shaderic Wrote:Actually, I think that the Boskone war was a good idea.
Sure, there are elements that might not really make sense, but it creates relatively straightforward good guy against the bad guys direct conflict. It's the darker part of the playground, to be sure, but it's hard to have a hero without a villain sometimes.
That was the intent of the thing, yeah. The problem is - and I'm not talking about dark or light or anything on a thematic level here, this is strict pragmatic planning - when we set up the whole Boskone War thing I had no idea where this was going to go. None at all. Fenspace at that point was literally rudderless; I was at best barely in charge because it was my idea, and for the most part it was just a freeform RP thread with nobody providing direction. As a result things went flying all over the place and by the time we'd decided that we needed a Fun Tyrant to ride herd... well, it was too late to change without ripping out most everything and restarting, and nobody wanted to go there.
IMO the Boskone War arc was a general failure not because it was dark or violent, it failed because I failed. I didn't give the team a proper antagonist to fight against and as a result we ended up with a confused, murky muddle of a conflict that nobody really wanted to do anything with but we were stuck with.
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