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Darlings! I have a question to ask of you all before I'm fully dead xD

What are your thoughts on equine RPGs? I'm talking plots. Do you prefer places like this, with no site-wide plot that leaves you to make it up as you go along? And what about alliances? Kings and queens of regions?

Okay, let me give you some insight. There was a site I had a while back that didn't do so well, so I'm just going to start all over again. New URL, new forum, new boards, everything. Fear not, everyone's pretty much gone, so it's not like I'm ripping away all their hopes and dreams. Anyway! Before, it was a little like this site; light/neutral/dark, no site-wide plot, etc. But I was a little lenient on the whole supernatural thing... one of the member's characters was talking to the ghost king in Agynis Marsh, and it wasn't very strict at all. But now I'm thinking... should I really keep it free-for-all? Not only can I not think of a plot that is too cliché or has already been used, but it seems no one really wants to use their imagination anymore.

Onto plots:
Personally, I can't stand the whole magic/mystical thing. It irks me because they're always so... strict! Elemental, magic, whatever; most of them are way too technical with it. And it's pretty much always the same... light vs dark, bloodshed between rivalling mobs, death for a hundred years. And the shops. Eh.

Alliances are okay, I suppose, but they're in almost EVERY equine site. Here, they work just because they do. There's no ridiculous war going on. On my site I did have the alliances, but now I'm kind of rethinking it...

But I lurv the supernatural/paranormal things in equine RPGs! Ghosties and ghouls fascinate me anyway, but it just opens so many doors for me when I can role play them. If all else fails, something paranormal is definitely going to be in my site... maybe people can play ghosts, or there can be a medium- LIKE THE SORROW! I could start up a Cobra Unit omgezz XD -instantly happy-

Oh and! SKINS! Give me idears! I wubz the way THIS site looks: opentales.proboards.com/index.cgi
(too lazy to hyperlink) The tabbed categories and dynamic table are pretty dern awesome.
But I need help picking colors! Any suggestions?

SO, I need your opinions onnn:

• Should I use the light/neutral/dark basis?
  
• Should I keep the site a plot-amongst-yourselves type like FE?
  
• If I do use a plot, what the hell could it be that hasn't already been used?
  
• Your thoughts on magic/mystic powers/elemental crap?
  
• I'm going to incoporate it anyway, but ghosties in equine RPGs?
  
• Skin colors! Best to use/best that compliment each other?
  

OH AND it's a WILD HORSE RPG! NO RIDING ACADEMY! NO HUMANS! ZIP! ZILCH! NADA! NEIN! NI!

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You should use the alliances. They are good for grouping horses. But you don't have to STAY in the alliances. You can change alliance.
Plot amoung yourselves is better... but i'm always using my imagination, and can come up with plots when i'm bored, so that's just me.
I Love Magic, So in my opinion you should use it, but don't make a list of magic, just say that nothing is all powerful (Except Gods, and those are rare) so everyone has a weakness, or has only one or two powers.
Ghosts are awsome, and wonderful for plots.
Black White, Red, or Blue, White. Or Green black. (Las one is kind of evil)

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That's what I was thinking; if I DID use the alliances, it wouldn't be so that there could be giant wars, but moreso the attitude/perceptive of life according to the horse. Pretty much like here. Although I could imagine a character not sticking to a certain alliance... you could very possibly say that they started out as light, and stayed light, though had a very strong leaning towards being dark at times.

I like plot amongst yourselves better, too. You then have the free will to make up your own plots... but, yanno, I think it would be kind of cool to have not just lands, but regions. The claimable lands are within the regions, and the other lands will be your pathway to them, and you could have a king and queen of each region. They hail over each region, and inside of their kingdom the bands (stallions, mares, whatever) would live. They'd go by the king and queen's rules (there wouldn't be many I don't think) and all that good shit.

That might work, with the powers... something like a medium, or a healer or else. And right, Gods would be very hard to come by unless you had some kind of divine manifestation.

I lurv black and white... there was a site I found not too long ago that was amaazing. Gave me some inspiration... but usually I look at the InvisionFree site skins on Red Carpet Rebellion and get ideas from those. -MIMMY! fangirl-

Danke for your suggestions! <3

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You are welcome. I'm good at giving good ideas like that for some reason. If you need help on the site let me know.

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- Should you use the light/neutral/dark basis?
It is a wide-spread theme in almost every single RPG that I've ever seen or been a part of, you're definitely right about that point. The only thing is, a lot of people are for it, and a lot of people are against it. I'm not partial to either or, but generally I don't base anything on alliance choice. My character's are the way they are. Just like SnowFall has a soft side, though he's supposed to be dark. Nicotine Tour is a little sweetie pie, though she's dark. Genocide has a harsh side (mostly Renaissance, but, you know), though he's light. It all depends on the person, I suppose, but I think it's a bad idea. If I ever had a site, I wouldn't do it like that. I think it'd be interesting to simply have a bunches of lands and places to explore instead of seperate it all into categories and have a bunch of newbs with "dark" characters that are all "I IS GORGEOUS! I SHALL RAPE JOO! BAWAHAHAHA!" Get what I'm saying?

- Should you keep the site a plot-amongst-yourselves type like FE?
Uuuhm, I don't really have anything to say about this one..

- If you do use a plot, what the hell could it be that hasn't already been used?
Post-apocolyptic with a twist. Some sort of nuke was dropped by humans, but was chemical instead of physical. Some sort of nano-disease picked and chose through all the organisms on Earth, meaning to kill off America's enemies, or something like that. But something went wrong with the nano-disease and instead of killing off America's enemies, it killed off the human species. Now only animals are left, but the nano-disease is now in the atmosphere, and it's effecting them. It's making them mutants in all sorts of ways. That's where whatever ideas you have about the mythical/paranormal comes in. This was an idea I had for a site I'd planned on making, but, you know, you can use it. :] But can I help?!

- Thoughts on magic/mystic powers/elemental crap?
I personally love it. Midnight's Wandering Soul was originally a pegasus that could sense the emotions of those around her. I'd love to be able to play Jiraya as a mythic..

- You're going to incoporate it anyway, but ghosties in equine RPGs?
YES! Sammy's Gaara sees my ghost char Masquerade. Definitely ghosts. Even if you ban it, I'll prolly do it anyways, lmao

- Skin colors! Best to use/best that compliment each other?
I personally like the darker skins, because staring at a bright computer screen for a long period of time affects my eyes. Headaches with neon colors, all that jazz.. I personally like the gray scale skins with red or green detailing or whatnot..