HOW'S THE GAME?

[paradisamods]

HOW'S THE GAME?

It's been awhile! It's time for another round of Game Discussion, also known as "How's The Game?"

Here we come together to discuss the game, its plots, the settings, and just about anything we can think of that we'd like to talk about, expand upon, improve, change, etc.

This is not an HMD for players and their characters; this should be about the game's function as a whole and not the people in it. If there is something you feel is absolutely necessary to address that involves a specific person, please IM a mod first to discuss it. We can be reached at terraqueous orb (Kayla), end title (Fudgey) or a great fanfare (Jenn). (Though Jenn is on hiatus right now because her laptop is broken, so Kayla or Fudgey would be best for right now!)

Anonymous will be left off for this round (see first section).

Here are the sections that we've come up with. Add your own and we'll edit it into the list.

Anonymous: Why is it turned off?
What do the mods/helpers do, anyways?
How is my activity being monitored?
Activity check changes
Applications/turnover rate
 → Test Drive Comm
Abilities on the application
Villains & Heroes
 → Recent Villain Activity
 → Upcoming Villain Activities/Plots
Death
World Plot/Paradisa Lore
 → Concrete Resolutions, etc.
Canon Updates
Mini-plot Planning
Changes since last HTG
Plots in General
Regular Plots?

How's The Game will now be held quarterly, in order to avoid excessively long stretches in which there is no outlet for discussion.

Comments

Re: Death

[likethetragedy.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of characters being weakened and keeping scars after death (mostly because this was how Elektra's death and resurrection were handled but, whatever). Varying lengths would be great too since it would keep everyone on their toes rather than waiting two weeks.

I'm kind of curious about the Silent Hill-esque like world. Would that just be assumed or would it be played out? How could it be played with?

Though I have to say Spike-mun has an excellent point about having it at all. You would think the permanent loss and having your body actually hanging around would be reason enough to fear death. No one wants to lose their memories or skills. Plus if the character is so tough that wouldn't bother them I doubt Silent Hill life would really get to them anyways I mean you'd have to be pretty dead on the inside to not care about that, right?

Re: Death

[lionbeforelambs.livejournal.com]

I think "Silent Hill" is used as a loose term -- its more of a personal nightmare, so to speak.

Same person, different account

[justasdamaged.livejournal.com]

Yeah I wasn't sure since this is paradisa. It would be just like the castle to send them to literal Silent Hill type of place.