Yo! It's your girl Artemis, doing something insanely ambitious again. This time I'm pondering a new group RP, and I'm looking for suggestions, feedback and an interest check. I'm thinking of having it be a Discord server. (If you're interested in 1x1 scenes, check<a class="postlink" href="https://rp.aryion.com/profile/Artemis_X">my profile</a>out, PM me or poke me in Eka's chat if you happen to see me!) As always the nature of the RP will require and cater to at least a moderate amount of flexibility in terms of preferences. Most especially one's pred/prey role, since the nature of a persistent world group RP means being a prey might, but may not always, be bad for your health.<span style="font-weight: bold">If you're interested in receiving an invite, state that you're signing up in your post and I'll add you to a list that I will PM after I actually start getting things set up.</span><br/><br/>All that being said, let me break down some of the major selling points for this RP as I see them.<span style="font-weight: bold">If you have any suggestions or opinions on some of the choices I'm debating, go ahead and make them here. If there's significant interest for multiple ideas, maybe I'll just make multiple servers and see how it goes. So don't hesitate to tell me you're interested in one or more idea.</span>Remember that as you continue reading.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline">The D&amp;D Lite Backbone</span></span><br/>When I say D&D Lite, I mean loosely based upon the principles of D&D (Rolling dice, having stats that affect your performance, having abilities that determine how your character fights) but heavily simplified to allow for easier pickup and play, as well as more flexible roleplaying. Here's the basic premise:<br/><br/>You've got your core handful of stats and a certain amount of points to spend on them, letting you customize what your character is and isn't good at on a basic level.<br/><br/>You get to create your own combat mechanics for your character. Bumpy to learn at first, but allows for unprecedented freedom in customization compared to actual D&D. They deal set amounts of damage or perhaps even have buffing, healing or status inflicting mechanics! Your local GMs will often review abilities / attacks to ensure a level of balance and prevent any fun-killing shenanigans.<br/><br/>You get to assign strengths, resistances and weaknesses to your character in terms of types of vore, which act as soft preferences that make it easier to avoid the types of vore you don't want and find the types you do.  There is a simple balancing system in place where characters with weaknesses get to have more strengths/resistances.<br/><br/>You get to level up by completing quests and eating enemies. This gets you more of all the above, allowing for character progression.<br/><br/>I have a decent amount of experience with system work, and have tested my system out live on several occasions. I'm debating between using Google Docs or just plaintext for the character sheets.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline">The Setting</span></span><br/>A general Anime/Manga/Gaming crossover where most canon characters are allowed. The world consists of various locations from across the multiverse stitched together onto a new planet. New locations are possible via suggestion and the server voting. Original Characters are allowed, however, to prevent OC oversaturation you may only ever have 1 more OC than you have canon characters and OCs must exist within an appropriate canon setting.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Preferences and Comfort Zones</span></span><br/>When it comes to non-vore stuff and certain more extreme types of vore, we'll try and account for people's individual preferences or, failing that, keep things reasonably mild and tolerable. We'll keep track of special preferences using the accomodations section of your character sheet.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Player Driven, what's that?</span></span><br/>Basically, it means that I won't be railroading a plot or central group of players. I provide an open world. I provide the administrative needs of the server. Maybe I plant plot 'seeds' to give people ideas for things to do. And maybe I do come up with some plots and storylines, and you'll have the option to get involved if you want. But I won't ever be doing the traditional GM thing where I force people into a group<br/><br/>Players will have the opportunity to tell their own stories about their own characters and orchestrate their own fights and story arcs. Players who have demonstrated they can handle the responsibility will be given a special GM role that allows them greater control over the world.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline">What about staff?</span></span><br/>The GM role mentioned above is the role for people who want to help by controlling the world and telling plots. But I could benefit from a second hand or two. A moderator's job would be making sure the rules are followed, settling disputes and giving new character abilities/moves the approval stamp. You'd have to ask me personally about that.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Early Sign Up List:</span></span><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/Bright">Bright</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/Razgriz">Razgriz</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/MasterGryph">MasterGryph</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/Sylvira">Sylvira</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/Zephyr42">Zephyr42</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/Killjoy364">Killjoy364</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/Gunlet">Gunlet</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/PlasmaTech225">PlasmaTech225</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/ScreakingEagle">ScreakingEagle</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/Aqualite">Aqualite</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/smallsmallrose">Smallsmallrose</a><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g4/user/GeneticMess">GeneticMess</a><br/><br/>Interested? Join up at this link!<br/><span style="font-size: 200%; line-height: 116%;"><a class="postlink" href="https://discord.gg/pVnKj4H">https://discord.gg/pVnKj4H</a></span>