Vox Angelis

Four Winds

Speaking of benchmarks, what sort of direction are you guys going to take your characters, if any?

@GreenGoat

As goals, way of life or powers?

Four Winds

Woah, we broke the 1000th posts benchmark, in 2 weeks!

Way to go fellas. By the end of it, we'll be by the millions!

Four Winds

Mine are usually from scratch, too. I just brain stormed what I thought would be, at first glance, the shittiest power ever and went from there.

@Baklava

B-but giant bugs are so OP! You'd make at least half the world population shit their pants and run around screaming their life away!

Four Winds

It sure is! I'm looking forward to see just how many characters I'll be able to do such.

Fun fact though: Akasha's first concept was a Wild Elf to be paired with a calmer sister, who would've been a Druid controlling nature. But since I wanted to come back RPing smoothly, I ditched the idea of making a pair, and this story seemed just about right to do so.

@GreenGoat Me too! But my mind is so flooded with ideas, I tend to take what's there to make characters,hahaha

Four Winds

Aye it did. Akasha's idea was born way way before Angel. She is a character I was dying to play hahaha.

Four Winds

Several hours in and I have a problem. I have 2 characters I would love playing but I have no idea which one to pick. This is gonna take some more experimentation. I'll be gone for a few more hours, let's see what I can pull in the mornung.

@Lord of Evil

I hate when that happens. Usually I'll try to find another RP to play the other one. Speaking of which, I still haven't found a suitable RP to play that Metal Angel idea I have for quite a while.

Four Winds

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BassDropp. He just came back from a 6 hour drive, but hopefully he'll post something soon.

@banjoanjo

God knows how much I can understand his pain. 8-12 hours of road were frequent for me, and holy damn are you tired when you finally arrive home.

Four Winds

@Scio

I do love character progression. If it would be used as a tool to help RPers with their characters' growing abilities, then I'm all for it.

Four Winds

As others mentionned, I'm not really favorable for "stats" if those would grade your power output compared to others.
Unless you intend to make us fight each other later on in the RP, I don't feel like giving stats to powers is much needed. Also, turning powers into statistics removes a part of what RPing is and turns more into a "game".

But with the example you gave, if it's to scale how efficient your character masters some aspects of their magic. I'm not totally against it. However, I much prefer to go into the abstract side of things.

Four Winds

Every good RP slow down eventually. Can't always keep running at 100 MPH, else we might just burn ourselves out. The trials are sort of everyone's introduction scene to the RP, so it's normal to have the RP so active right now. That and the fact that we have 20 characters. It's my first time having so much people in the same RP.

Once we get over those trials, I expect the RP to take a smoother pace, unless Scio constantly throws us such events throughout the RP.