Long term project support / DM involvement request.

Summary:
We request to be able to send many screenshots of roleplay to a nominated dm, preferably yossarin or bobo_underhill as it pertains to their background knowledge. This roleplay would all be pertinent to a single larger social work project.

The social work project would foster constantly accessible non-combat oriented roleplay available in the taverns of Cordor. This request considers the existing barriers to such occurring and proposes solutions.


Background:

I am the player of Renais Whiteheart, who heads a group of Lathanderan adventurers. As we all know, the Baneite church is coming along strong – kudos to the Baneite co-ordinators, creating lots of fun roleplay for us.

We good little Lathanderans have the theory that Banite worship depends on fear of Bane. Furthermore we believe dictators like the Baneite church rely on a divide and conquer approach to take over Amia.

Our logical deduction is that Lathander would direct us to use our creativity to build binding communities. This would prevent the divide and conquer method from being effective, and the common forum bound together by love of artwork, music, free thought, spirituality and free expression could create a space where it was hard to believe Bane cannot be opposed.

This can all be done without DM involvement; we do so with adventurers at present.

The thought came up… performing to adventurers would only improve the quality of life of adventurers. A real effort for the greater good of Amia, would open a joyous, protective, nurturing community to the common people of Amia. This request explores the feasibility of working for the common folk. Is there a way to bring them to life.

As a sidenote, we refer to previous forum posts by other players suggesting how tavern roleplay might be fostered on Amia. This proposal will help to foster such roleplay.

The obstacle:

No player can log in 24 hours a day, or spend all their time online roleplaying with empty air in a tavern with no PC’s or dms to animate the place.

It would be a lot of work for DMs to regularly observe small roleplay sessions which may involve few players. Consequently the project cannot rely on waiting for a dm to supervise each performance, yet the fact it occurred needs to be noted.


Proposed solution:

We request a DM take the role of receiver for screenshots of roleplayed performances in taverns. I propose Yossarin, as its Cordor – related role play, or Bobo_underhil, as he is informed of dawnguard activity. If a DM accepts the role - hereby refer to this DM as “the receiver” as they are receiving the stream of screenshots – we hope we might keep them informed of all activity occuring in regards to this project, putting them in control of any outcomes due to the project.

This allows our PC’s to perform music or poetry in taverns even when no adventurers are present. Hopefully we can even do so when no DM’s are present, constantly performing positive works promoting hope in these taverns. It means that if the random Cordor adventurers who would otherwise be the audience happen to be trouble makers or shady characters, it’s still possible to make a performance to the NPC’s. Basically singing to the air, taking screenshots, and sending them to the receiver DM.


Over time, if the reciever DM supports our efforts and the quality of the screenshot-reported output, we might organize scheduling DM-supported performances in taverns, where it could turn into a little DM event where Dawnguard PC’s could enjoy mixing with the common people of Cordor for a short scene, as a reward for the investiture of their work.


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SIDE NOTE

We note that west cordor recently underwent a massive attack, and people would still be displaced after that event. We should have engaged in aid efforts immediately, but better late than never.

We would like to offer payment to the cordor taverns “long and short” and “nomad”, to subsidize those taverns supplying free beds and meals to displaced persons due to the west cordor attack.

So far, so simple. We can ask a dm to roleplay those NPC’s and they will accept or reject our offer based on roleplay.

Since both projects occur in the taverns the effects may well interrelate.
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As an aside, you could easily put things like this in the PC Stories section.

It would be a little less complex and convoluted than sending all the screenshots to a specific DM.

By putting it in the stories section, you allow all PC's to participate (watching the performances, providing feedback, etc) as well as all DM's to watch the RP and see what happens.

This is not to dissuade in-game roleplay; however, if you feel serious about this project/venture, I highly encourage you to bring it to the forums to compensate for timezone differences, play-styles, and general absences due to being uninformed.

If anything, I don't see why not start an IC thread there, summarizing your RP that you did in-game as well as screenshots of your chat log and performance(s). I don't mean to butt into your thread but I thought it might be a useful suggestion. If you like, I can delete this post or have it deleted.