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[PewdsRocks]

Problem is maybe 10% of the players will play. The rest will hide in safe zones waiting for others to do all the dangerous work and die for them.

I think a big part of this will be finding a way to get the people to scared to risk during to do something useful.

[TealNinja]

This being a Dwarf Fortress subforum, I suggest a survival-based MMO.  So "people" literally can't wait for others to do the dangerous work.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

This being a Dwarf Fortress subforum, I suggest a survival-based MMO.  So "people" literally can't wait for others to do the dangerous work.

Not entirely certain what you mean by that.

[TealNinja]

This being a Dwarf Fortress subforum, I suggest a survival-based MMO.  So "people" literally can't wait for others to do the dangerous work.

Not entirely certain what you mean by that.

Hunger and thirst being things necessary to mitigate, through hunting or farming or whatever.  Failing to manage hunger and thirst resulting in reduced strength or potential death.

[3man75]

This being a Dwarf Fortress subforum, I suggest a survival-based MMO.  So "people" literally can't wait for others to do the dangerous work.

Not entirely certain what you mean by that.

Hunger and thirst being things necessary to mitigate, through hunting or farming or whatever.  Failing to manage hunger and thirst resulting in reduced strength or potential death.

Yes also add miasma with dead corpses.

That'll rattle people's heads.

[Unholy_Pariah]

So are everyones sheets good?

[StupidElves]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Duncan Stroud
Gender: male                             
Race: Human
Class: Warrior
Username: Zant_The_Bloody
Appearance: A tall, overweight male that stands at 6'3. Has green eyes that appear brown if the viewer sees them from a distance His hair reaches his shoulders.
Appearance (in-game): A tall, bulky, heavily armored figure. His face is always hidden under a helmet to hide his usually terrified face. He tends to hum when he is worried. He is slow to anger. He has a poor judge of character. He tends to not speak when terrified.
Biography: In real life, Duncan is an avid fan of RTS games. He has played a lot of Empire Earth, Age of Mythology, and the little known gem Paraworld. He was a simple senior in high school that played the tenor saxophone in the band. A few of his friends asked him to get into the MMO scene, and he misheard the game that they wanted him to join them with and instead found himself trapped in a virtual world. Oops.

Starting Inventory: Flail with long chain, helmet with face guard, platemail armor.
Stats
STR: 16
SPD: 5
DEX: 7
CON: 17
LCK: 5
Skills
1. Flails
2. Heavy armor
3. Blacksmithing
4. Chains(weapon)
5. Mining
6. Fishing
7. Not fleeing
8. Singing Ear Worms(Cause minor annoyances)
9. Poetry Writing
10. Block
50 points.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

What exactly are Not Fleeing and Singing Ear Worms supposed to do?
Also, replace Poetry Writing. That ain't an in-game skill.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Hemming
Gender: male                             
Race: Human
Class: knight
Username: Galvus
Appearance: Tall white guy with longish unkempt brown hair.
Appearance (in-game): six and a half foot tall athetic looking white guy with longish brown hair and brown eyes.
Biography: In the real world Edward was a well known but not highly ranking figure in the MMO gaming world, while knowleadgeable and skilled in most of the games he played he never stayed focused enough on one game to become a truly prominant figure and was always looking for the next even more immersive game.

In reality Edward is an adequate electrician who runs a small arcade with a few friends, seeing the possible profit potential he and his friends bought a few VR sets and set them up in a back room and were planning to rent them as MMORPG hotspots or local area multiplayer platfirms and make a few simple arcade style fighting or co-op shooter games to get interest up before bringing in more equipment. Unfortunately as Edward was testing one of the sets on a newly released game prior to opening the store he discovered a distinct lack of functionality on his logout features.

Starting Inventory: Broadsword, embossed knights shield, platemail breastplate.
Stats
STR: 13
SPD: 10
DEX: 7
CON: 15
LCK: 5
Skills
1. Swords
2. Shields
3. Blacksmithing
4. Engineering
5. Mining
6. Spears/polearms
7. Self healing?
8. Taunting/threat generation
9. Heavy armor
10. Block
50 points.

Are block and heavy armor skills?

Also, this. Let's start;
Heavy Armour isn't a skill per se. Block is.
I think you mean Battle Healing with the self-healing skill, in which case regeneration.
Also, full armour set counts as one item in the Starting Inventory.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

You know, the Real Person backstory is probably more important. We'll be playing as them, after all. Anyone's character who, in this life and death situation, goes on about "my people don't get along with elves" is a SERIOUSLY hardcore RPer.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name:   Joe Farsey                                             Age: 23
Gender: male                                                     Race: Human
Class: Metal Bard                                                Username: xxXORZxx
Appearance: An unkempt, lanky young man with long, black hair and patchily shaven stubble. His eyes are green and often unfocused. Muscled as yard work and minimum-wage hauling would make him, rather than actually working out. 
Appearance (in-game): The game defaulted to "scan body" when he failed to navigate the character appearance menu.
Biography: Joe was a lower-middle-class stoner from Oregon whose sole drive was to make it in the Grunge scene. He became a talented guitarist but his basement band could never get any attention or much money, and for 3 years never moved beyond making covers. One night, on a particularly drunken bender, he received a vision from the ghost of his uncle, a mildly successful country musician, telling him to put aside Grunge and embrace the true path of Metal. This may have had something to due with "new stuff" he and his bandmates had decided to try shortly after drinking. Next thing Joe knew, he was regaining consciousness in strange surroundings with the mother of all hangovers...

Starting Inventory:
1x Axe, of the rockin' variety
1x Ludicrously studded jacket
1x Steel-toed boots
Stats
STR:10
SPD:5
DEX:15
CON:15
LCK:5
Skills
1. Heavy Armor
2. Heavy Metal
3. Singing
4. Misc. Weapon User
5. Substance Tolerance
6. Drinking
7. Jamming (improvising with another musician)
8. Stage Construction
9. Pyrotechnics
10.Dramatic Lighting

Does every bard ability need its own skill slot? Like, "The one that does this buff," "the one that does that debuff"?

Next, this;
What exactly is pyrotechnics supposed to do?
Stage Construction wouldn't exactly be a skill. More Stage Building, since you're 'building' the stage.
What is Substance Tolerance supposed to do?
From what I understand with your jamming skill, it isn't a skill. Unless you mean combining buffs with another bard-type character for even greater buffs?

[StupidElves]

Not fleeing is not giving into his fear and bolting out of a dungeon at the first sign of trouble.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

That isn't a skill, per se. That would be a more RP-related thing in that you would decide whether or by he has the strength of mind at the time to not flee.

[Lyeos]

Stage Construction and Stage Building are... The same thing, you know?
Not much point getting worked up over using a different word when they're essentially the same.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Meh. Sure, he can use the word construction.

[StupidElves]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Duncan Stroud
Gender: male                             
Race: Human
Class: Warrior
Username: Zant_The_Bloody
Appearance: A tall, overweight male that stands at 6'3. Has green eyes that appear brown if the viewer sees them from a distance His hair reaches his shoulders.
Appearance (in-game): A tall, bulky, heavily armored figure. His face is always hidden under a helmet to hide his usually terrified face. He tends to hum when he is worried. He is slow to anger. He has a poor judge of character. He tends to not speak when terrified.
Biography: In real life, Duncan is an avid fan of RTS games. He has played a lot of Empire Earth, Age of Mythology, and the little known gem Paraworld. He was a simple senior in high school that played the tenor saxophone in the band. A few of his friends asked him to get into the MMO scene, and he misheard the game that they wanted him to join them with and instead found himself trapped in a virtual world. Oops.

Starting Inventory: Flail with long chain, helmet with face guard, platemail armor.
Stats
STR: 16
SPD: 5
DEX: 7
CON: 17
LCK: 5
Skills
1. Flails
2. Heavy armor
3. Blacksmithing
4. Chains(weapon)
5. Mining
6. Fishing
7. Resistant to Pain
8. Singing Ear Worms(Cause minor annoyances)
9. Heavy Feet(Reduces knock back from attacks)
10. Block
50 points.

Minor annoyances would cause enemies to come to attack him, so he can be a damage sponge for his party.