How to Game
Jul 11, 2013 14:17:04 GMT
Post by Ororo Munroe on Jul 11, 2013 14:17:04 GMT
So we already have a world building post, this post is about how we want to game. I think so far we all like our own individual characters that we have set up, but unless we invite more people or take on more characters, we're going to run into the problem of needing characters that just aren't there yet. I don't want to have us needing to set up huge amounts of characters just for ourselves, and needing to switch accounts every time we have to post as that character. So what I propose is this:
1) Those characters in the movies that were dead by the end of the movies stay dead. This includes Jean, Deathstryke, Colonel Stryker, and whoever else that died by the end of X3. I'm uncertain how we want to handle Cyclops as X3 never really showed his body, just his glasses, and Jean wasn't really in her right mind at the time. So please help me on that one. The Professor of course is a special case since we've played him being the body of his twin for quite some time.
2) For major canon characters that were part of the movie continuity X-Men or main villains, excluding First Class and the Wolverine movies, we play the ones that we currently have underneath their individual accounts, and for unassigned canons that were part of the movie continuity (Beast, Iceman, Wolverine, Angel, Colossus, Magneto, Pyro, Cyclops (?),Rogue, and I think those are the only unassigned ones) we assign them out to individual members to be played as necessary, but unless that person chooses to set up a separate account for them, it'll just be understood that they are being played by that person as necessary. I volunteer to handle Rogue since I have before anyways. It is understood that the Professor is MIA in the game currently and so his character will not be assigned out. I could have sworn we had a Magneto among us, but I don't know if that still applies.
3) For NPC characters, just post them in as you're gaming. I don't really want to have an NPC account we have to sign into just to do that.
4) For original characters and non-movie canons or movie canons that only had a cameo or a small part or something (Jubilee and Sabretooth for example) we can set them up as individual characters if we choose to take them on. I don't see why they would need to be NPC'd unless there was a really good reason why a particular character needed to be there.
5) Those characters that were originally held by players that are still here (Wanda Maximoff, Nightcrawler, etc) but that don't have accounts set up are off limits for play unless approved by the original player (of course, casual passing mentions are fine, just don't create new story for them). I don't want to have characters taken that you guys might pick back up later.
6) I would like to keep the original board rule that characters that came from comic time travel are excluded in this continuity (Rachel Summers, Cable, etc.) I would be willing to allow 'controversial characters' (like Emma Frost) but I want to know what everyone else thinks about that.
7) We all know posting speed is going to be slow. Just give people a heads up via PM if some significant headway was made in a thread and they need to post.
Does all this make sense?
1) Those characters in the movies that were dead by the end of the movies stay dead. This includes Jean, Deathstryke, Colonel Stryker, and whoever else that died by the end of X3. I'm uncertain how we want to handle Cyclops as X3 never really showed his body, just his glasses, and Jean wasn't really in her right mind at the time. So please help me on that one. The Professor of course is a special case since we've played him being the body of his twin for quite some time.
2) For major canon characters that were part of the movie continuity X-Men or main villains, excluding First Class and the Wolverine movies, we play the ones that we currently have underneath their individual accounts, and for unassigned canons that were part of the movie continuity (Beast, Iceman, Wolverine, Angel, Colossus, Magneto, Pyro, Cyclops (?),
3) For NPC characters, just post them in as you're gaming. I don't really want to have an NPC account we have to sign into just to do that.
4) For original characters and non-movie canons or movie canons that only had a cameo or a small part or something (Jubilee and Sabretooth for example) we can set them up as individual characters if we choose to take them on. I don't see why they would need to be NPC'd unless there was a really good reason why a particular character needed to be there.
5) Those characters that were originally held by players that are still here (Wanda Maximoff, Nightcrawler, etc) but that don't have accounts set up are off limits for play unless approved by the original player (of course, casual passing mentions are fine, just don't create new story for them). I don't want to have characters taken that you guys might pick back up later.
6) I would like to keep the original board rule that characters that came from comic time travel are excluded in this continuity (Rachel Summers, Cable, etc.) I would be willing to allow 'controversial characters' (like Emma Frost) but I want to know what everyone else thinks about that.
7) We all know posting speed is going to be slow. Just give people a heads up via PM if some significant headway was made in a thread and they need to post.
Does all this make sense?
