Well, I still don't really see what needs to be solved. In the IC world, Aragog would have vanished no differently than the dozens of characters before her, and no differently than the dozens of characters that will inevitably follow.eirikeld wrote:I would have to disagree. This would actually do nothing to solve the point of this thread in the first place.
Well, my original idea was actually that players would submit stories and wizards would handpick which ones would be added. I had hoped that players would not put 'bad' stories in, but I guess it's something that should be expected.Secondly, I can see a few bad scenarios commonly coming from this, such as:
Some random idiot newbie approaches story teller, feeds in a completely bogus story that makes them sound invincible, and is horribly unbelievable ...or...
Some random character approaches story teller, and feeds in a story that slanders some other random character whom they do not like. ...so...
If such a story teller were in place, I would recommend they be fed stories by the wizards, as submitted by creative players.
In the event that they would be handpicked by wizards, we probably wouldn't have to worry about prerequisites- wizards would know which stories are worth telling and which aren't.Further, I would recommend that IF it involved characters, as opposed to personages like Vlad, Magnus, etc. that the person be notable in one or more of the following ways: Above a certain very high experience level, head of a guild, past or present judge of a city, or some other way.
Poldark would actually be a good NPC for storytelling. Besides him, an elderly wandering scholar could be another idea, perhaps, wandering to and from the libraries of the three main cities (Underground, Elvandar, Arborea).Instead, I would much rather someone like Poldark in the Cumberly pub, telling stories in a similar fashion. Maybe make them a wandering NPC in one or more cities, like Gerrit. Maybe have this person haunt one or more libraries. As it is, the Underground's library is stiller than a grave yard.