KotR Out of Character Thread V

[AussieGiant]

Hi All,

A couple of things.

1) Using a proxy in the Diet is not really necessary in my view. It's a game, I always portray my guy as an international merchant who was away a lot but that was only because I travel so much for my work that it's hard to maintain a presence in the game. I really think people should just use their main character if it will involve people more. It might not be "realisitic" but it is only a semantic issue. Just turn up, fire off your point and that's that.

2) I do think moving the Crusaders back into the Diet would be best. The Crusader area can be a House thread type area as Ok mentioned.

There's not enough of us in the game to split things up. We need to be in the same room "metephorically speaking" so we can bump heads and get some theme's happening

3) Steamrolling in my view is not going be good for the game. There are two issues. We are invincible in battle and if we expand to critical mass proportions then it's ENTIRELY up to us as the creative component to come up with ideas. If the game can't "cause" issues then we will have to make up some ourselves. If we are invincible plus the super power in the game then we have lost half the creative potential of the game.

We need to activate the mongols gentlemen. Death, cities lost, armies crushed, this is what make roleplaying fun. As I mentioned before role playing with uber characters is only fun for those people that don't like a challenge. I saw time and time again people playing games in which they powered their way through or spent every moment analysing percentages, studying "to hit" charts, checking spell effects that it was just bloody boring.

In the end it is the struggle that was more important to enjoyment than completing the "module" with all the special items and all the best gear. "POWER GAMING" is boring in my opinion.

We need to come up with plausible IC things that cause less invicibility and more uncertainty about characters lives, their ability to complete tasks and general living.

Join the game together but we need some thoughts on how to create theme's. Hell nations make crazy choices, and even did it with concensus among the ruling lords.

Maybe we parlay with the mongols and some tragic misunderstanding leads to full blown conflict. Having studying history it is the smallest things that can lead to the biggest disasters and events in the world.

As a concept that is a good one to consider.

[Ignoramus]

What has disappointed me most has been the lack of "biased Chancellors". So far, all Chancellors have been doing the right thing by everyone. Where are the Chancellors who don't scrupple with deliberately disadvantaging an individual house, or trying to knock off their generals? Those are the things which we are lacking.

[OverKnight]

Another way to look at that, is that many of the Houses took steps to stay in the favor of the Chancellors so they wouldn't get shanked.

I know I acted as Duke to make sure that Bavaria wouldn't get worked over during Leopold's reign, even though Austrian-Bavarian relations were not at their zenith when he took over. Otto was still fresh from his Papal involvement and had supported Prinz Henry for the Chancellorship. I offered Florence for peace, and had the BHA assist in the defense of Venice partly to stay in Leopold's good graces.

As for my own term, some of the Swabians might disagree with you that I did right by them.