[Poll] Storytellers, Personal Characters, Moral Integrity

[Proselyte]

Some cool cats and I had a longer discussion about expanded storyteller involvement in dynamic plots and storytelling like this just yesterday. However, I am in personal agreement with you about the problem.

No matter how I look at it, no matter how cool it looks, and whether or not it ends up being fun, it's 100% powergaming via staff position. Setting up events like that would be a case of using Storyteller position to push personal roleplay, which is a very bad idea, and it would be very bad to even do something that could be mistaken as such.

The reason I tally myself "Maybe" is because, I believe that if something of a longer plot like this is going to come out of a redname account piloted by storytellers, it should have Story oversight and some tie to canonicity. There's a responsibility there. Rednames, as I see it, act as points of contact to the canon universe, and storytellers get their expanded privileges to really sell that connection. Those aren't lines I think we should blur too much with personal roleplay, so run it by the bosses first. (From what I hear, they sure could use some flexible PvE tools to help with their roles, though.)

What you're excited with I think could all still actually happen in the realm of player roleplay, player requests, SRPs and all that, just with more elbow grease involved (and we do this for the journey, right?). I do love some characters acting as questgivers for instance. But, that's never been impossible before, really.

Now. That being said. I think Jade, kotya and EJ all bring some good insight, and are all touching on the fact that there's some real excitement potential in this style of storyteller content. Longer form and with some character roleplay opportunities, some real potential to be surprised and see awesome things unfold dynamically in front of you.

I think Story in creative collaboration with the storytellers could really benefit from utilizing this kind of content to hype people up. I'm sure plenty of us can think of a standout example from this server that had us feeling similarly, for a while.

tl:dr - Cool idea, but you right, maybe best not used with storyteller mojo. But idk go ask the chiefs