Jukebox Hero
2012-06-19, 10:33 PM
What do you guys think?
I thought of this idea a long time ago, back when I first started DMing, but I dismissed it from my mind when I realized that that would take way too much time (I didn't consider pbp back then). Anyways, I recently started thinking about it again while recruiting for a different game. I'm thinking about setting up a recruitment thread for it once one of my current campaigns ends, but in the meantime, is this a good idea? a bad idea? I realize that it'll take a massive amount of work on my part, but I think I'm up to the challenge.
What I'm suggesting exactly, is that I run a campaign which starts out with the party members all separated, all doing their own thing. Then maybe two of them might run into each other, maybe they decide to adventure together, at which point I would merge the threads. Eventually, the goal would be to have all party members in the same thread (or split into two threads, so that they can have a final, epic confrontation). This wouldn't necessarily have 4 players, but I prefer smaller parties. All players would be in the same world, probably in the same region, and maybe even be within a few meters of each other at different points in the game. Maybe one of them will witness the rogue's daring prison escape, or maybe the paladin was the one who put caught the rogue in the first place.
So, playground, what do you think?
I thought of this idea a long time ago, back when I first started DMing, but I dismissed it from my mind when I realized that that would take way too much time (I didn't consider pbp back then). Anyways, I recently started thinking about it again while recruiting for a different game. I'm thinking about setting up a recruitment thread for it once one of my current campaigns ends, but in the meantime, is this a good idea? a bad idea? I realize that it'll take a massive amount of work on my part, but I think I'm up to the challenge.
What I'm suggesting exactly, is that I run a campaign which starts out with the party members all separated, all doing their own thing. Then maybe two of them might run into each other, maybe they decide to adventure together, at which point I would merge the threads. Eventually, the goal would be to have all party members in the same thread (or split into two threads, so that they can have a final, epic confrontation). This wouldn't necessarily have 4 players, but I prefer smaller parties. All players would be in the same world, probably in the same region, and maybe even be within a few meters of each other at different points in the game. Maybe one of them will witness the rogue's daring prison escape, or maybe the paladin was the one who put caught the rogue in the first place.
So, playground, what do you think?