darkwolf687

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

Pfft, my nation is either going to be composed of the hordes of the undead, a bunch of frost giants or dragons. Beat that! :3

Stellvia [Always Accepting] (Hey, these things in parentheses are hip, right?)

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It depends

Key and I discussed some world-building stuff and we may transition into a fantasy NRP. A new Sci-Fi NRP might be in order, but it depends. Depending on how many us are left, i might setup a poll and see what everyone wants.

@duck55223

Fantasy? I'd be interested :3

Character/Story Motivation (especially for Villains)

Depends on weather you're making a villain who realises they are evil. Most people don't think of themselves as evil. Hitler and Stalin for example almost certainly thought they the good guys. And truly evil people are very uncommon; Most people don't wake up and want to murder and rape and destroy the world.

They may be well intentioned extremists, who are doing horrible shit because they truly believe that it will create a better world in the long term. After all, if a few million people have to die to create a utopia, isn't it worth it? Every great empire needs to crack a few skulls to establish himself,
Maybe the reason they are trying to rob fort Knox is because someone close to them needs an expensive surgery to save their life and its the only way they think they can raise the money in time. Sure, eventually they'll be caught but its not as though the doctors are going to undo the surgery just because it turns out the money was stolen. He realises what he's doing is wrong, but he'd rather save the life of someone he loves.
"I was tortured" doesn't really work simply because generally people know their torturer and simply want revenge on that person. It doesn't make them evil. But if there is a general target, for instance, a Germanic Warlord who returned to find that the romans had slaughtered his people and enslaved his wife and children. He doesn't know who ordered it, only that it was Rome. So he takes up arms and leads an army to destroy rome, sacking his way across Gaul and Italy to get there. In his eyes, he's the good guy out to destroy those who wronged his people, in the eyes of the people he ironically wrongs in sacking his way across the lands, he is a monster responsible for unspeakable atrocities.
Perhaps he's a crusader; The leader of his faith has declared that god wants them to retake a holy city and slaughter the infidels that have stolen it. As far as he's concerned, he's the good guy whose doing the will of an almighty benevolent being.
Or maybe he's just ambitious and ruthless, coveting a station above his own and willing to stab people in the back and blackmail his way to the top.
Perhaps he views his countries leadership as weak and feels their going to lead only to ruin, so he leads a coup in order to install a better leader (which doesn't even need to be him) who will be able to keep the country stable and perhaps even improve it.

As for not going towards redemption, well, if the person thinks their the good guy then anyone trying to turn them toward redemption is, to them, a liar trying to convince them to become evil.

Age of Glory - Renassiance-Era RP set in a Pseudo-Europe(Reboot!)

GDP should probably be "Royal Treasury" or "Crown Income" or something similarly old sounding, given that we seem to be in the early renaissance where things revolved around the monarch still.

We could always drop the stats and see how we do this time. The RP has never really lasted all that long and we've never really gotten to the point where they have brought much to the table aside from being a nuisance to players at the start. Just rehashing the same thing with a new time period isn't going to work, we should probably be changing parts of the formula and trying to find what it is that is causing it to last only a few pages

Age of Glory - Renassiance-Era RP set in a Pseudo-Europe(Reboot!)

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The Confederate Flag, and Charleston

If is a disheartening event when someone has been the victim of racial abuse, but still offence is never given, only taken. Sure, you can try to offend people, and if you do try to give offence to someone based on race you're scum, but taking offence is the reaction of the person. People shouldn't take offence at the existence of a historical flag and if they do I'm afraid the onus is on them to deal with their problem; put less eloquently, grow thicker skin.
As for the racists, they'll see it the same way they see everything, through a lens of racial hate, paranoia and outright insanity "aw, those fuckin' niggers taking our flag! Aw, those fucking nigger loving ministers defacing our flag! What? You disagree? You nigger loving Jew!" Etc. They're insane people, we shouldn't let crazy, deluded, insane people bog everyone who is sane and has two brain cells to rub together down because crazy people see things a different way to the rest of us.

The Confederate Flag, and Charleston

Local governments get that right too due to association with history, unless these local governments are using it explicitly for the purpose of inciting racial tensions or insulting black people within the community then I see no reason at all why it wouldn't be acceptable. The intentions of the flier is what matters, not the flag its self, and I think its safe to say most uses are innocuous, for example the Confederate Battle Flag was flying over a memorial for reasons other than racism.