The LCN Fiction Universe, Collaborative world building Options

[P.P.A.]

It would appear that a lot of us have trouble keeping up motivation while writing fiction of any sort.
From my experience with forum RPs, developing a story or a world together with others is a great boost to productivity and the longevity of a story. If a project falls dormant, sooner or later someone is overcome by a fit of nostalgia and revives it, waking up the others. It can also inspire other things: if one wishes to experiment with a new medium (program a game, draw something, etc.), the scenario of a cherished RP readily lends itself to it—as a setting, as lore, as a rich collection of motifs.

I propose taking a few pages from that book and creating a LCN-own framework for fiction. A universe within or a theme around we all could base our writing and whatever else we feel like. Not exactly collaborative writing (as once proposed here)—just a framework for each of our individual efforts.

This fictional universe of any scale—a world, a geographic area, a shared lore—would be as a skeleton which to flesh out.
It could be the history of a country or region, with a timeline set in stone, noting different cultures, wars, remarkable individuals, none of which would be more than mere dates and names until we wrote their stories.
We could create a map, and gradually draw borders and take a closer look at certain places during certain times, à la Strangereal from Ace Combat. Or do the opposite, outline a story, and in our narrations expand on the lore or focus on side stories off the paths of the protagonists.

Everyone's ideas, expansions, and creations would be adopted into the canon (perhaps after brief discussion), and the others could then incorporate these new facts into our own works.

How do you like this idea? And how restrictive or large-scale do you want this framework to be? Should we try to tell a (his)tory from different perspectives and before different backgrounds? Or rather decide on a few constants (geography, creatures, mechanics) and develop them each, creating distant islands which slowly grow together to a grand whole?
Also, should we start from scratch, abstract from reality (imagine there being an additional continent on our Earth), or seek inspiration from DHE?

[Raijinili]

the chatdusty wants me to post up my thoughts for LCNRPG's resource system.

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every unit in your party uses one of four ways of powering their skills. the way is fixed by the character: unlike class, your character can't change the way they draw power.

each first-tier (base) class can have multiple skill lists, one for each resource.

some second-tier classes can only have certain ways to power their skills. for example, the Scientist class can only use Item to power his skills. so units who don't use Item can't become Scientist. i think BaaSaaKaa can use Magic, Body, and Item, but not Divine.

some other classes use a special resource. death knight uses the power of other units (two targets: reduce stat of one to increase the stat of another, or damage one to heal another, or etc.), and necrobard uses the spirits of the enemies killed.

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by some coincidence, each resource i thought up corresponds to a riviera character, thematically.

Body, Chi, Inner power (Serene): Uses HP to power skills. if healing is a thing, this should lower the max HP.

Magic, Nature (Cierra): Uses energy of the surroundings. The more ambient energy around you, the more you use, and the more powerful the skill is. But the energy used by the skill is drawn from the environment, so there will be less of it for next time.

This is the only system that has variable effect and cost.

Divine, favor (Fia): Uses the favor of whatever deities the unit worships. The worship system is kind of complex. There are many deities, and they don't necessarily like each other. You have to gain favor from deities by acting the way they want to act (possibly by things like Super Smash Bros. bonuses for "Not doing damage" and stuff), or by giving material offerings to the deities. Use of favor will reduce it, of course.

The divine enmity between deities (which may be one-way in some cases) means that giving favor to one will reduce favor with another. For example, the Absolute (the analog to the Christian monotheistic omniscient omnipotent god) will lose all favor if you offer anything to another.

Each deity gives different abilities to a class, which is why you would want to choose one over another, or have a whole group. This fragments skill lists even more. I guess this is like the D&D cleric's system, but I didn't know about that at the time.

Material, item (Lina): Uses physical matter to power skills. For example, the Scientist class (earned from Ashton) can throw Monster Capture Devices (>.>).