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This thread is for members and RPers to post any questions and inquiries they have pertaining to Roleplay Central. You may also PM one of the RP-Moderators to answer your questions as well. If you have a more in-depth RP proposal to make, you're welcome to create your own thread and title it accordingly.

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[unphased]

Are you allowed to include your own battle system within a roleplay? The roleplay itself will be exactly the same, keeping to the set standard of detailed posts and such, but with the alteration that battles work on an actual system.

 

[Fair_Game]

Sounds very interesting. I believe what your supposed to do is propose it in The Practitioners > The Break Room. I have a topic for experiments in RPB.

http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/the-break-room/experimental-rpb-discussion-20538.html


I would be interested in hearing more about it!

But yes the next step is to test it in The Practitioners > Testing facility.

 

[Hera Ledro]

Are you allowed to include your own battle system within a roleplay?

I can see why this would be desirable, but it ultimately doesn't work all that well. While you are free to do this if you please, I would HIGHLY recommend against it. It takes all the freedom away from RPing, and systems are so bland that they suck out all the fun.

 

[unphased]

Thanks for the advice. I've done these styles of role-playing previously, and they've always seemed enjoyable (I used to run an entire Balamb and FFVII sub-forum with the use of a stats battle system on previous forums), and it just added another layer of fun to standard roleplaying, rather than taking away from it. The freedom is still there, it's just the battle roleplaying that is effected.

I'll give it a whirl and see how people here take to it. If I base it on a Final Fantasy game, would this be better suited in the 'Editors', or because of it's stats system, should I place it in the 'Practioners' like Fair_Game mentioned?

 

[Hera Ledro]

No, this would go in The Editors if you're basing it off of Final Fantasy. If the only thing similar is the battle system, though, and the plotline is original and not influenced by unoriginal concepts, then it would go in The Writers. I can see why it could be considered for The Testing Facility, but because it's an RP vice an experimental RPB, it would go into The Storytellers section.

 

[Fair_Game]

Heck yeah, I'd love to see a FFVII or FFVIII related RP!

Kendra and I have talked extensively about wanting to do a remake of the FFVIII story starting at the fight between Galbadia and Balamb!

Seriously, if you want ANY help with this at all let me know, I'm extremely curious about it!