would like to find experienced members and pair them up with new people so that they can have someone that they can get going on a quest and figure things out. This is based on my experience first coming here. I kind of didn't know what to do and was having a hard time finding a quest. Thankfully, Lye was nice enough to help me and write out a battle with me as well as giving me advice and tips on the way.
Kind of going off the last idea of helping newbies is that I would like to make threads for the peaceful promenade that would hopefully help people be able to get going better with a new character. I was thinking a mission board thread might be a good way for people to get ideas and maybe find people to team up with. Maybe a friendly tavern thread for in character talks that anyone can hop in and out of (might make a rule for no fighting inside). Finally, maybe a training grounds or something as part of the orphan's guild for fights between characters (with NPCs to heal and break up any fights that are getting too deadly since it's not the citadel where people can just revive).
Some background just so it hopefully makes more sense. The Orphan's guild idea I had in mind has a few parts. First, there are orphans (children, animals) that are be brought up in the Orphan's guild and hopefully can find a good parent to adopt them. Second, I would like the guild to have a department for skill/ability development for both the orphans as well as outsiders if they are interested. Finally, another part I would like to include is kind of a help department for players new to the site (Guess you could consider them 'Orphans' although in a different sense).
So with the background (assuming you read it), here's some of the ideas I had related to those missions of the guild.
Adoptable NPCs
Crafting threads
Mentors
Peaceful Promenade Threads
For the adoptable NPC idea, that would be the children or animals being taken care of by the guild. They would be open to adoption by characters. Would this be ok? I guess the ROG folk would probably see them as familiars and so it would fit into the current system.
Crafting threads is another idea which is basically just wondering if it is possible to allow very short threads (maybe 3-4 posts, 1k words, or whatever might be decided) for the purpose of allowing people to craft very basic items. By very basic, I mean for a case like my character Fox, it would just be a small pain relief potion or a small healing potion capable of only healing small burns, cuts. My thought is that the threads wouldn't necessarily receive gold/exp but just allow crafting of small things without having to go through a whole quest or something.
Mentoring is something for the newbies to Althanas. If possible, I would like to find experienced members and pair them up with new people so that they can have someone that they can get going on a quest and figure things out. This is based on my experience first coming here. I kind of didn't know what to do and was having a hard time finding a quest. Thankfully, Lye was nice enough to help me and write out a battle with me as well as giving me advice and tips on the way.
Kind of going off the last idea of helping newbies is that I would like to make threads for the peaceful promenade that would hopefully help people be able to get going better with a new character. I was thinking a mission board thread might be a good way for people to get ideas and maybe find people to team up with. Maybe a friendly tavern thread for in character talks that anyone can hop in and out of (might make a rule for no fighting inside). Finally, maybe a training grounds or something as part of the orphan's guild for fights between characters (with NPCs to heal and break up any fights that are getting too deadly since it's not the citadel where people can just revive).