I miss Melkor (3rd Gnome IR) :)

[Kalanyr]

Who doesnt? =p

Festy Dog and I would like to announce that we are willing to run an IR starting recruitment in roughly 2 weeks. So if you have a preferred setting lodge your vote. (It won't be Eberron because neither of us has the book).

 

[Lichtenhart]

I am all for mystical earth, and I'm not scared by history so I'll let you decide which period do you like better.
I think that, for the sanity of the moderator/s, the game has to have simple rules and compassionate players. I suggest that every player may have max 3 secret projects at one time, and the e-mails to mods that detail the plans have to be IC, so the mods can post them as flashbacks when things are discovered and every player can fully enjoy his fellows' cunning. Same thing for secret alliances among players, it would be nice to post the accords taken when they are no longer secret.

 

[The Forsaken One]

I'm in for a totally custom created world with each player creates his own kingdom or nation with possibly even a custom race (nothing to fancy). This would leave room for a 100% own world by the players.

Else earth is always nice and FR and greyhawk never failed anyone. Allthough the abundance of FR detail might get in the way of people who know like everything there is to know about it

 

[Gurdjieff]

Setting really doesnt matter with me, so I'll go with the flow.

 

[Knight Otu]

I'm still in favor of a mystical earth, but pretty much everything should work for me.

 

[Gurdjieff]

1500 views and still dropping like a fly =[
*bump*, all still around?

 

['o Skoteinos]

Personally, I'd like a world created by the players. In a Greyhawk / FR world there are established diplomatic connections and they might hinder the players...

 

[Zelda Themelin]

Mmh, how strange this thread I started has become.

Carry on.

Strange how many people want to try moderating the game. Well, this is good, however do not fight over it. Everyone gets change to make potential game good.

I still wonder what's up with Edena. Hey Will, if you managed to contact him, ask him just to take peek here and say hi to us. I try to keep this thread alive so that might happen.

 

[Mr. Draco]

I think I'd be up for it, though I'm going to be gone July 2-5, and 15-20.

My preference would definately be for a magical earth.

 

[Serpenteye]

Oh, btw, Serpenteye, what are you saying now? The mighty God-Emperor is afraid of some lowlives? Mhehehehe, Evil isn't what it used to be...

The mighty God-Emperor got lucky. I was an inexperienced player with far too great ambitions and I came close to exctinction several times. I was saved only by the indifference of some of my enemies, and a tricky bit of diplomacy. Even though I and Mr Draco "won" the IR (for a little while at least) it could just as well have gone the other way.

Remember the Rokugan IR ? I spent pretty much the whole thing trying to get everyone to gang up on you and kill you and no one listened to me. @_@ Despite all evidence that you were up to something *sigh*.

What evidence was that? I tried to keep a pretty low profile. Did you find out about my plotting with Sollir?

Ah, it's really nice to see you all here.

Indeed, it's a bit surprise to me how many are willing to moderate.
I'd personlly like to see how Serpent Eye's game would work like, though add in Kalanyr and we would have healthy dose of CG and LE aspects.

Maybe it's just me, but I've yet to see SE to pull of any good-guys role.
I am really curious, SE, could you pull that off and still manage workable tactics.
There is one other gaming aspect for you to consider too. Doesn't mean you couldn't be "up to something" as well.

SE, as what comes to your ideas about Earth, I see great potential there. Though I for one, aren't really person with that much history knowledge. Or perhaps I should say, that I learned my rpg-worlds in english, but my history books have always been my native languege, and I have little or no idea how some things are said in english.

Though, with enough background info and for example good links Mod wishes to point out for web-pages where needed info is found would help a lot.

Thanks for all the kind words, Zelda. I think it could be fun to try my hand at moderating, but the "unhistorical Earth" -idea was just one concept of many. I could run a game in Greyhawk, Toril, or post nuclear apocalypse Earth too, or even a home-brew player-made setting. We'll have plenty of time to think about that, if another game doesn't start first. Whatever the setting would be I would probably keep it a bit on the dark side (a bit more unforgiving than Edena, but still fair).
I'm not nearly as good, or fast, a writer as Edena (for one English is not my native tongue), but I think I could handle it.

Good guys... You probably won't believe me but I tried to make my character in the last IR at least mostly good aligned. But when the Books came around I just couldn't help myself and made a grab for power. At least that time I wasn't being gratuitously cruel or overly self-aggrandizing, my guy actually had the common best at heart but got sucked into a situation with ever increasing stakes and no way to pull out. I guess that's how some people become evil in real life :\ "The end does not justify the means", "The road to Hell, etc"

I have played good characters in other games, but in an IR there is simply too much at stake for my characters to afford the luxury of goodness. Good is more than simply taking the path of least resistance, if you want to be good (in my view) you have to make sacrifices and expect to lose something substantial from it. Those sacrifices may well turn out to make you stronger, but if you count on that, calculate with that, then they are nothing but investments, and Neutral at best. Good should be harder than evil, the benefits of having allies you can trust makes up for a little extra struggle. If the DM rewards every sacrifice he cheapens them.
Most people are Neutral, in real life and in the game, Good aligned people are few and far between. (all Imho)

If I would play a Good faction it would probably have to be some organization so weak or dependant on others that I couldn't afford the risk of making a grab for power.

Festy Dog and I would like to announce that we are willing to run an IR starting recruitment in roughly 2 weeks. So if you have a preferred setting lodge your vote. (It won't be Eberron because neither of us has the book).

Great . I'm most familiar with Oerth, Earth and Toril, but I'm open for pretty much anything. Most important here is that it is a setting that you two are comfortable with and would enjoy creating a game in.
A word of advice, guys; Be selfish. Edena burned out because he couldn't pace himself and tried to please everyone. If you enjoy the game (and put some work into it) most of the players will enjoy it too. If you feel like it's getting too much for you take a break before it becomes a burden and then come back with renewed strength. Keep a nice and even pace, and don't let the players rush you. Take all my advice in moderation, the game will be a lot of work and you should be prepared for that.