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xd that's a great way of putting it!

please do! i've tried to help out all i can, but i see where you guys' frustration is coming from--no one has posted on the suggestion thread, even the one i stuck up in plain sight in the ooc thread! my heart goes out to you! heart

i have no prob with that i just go ramble on in the chatterbox about pointless things that have no revelant meaning see ya!

Okay, I don't know the history of this place, so somebody may have tried this before, but I know that in my own experiences it's helped to sorta let the players dictate the field. I've always been an advocate for the "reactive GM" style of storytelling. That way, there's not too much wasted effort.
In my case it went pretty well. To start I gave them the options available for the timeline in question (most recently the NJO era) for character creation purposes. A few guidelines to keep conflicts down (like, no Yuzzhan Vong characters and the like) were presented, and then, I let the players make the first move. As a result of move#1, repricussions #1-3 occur, players act again, GM reacts again...so on so forth.
The reasoning for this is that I don't have a whole lot of free time, so I didn't want to spend most of it on a story, only to have to rewrite the story due to unforseen player actions. Eventually, with the right mindset and some effort to put the peices together, a unifying theme wasn't a problem, as it kinda fell into place on its own.
If this has been mentioned before, please don't slap me, as I was unaware (Newbie here...*sigh*)

I've been hanging around other guilds and threads, and I think I found a good idea. How about a side-quest to one of the main stories?

Here's how it would work. Basically, we choose an era. Legacy. KOTOR. Galactic Civil War.

Then we create an RP, mostly open-ended, that follows alongside the actual story with its own characters.

BASICS
(Using Knights of the Old Republic as an example)

- Everyone creates their own character. They can have a relation to one of the main characters one way or another, or not, if they choose, so long as it's nothing like "Darth revan's long-lost twin sister."
- We keep the RP Semi-lit at least
- We develop the necesary information threads, for such like Lightsaber forms, and commonly used techniques, weapons, armor, starships, etc.
- We RP free-ended, following our own characters through their story, while the actual story takes place. For example, you might have been one of the Dark Jedi under the command of Revan during the Battle of Malachor V. Some people may join together as an actual party, others won't.
- The RP will still end canonically to how it ends in the actual story or game (or it may not.) There will probably be two ways for the RP to end, Dark Side and Light Side. That will be determined by the respective number of Sith and Jedi, and how they play out through the RP.
- And since it's a war, we make it quite clear that some characters may be killed. Their survival depends on their RP ability and their own will to survive. Face it; if you suck at RPing, and you get owned in a duel, kiss your @$$ goodbye.

This still gives freedom to the people to pretty much do whatever they want, while still following a set objective or goal.

Sounds like a nice plan...but like all plans, are you willing to implement it? or will it fall to the wayside, to atrophy?

make sure that people know it's a stand alone thing...if this were to become the main RP...we might wind up with a bunch of Ran's.....and if you dont know the reference... ( http://www.bobandgeorge.com/Archive/index.php?date=030309 )

Anyway...I forgot how this relates to what I was trying to say or the point I was trying to make....unless it was that, as a main RP idea. Characters dying is usually not a 'happy' thing in forum RP's, and that if they can die, it may cause complications about people using NPC minions to kill Player Characters.