Important post regarding my planned campaign

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Hey guys, this post is for people interested in my planned virtual tabletop experience that I’ve been working on, the Opal Adventure.

If you aren’t interested then don’t worry about this topic, but if you plan to be a serious participant, then you may wanna read this.

I’m thinking about making it obligatory or at least heavily incentivized to have players custom make their own character sprites for combat. I’m thinking this could be helpful as it would essentially let people have their own little digital figures that we could use to display on battle UIs along with enemies and environments. While this might seem simple, and you only really need to make 1 sprite, I worry about technical issues with some people who don’t have experience with creating a transparent character sprite, or may need guidance, but then again it wouldn’t be that hard to teach, so I believe that overall it’s a good idea to have, it also encourages a factor thats important to the story of my campaign.

TL;DR: players will need to draw their own character sprites, doesn’t have to look amazing, but it’s for functionality/lore purposes.

Tell me what you guys think about this and if it’s a good idea or not

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@Flare read blz

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People about to roast me for my lack of artistic talent

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Google Drawings I choose you!

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Ok dub

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on a scale from stick figure to Mona Lisa how much detail would necessary

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I assume enough detail that your character could be easily distinguished from others

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Just enough to a point where it’s comprehensible and distinguishable

Don’t need to be Da Vinci but don’t make a scribble and tell me that’s a kumuian

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Yeah that’s the main issue I think might come up, the average person doesn’t know what a kumu or prismalgam looks like so mandating too high a level of detail would essentially garuntee an all human cast

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Dw btw I’m gonna make a guidelines post when chapter 0 is ready but for now just as a heads up you guys will most likely need to draw sprites

Tell me if you guys want like DPI or image dimensions

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also another issue

I don’t have any drawing software I just use paper ):

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You cant just boot up like MSpaint?

(Krita is a really good choice since it’s free and I recommend it heavily)

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Yeah Krita is completely free and is amazing for drawing

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I probably could but I’d gotta use a mouse and my dysgraphia is gonna make that a complete pain in the ass to use

also needing drawing software to participate in a forum campaign might restrict the amount of participants kinda heavily

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Can i draw pablo as my character

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Is this really a bad thing tho?

One of the biggest issues I feel like WT had was that there were TONS of people at the beginning and because of that it was pretty difficult to understand what was going on.

Now imagine having like 9+ people in a game with turn based combat where damage calcs exist and sooner or later the turns will feel like eternity

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I will consume you

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I think having drawing as maybe a small barrier to entry is sort of a good thing, just to prevent like player flooding

Again I’m not even asking for anything insane I just want people to have like a little reference for their character for combat and roleplay

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To be honest, most of those people quickly went inactive or left later on

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Yea, but I feel like that kind of was, a little awkward in a way.

It’s overwhelming for a moment and then the next it feels like everyone just deserted their adventures, not necessarily the most ideal situation if ykwim