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This cold is nasty, so I'll be seeing you all in the afternoon/evening.

Seriously? Man, maybe I should be more thankful for the people I do get in BC xp heart

Zelyhon, you bring up several good points, I think. I'll try to address each thing you said here.

I agree, there is a multitude of different plotlines and individual stories in the guild, and finding which one you'd fit in is difficult. Unfortunately, I can't ask the current members to coordinate and intertwine their plotlines and disregard their rights to have individual and self made stories. Having establishing a point where new recruits can be briefed on all the plotlines and perhaps have a place to join in.

On your second point about guidance for initial character creation, that's also something to consider. The announcement for the rules has several other posts, which include links, glitches, and Nana's thread web. I could also add a post for suggestions about starting off. I'll work on a way that people might be more able to integrate themselves into the back story.

Yes, true, there are power issues with several characters, most of them being the more evil geared characters. That should be taken care of by putting the battle system into place. I really should make that mandatory. Maybe then people would actually start sending in battle profiles ~_~

As for asking other guilds to recruit, I have to say I think it's a bad idea. As a guild captain and having talked to other captains, I know that it's VERY annoying and sometimes rude and/or offensive to be asked to advertise an unaffiliated guild in one's own guild. Sure if members of this guild are captains of other guild then it would be easier. That would be better than just looking for guilds to recruit in. Other than that, there needs to be some effort outside of the guilds probably.

I'll also try to work on somethin which more fully explains what the central, more permanent plot is. Nana's sticky is nice for recent updates, but it's not broad enough in scope, so I'll probably set up something in the first post which has the total overview.

The profiles are not really necessary, but it might be nice to do something with them... I'll need more thought on that.

Anyway, thanks for posting your ideas and concerns 3nodding Some of those ideas could be quite helpful.

That does seem to address most of the concerns and issues I had when joining in. Just my few notes on that:

I don't think they should be forced to weave together, but maybe if it was agreed upon to some extent about possibly integrating points from one into another. This'd be especially helpful for those in multiple storylines. For example, the path I've roughly plotted out for Derrek (my character) would eventually take him to a position where he'd be an antagonist, creating general mayhem for, well, pretty much anyone he runs into. To weave in and out of existing plots like that would be hard without knowing so much about them. They ought not to be forced to converge, I fully agree. But without something basic tying them together, it seems like the guild is somewhat fractured in what everyone is doing, which makes it all the harder for those in multiple plots to try and get things to work.

A "getting started" thread would be very helpful, I feel. Dramatis Personae, basic overviews of the plots (with deeper looks elsewhere), and tips on the world of BC and characters within for making a new character.

Evil characters ought to have more power than those who are good. I have no problem with them being somewhat more powerful. However, I just think that a lot of what is now goes a bit too far, forcing others then to go that far as well to deal with it. I've been brainstorming in my head how to tone down my antagonist idea because I felt it was too powerful, but some of the stuff I've seen here matches it if not exceeds it. I wouldn't mind instituting the battle system. I haven't taken a look at it in a while, but once I do again, I can try to offer my advice on it as well.

I wasn't saying so much go to guilds that are RPs. I meant more of go to guilds where RPers converge. General discussion RP guilds, if you will. One I'm in (and haven't checked in a while sweatdrop ) is called SDRP, School for Dedicated Role-Players. It's not a guild specifically for one game like BC is. It's a general hangout place for RPers, where many of them do start games and do advertise the games they're in. Actually, if you check the stickey in Barton Town (started by SDRP. Or at least, the original incarnation was. This might be a different one Penden made. I seem to recall Fenrir SongMoon making the first one, but that's neither here nor there), they have listed RP guilds which might be of this sort. Those are the ones I was thinking we might look into.

That's most of what I have specific comments on.

-Applauds.-

As far as I can tell this guild doesn't have a central plot, at all. The nearest thing to a central plot was the fighting over the swords a long while back. In any case, there's also the Hathus thing which wasn't central but was at least open to all.

*Yawn.*

Some fraction of everything might be related to the geographic layout of the BC. It's huge. Leaves one questioning where to go and what to do. As opposed to the old BC thread which was essentially one building, the Dojo.

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