Yeah, I definitely think one chat with multiple channels would be the most accessible. A channel dedicated to status updates sounds pretty cool too.
Actually, if the Discord is mostly a supplement to what occurs in-character, you could always apply its uses to the out-of-character thread unless exploration in real time to you is part of the main appeal. But few roleplays utilize their OOCs (aside from muk-posting, nahaha) and you could be the first!
Regarding a chat room or otherwise, I have two suggestions for balancing floor-exploration opps and lowering the chance of any stress that could come from "claiming." The first: requiring an in-character post every 1-2 rooms before being able to enter a different one or different
ones. In the case this becomes tedious, my second idea: you could take a boardgame-y approach where a player rolls a die to determine how many rooms they visit on one floor beforehand.
I also have a question on the knights and
their kingdoms. Are they initially from the preexisting ones; were they knighted by the corresponding ruler(s)? Have they founded their
own kingdoms prior to saving princesses, or do they, by becoming associated with a kingdom/marrying a princess of a kingdom, become a ruler of the preexisting ones?
Aaand one more, probably an obvious one: The princesses our knights find are up to you/"chance," right?
Just so I don't get too attached, okay
Anywho, any updates on the mechanics or other details, I'm excited to see. With cute girls, you can do no wrong. I can't remember where I heard of 'Tower Girls' before, but a fan-roleplay adaptation will be equally as fun, I'm sure!
I'll tackle these I order.
I think most people have more or less moved on from the ooc threads besides character creation and pinging people so I would rather use discord for it and just use the ooc as another way to ping and update people's stats and princesses and etc, if for whatever reason discord magically falls apart our progress will be saved in another place as well. I do think the somewhat real-time exploration of the dungeons are a bigger part of the draw, since it is something different from people are used to, making it slightly more interesting in a mechanics sense.
I was thinking about putting a 2-3 room limit between posts. If you want to post about every room, more power to you, but there'll be a requirement of 2-3 rooms per post depending on the contents of each. And once you have some princesses under your belt, you might even have some rest posts where you simply explore your relationships with each. Also, the order that characters enter the dungeon and each floor will be dependant upon both their strength, current inventory, number of rooms previously explored and the number of princesses you have. That way, it's not exactly all up to chance on who gets to explore each floor first, nor will it always fall onto one peraon, unless they're extremely un/lucky, depending how you want to look at it.
Once the ooc goes up, I'll tell about the kingdom's you might hail from. They'll all have been destroyed by the start of the op though, and you'll be rescuing the princesses to claim the right to build your own kingdom basically. Amd dpnt feel the need to tie yourself down to only one princess ;) some of them will be more than happy to share
More or less yes. There might be items available eventually to help get the one you really want, or like I said earlier I might allow for custom princesses eventually once you get a certain number of your own.
If you go onto 4chan.org/tg you'll more than likely find at least one thread at any time dedicated to towergirls. And since tg is more or less sfw barring a few instances, you don't have to worry about scarring your eyes or those of others.
Hope everything made sense since I'm at work typing on my phone haha.