Post by FG Admin on Apr 25, 2011 20:53:24 GMT -5
*WARNING YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ THIS IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO. THIS IS NOTHING BUT THE ADMINS BLOG ABOUT HOW THE SITE CAME ABOUT.*
Hello,
I would first like to introduce myself. My name is Ash, and I am the creator and admin of this role play site, Former Glory. I would like to explain a bit about the world and how I came to create it.
But before we get into FG, I'll tell a bit about the things that I enjoy doing. The number one thing I like doing is creating characters. I have made hundreds of them over the years. And I also like making new worlds for them to live in because that is extremely fun. I also enjoy writing stories, drawing and art, and I pretty much enjoy anything dealing with the outdoors and not being in a box. I hate boxes, including being jammed in a house. We all know a house is nothing more then a giant box, so I try to spend most of my time outside. And the last thing I enjoy is playing music, it's so much fun. To sum up all the things I enjoy doing, is pretty much anything that gets my imagination going. Alright, so now that you know a bit about me let's talk about the site!
Now, I would like to say that this is a Science fiction, Super hero RP above all else, but with a detective/noir mystery setting to it. There is also a added twist to the whole thing, but I can't give it away because that is what makes the "Mystery" part special.
So this story is a continuation of one of my other stories. I left all of those parts out though because it helps make this mystery RP seem more unique, especially since you will have to learn about my other character and how they helped to shape this world you are now in. Using that as a back story I then started working on making this new story to finish what the last characters started.
I first came up with this idea after watching so many failed TV shows and movies about making a new (Or bringing back old) super heroes. So I thought: "Hey, what if I made a role play about making heroes cool again!", and thus I named it "Former Glory" you know, to bring heroes back to their former glory. A world where Heroes were once cool and on top of their game and saving the world from evil, but over time they lost their motivation. Now people just think they are lame and need to go away, they are all "has beens". So as you can see, the name is kind of a two way pun because our main hero's name is also "Glory".
Now this project of bringing heroes back to their former glory will only work if the players work hard to make their heroes/villains cool, otherwise it will turn out the same way as everything else: A failure. But at least it will be fun to Role play out, right?
Something that really helped spark the idea to come to life was the book "Black and white" written by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge. They had the academy, a mystery type setting to everything, and it was set in a futuristic world. I already had many of those things going on from one of my older stories, I just didn't have the superheroes saving the day. I combined several stories all together and came up with this. I'll go into more detail in a later post about everyone's individual stories, and why I chose them to be in this story. So thank you Jackie and Caitlin, for helping me to bring this to story life.
I would also like to point out everything about PowerFlux, because many of you may not understand him. He is one of my failed characters from many years ago that I created (I think I was like 7 years old at the time). He was and still is, my very first character that I created. Sadly he was a dead end character in a dead end story line. I had no idea how to save him and make him "Cool" or give him a real story, so you could say that I chose to "delete" him. After deleting a character I put them in my imaginary recycle bin, where they stay and rot for several years. If I get a idea to save them then I bring them back and use them for my new idea, and if not I throw them into the phantom zone, where they never return. Powerflux went in the latter...
I had no idea how to make him something useful, until now. Because I made a story about super heroes, Flux made a come back. And just for fun I added in the part about killing him and throwing him in the Phantom zone. So that is why he is the crazy teacher that he is now. He is the only character that I have ever taken out of the phantom zone, and most likely will be the only one.
Anyways, I designed the RP so that the player's actions will help shape the world, completely open and free. No boxes of limitations. The random powers may seem like a limitation, but if you have a big imagination you will learn to use it. In fact, all of my heroes (Except for Flux) use the random power system. Glory had no image of how she looked, nor what her power was going to be until I finished the random power system, because everything about her was going to be based on what I rolled. After I got her powers set I went to work on designing the rest of her. I think I'm happy with the results though.
As for the open world system, as I said before it is based on your choices. So if you commit a lot of crimes then the NPCs will also commit more crimes, making the city less peaceful. But if you protect the city then the city will stay peaceful, the world will adjust to your playing style, not the other way around. My last role play we tried to mold the players to how we wanted them to be. We weeded out the people we didn't like, and kept the ones we did. That was a mess, I didn't like that very much. The more that RP went on, the more it felt like everyone was in a box. The players felt restricted and afraid to be free.
So to fix that problem, all players who are serious about role playing I have created a story line, which is where the detective mystery comes in. It is a lot more detailed and much darker then it may seem, so pay attention to the clues, I won't point things out for you. And my own characters will only help you uncover something if you ask them for help, other wise I will purposely skip over clues that may help you out, so try to work together and share info to piece things together.
Also, you may have notice that the city is always portrayed as being at night and very dark, that is because I imagined the city to be a bit like "Gothom" city from batman. Always at night and full of crime. The world is already post apocalyptic (because of the war and virus), and it will be up to you to be the ones who save it and restore it back to its... Former Glory.
It will be up to those players playing out the story to uncover the truth about what is really going on in the city, but for all the other players who wish to be a hero, villain, or just live their every day life, may do just that, and if they wish they can completely skip the story line (Which I am counting on to help stretch the story out). Be free and play the way you want, as long as it doesn't disrupt the other players RP experience. If a player chooses to cause chaos in the role play, then it will be up to you to sort things out and keep the city peaceful. If a player kills another player or NPC, be the hero and go stop them. If you want to blow up the city, use the Dooms day system I made and go for it. Make this the greatest super hero story ever!
Now before I end this, I just want to say that I am doing things a bit differently from my last RP site, so things are going to be a lot more lax around here. I will only ban members that really need it, such as players who are disrespectful outside the role play and in the chat, or people who are rude and don't follow the rules, or who are just annoying will be banned. But other then that I would like all you heroes out there to band together to keep the peace. Settle things out in the RP as heroes and villains.
Well, that is all I can think of for now about how I came up with this site. If you happened to have stumbled across my last RP site (That is now dead, due to my choosing), then you may have noticed that I kept the skills, traits, and battle system pretty much the same. I worked really hard on making this story, so I hope you enjoy it. I thought the old site had potential, it just didn't fit together the way I hoped. So I took all the good parts, and scrapped all the bad.
Alright, sorry for rambling. I look forward to seeing you all in the RP and attempting to save the world from evil! ;D
(Below is some of my concept art for when I was building this world)
EDIT: 6-23-11
Hello,
I would first like to introduce myself. My name is Ash, and I am the creator and admin of this role play site, Former Glory. I would like to explain a bit about the world and how I came to create it.
But before we get into FG, I'll tell a bit about the things that I enjoy doing. The number one thing I like doing is creating characters. I have made hundreds of them over the years. And I also like making new worlds for them to live in because that is extremely fun. I also enjoy writing stories, drawing and art, and I pretty much enjoy anything dealing with the outdoors and not being in a box. I hate boxes, including being jammed in a house. We all know a house is nothing more then a giant box, so I try to spend most of my time outside. And the last thing I enjoy is playing music, it's so much fun. To sum up all the things I enjoy doing, is pretty much anything that gets my imagination going. Alright, so now that you know a bit about me let's talk about the site!
Now, I would like to say that this is a Science fiction, Super hero RP above all else, but with a detective/noir mystery setting to it. There is also a added twist to the whole thing, but I can't give it away because that is what makes the "Mystery" part special.
So this story is a continuation of one of my other stories. I left all of those parts out though because it helps make this mystery RP seem more unique, especially since you will have to learn about my other character and how they helped to shape this world you are now in. Using that as a back story I then started working on making this new story to finish what the last characters started.
I first came up with this idea after watching so many failed TV shows and movies about making a new (Or bringing back old) super heroes. So I thought: "Hey, what if I made a role play about making heroes cool again!", and thus I named it "Former Glory" you know, to bring heroes back to their former glory. A world where Heroes were once cool and on top of their game and saving the world from evil, but over time they lost their motivation. Now people just think they are lame and need to go away, they are all "has beens". So as you can see, the name is kind of a two way pun because our main hero's name is also "Glory".
Now this project of bringing heroes back to their former glory will only work if the players work hard to make their heroes/villains cool, otherwise it will turn out the same way as everything else: A failure. But at least it will be fun to Role play out, right?
Something that really helped spark the idea to come to life was the book "Black and white" written by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge. They had the academy, a mystery type setting to everything, and it was set in a futuristic world. I already had many of those things going on from one of my older stories, I just didn't have the superheroes saving the day. I combined several stories all together and came up with this. I'll go into more detail in a later post about everyone's individual stories, and why I chose them to be in this story. So thank you Jackie and Caitlin, for helping me to bring this to story life.
I would also like to point out everything about PowerFlux, because many of you may not understand him. He is one of my failed characters from many years ago that I created (I think I was like 7 years old at the time). He was and still is, my very first character that I created. Sadly he was a dead end character in a dead end story line. I had no idea how to save him and make him "Cool" or give him a real story, so you could say that I chose to "delete" him. After deleting a character I put them in my imaginary recycle bin, where they stay and rot for several years. If I get a idea to save them then I bring them back and use them for my new idea, and if not I throw them into the phantom zone, where they never return. Powerflux went in the latter...
I had no idea how to make him something useful, until now. Because I made a story about super heroes, Flux made a come back. And just for fun I added in the part about killing him and throwing him in the Phantom zone. So that is why he is the crazy teacher that he is now. He is the only character that I have ever taken out of the phantom zone, and most likely will be the only one.
Anyways, I designed the RP so that the player's actions will help shape the world, completely open and free. No boxes of limitations. The random powers may seem like a limitation, but if you have a big imagination you will learn to use it. In fact, all of my heroes (Except for Flux) use the random power system. Glory had no image of how she looked, nor what her power was going to be until I finished the random power system, because everything about her was going to be based on what I rolled. After I got her powers set I went to work on designing the rest of her. I think I'm happy with the results though.
As for the open world system, as I said before it is based on your choices. So if you commit a lot of crimes then the NPCs will also commit more crimes, making the city less peaceful. But if you protect the city then the city will stay peaceful, the world will adjust to your playing style, not the other way around. My last role play we tried to mold the players to how we wanted them to be. We weeded out the people we didn't like, and kept the ones we did. That was a mess, I didn't like that very much. The more that RP went on, the more it felt like everyone was in a box. The players felt restricted and afraid to be free.
So to fix that problem, all players who are serious about role playing I have created a story line, which is where the detective mystery comes in. It is a lot more detailed and much darker then it may seem, so pay attention to the clues, I won't point things out for you. And my own characters will only help you uncover something if you ask them for help, other wise I will purposely skip over clues that may help you out, so try to work together and share info to piece things together.
Also, you may have notice that the city is always portrayed as being at night and very dark, that is because I imagined the city to be a bit like "Gothom" city from batman. Always at night and full of crime. The world is already post apocalyptic (because of the war and virus), and it will be up to you to be the ones who save it and restore it back to its... Former Glory.
It will be up to those players playing out the story to uncover the truth about what is really going on in the city, but for all the other players who wish to be a hero, villain, or just live their every day life, may do just that, and if they wish they can completely skip the story line (Which I am counting on to help stretch the story out). Be free and play the way you want, as long as it doesn't disrupt the other players RP experience. If a player chooses to cause chaos in the role play, then it will be up to you to sort things out and keep the city peaceful. If a player kills another player or NPC, be the hero and go stop them. If you want to blow up the city, use the Dooms day system I made and go for it. Make this the greatest super hero story ever!
Now before I end this, I just want to say that I am doing things a bit differently from my last RP site, so things are going to be a lot more lax around here. I will only ban members that really need it, such as players who are disrespectful outside the role play and in the chat, or people who are rude and don't follow the rules, or who are just annoying will be banned. But other then that I would like all you heroes out there to band together to keep the peace. Settle things out in the RP as heroes and villains.
Well, that is all I can think of for now about how I came up with this site. If you happened to have stumbled across my last RP site (That is now dead, due to my choosing), then you may have noticed that I kept the skills, traits, and battle system pretty much the same. I worked really hard on making this story, so I hope you enjoy it. I thought the old site had potential, it just didn't fit together the way I hoped. So I took all the good parts, and scrapped all the bad.
Alright, sorry for rambling. I look forward to seeing you all in the RP and attempting to save the world from evil! ;D
(Below is some of my concept art for when I was building this world)
EDIT: 6-23-11