» Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:06 am I've always wanted to do a series of games that are really just one long story. Where is game is connected and the actions of the player effect and form the shape for the next game. The idea for the first game is to start off small, centred around a number of dedicated players who are fleeing from some threat and the idea is to find a new place to settle, away from the danger. Who leads this group and where they go is not decided by me, but by the player. The game after the prologue act is essentially free-form, the players can decide who to make the leader, even break into other groups, smaller groups. Whatever... As long as they get to this place in the world where they can build a new home. So in a way, the first game is a survival-exploration game.
Not to say I won't be around just letting the players run around as they please my role as the GM is to help them advance along that journey by providing events and situations for the players to react too, some of which are based upon player actions.
Once the first story is over, the second story opens up several years later to when the players from the first game have managed to establish a settlement and is now managed by their descendents and other new comers, it might be prosperous, it might be riddled with troubles by raiders, depending on where our characters from the first game go. It's in this one we have another plot-line, but we go into a bit more of a Grayditch style game (Check it for reference) but I'll still be there to make sure the story is advanced and play at the strings making the game interesting.
If that is a success, the third story, well I haven't put much thought into this yet but it would go into a larger scale. Think Immortal Bloodline, (well I'm kinda aiming for the feel they have in that game in all three of my stories) but the third story would deal with factions like the NCR and other nations that could rise. So far I have one idea for a faction to keep the settlement which is now something of a minor nation under pressure.
But the idea is that I throw the player into this world where, their actions are being recorded by me as history. I know we have something kinda similar with the Fallout Timeline which is trying to emulate the Immortal Bloodline but I don't want to go near the games, I to craft a location and a area for us to create for ourselves and create a story that is something authentic without keeping to walls of one of the games. I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to do a little spin-off to Fallout.
If you're still reading the first game would focus around a tribe which is brutally attacked and destroyed, aside from you, the player who manages to escape. Ignorant of the world outside of your tribe, your knowledge about small arms is limited at best but you know that you must keep going forward into the unknown to learn this skills and to survive as suddenly everything has changed. And you must adapt to survive. But for a game like this to work, it would need dedicated and professional players who can keep a cool head as they will be player versus player conflict. A lot of decisions will be left up to you, the player to come to a conclusion with. But I trust to those, if this gets off the ground, will stay professional and even though their characters are at each other's throats I'll have two players who are talking this out in PM or the OOC in a civil manner.
That is the idea. I could of made a right dogs-dinner of that and left people scratching their heads and saying. "WHAT YOU TALKING BOUT MACHARIUS!?" And I know that I've left other details out as I just want to get a basic idea up to see if anyone is interested in helping out with such a project because the players have a say on the stories also, so if there is anything you want to ask go ahead.
But, yeah. Let me know what you think.
EDIT: By the way. We'll need a title for the series. So, all suggestions welcome.
