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Mirumoto_Kazama · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1214

I'd say make it late spring or the start of summer to give characters a chance to sort things out (return home for training, receive new orders, whatever). Also somewhere closer to 90 points is still below what is suggested for Rank 3 characters in the 3rd Ed book (95 is recommended).

With WCLS giving a minimum of 4 XP per IC week of play we would be looking at around 48 XP minimum for surviving the winter (assuming 3 months IC), so I don't see it as being such a big problem making all characters for the new game with starting +90-95 ish points (as thats actually less than what would be expected for the characters having lasted the game).

YMMV but we're not all fresh out of our gempukku so its not unrealistic to give out those levels of xp.

IMHO of course Wink

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Soshi_Mishiguri · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 794 Location: Michigan, USA

So you would penalize a character for seeking one of the tenets of Bushido? Excellence?
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Soshi_Mishiguri · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 794 Location: Michigan, USA

*nods* We can pick this conversation up another time, as I'm interested in why you feel that way. Personally, I have no problem with someone making, say, a duelist of some non-crane family that wants to be the best in the world. And I understand your point, there is a very fine line between Perfection and Excellence. Which are the two opposing virtues of light and darkness.
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solrane · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 398

As much as debate is fine, this is not what this thread is for.

This is for posting ideas. We GM's/Game Co-ordinators/Design Team kinda have to read this.
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Kakita_Akane · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 323 Location: England

Just some more thoughts - feel free to ignore.

While I agree the delegation heads need to take more of the administrative burden (with power comes responsibility) thereby helping the GM's.. I wonder if there is a modification to what has been suggested.

Instead of being responsible for admin in their own delegation - they are responsible for a different delegation. This means if there are infiltrators (and please not too many... please) the Delegation Head does not know who they are. I also think that large Delegations should be paired with small delegations. Therefore someone with a large in game delegation and a lot of work, administers a smaller delegation and vice versa. These are just my thoughts, what do people think?
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Seiren · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

solrane · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 398

There was a point when this came up, as a matter of, who could identify knowledge. I pointed out there was someone who could, but, I did not say who, until it had already come up in discussion. Edit: I.E. Someone else had already told them.

How ever, I think we as GM's should move to a standpoint of, yes, someone can know, and not why it is possible for them to do so.

The other PC's will just have to wonder.

Also, people who have Know the School, but, I'm not sure if anyone had Know the School: Isawa Shugenja, this game.
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Evil_Bob · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject:

I'd just like to go on the record as not telling anybody Seiren's secerts. In the new game we will have a system in place to stop people from doing these sort of things and will be one of the jobs of the Coordinators.
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Kasuga_Natsumi · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 1828 Location: Plymouth, WI

There was a lot of info leaked about a lot of things. I do not know what it was about me, because I was not asking to be given information, but everyone was giving me OOC information. People were coming to me and telling me OOC who the Spider players were before they knew I was a Spider. I was told that Seiren was an Isawa Shuggie on a pilgrimage. I was given a bunch of other info about an array of PCs/NPCs/Plots etc. that I really did not want or need to know. I am glad that there is going to be a position put in effect that works to limit this sort of thing.
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Seiren · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

Tsuruchi_Asumu · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:12 am Post subject:

I highly embrace the idea of coordinators.

Due to the fact that this is a World Game? As in there are people in Europe and Australia playing as well as people with widely varied schedules.

Could the GM staff be expanded from -2- as that will become a chokepoint as far as scheduling is concerned for GM plot.

We saw this with the Pagodas. There was very good hand off and the Pagodas scenes only lasted at most 3 IC days (The day they were in and two more OOC time)

How could we affect positively the handling of such threads without 'timewarping' and 'retconning'?

One idea is more GMs that tag-team the big scene.
Another idea is slowing time of the entire game to accomidate.

Whenever a "Story Scene" occurs that has huge scheduling issues? HAve time slow down from 2 RL day to 1 Rokugani days to something even slower until the scene is over.

I think using -both- would be a great strategy.

I know I still had a thread from Day three going at the end of the game and was also talking in several scenes three days gone. Having time slow down to accomidate a big scene I am in or I am not in? I would rather see that than retcons Or people unable to play on certain days and retroactive play ocuring fater the scene is done.

Its day 13... we're alive on Day 13 but have been detained since Dat 11.

Now we want to RP in day 12 as well as thirteen. We don't want to be penalized for being ina GM run plot.

Any other ideas on this one?

1) More GMs than 2
2) Time Slowdowns for large GM run scenes. I won't be in a lot of them in this next one so I'll suck it up and have a four day long conversation with a monk or something. I think our playerbase is advanced and creative enough to deal with a time slowdown.
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Tsuruchi_Asumu · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:20 am Post subject:

Grandfathering.

People from the old ggame will be coming over to the new.
It looks like they may be given more XP to advance their characters.

Would it be fair to advance the XP of starting players?
Would it be fair to advance Kharma point to those who's characters simply wouldn't fit in setting?
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