How to best RP out an IC goal for an orphanage?

[UilliamNebel]

I want to IC pursue a long term goal of establishing a Druidic orphanage on Arelith island, likely in Guldorand, or DarkHeart.

What are some steps to be taken IC?

Was thinking it would be best to seek out other players the would share the idea IC. And to also keep track of the RP and such. But beyond RPing it, gathering materials, talking to important PCs and NPCs on this. What are some other considerations to think on?

Can also accept if off the bat the idea of making an actual orphanage in game somewhere is just not possible, or feasible. But just wanted something as a long term goal IC my character can be pursuing.

[Baron Saturday]

An orphanage is tricky, because there's no child PCs, and getting child npcs would require builder intervention, which is generally unlikely for this style of project. This ultimately means that you, and anyone who joined you, would be rping around the existence of npcs that aren't there, which kinda breaks the whole "what you see is what you get" concept.

[xanrael]

As you mentioned druid, might be easier to RP around the idea of a wildlife preserve where you raise baby/young animals whose homes were destroyed by errant fireballs or over-hunting and prepare them to live on their own. Easy enough to collect the NPCs with Animal Empathy as well.

Also removes a bit of the narrative backlash if someone enters conflict with you as while some people might be like "aw Bambi" other people may think "I wonder what the equivalent of 'veal' is for fawns?" And keep in mind that no RP is sacrosanct, you're giving permission for others to participate in the RP but they choose how they do so. And if my earlier statement makes you uncomfortable and thinking "yeah, that's not something I want to deal with" then keep it in mind for any planning.

[Curve]

I agree with both of the posters above. Ask yourself how you will bring your idea to other characters, and how those characters will interact with it. In this case the thing you would be building could never be interacted with in the real.

If you really want to explore the concept a better way to do it would be to have the orphanage off Arelith, on the mainland. Have your character tell people that you are sending all your gold to build this place for X reasons. This way you get an excuse to go out and do stuff, earn gold and such. You could even take the concept for a walk and play an evil character who is willing to murder and steal to fund this orphanage.

[chris a gogo]

Honestly i think it would be a great plot arc for an evil druid to set up a children's home in the middle of a jungle full of deadly snakes and tigers, it's like your feeding the wildlife under the guise of doing "good".

But as others have already said it's kind of hard to do as it would have no support and the RP around against such could be rather on the 18 certificate than PG.

[Irongron]

An orphanage is tricky, because there's no child PCs, and getting child npcs would require builder intervention, which is generally unlikely for this style of project. This ultimately means that you, and anyone who joined you, would be rping around the existence of npcs that aren't there, which kinda breaks the whole "what you see is what you get" concept.

I can only echo this, I would strongly advise to avoid any avenues of roleplay that directly involves children. Arelith is a highly dangerous/violent 'sword and sorcery' setting, and this may well place characters in uncomfortable situations. By all means talk about how your character aids needy orphans with their spare gold, or has children, etc, but it should always be something that happens entirely off-screen, and should not ideally be the primary focus of one's narrative.

[The GrumpyCat]

What Irongron and the others just said. That said - to adress the question at hand:

I want to IC pursue a long term goal of establishing a Druidic orphanage on Arelith island, likely in Guldorand, or DarkHeart.

What are some steps to be taken IC?

Well the first thing to do is surely to kill enough parents, right?

[Good Character]

How about raising some treants? Sounds like that could be groovy.

[The GrumpyCat]

Sounds a bit sappy to me.

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[godhand-]

Sounds a bit sappy to me.

badumtish

[Watchful Glare]

What Irongron and the others just said. That said - to adress the question at hand:

I want to IC pursue a long term goal of establishing a Druidic orphanage on Arelith island, likely in Guldorand, or DarkHeart.

What are some steps to be taken IC?

Well the first thing to do is surely to kill enough parents, right?

This made me laugh a lot, thank you

[LasharaDyran]

Well the first thing to do is surely to kill enough parents, right?

And with a few small words we are that much closer to figuring out GC's alignment.

[Curve]

GC's alignment.

NG

[Seven Sons of Sin]

There are some stories that can't be told on Arelith - this is probably one of them.

Play to the strengths of the server. We often think of characters and try to make them 'fit', rather than look to the environment of the server to capitalize on what is already there.