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That being said, I need to go catch up on the last 11 posts of the IC so I can start my next post.
As for a case-by-case basis, I definitely understand where you're coming from with that. And my comment of it always causing issues wasn't to infer that everyone who multis causes a problem, but that in each game there are enough that do for it to matter.
In regards to villain PCs, every single comic game that I've joined since 2012 - using that date as that's when I first applied to ASM and began RPing with this loosely-defined group - there has been one or two people who apply as a villain, and then either immediately or after a handful of posts flounder on what to do. They have their original concept, but as soon as it comes down to hammering out posts, there's either one issue or another. Whether that be losing direction, having no one to interact with, trying to start inter-player events that no one responds to, trying to just jump into someone else's arc to try and get that interaction, etc. In that first ASM I joined I did the same; as Tombstone, I had a clear plan I wanted to do that would take him on his journey of running for mayor of NYC to use his political power to supplant Fisk as Kingpin. Instead, after a couple posts, I floundered.
Of course, there are going to be exceptions. But, generally and largely, I find this to be the case in each and every one of these games.
I hope as time passes we embrace the "One Universe"-ness of it more and more, too.
I think it's tempting to kind of hedge your bets and focus on the ultimised aspects of your character but essentially keep their supporting cast and villains the same – or to do the opposite and keep the characters roughly the same and integrate a slightly more mixed cast.
With the F4 I've kind of done the latter but I'm hoping to do both more the further I get into things – and from talking to a few of you away from the OOC thread, some of you have similar plans. Which is exciting.
), but I'm definitely trying to be careful of doing anything too gimmicky with Bats. It would've been easy for me to say that Bruce trained in Wakanda or, as I've seen with other Batman players in these One Universe type of scenarios, train with Stick along with Matt Murdock, but I wanted that to just be stuff that Bruce kind of happened upon instead of having direct personal ties with at the beginning. Though to again talk about the Black Widow arc that'll never happen ( ), Bruce was going to have done a brief stint in Siberia under an undercover Natalia Romanova as established through flashbacks. Also, @Master Bruce, @Byrd Man, and @Morden Man. I've mentioned this to others in PM, but I wanted to bring this topic up to you three. I'm personally of the mindset that games like these are better off when players are kept to a single character. If they want to swap in the future, sure, but having multiple, simultaneous characters I feel has historically always caused issues for these particular games. Just as villain NPCs tend to do, though to a more extreme degree.
I know a couple others feel the same way. I can guess that Gowi will be opposed to this idea. But I'm curious where you all stand.
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@Master Bruce We should do what the DCEU did and for convienence just have all the major cities surrounding a bay so we're close together.
I also like that we have a nice balance of geographical locations. US-wise, anyways. I have always hated when in past games there are a dozen Gotham characters and only a small handful elsewhere.
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