I should mention: despite the fact that the OOC would be
really easy to put together (
weirdly easy compared to what I'm used to... I could have it ready within a week if I put my mind to it, much sooner if I didn't have a convention this weekend o_o"), I don't want to post it up until I can get the IC started for Altera Arcana. And how long it would take me to do
that depends on... a few things. Like I said, though, I have a convention this weekend -- so it won't be until next week that I really try to sort all that out. o_o"
In the meantime!! Here are a few other quick things that I want to sort out about Omnibus, so that I can put it together as quickly and easily as possible once I'm ready to do so:
- Humans -- yay or nay? Like I said, earlier versions of TJA made it so that regular humans could attend, but magic was kept a secret from them, and later versions of TJA scrapped this in favor of it being for magical (or otherwise otherworldly) creatures only. To clarify, though, the "no humans" approach more accurately means no regular humans, as I'm sure you could still have wizards/witches and other beings that, depending on your lore, could technically still count as "humans". I'm leaning pretty heavily towards no humans, just because it would make more sense, but, I figured I should at least ask before assuming that no one had a counter-argument to this. (I should also note that there presumably won't be any playable regular humans... so... this is mostly just a question about how we want the setting to work.)
- Location -- This sort of goes hand-in-hand with the humans thing. Do we want this to be a seemingly-normal school sitting on the ground somewhere, or do we want something a bit more fantastical? The no-humans version of TJA, for example, went with a floating island approach. I could say that the school is in its own little pocket-dimension, but, I feel like that could make the lore fairly confusing from the start. Having the setting be Earth by default makes it a lot easier to make sense of things whenever other realms start getting involved -- especially if it's a realm that certain characters should be able to easily come and go from. That being said, though, if we include regular humans, then that automatically means that we'll have a seemingly-normal school firmly planted on good ol' planet Earth.
- Dorms -- This was a big thing in TJA. We'll definitely have them, my questions lie in the execution of them.
- Firstly, TJA had co-ed dorms, meaning that it was totally possible for male and female characters to live in the same room. I like this approach because it means there are really no restrictions to worry about when it comes to arranging dorms -- but, again, just wanted to toss it out there in case anyone had any objections.
- Do you guys want to choose your dorms, or do you want it to be random? Being able to choose dorms means that we players can decide which pairs of roommates we think would be the most interesting. But if it's random, then, well... it's random, which could make for some interesting and unexpected match-ups, but, it would all be a luck-of-the-draw thing, really. The other advantage to making it random is that players wouldn't need to decide on a dorm, which can prevent situations like "where do you want your character to live?", "I dunno where do you think my character should live?" from players who don't have any preference or who don't feel like reading all the unpaired roommates' CS's to see what their options are. And I also think there's a fun bit of spontaneity in a new player joining, getting their character accepted, and then me taking a quick trip to random.org and then returning to tell them, "oh yeah by the way you're rooming with the wolf-guy who doesn't understand human culture and nearly killed a guy over a can of monster. Have fun with that" All things considered, I'm honestly kind of torn on this one.