Why I am hesitant to include the OP / others in the Islands/Archipelago: Gold Roger, One Piece itself, Trash Mountain/World Gov, and the not-executions.
One of the biggest parts of Smoker, and the pirates' pasts, is that Gold Roger was publicly executed in Smoker's hometown, which we figured a way to do without execution, but the chain of events Roger set off, including influencing Smoker, Luffy, Shanks, and the reason Ace's birth had to be kept somewhat secret require existence.
A lot of the characters have a specific Western theme & almost all of them are wanderers who met by wandering/getting lost.
^ All of which works with the islands, but, Trash Mountain and certain other regions are either completely flattened, or burned by humans/bandits. <- Even switching that to Pokemon, the other problem is that travel has to be enabled between regional parts so a single island wouldn't work, but the other islands would have to be disconnected? And even though the other islands would know the general "destroyed a lot" they wouldn't have heard of Roger or certain other cultural aspects which makes it fall apart. On top of which, some of the regions require specific desert/volcano/ice/mountain themes which gets ungodly expansive when making it different islands instead of just an unreachable (by Union) land region.
+ Most of the One Piece cast can't swim/handle water, and there's a huge fire theme for a lot of the characters. <- Which I guess could work for volcanic islands vs. fish-shifter/water specialist islands, BUT it would again require more specialization of lots of islands, and division of areas instead of inclusion, and then exceptionalism of some islands (ie: "THIS island is ~special~") which I'm personally not comfortable with, but others might also have a problem playing against and/or dealing with in comparison to the other islands. Especially since I don't want any of the already existing islands to feel lessened. -- Although I do realize the irony in asking for an exception in creating another region heh.
From the other prospective player: "Even among the lead cast, no one comes from the same island [in One Piece] and none of them share backstories, they're only connected through their present situations, so while we understand that you can't make regions for all the players, we're just stating we're having trouble trying to tie together all the dispirate parts in a small area that no one else has ever heard of."
For what it's worth, we wish to keep 90%+ as vague as possible so that non-OP characters can also use it; which is another reason why we wanted the ability for a wide variety of terrain.
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One of the biggest parts of Smoker, and the pirates' pasts, is that Gold Roger was publicly executed in Smoker's hometown, which we figured a way to do without execution, but the chain of events Roger set off, including influencing Smoker, Luffy, Shanks, and the reason Ace's birth had to be kept somewhat secret require existence.
A lot of the characters have a specific Western theme & almost all of them are wanderers who met by wandering/getting lost.
^ All of which works with the islands, but, Trash Mountain and certain other regions are either completely flattened, or burned by humans/bandits. <- Even switching that to Pokemon, the other problem is that travel has to be enabled between regional parts so a single island wouldn't work, but the other islands would have to be disconnected? And even though the other islands would know the general "destroyed a lot" they wouldn't have heard of Roger or certain other cultural aspects which makes it fall apart. On top of which, some of the regions require specific desert/volcano/ice/mountain themes which gets ungodly expansive when making it different islands instead of just an unreachable (by Union) land region.
+ Most of the One Piece cast can't swim/handle water, and there's a huge fire theme for a lot of the characters. <- Which I guess could work for volcanic islands vs. fish-shifter/water specialist islands, BUT it would again require more specialization of lots of islands, and division of areas instead of inclusion, and then exceptionalism of some islands (ie: "THIS island is ~special~") which I'm personally not comfortable with, but others might also have a problem playing against and/or dealing with in comparison to the other islands. Especially since I don't want any of the already existing islands to feel lessened. -- Although I do realize the irony in asking for an exception in creating another region heh.
From the other prospective player: "Even among the lead cast, no one comes from the same island [in One Piece] and none of them share backstories, they're only connected through their present situations, so while we understand that you can't make regions for all the players, we're just stating we're having trouble trying to tie together all the dispirate parts in a small area that no one else has ever heard of."
For what it's worth, we wish to keep 90%+ as vague as possible so that non-OP characters can also use it; which is another reason why we wanted the ability for a wide variety of terrain.