[MUD-Dev] World full of heros

[Marian Griffith]

On Sun 31 Aug, Jeff Kesselman wrote:

> Forgive me folks if we already discussed this and I frogot but the 'forking
> worlds" thread seems to me to beg a bigger issue. Something Im wrestling
> with continually in my project.

> Most role play games work on the assumtpion that the Player Characters are
> 'special".  theya re the exceptional peopel abotu whom storiesd get
> written.  This becoems a bit of an issue when yo uhave a world FULL of
> these people.  If your goial is to preserve the RP experience how do you
> keep 1000 peoepl all feeling special ande xceptional? To a alrge degree
> they DEFINE the world.

There's a degree between special and extraordinary people. RPG characters
should be extraordinary but don't need to be special. At least not all of
them do.
Limiting the amount of power any single character can hope to control and
make that sufficiently small in relation to the world will help also. You
can have many heroes that way who are famed for some great deeds,  in the
same way there can be many war heroes.  And  there is no need to restrict
yourself to combat. Somebody can own a famous inn, or run a newspaper, or
whatever you like too and be extraordinary because of that.

Marian
--
Yes - at last - You. I Choose you. Out of all the world,
out of all the seeking, I have found you, young sister of
my heart! You are mine and I am yours - and never again
will there be loneliness ...

Rolan Choosing Talia,
Arrows of the Queen, by Mercedes Lackey