Note: This idea is evolving/changing with further thread discussion
hey folks! so were lacking in realms and in result the ability for players to level there dudes/gals up.
The process of making realms with self contained narratives can be time consuming but i've got an idea:
What if some of us teamed up on making a bunch of realms that were individually light on story but put together added up to one story line? This would allow us to simply place all of our map layouts and fine tune them for good gameplay and share the story writing load upon multiple realms.
I'm thinking how this could work is we'd have a group of:
-Realm makers who are designated to designing a realm
-A moderator or 2 that'd check over the realms and make sure they all followed a cohesive design scheme
-Maybe a main writer who'd look over everyone's writing or even supply everyone the writing to place in encounters
Ideas for themes could include:
-shattered realms: just a series of less tamed realms were the king has been maimed by an invader and thus the whole realm is out of wack (this would be an excuse to place isolated buildings and vilages, wizard towers in ways to make the realm valid without hampering design choices)
-a series of realms that have been conquered/attacked by a powerful wizard and you must save.
what we'd do is come up with a theme and then each of us can work on our own little separate bits.
Was thinking the titles of realms could look something like:
Shattered Realms I, Shattered Realms II, III, IV,V, etc...fringe realms, broken realms, whatever theme we decided upon.
Otherwise i was thinking of doing something like this myself, so this thread would be a good opportunity to bounce it off the moderators to see if we can come to a compromise.
TLDR: A series of realms that had as much writing as 1 realm but the gameplay of 5-8 realms of varying difficulties.