Opinions on roleplay forum idea

[dungeoneer]

Can you give me your honest opinions about this idea? I know it's pretty bare bone aside from the demon lord and dungeon concepts at the moment.


The idea is a lot like Dragon Quest, and early Final Fantasy with some twists to it. It's a Dungeon Diver roleplay site where roleplayers play as the Dungeon Lords dubbed Demon Lords by humanity and themselves. You the roleplayer have the chance to roleplay as one of the Demon Lords, one of their Monsters, an Adventurer, a Knight, or even just a simple town member.

Demon Lords do not start out as the OP bosses that they are in games. They start with no dungeon and have to build it up from the ground up using their resources and mind. They must draw adventurers to their dungeon by bribing them with monsters to kill and treasure to kill and plunder for better weaponry/armor, and to level up.

Demon Lords also get something out of this, the longer that they keep adventurers and others in their dungeons the more Dungeon Points they earn to upgrade their dungeons and purchase more monsters.

The Demon Lords' most valuable possession is their dungeon core. Once broken, the Demon Lord dies, and the dungeon collapses. The dungeon core is a gem of immense value. Once destroyed, the Adventurer, Knight, or Demon Lord that destroyed the dungeon core gains an immense level up.

For Demon Lords however, if they were to break the dungeon core of another Demon Lord, they're able to create the medals that the now dead Demon Lord could make. Medals are special items that Demon Lords can make once per week to create monsters with for free. Normally Monsters cost Dungeon Points to make, but with two to four medals, the monster is completely free. The Medals need to be of different attributes, like S-ranked Darkness, B-ranked Human, and A-ranked Death, could create an Ancient Lich an S-ranked Monster.

In order to gain medals of a different attribute, a Demon Lord must either trade for the original medal of another demon lord, start with 3 fake medals with their original medal, or destroy the dungeon core of another Demon Lord. Fake medals cost DP to create and are of a rank lower than what the normal rank would be.

In order to attack another dungeon, a Demon Lord must declare war upon that dungeon, the other Demon Lord can either accept the war, give an original medal to the other Demon Lord, or try to satisfy the Demon Lord with a bunch of monsters.




Demon Lord Perks
Near Immortality
Level Up very quickly
Can gain armies of followers

Demon Lord Disadvantages
Humans can band together to destroy a Demon Lord with armies if they continuously attack towns
Other Demon Lords are Enemies
Must protect defenseless object or die

Monster Perks
Can start at a high level
Stronger than humans usually
Near Immortality

Monster Disadvantages
Must obey Demon Lord
Static Level(meaning can start high level, but can only level up 10-20 times before cannot level anymore)
Disposable

Adventurer Perks
Knowledge of Dungeon Layouts from Older Adventurers
Level Up quickly
Stronger than most Humans

Adventurer Disadvantages
Mortal
Needs parties to clear dungeons
Weakens with Age

Knight Perks
Is in an Army
Level up very quickly
Very good starting equipment

Knight Disadvantages
Can be overlooked for promotions
Must obey superiors
Mortal
Weakens with Age


Other than this, I have other things planned like titles for doing things like killing a high ranking undead would give the Immortal Killer title which grants bonus stats, Dungeon Conqueror which grants prestige/infamy, skills, magic, events, storylines, and a lot mor

[Kami]

I think that this is a very ambitious idea, which while interesting will be difficult to pull off and maintain a power balance between players.

While it's not impossible to regulate i think it will have difficulty getting off the ground if you regulate it too much, but then suffer with inactivity if people are given the inherent ability to have powers that can disregard the actions of other players.

Take for instance Demon Lords: their weakness requires people who play humans to band together and form an army. as a playable class that means that they are inherently superior to literally HUNDREDS of players at a time.

A. why would anyone want to be a human if this is the case?
B. why bother challenging demon lords?

Just some food for thought

[dungeoneer]

Demon Lords can be taken down by lone heroes, and parties of adventurers. That was an scenario in which the Demon Lord is a complete idiot and keeps attacking towns around their dungeons.

Adventurers due to them being humans and other non-immortal races will level up extremely fast.

When humans band together like that, nothing will stop them, yes the attacks will allow Demon Lords to level up extremely quickly(faster than normal), BUT by doing so will put a huge target on their back and will make the humans band together with only one goal: The complete annihilation of the Demon Lord.

Just edited the idea due to me forgetting to add that in.

All it really takes is a high level stealth oriented player to bypass all the monsters and traps, and destroy the dungeon core.

[Kami]

Mm that's fair.

I still think though that this type of game while suited for tabletops and such will have a difficult time getting off the ground as an RP forum, especially with an original setting.

I don't want to discourage you, as I'm a firm believer of "if you build it they will come", just be sure to make sure that you include ways for the balance of power to be equal because this will be a definite uphill battle for participation and membership (:

[Former Member]

If your looking for any sort of advice on RP or even (JRP) games. Kami is the best person to ask.

Personally, I dunno. I see those types of forums as offering some sort game play(2d or otherwise)

Even if you cannot provide such gameplay, the lore must be good enough for people to be interested!