Monarchs Glen

At the moment there are about 200 random NPC leader/race/kingdom/god combinations in the database. There is no logic to them, simply randomly chosen leadername names and kingdom names.

I've had a though relating to a roleplay tweak I've been considering. One where certain 'core characters' have accounts on the boards, and permission can be requested to roleplay with them.

I was thinking that it might be better to have in game NPC's that actually mean something, and then adding those NPC's to the storyline. Obviously the current list of 200 or so is too many, so I was thinking of reducing the list to a maximum of 19 different NPC kingdoms per faith. 1 for the Mortal God themselves, the rest split between 2 of each of the 9 races

Those 19 would work as follows:

Kingdom 1 - Angelique of Istan, Barnabas of The Empire, Leto of the Free Cities

Kingdom 2 and 3 e.g. Leadername of Istan Empire Borderlands or Leadername of Istan Free Cities Borderlands

Rest of Kingdoms work through Northern XXX, North-North-Eastern XXX, North-Eastern XXX, East-North-Eastern XXX etc.

Rather than just pulling these characters from nowhere I am hoping that over the course of this age, some of you will suggest some (or many) tweaks to the following

Elven Female Angelique of Istan
Centaur Female Adilas Drummaker of Istan Empire Borderlands
Vampire Male Aubrey Nicolai of Istan Free Cities Borderlands
Elven Male Avorn Whitemage of Northern Istan
Elemental Male Banedusk of North-North-Eastern Istan
Sidhe Female Caewen of North-Eastern Istan
Sidhe Female Caewneth of East-North-Eastern Istan
Droben Male Caikain Mineshadow of Eastern Istan
Vampire Male Damian Romanus of East-South-Eastern Istan
Elemental Female Dancesting of South-Eastern Istan
Goblin Male Dsakot Stonearm of South-South-Eastern Istan
Human Male Frances McCray of Southern Istan
Goblin Male Gedr Ironclub of South-South-Western Istan
Dwarven Male Grorr Trollhunter of South-Western Istan
Dwarven Male Hakler Cairncrusher of West-South-Western Istan
Droben Male Jamroar Axeager of Western Istan
Centaur Male Legaic Rainhide of West-North-Western Istan
Elven Male Orel Nightcaster of North-Western Istan
Human Male Thomas Carrillo of North-North-Eastern Istan

Human Male Barnabas of The Empire
Dwarven Male Aletael Hopehammer of Empire Istan Borderlands
Human Male Alfonso Randall of Empire Free Cities Borderlands
Vampire Male Deacon Night of Northern Empire
Droben Male Devwad Ironhouse of North-North-Eastern Empire
Centaur Male Dibsa Lakesmile of North-Eastern Empire
Sidhe Male Duineth of East-North-Eastern Empire
Vampire Female Elenor Le Rouge of Eastern Empire
Elven Female Galuhel Handsinger of East-South-Eastern Empire
Dwarven Male Girhe Ironcutter of South-Eastern Empire
Centaur Male Hegpolk Dreamarrow of South-South-Eastern Empire
Goblin Male Koruzm Ironrot of Southern Empire
Goblin Male Kzug Stonemaw of South-South-Western Empire
Human Female Millicent Barnahan of South-Western Empire
Elven Male Ramiel Grimlock of West-South-Western Empire
Sidhe Female Rhawen of Western Empire
Elemental Male Songfire of West-North-Western Empire
Elemental Male Sunbane of North-Western Empire
Droben Male Walben Stoneheart of North-North-Eastern Empire

Elven Male Leto of The Free Cites
Centaur Male Aparaat Greatlash of Free Cities Empire Borderlands
Dwarven Female Arurleid Blackcinder of Free Cities Istan Borderlands
Elemental Male Bladefang of Northern Free Cities
Sidhe Female Golwen of North-North-Eastern Free Cities
Elven Male Hadril Nightstar of North-Eastern Free Cities
Droben Male Hortumai Mineshadow of East-North-Eastern Free Cities
Sidhe Female Ianeth of Eastern Free Cities
Droben Male Jamben Graveltoe of East-South-Eastern Free Cities
Elemental Male Leaffalcon of South-Eastern Free Cities
Elven Female Maerneth Holyfire of South-South-Eastern Free Cities
Human Female Minnie Black of Southern Free Cities
Centaur Female Neneran Treedream of South-South-Western Free Cities
Dwarven Male Noralgieh Firelock of South-Western Free Cities
Vampire Male Remus Nix of West-South-Western Free Cities
Vampire Male Samuel Vosmus of Western Free Cities
Goblin Male Tsagez Stoneburner of West-North-Western Free Cities
Human Male Ty Valdez of North-Western Free Cities
Goblin Male Zmuk Madclub of North-North-Eastern Free Cities

It's fun...do you think we'd get bashed on the boards for declaring on anyone declaring on the faith leader?

That's the whole point, it gives more in game reason and options.

Faiths might chose to defend their NPC's for example, or HoF might hold records of which 'God' was killed the least over the age etc.

So, do I need to pick all of these names and description totally myself? Does nobody have any ideas at all?

Man it's disapointing when nobody has any suggestions at all

Would it be wrong to use the names of our game's legends of old? We could always change them if said legend ever returned.

I can where the idea is coming from, but if we do that we create a selection of additional problems if someone ever comes back.

The idea is to eventually register NPC accounts on the boards and enable roleplayers to switch into NPC accounts for roleplay posts. By using old player names, you'd take away thier ability to return and also start posting 'in their name'.

I'd also eventually want to create miniatures of the NPC's, and without the old players input, we'd also be changing the look of their character. With thier input, we'd lose the NPC because they'd possibly want to register the account again.

What about for our departed friends?

Jokingjoe wrote:What about for our departed friends?

I was thinking that myself, when I replied to you, not sure why I didn't type it.

We'd need to pick faiths for them and in some cases I'm not sure what they'd be.

There would still be the issue of players switching into 'for example' the Torkano account. But I guess not all NPC's need to be accessable, expecially when Tork's account is actually already registered. He must have registered but not got the chance to post before he passed.

Most of our departed were pretty dedicated to a faith in guilds. I don't know if you have that info, but it seems obvious to assign them to their typical faith for departed leaders. I don't remember, it being more than 10 years ago for me when I played prior to this go 'round, but it's a start.

If you're gonna make the NPC's accessible through RP an' not only in-game, then we need to come up with roleplay descriptions of the NPC kdms (maybe not ALL of them, but a few key ones perhaps). I would draw on your map an' old stories for the most part.

I'm still making time to read up on things, so if you have this in place, great! If not, I'd love to help!

Tara,

Other than the suggestions from Joe nobody has really shown any interest in naming and describing the NPC's at all, hence why the original NPC's are still being used in game.

Would love to have some help making this idea a reality.

I'm send you a PM.