Shattered Kingdoms

I think it would help for players to be able to write the backstory of their character somewhere.

It would help roleplaying and it would be a good way to avoid the countless repeats to every person your char meets.

It will not be mandatory; only the ones who wish could do it while you could either create a special thread for this in the forums, OR (MUCH BETTER) create a command for it.

If you create a command for it, it could be like:

backstory <playername>

and it would show you the backstory as the player wrote it.

It can be available only to the ones who greeted you OR if you find it a good idea, characters could get an option, whether to show this to everyone or only to the ones that they have greeted.

I believe it would give a good boost to the mud RP-wise, considering that MOST have some certain type of backstory when roleplaying a character and it can get EXTREMELY fustrating to explain it to anyone meeting.

I know that some may find this unecessary or even say "its a way to rp" but I will disagree before hand. It will not be mandatory and this means that only the ones that want it, will use it. This means that there are people (like me) that are slowly getting TOO bored to explain their whole (or even a small part of it) background to every new person they meet. Yet, they would like the other person to know.


Thank you for your time and consideration.

That's actually a really good idea!

True, it's something that's been on my list of stuff to do for awhile now. Although letting people tell you their story is a new idea to me.

How would people know this back story if you don't tell it to them? Should only what would be know through rumors be included (kind of like titles)?

Known!

The original idea was to write a backstory that only you and immortals (and possibly paragons) could see, so that they would have a means to evaluate your behavior when it came to how you were RPing.

You have got to be kidding me.

As a private tool for immortals, I've seen it on another MUD. Those immortals seem to find it useful. However, they were focused on direct immortal interaction and creative alignment interpetations. I'm not sure that's us.

As a way to instantly inform other characters so you can short-cut conversational RP - no thanks. Backstories are to help develop characters, to make them interesting and real. And most real characters aren't going to spout their entire history at the drop of a hat.

This MUD tends to have at LEAST as many poor immortals as it has good ones. I would absolutely hate to have some schmuck telling me my roleplay is wrong because he thinks someone with the backstory would act differently. [REDACTED] on that.

Then don't write your backstory.