The OOC thread

I have never realy role played, but I have friends who have and I've gone to watch them before. Anyway I am sure my ignorance to all this will eventually show. As you can probably tell I am fascinated by LOTR and the Arda. I hope I can 'help the story along' I wrote most of this myself awhile ago as a 'possibility' of a forgotten palantir stone that no one knew existed. And because it seemed to flow so smoothly as I wrote it, I just added the last part to go along with the story so far. I hope this is ok. Welcome aboard, Darkmane. No, it's alright although, generally speaking it's not good to ascribe plot and important details to another player's character. Especially not in a Play by Post game. You just don't know if I'll be around to play or if I'll react how you want. It's better to use an NPC or a character of your own if you want to introduce a magical item or a plot point or something. The point is to play a role, to involve *yourself* in the story.

However, you're obviously psychic as I was thinking that Sausa should be wandering through the mountains because of finding a particularly important or powerful magical item. I was thinking a sword or a dagger - something like the opposite of what Rurik has - but a Palantir will work just as well. And I can save that blade for a nasty villain. So, actually, I can work with it, so no big deal. It's just not a good idea in the future.

Here's how I see things around here working, (and feel free to disagree with me, we're still working things out) the Inn and similar threads are "lobbies" they're going to be loose and rather ungoverned roleplaying. A place to introduce character and kick back and all that. But from them shall spring plots and storylines which can continue in their own threads. Divinity's thread is an example of this already. These threads will be a little more strictly run, whomever makes one up is the "GM" or Game Master and they'll have the say about how things work and how they go for the duration of that thread, if they want. They'll set the rules, in other words, and resolve any disputes or conflicts. I've the fledglings of an idea for a story I think might be fun to go through with people and I think I'll start it up tomorrow. So, if anyone's interested, just make sure your character's shown up in the inn (if not we'll work you in later) and I'll branch it off into a new thread tomorrow.

What I don't like, however, is the LOTR referrences. This is a GW board, we RP GW around here. Homages and allusions are all well and good but out and out ripping things off isn't something I want to see. So, Darkmane, if you wouldn't mind going through your post and editing it so that things like "Sauron" and "Bara-Dur" and the rest are changed to something a bit more generic and Guild Warsy, I'd appreciate it.

We're still figuring things out in this RP forum. If this thread ever dips off the main page, it should be stickied, but I don't think it's too hard to find right now, so...

And, yes, guys, this is an OOC thread. It's assumed you're speaking OOC here, no need to make that any clearer than making up a post. Save poor sk33zl0w's fingers... Hehe thanks in advance Sausaletus, you're always there to help us little forumers our