Bald -I mean Bold- New Ideas

A friend of mine was kind enough to loan me several copies of Flashpoint a few weeks ago since I can't get a ride to the nearest comic store (which is halfway across town for me). And as a lover of comics I read them gleefully. I read issues such as; Citizen Cold, Batman: Knight of Vengeance, Abin Sur - Green Lantern, and the sort. As I eagerly skimmed the pages, I realized that we, the RPGers of Comicvine, could take inspiration at these comics.
 
ComicVine has been suffering from people losing creativity and inspiration for plots. To fix this, people attempt grand scale stories that fall short because it gets overwhelming way too quickly and it turns into a huge, senseless clutter, sending everyone into confusion because no one knows who should post next. Why don't we take a lesson from these comic books? Instead of having one huge, unsuccessful RPG after another, we could have one event but several different RPGs spawn from one main storyline. Just like the Flashpoint comics, you can fallow the main storyline as well as get a glimpse how someone else may handle the situation. 
 
For example; lets say that I want Patrick to run for President and it is the next big story on the Vine. I could do the main storyline where we go through the process and some heroes try to stop me while, lets say, a few of my villainous friends may do RPGs themselves where they try to 'persuade' the other candidates to drop out and some hero swoops in to foil their schemes. See, two birds with one stone. We get a large event going but we keep it clean and simple while other RPGs based on that one main event branch off into their own stories. Of course, communication will be key because an action in the main or side stories can impact the other in a big way but that is what the OOC thread is for. Would this be something we the RPGers of ComicVine would like to try out? Do you see any flaws in the idea or does it seem unnecessary? Well post comments, concerns, or questions down below and we'll try to sort it out. Compliments are encouraged to make me feel better and criticism is frowned upon because it makes me cry at night.

I've been asking for this forever! 
 
But people ignore me -______-

Great idea but it rarely works, people are very attached to their worlds!

I do think the vine needs an injection of joy around the RPG section though.

So far, everyone is saying that this is a step forward, even if there are a few problems. We should give this a go, to see how it fares on the Vine. For all we know, this could work with no problems or it can be chalk full of them. If someone has a board-wide plot that they want to begin or notices one occurring, pm me so I can help work things out. Bonus points if you compliment my bald head while you are at it.

@Back: Hey man, I REALLY hate to burst your bubble but Slight and I have been planning a presidential election for MONTHS.

We've been working extremely hard on it, and I know that if it fell through I would actually cry. I haven't put so much prep time into anything for a long while, and it was supposed to be my jump back into major RPGing.

@Morgaine_de_Bourbon said:

@Icarusflies said:

@Back: Hey man, I REALLY hate to burst your bubble but Slight and I have been planning a presidential election for MONTHS.

We've been working extremely hard on it, and I know that if it fell through I would actually cry. I haven't put so much prep time into anything for a long while, and it was supposed to be my jump back into major RPGing.

He said it was an example ;) And I'm pretty sure that Arrow's currently President.

Arrow stepped down and said that our election RPG could go through.

Don't you think 'planning for months' included making sure of things like that?' xP

While I do like the idea and I've been trying to figure out why nobody tried it earlier, I don't think it would work here. You've got so many different people with so many different pasts and so many interactions, it would be difficult for ANYBODY to properly communicate. IF we were to try something like this... I'd say we retcon the majority of vine history and start anew so we can have an official set of events that happened. I would also like it if everybody interacted in these RPs instead of most RPs just taking place between "clicks". It makes it hard for people to join in when it's all about clicks.

@Morgaine_de_Bourbon said:

@Back said:

@Eternal Chaos: Are you suggesting a reboot? It would definitely be interesting. We could have our own 52.

I can tell you right now that that's not gonna work out.

Normally I would agree, but…I think a reboot would actually be kinda good right now.

@Morgaine_de_Bourbon: My alternate versions are totally unhelpful in that they're alternate versions and I don't want them mixing with my characters. -_-

It's not that hard to get everyone on board, we just have to send PMs to everyone and there aren't really all that many RPGers anyway.

@Eternal Chaos said:

@Icarusflies:@Morgaine_de_Bourbon: Almost nobody would be on board with it. I'd be on board with it because my characters are flexible enough and not massive parts of the RP scene. I do however feel we can remedy these issues by breaking a lot of the "click" rps I was mentioning. That would serve a purpose and help get more members of the community involved in vine stuff as opposed to just their own little things.

And I might just 'roll back' my characters' histories anyway. Wouldn't be very hard, and I could make it canon without any trouble.

I would also like to take some adventures -mainly those that were never finished- and pretend they never happened. We should aim for something completely optional for people but those who side with it are given a second chance to fix up their characters and history.

@_Marco_Smith_: Not in a sexual manner...

 
@Eternal Chaos: Yes and no. It's an issue that's been addressed before. 

What if we all did separate continuities...I think rpgs would be fun if we stopped worrying about what other people are doing