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Okay I'm still deciding on my own choice, but I wanted to throw out what I consider to be the pros and cons.

Original plan, is mostly planned and was in basically final stages of prep, it allos us to keep and expand upon the past events of the guild and elaborate on it's rich history while moving forward making history of our own. Plus we can keep our current RPC but just age them approximately 2 years. Unfortunately the people we had lined up as our active/important roles we haven't been in contact with and are currently unsure if we'll need to re recruit for such positions.

Other timeskip also has the advantage of keeping history however it may need to be long enough that current characters likely would be passed on/very very old. There is no story line plot but it gives a longer amount of time to make more changes to the world, such as possibly explaining a resurgence of new races/creatures to make the fantasy element of the guild a little stronger.

Complete reboot means we can make the changes to the canonical world easily, and can begin with the original plot in a fresher way, but losing our old history for the most part (perhaps incorporating but it will likely not be quite the same). Of course we can redo old characters or make new characters altogether, but I still consider loss of history a big point to be considered.

Original looks good but im fine with whatever happens.

Ok So I would say That a lot of people would not remember their characters or be able to get back into their mind set. This was one of the reasons it was hard for me to come back is because I remember my previous characters but I couldn't ever get their emotions or habits back. Now at the same time I know a few people who can do it just by reading over their profiles once more.

Something that could happen (Might also help with a story too) would be to instigate a time skip to kill off most characters. Now I say most characters because if someone really liked their character they could write a post of how their character came to be in the new world. And These things would make for a more interesting roleplaying experience because it brings a startled character to a new world (Which would need more races, you can't really have an all human fantasy guild. I can help come up with races that would explain them, like strengths, faults, even down to cultures if you would like.)

Now to further explain what I mean by this, I once had a character (not here of course). She was mage who happened to be from the past brought into our current present. The way this happened was she was fighting this person and when she casted a spell, it had resonated off of a pre-existing natural energy reserve in the world. When the two forces reacted with each other it caused a massive amount of energy which had caused her to travel through time. We could allow people here to use something similar to that, if they would like their characters. Of course they would have to work to their previous position and if they where important it would reflect on the history of the world. For example if a king where to mysterious vanish, it could mean his evil tyrant of a brother took over and left the kingdoms in ashes as an extreme of course.

Sorry for the delay in response, I maxed out my internet usage for the month. After work tomorrow I'll be able to take a look and comment and anything you need.

Well of course we would want to include the standards,and outside of that we don't have many plans already discussed.
I personally think of course we should have some listed and explained, but I also believe members shouldn't be restrained to just that, because it would be a little silly/overwhelming to list every acceptable race. I personally think if a member comes along and wants to make something like a huldra or a nokken, then with proper explanation and work than that should be just fine. Of course that's just my opinion, and as I said there really is no plan aside from making sure to include the standards.

As for the time period, I believe when I wrote that up I had seen something that made me decide for around 50 years rather than 100 (, like I said it was a rough copy extending something planned for 2 years into many more. I believe it can easily be extended to be longer, but in order for myself and Sis to be able to do some work we've had to put on hold our main concern isn't the exact amount of time but the basis of the story.
So basically I need to know if the original plans basis (extended for however long everybody deems fit) is or isn't what members want, because if we choose incorporate Genoa, that effects how we proceed through the rest of what we are doing.
Feel free to tell me ho long you would feel best for the timeskip as well but I need to also focus on clearing up the story.

Ummm keeping up with currency on profiles? you want to kill us? It sounds like a good idea, but people would have to be truthful (which they aren't) or mods would have to constantly watch all topics (which we do but not closely), and we'd have to edit their currency. I personally think it'd be a headache.

Also, the world map, is actually an idea I already had XD And I'm working on it already smile

Well I'd start with maybe the standard ones and see where we go from there. Fae or something might be interesting to start out with, but I'd focus on just the standards for sure.
Thanks, glad you liked it, I felt there was a lot of opportunity to take things a few different directions and still have old/new characters. As well as opportunity for where we pick up, in plots I write up I generally aim for chances in things to go a few ways ans such.

A standard currency sounds like a good idea for sure, I've been thinking about seeing with Sis about a gold/inventory of sorts as it might work well with how I intend on doing quests (though we do not plan on XP or stats).

Sis has already mentioned she is making a map of the kingdoms at least.