Dude, Jafar, if you *actually* want to play Roger Wilco, we totally should do it like that death scene -- he crashlanded in Daventry, but instead of dying he was found by someone from Daventry and healed -- unfortunately, no one but he has any idea how to repair his ship. Tadah -- a subplot!
Delling, we'd have the option of playing madeup characters -- like peasants who are cooler than Connor (really, I think that's just a given
) and we could also play characters from the games.
D-D, I think that we should ask for a subboard of the fanfiction section for the Official TSL KQ RP. Or a subboard of the Adventure Gaming section where we're talking about. It's not much to teach, it's really just writing a story except you can only write what your one (or however many you're playing) characters does or sees.
To start, we should make a couple preliminary decisions before we make solid decisions which characters we want to play or making characters up. That, of course, is the canon/fanon debate. I'll ask those questions now, while we're all talking about, so we can get that out of the way.
(I'm gonna give my opinions, but don't just agree with me cause I said it
this should be a majority rules kind of thing so that everyone has as much fun as possible!)
1)
When do we want to play it? Do we want to play it between some of the games or after all of them (but before TSL since we don't know what's going to happen in it?) or how do we want to do it?
My personal opinion? I'd like to do one after 7 but before MoE. Even if we have someone playing Connor, it could explain how the heck a simple peasant knew how to fight so well that he could behead a swamp witch.
2)
Canon/Fanon? I'm assuming we're using the TSL timeline because, well, it's easy reference since we'll all be on this site when we post but if anyone has any objections to that, say so no or forever hold your peace.
The other question -- and perhaps a bigger question -- is whether or not we want to use the KQ2+ storyline or use the original KQ2 storyline? We'll need to know, because the whole "getting cursed" thing will probably be a big deal to Graham and Valanice even however many years later. Plus, that will determine what Kolyma is like, if someone wants to play the monk or something we'll have to figure that out, or if someone wants to play Caldaur we'd have to figure that out if we go with the original version.
Personally, I like KQ2+ better than the original because I felt that plot was choppier than any of the other games -- even KQ1 -- and was really seriously noticeably lacking in the sort of "epic scale" these sorts of adventures ought to have. On the other hand, I know some people really don't care for KQ2+'s changes (*coughbagginscough*
) because of how much it strayed from canon.
3)
Borrowing! We've already discussed Roger Wilco and since there's that death scene that seems pretty legitimate -- but are there other games/books/etc people want to borrow from and how would you guys like to deal with that if there are?
My vote is the simple explanation -- the KQ Companion says the World of Daventry is part of a multiverse. We'll just say anything else is another world in the multiverse and somehow they ended up in Daventry instead of in their own world. Otherwise we'll have to start being like "unexplored parts of the world" blah blah blah, and I've seen some other RPGs do that and in my opinion it just never works out right. Or it does and you just end up with a planet that is simply gargantuan to an extreme. Either way, it's not my favorite.
