New DM-PC RP Initiative

[DM Dialectic]

Hey All!

The DM Team and Server Staff in general are trying to experiment with some new initiatives this year and next year to improve various aspects of the server experience on the request of various players and staff. The end goal being to increase the sustainable enjoyment for all of the community's wonderful players and staff, both.

This particular initiative is something we floated a few years ago, but never tried, and credit to Cinnamon and a few other players for floating it again this year and to the DM Team and the Global Admins for wanting to take a risk on it and to DM SummerBreeze for recognizing there may be some renewed community traction for it.

What I'd like to offer as some DM initiated RP (but hopefully it takes a life of it's own among players, within reasonable constraints to be oversighted by me) is that whatever amount of PCs that want to participate can roll level 1 commoner toons of various basic "commoner" type backgrounds (well, versus the power of adventurer PCs and more powerful NPCs anyways!) and I will facilitate various minor NPC type missions and backgrounds for each of them to offer to other PCs to facilitate RP. These will be of the variety "Farmer Jae needs an escort to Beregost" "Tempus pilgrim needs directions to Baldur's Gate" or "Merchant Bob is selling non-magical clothes" or "Zhent merchant needs escort from Darkhold to Corm Orp or back" or "last of family line looking for lost family heirloom in dungeon X" or "Jane the sailor needs directions to the tavern" and with no special "off the player sheet" NPC powers assigned beyond what I give as a DM in this initiative. For this to work, players playing such commoners really need to not metagame or godmode beyond very basic assigned scopes to their commoner character template by me, so please cooperate as such or this initiative is not going to work as a trial well.

We'll also have all these commoner templates be humans to keep it simple to start. If this goals well, we may explore expanding it to an entire "everyday immersion" adding staff position that complements the DM Team (and if it goes poorly, we may just cancel the idea) down the road, but for now we want to experiment with it this way. If any players would be interested in this sort of RP immersion facilitating, please post here with your interest. If we get at least three players interested (no limit on the amount), I'll run this as a trial RP immersion program for the community starting next month. Please post by December 3 if interested. If you've always enjoyed creating minor immersion experiences and RP and missions for folks playerside, this is really something I would encourage you to try! If this works well, we hope that it adds sustained life to our world in game and to the immersion that it offers as potential, without having to have a DM in game every moment for that!

[Cinnamon]

Evening Dialectic!

All my gratitude for the credit and this post! <3

I'm happy to sign up as interested for this, hope people come forward!

[KOPOJIbPAKOB]

Count me in.

[Cinnamon]

Yes! We hit the minimum three requirement! Praise Bane Ibrandul! <3

[gedweyignasia]

I'd like to participate if you have room.

[Almarea90]

Sounds like fun, I would like to join as well.

[Oarthias]

Interested in participating in being an NPC personality.

[Leramak]

I am very interested

[Winterborne]

This sounds fun! I'm in.

[DM Dialectic]

It's awesome that we have so much interest here. Thanks so much all! I'll wait until the end of December 3 to get going on this, but excited to reach out on it soon.

[DM Dialectic]

//All,

Very excited to go forward on this. Let's plan on initiating this Monday, December 7 at 18:00 GMT and if folks cannot make that then 9:00pm US Central Time on Sunday, December 13. Please show up in the Nexus with a level 1 human commoner and with a simple RP template/mission in mind, if you cannot make that time, please post here and I'll try figure out an alternative time as well, but no guarantees as my schedule is just very hectic the next few weeks.//

[Cinnamon]

Does Joel count as a Half-Elven with Celestial Heritage

Jokes aside, I have a few hundred ideas in mind.

//All,

Very excited to go forward on this. Let's plan on initiating this Monday, December 7 at 18:00 GMT and if folks cannot make that then 9:00pm US Central Time on Sunday, December 13. Please show up in the Nexus with a level 1 human commoner and with a simple RP template/mission in mind, if you cannot make that time, please post here and I'll try figure out an alternative time as well, but no guarantees as my schedule is just very hectic the next few weeks.//

[Oarthias]

I'll see you on the 7th

[yyj]

I would like to add that I ran one of these events by myself 2 days ago and it was such a success! We didn't have any aid from DM or anything, just a few people roleplaying!

So I guess with a DM helping things can just get even more interesting!

[DM Dialectic]

Does Joel count as a Half-Elven with Celestial Heritage

Jokes aside, I have a few hundred ideas in mind.

//All,

Very excited to go forward on this. Let's plan on initiating this Monday, December 7 at 18:00 GMT and if folks cannot make that then 9:00pm US Central Time on Sunday, December 13. Please show up in the Nexus with a level 1 human commoner and with a simple RP template/mission in mind, if you cannot make that time, please post here and I'll try figure out an alternative time as well, but no guarantees as my schedule is just very hectic the next few weeks.//

//No, only human level 1 commoners will be acceptable in this trial program. We are trying to keep this very simple to start.//