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[Digital Hellhound]

Plotting and intrigue is always fun, but why the need for fantasy elements? On second thought, getting to play the noble-side of dwarven society for a change could be very interesting, especially if you make your own dwarven society and not just use the vague DF one. Count me in!

[Dwarmin]

Here's my tentative Dwarven Court Rankings. Though I'm still leaning to make it dungeon-crawly. Gah.

[The first steps...usually, money, fame or your families name will get you in the door. But, Dwarven society is highly static, as solid as the stone they carve their fortresses into. Achievement can only get you so far...]
Master of the Profession
Gold Courtier
Silver Courtier
Copper Courtier

[The Elite Dwarven Deep-Knights are the Heroes of the Kingdom-it's generals, champions and questers. They enjoy lives of unbridled danger and amazing Luxury. Few live long very long, though-either slain by circumstance, or Court nobles jealous of the rising star-or, they do too well, and find themselves assigned to the royal guard.]
Deep-Knight Captain
Deep-Knight Ranger
Deep-Knight Intiate

[The elite guards of the Nobles, in court and war-they do most of the dying. Given that they are the most susceptible to overthrowing their rulers, they are closely watched and have little opportunity for advancement. They can fall very far, though. All the way to the Hammerers Den.]
Grand Rook
Kings/Queens Guard
Fortress Sentry

[The three masters collectively run Dwarven society-Feeding, Labor and War, all in one. They tend to maintain as much distance from the court as they can.]
Master of Feasting
Master of Mining
Master of War

[Above the commoner guards and soldiers, The Elite Shadow Beards do the Nobles dirty work-spying, assassination, blackmail...many of them are not above seeking their own power in court, and using their connection to facilitate it.]
Shadow Beard Grand Puppeteer
Shadow Beard Elite
Shadow Beard Agent

[Overseers of Dwarf Fortresses are only elected Mayors in name...the true rulers, and the inheritors of the Wealth and earned, are the Rods, Staves and Scepters-they manage the flow of cash and goods from the lowliest miners paycheck to the fattest bursars gilded vault, and are in charge of Dwarven expeditions.]
Scepters
Staves
Rods

[The High Nobilty are the figureheads of the Dwarven Nation. Getting here makes you a target-for everyone.]
Queen/King
Queen/King Consort
High Vizier
Grand Champion

[freeformschooler]

Honestly, both ideas sound fantastic. I like the nobles idea, but a dungeon crawl might be a little more fun for both parties. Who knows?

[Superior_Tomato]

I'll be away from a computer for 5 days starting friday, so I wont start anything yet. Also, Digital, what happened to Roll to Body jump?

[IronyOwl]

Hm... I'd probably join either of those, but neither is especially intriguing to me. Maybe I'm typecasting you as "The GM of OotK" too much, but neither of them seem... like the kind of games you'd run, somehow. Maybe I just need more detail.


As for suggestions, how about heroic nobles dealing with a rather on-edge, high-competition political system? Maybe they're serving evil, meaning the competition is waiting like hungry jackals for them to slip up and the boss doesn't have much patience for failure. Or maybe the kingdom is facing an invasion or is more of a band of desperate refugees, so they just can't afford to sit around waiting for the fifth-best man to sort of get the job done, plus everyone else is also desperate and has their own subgoals (like keeping their own people fed, not yours) to pursue.

What they do and how well they do could have ramifications both physically and politically; for instance, losing a member doesn't just mean you've lost a friend and comrade-at-arms, it means you have to deal with the political fallout of losing a good warrior or being allied with a people who no longer have a champion or the vying of everyone else to fill the slot. Similarly, what tasks they undertake could be a mixture of "What will help the kingdom/me" and "What will get that goddamned princess to finally shut up?" To say nothing of how pivotal your interactions with said potential champions, leaderless peoples, or whiny princesses could be in their own right.

[Dwarmin]

You hit the nail on the head, IO.

I want to write something, but I can't figure out what.

[Dermonster]

Just noticed that tomato sigged me.

Feels good man.

[Tarran]

Which happened in my thread.

I'm joining the Feels Good club too, Derm, if you don't mind.

[Dermonster]

We can start up a clubhouse! You want the left terrace or the right?

[freeformschooler]

Derm, I will sig you just to inflate your ego.

[Tarran]

We can start up a clubhouse! You want the left terrace or the right?

Does it matter? I'm the Earth, man, I'm my own terrace.

Derm, I will sig you just to inflate your ego.

Derm you lucky bastard.

[IronyOwl]

Tarran gets all the tarraces.


Also, I wish I could help with figuring out what you want to write about, but I haven't really figured out how to do that myself. Indulging in a lot of potential inspiration (movies, games, wiki pages for series you've never heard of) is the only thing I can really recommend, and I'm not even positive that works.

Having random people shovel ideas at you might serve a similar function, also.

[Dermonster]

YESSSSSSSS SIG ME, MY FOLLOWERS, FOR ALL SHALL KNOW THE GLORY THAT IS DERM is that a newspa- Ow! Ow! Stop hitting me! STOP HITTING ME DAMMIT.

[freeformschooler]

If you need help figuring what to write about for an RTD - and I mean ever - you could do what I did as a failsafe for both my RTDs: Start with something you're extremely familiar with and enjoy very much. If you want, you can build on it from there infinitely, like a webcomic that lasts forever.

[Dermonster]

Has there been a Zelda RTD yet? You could try that. Everyone loves Zelda.

Or maybe a Single player RTD! Where theres the main guy, and everyone gives him actions which he rolls for. That was fun.