[kousagi]

Been tempted to start up another RP lately (it's been years since I was an admin for one...) and Final Fantasy VII is the one on my mind a lot lately. I see a lot of RP boards/groups on tumblr where the premise is it's an original world (or the KH world) that's open to all characters. So I figure, let's reverse it. Let's make this centered on FF7's Gaia, post Dirge of Cerberus and have it open to all characters from the series + KH (unless there's a lot of voicing against the inclusion of KH characters.)

The only catch is that you'd have to tweak the backgrounds of your characters a bit as though they had been born and raised in Gaia.

Anyone interested? I'm still thinking about an overarching plot to run alongside any sandboxy player-made plots. Something save-the-worldy.

Alternatively, I'm also thinking AU!Meteorfall era, so essentially the main plot would be getting our heroes together to stop the Meteor from falling.

[EY ✻ BECKET !?]

Plz do this, I would join faster than you could say "Cloud".
Personally I would not mind the KH inclusions, even though I am a hardcore original FF fan.

[DARKEE]

oGM... there used to be a FF roleplay like this a few years back, but it was set in the FF13 universe, but it allowed charcters from the other FFs, so long as you tweaked their backgrounds to fit FF13. i wouldn't mind KH inclusions, though does that mean the KH original characters and disney characters, or are you disallowing disney characters? /just curious nbd

god i would love it if it was post-DoC but i don't really know what kind of overarching plot you'd have tbqh... i feel like au meteorfall would be too - idk, centralised on a certain group of characters? some people would feel like they can't join in on the main plotline because it's either too cluttered or it's too far ahead for their character to join or somethin' i don't really know

idk i love this idea though and i'd be really excited to see it made like u dont even know

[HADES | ALONE]

I want this. I want this so badly. I call dibs on Roxas! /shot/ But in all seriousness, I have a question. Would SOLDIER exist at this point? Or are they all gone due to well- drama? (*coughSephirothcough*) I'm highly intrigued by this, count me in if you go through with this! 8'D

[katya]

I'd actually been talking about one of these sites pretty recently in a nostalgic sorta way. Can't say I'd join for sure (depends on next semester's workload), but I do miss playing my old favorites, so it's tempting. I'd steer away from KH, simply because I think something that includes KH characters may as well be a KH setting--it'd work just as well for a lot of purposes.

I'm not familiar with the FF7 setting after FF7 itself, but I figure the wiki can sort that out. If Meteorfall would require a bunch of players to act in cohesion though, that's the sort of thing that often doesn't end well for new sites, given how common flakers are.

[kousagi]

Yaay! So glad to see interest in this project! <3

So I'm still very on the fence about the overall plot of the site—Katya makes a good point that for a new site, it's often hard to get players to act in cohesion, plus there's real life and all, and if one person important to an overarching plot gets caught up IRL, it could be days before the rest of the group can move forward.

So I'm thinking about something sort of sandbox for now; a setting/world where people can just have their characters interact and stretch their legs. Maybe have some sort of "prompt" every week or month such as, "This week, _____ is happening! How do your characters react to it?" but a little less automated-sounding than that. At some point in the future, I think I'll set up a more major plot that people can sign up for and partake in.

Still trying to decide what era exactly to set this in, the more I think about it the more I like the idea of placing it post-FF7... maybe like Advent Children era. I'll leave this open for the moment for people to suggest the favorite timeline/era in the FF7 series to place this.

[DARKEE]

just let me have redeemer genesis and we'll be alright

i do like the idea of having prompts every week, though. it'll get people involved and give them to make threads about. maybe a good idea would also be to have a mission board? since if it's post-FF7, the turks are still around doing missions and i think WRO was founded as well? idr, but you'd need to have missions for those sorts of groups. having missions for characters that are just adventurers as well are good, stuff that's like "there's a behemoth eating all my chocobos", which anyone can take part in, really.

[HADES | ALONE]

Is it possible to make this an alternate universe yet still be after Meteorfall? I just want to play my awkward klutzy 3rd class SOLDIER who eventually sees a lot of shit and becomes a badass k?

EDIT: also, I never played the game (Was never a huge FF fan since I didn't know the franchises existed until KH1 >>; so I dunno what happened save for AC and DoC. ;c sorry!