New RP idea?
 

Alright, I've been sort of bored at school, and got to daydreaming. My past RPs usually go sci-fi and don't work out, so I'm going fantasy now. I'm going for a semi-freeform format because that works well from what I've seen, and am interested in a gaming engine... and not FF. I was thinking of basing it off of Legend of Mana (The PS1 version, not the SNES Secret of Mana). It has multiple species to choose from, all of which can easily be given stats with some thought. It has a decent magic system (I would modify it to more classic magic system probably), it has and open ended structure, but the villians will eventually be an influence they can't deny, so characters would guide the plot. I don't know, I've brainstormed the idea, but not how everything would work yet. The way I see it...

3 people play main villians, there would be the good guys with no limit, and there would be the neutrals, who could go either way (Say a few neutrals wanted to take over one town, they could go around gathiering bandits until they could take it. When the heros or Villians got there, they would now have to be dealt with.). I imagine this as being similar to Legend of Mana, but wiht things constantly changing as neutrals and villians will actually make offensive actions and won't just be triggered events. Any ideas, comments on how this could work/if it's even a good idea? The idea is only partially developed is why it's in the "Potential New RP" stage and I'm asking for comments of fixes to flawed ideas.

Mmmm well the only problem I could see in this is the potential for being very confusing... or do you plan to run several games on this same system? or is one giant game?

This board wouldn't allow for multiple thread RPs very well, so it would be one giant game. PMs would help to keep it making sense, and help let the villians plot in secret so that the heros only see the results the villians want them to see. It would mostly follow the heros, and the vilians would get involved whether with major actions, when they felt like it, or after they reach their breakthrough moment (The villians in Legend of Mana each had an agenda. If the good guys don't pick up on it and stop them, the bad guys complete the agenda and go on their world conquering/destrying mission. Their actions are obvious at that point, so they just post in the main thread after that.).

cool i like it let me know when you get more i'll defintly do villian bwahahha...

Well like I said, it can be changed, but the main format of Legend of Mana had three villians.

1 Was trapped in the underworld. He could only escape when he killed the three great dragons and took their energy. He then broke out of the underworld and was free for his demon armies to take over the world, unleashing hell on earth, literally...

1 was a demon. Basically, do to reasons I can't remember, he wanted to drain the power from this one high priestess, unleashing his true power. When he succeeded, he unleashed the massive dragon Lucemia to devour the world using his new power and an artifact he found at some point. He was semi-crazy and wanted to destroy the world.

1 was... a thief. But she was trying to steal the cores from living beings called Jumi, who needed their crystal cores to survive. She knew if they were all stolen, she could use the powers of this one guy to combine them into one super focused Jumi Core. I don't remember why now, maybe for power or something, I think the Super Core would make her master super powerful or something, so maybe he would be the real villian, although she was more prominent...

Ugh, I haven't played the game in a long time, but that is the best I can remember of the story for the villians. I might replay the game because it was somewhat short and fun if I seriously decide to do this.

It sounds really interesting. I'd sign up... either as a villian or an arrogant neutral type that ends up being a good guy, although I'm not sure if it'd survive. Definately worth a try though.

I'll probably try... and since it looks like there's evil already, I'll be a good guy... for kicks... yeah!!!

I'll join... I'll be a neutral guy who I don't know what'll happen to. He will be a bit cowardly but will fight when cornered.

I'll take the role of the last villain... becuase I'm a vengeful bastard at heart. Nyah hah hah.

Not that I can do anything given the stupid overseas exercises. Damn nation.

Mmm can I be an evil neutral? Really don't want to be a villian or a good guy... hehe