Post by Kairo on Oct 25, 2014 14:52:33 GMT 1
Moved over from the main plot thread, because this would be a better place, as Ronan said. Just something I wanted to say, since you said you're 'just here to GM'.
That's really a bigger role than any of us players have. I know you have no characters, i.e. other wild cards like Melasni and Hairah in this particular bit of the RP, but that doesn't mean you can't make some up if it might be interesting to do so, even if they're just random people in the world. It's kind of it should be thought of as a living world, so even if the players aren't actively looking for them, the people might still have an interest in us. E.g. someone might have followed me up to the waterfall, or something.
Granted, we as players have no idea what's going on behind the scenes, so I'm sure you're doing a good job of it, and aren't just reacting to what we do. I was just concerned because of your comment as I said above. I did leave a few clues that IC, Kairo pretty much didn't know what he should be doing. I kind of agree that we as players should be driving the plot, but we aren't required to, there will be times like this when we have effective downtime, when the characters are struggling with a plot point, whether or not the players themselves are. It's times like this when some creative 'prodding' IC might be useful.
Finally, I'm new to forum roleplays, so if things work differently here, please let me know. I'm just going off general GM'ing things I think should be thought about.
That's really a bigger role than any of us players have. I know you have no characters, i.e. other wild cards like Melasni and Hairah in this particular bit of the RP, but that doesn't mean you can't make some up if it might be interesting to do so, even if they're just random people in the world. It's kind of it should be thought of as a living world, so even if the players aren't actively looking for them, the people might still have an interest in us. E.g. someone might have followed me up to the waterfall, or something.
Granted, we as players have no idea what's going on behind the scenes, so I'm sure you're doing a good job of it, and aren't just reacting to what we do. I was just concerned because of your comment as I said above. I did leave a few clues that IC, Kairo pretty much didn't know what he should be doing. I kind of agree that we as players should be driving the plot, but we aren't required to, there will be times like this when we have effective downtime, when the characters are struggling with a plot point, whether or not the players themselves are. It's times like this when some creative 'prodding' IC might be useful.
Finally, I'm new to forum roleplays, so if things work differently here, please let me know. I'm just going off general GM'ing things I think should be thought about.
Just try to think about it when planning stuff for us.