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[Transcendant]

Who's interested in an RPG? Probably something with limited geography that may or may not last but a serious tone (don't just goof off)?
Probably something in a classic fantasy setting with some dungeon crawling and perhaps political intrigue in the story line, probably combat heavy.

If possible, I'd like a couple of the more experienced gamers to be involved. T. said they might help out a bit behind the scenes, or at least they'd give me input if I asked.

Focus on individual and small group combat, some skill use, some item use, etc.

Is anyone interested in anything like this or should I just sorta find something else?

I guess what I'd be looking for is mostly players (probably play by post and Suggestion game?) and perhaps advisors (more experienced gamers).

[vishdafish]

I would be interested in playing.

[I, Writer]

Dungeon crawling? Combat heavy? Sign me up!

[Transcendant]

Welp, that's two more than I thought I'd get. Let's keep going with this and see where it goes. Anyone else?

We'll need an area, perhaps multiple ones serving as relatively safe spots (towns, etc).
We'll need a couple of underground complexes
We'll need some aboveground ones too possibly.

Individually we'll need a place to get the supplies, weapons, armor, rations, etc we need. Hum.

Outlining it?

[Truean]

Yeah I might hang out in the background. Help out here and there maybe.

I recommend the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) approach we talked about, but yeah. I'm not going to even try to dictate terms or how to do things if you'd rather not. Try to make it easy on yourself and not go for the great big masterpiece on this one. Fun can be fairly simple enough, while complex enough to be entertaining / not like everything else.

[vishdafish]

Maybe you could have towns, which are normally safe. Outside the towns is the wilderness, filled with dangerous beasts. Maybe a few evil towers here and there, for variety. Also dungeons inside the town, if people do not exterminate monsters in the dungeon from time to time, they will start spawning/coming out inside the town, creating the need for warriors to hunt with rewards from the town mayor. Each dungeon has a dungeon master (who are hard to kill), who controls it, if they are killed, the dungeon will stop spawning monsters. Just a few ideas, you dont need to use them.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

I'm also interested

[I, Writer]

Yeah. Basically Grandia, but simple. That works. Then add where/when you need to.

[NRDL]

Posting to show interest.

[Truean]

Ok, yeah, I'll help out with this etc. Will Email etc.

Story Setup:

1.) Start Setup
A.) NOT in a tavern, because it's overdone.
B.) NOT too much organizational power (leader, ruler, manager, person in charge, etc).
C.) USUALLY not yet a member of an organization (that can be earned later).
D.) Classic either start in Training, or Distress (escaping captivity etc). Starts with action, gets system in use immediately.

World Organization (General Points):
A.) Start in or near acceptable main player species Borderlands, between two or more countries, or territories or, political subdivisions (multiple sources, less supervision, more adventure).
B.) "Need Filling" Focus (Ours and Population). Makes sense, useful for adventure hooks. Can be general without specific numbers, or with. Easier without.
C.) Remember Weather. It rains surprisingly little in these games for some reason.
D.) Consider tribes / politics for enemies (goblin, orc, etc). It's a nice flavor feature.
E.) Humans, and humanoids can be bastards too. Hopefully not all of them, but yeah. No worse foe than the former friend.

Individual Player Control:
A.) Keep it to direct control over one character. NPCs can increase "party size" if you like. Important for absences in an SG. Can suggest for NPC actions though.
B.) Consider Party Role(s). If you have multiple characters or NPCs acting together, consider what role each being plays.
C.) Have a mix of linear and site based plots (as much as open world is neat, it isn't simple. Don't railroad, but keep reasonable expectations in mind).
D.) Options for individual combat rounds beyond "hit him." We've covered some of this previously.

Eh, we'll work on it if you like.

[Transcendant]

Got your email today, thank you.

[Urist Reborn]

Count me as interested as well.

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

this might be interesting!

[My Name is Immaterial]

Since it looks like you've got a lot of interested people, I'd appreciate it if you could add me to the waitlist.

[Truean]

Think it's going to be a suggestion game, so wait lists aren't exactly required.

Right now I'm working with OP on world background. Thought being that adds reason for the adventure / dungeon stuff.

After that, going to go over some flow charts with linear and site based stuff. Some things are time / action dependent. Some are location based....

Balancing act between keeping it simple and keeping it interesting / purposeful.

Multi town frontier system and Player Character Party Method
Taking place generally on a disputed frontier provides action possibility
Towns are going to be focus based for purpose with some player action possibilities
Also, "small group" can mean a fairly large party potentially 8 or 10 perhaps? (Focused roles)
Player choices with possible linked actions to save time (my old "several rounds at once plan" deal).

Issues:
Mapping will suck, may truncate or skip and go with formatted word description. Difficult, not impossible.
We're going for fairly simplistic gameplay that still gives options. K.I.S.S. but sophisticated a bit.

I dunno. I'm going to throw another Email at OP.