(11-12-2016, 03:28 PM)Deahfel Wrote: I was wondering if anyone had some tips or a guide to running events out in the field? My initial thought was to have a type of ruin expedition with some flavorful exploring, a few traps and challenges, as well as a puzzle to solve to advance the plot. I think it is my prior tabletop experience taking over, but something about powerful magical relics being lost in the world seems to inspire my imagination. Also if anyone has any tips for creating the rumors in the wiki I have been struggling with that!
Anyways, thank you for taking the time to read my intro post. If you are on Balmung and you ever run across my character please feel free to send me a tell or join me for some RP. If you ever need a relic guard or have any interest in checking out my plot let me know as well. My character loves to spend her evenings in the Gridania Roost so feel free to drop by!
I just realized no one really answered this question for you, and I must have missed it on the first go around here.Â
So, it really depends somewhat on the audience you have. My FC, for example, likes to do major events in Discord in more of a tabletop setting, so I had to adapt a bit to that in order to cater what players are used to. It's really a tradeoff with ease of access, more robust access to media, and being able to properly represent the persistent world of FFXIV.Â
That being said, in-game events still have a pretty strong place in my heart too, but with those, you'll need to decide how open you want your events to be and how many players you can accommodate at once.Â
Since there is a party limit of 8, if you want a plotline to be invite-only and otherwise closed, you'll have to squeeze the party into 8 players or use a linkshell for operating the plotline so you stay out of the generic chat channels. Otherwise, you may end up with some randoms tossing in. Still, when you get up to 8 players to a single DM, you're going to get overwhelmed pretty easily. At that point, you may need a wingman DM or two to help out there.
Otherwise, you can just keep it wide open and deal with walk-ups also tossing in, but again, scale may be a concern there. On a more general note, one thing that I tend to do is to whisper players with the result of whatever action they take- say, a player examines a crystal fragment and, based on their mining skill, can determine various things about it. It gives specific players some ammo to take the spotlight, so you can spread that around as needed. Combat stuff can usually be broadcast to everyone.Â
Aside from this? Just pick your location and get after it!Â
As for RP though, you're more than welcome to hit me too- Kasi is usually wandering around Gridania somewhere, and while she'll stop in taverns on her trade route occasionally, she's not much of a tavern-goer. If you're looking for connections as well, we can certainly explore that too!Â
Hopefully this answered your questions!
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