Dante

There's a sticky thread at the top of the Roleplaying forum but it's become a little out of date and confused since the forum merger. You could always have a look down there and see if anything suits you.

IIRC, the most active RPSGs in game at the moment are The Corporation, Unity Vigil, The Militia, Nighthunters. There may be more and these may vary in how IC they get. Check them all out and swing by the Militia forums if you fancy taking a look (link in sig).

Good luck.

Awesome. I enjoyed the last one lots so I'll be sure to come to this one too. Given The Atavist's occupation as a trader in arcane goods, this could well be the event for him. See you there!

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=236171

Already begun one. Although we can't form the SG, we're working through Praetoria as a team for now and we'll see what happens when we leave. Who knows, we could all be on different sides and ready to kill each other by then. All depends on where the RP takes us.

You sir are a star. Thank you very much.

I've seen some pretty amazing posts on this forum requesting changes, powersets etc but this one tops them all. Thanks for the laugh and the powerset looks fun.

Epic stuff.




I so want Brick ona Stick Melee now...

There are certainly viable alternatives if you want to build such a villain. But as I said before, the problem is publicity or put another way, visibility. If the actions of the current villain I'm using for my plot were to become public knowledge, they'd generate the same kind of national response. But because they've kept their actions secret, only known to a few, and the heroes investigating of course, the public isn't alerted. Ergo, no-one needs to be involved other than those currently in the plot. Then there's things like time travel, alternate dimensions, hidden circles etc that can form artificial walls around those players who want to be involved in the plot and those that don't.

But once it spills out into the community, especially an event as big as this was initially, because of the shared world, there's an expected response otherwise it becomes chracter breaking to deny its existence IC.

Once again, it's not about being squeamish about the subject, it's about making sure you're not dragging other people into your plot unwillingly.

Oh yes, yes indeed. The power button on my tower has a bright red, glowing ring around it which my daughter's little fingers inevitably head towards. She's almost two now so she will sit on my lap for 30 seconds and watch me play before smacking the keyboard and send me flying into a wall. Although she does love watching me incinerate level 1 Skulls with a Fire Ball.

The other day she took to putting her bib on backwards so it was like a cape before running around the garden with her arms stretched out like she was flying. So there's hope for the next generation of CoX players.

Oh and congratulations Shadowe. It's a tiring but wonderful experience. Good luck.

*Sigh*

It's times like this, I wish I had the patience I did ten years ago.

Awesome news. Thanks TBA.

As for building a female Huge model, that would require a whole load more modelling and then having to go through every costume part in game to make sure it fit, reworking it so that it did and making sure it didn't clip with other parts. In all, a massive amount of work.

So as much as I'd love to see it, I reckon it's unlikely.

My She-Hulk ispired Brute would be happy just to have a texture similar to the male Bare Chest Muscular. Even if it was just the bikini top with an added texture of muscles.

However, as for changing the actual model themselves? That's a lot of work recoding things so all the costume pieces fit. I doubt that will ever become a priority.

How far is too far? It’s hard to tell. I reckon one of the reasons plots like this come up is because we can’t achieve any real villainy in game. We’re always at the behest of the Big Bad without the opportunity to be the Big Bad ourselves. Kinda the same reason people end up with Uberpowerful characters. They want to advance beyond the boundaries of the game world. But that’s a completely separate debate.

I think there are two things that affect this: scale and publicity.

The first has been covered in detail by this thread and I liked how Cass summed it up. 26 people is a tragedy but one that can be left to others to deal with. 1,000 is an atrocity and calls upon the nation to respond. It’s made all the more emotive by having it be children, something that is guaranteed to press a lot of buttons and leave a distasteful flavour in some peoples’ mouths.

The other thing is publicity. In a recent plot, I had a villain collapse a little known alternate dimension, an entire world. But because such a thing doesn’t hit the newspapers (only a handful of people even knew about the existence of the dimension) the whole hero/villain universe isn’t alerted to the disaster. Likewise things that take place in arcane circles or happen off world or underground, they won’t make the headlines. However, with this one, the press were all over it, alerting the entire world.

Should we not attempt grand villainy? It’s a tricky one. This plot seems to have escalated to a ‘Dev Level Event’ as Pious called it and that’s where it becomes world altering. The problem with huge threats in roleplay is that they inevitably have to be neutered because in the end, we can’t alter the reality of the game world. Could I have The Atavist summon his Netherworld god to Earth so it could consume every soul? Sure, but he’d have to fail because it’s too reality breaking. Plus, there’s no good Cthulu models in game.

I’ve seen this kind of thing before on a smaller scale where a prominent building was supposedly blown up but others refused to acknowledge it. The alternative is that people explore villainy in other ways such as corporate menace or people suppression without needing to resort to blowing huge tracts of land up. Praetoria is a good example of how real villainy can be kept under wraps from the public at large.

I guess it’s up to the conscience of every GM to decide how the events will affect the wider RP world. Anyway, enough rambling from me.

One of my characters has found a spot in Perez that isn't too bad for meditation.

Another uses the underground inlet on Circe Island in Talos (might need to kick some Thorns out of there first though).

And the floating islands in Ouroboros are pretty nice too.

Actually, my apologies. My snarky response wasn't warranted.

But here's the problem. It's not about notification, it's about being forced to participate. It doesn't matter if you notified the entirety of the Unionverse, the event still forces participation due to its scale and the emotive subject being around children. These two things radically change the Unionverse to such an extent that no-one can ignore it IC anymore.