I'd just like to point out that the Alliance is still around and while you haven't seen much IC from us in a while, we're still plotting our petty plots and scheming out petty schemes.

Hmmmm, so many choices.

Admittedly I've never really seen through a force user to any real foundation. A Sith might actually be interesting to play through if anything else to play something I haven't really done before.

We've done growed up. We ain't sayin' that we be playin' no mo'. We done becomes writers.

Well I could enjoy writing the perspective of a dark sider force user. :p

The trick now is actually getting into contact with an active Sith to see if I can manage that.

There's myself; Lord Silk.

Vance is around.

I'm sure there are others but my mind is a blank drawing. Page.

Sheet.

Fail.

Epic.

So then, how should I go about this? I have a character that I fell of out using who had started learning to use the force. But then I tugged him from the Sith to sit in the Union for a time being.

But since that's imploded I imagine I could have that character resurface. Would that sound viable? Don't think he's seen the light of day for a good five years.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this.

The way TRF has been going these past years is, less of a competitive environment, and more of a kind of co-operative feel.

What I mean by this is, if we are in a situation where a person cannot move on or forward with a character (in this case a force-using Sith) because there are no other 'higher-ranked' Sith active or present at TRF, then something needs to change.

I think its only common sense to say to the active person; Sure okay, we'll let you RP your own way. If you want to RP as a force-using Knight, apprentice, master, etc, whatever, it makes no real difference to me.

As long as the rule of common sense is followed, I personally feel (and this is just that , a personal opinion, not the staff as a whole) there is nothing wrong with it, in fact in light of present circumstances, it may well be necessary.

You are a well known member, and I think its more than fair to say you are trustworthy enough to create a force-using character of sufficient rank to be of use in a relevant story or RP.

I personally feel you are trustworthy enough to not go around god-moding, or exploiting this, and would be willing to just say, go for it.

Estro's situation aside for a moment, I think this is something that needs to be addressed, IMO.

Speaking as a member of the Force Council, I'd like to point out that over the past few years TRF has slowly moved away from the hard rule of 'if you're new to the Force, you need a Knight-level or higher to teach you'. If the character development is there, if you have the experience, if it makes sense for the character, then we won't keep you down just because there's a shortage of PC Sith Masters on the loose.

I don't know if I would go so far as to say we've gotten to the point where we would feel comfortable abolishing the development process, however. Writing the Force responsibly is a difficult task, something many of us (myself foremost) still have not mastered. Personally, I think that the time you spend developing a character, developing their training in the art, serves to broaden your understanding of the Force as a literary device to be wielded as something to enrich a story, not a tool to get your way.

That being said, I know I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here. You're just thinking about the possibility of a Sith character and I already appear to be jumping down your throat about the dangers of writing the Force irresponsibly. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't let precedents from the past dissuade you from pursuing something you'd like to write about. We'll find a way to help make it work for you as best we can. But be aware that there are guidelines in place, and while we're pretty flexible with them, if we see them broken we will end you.

Have a nice day!

I'm well aware of the dangers of going too far with Force use. For example, what not to do generally is anything Lucas Arts cranks out currently such as Force Unleashed. I can't even begin to lay out the sheer rage at how overpowered they made the character especially in the sequel. At least that's how I viewed it, generally as a lesson of how not to pursue use of the Force.

But I am going to go through with this character so I have something to do and its an area I want to explore more.

So my only real question is where will he stand? If I have to slog through apprentice level upwards, that's fine. I'm just going to have to figure out how to do that since it sounds like I'm going to have to do this on my own. So I suppose its up to the powers that be to come to consensus on what's to happen before I can start writing so I know how to start plotting out the character.

Well, I am more then willing to, if such meets your fancy, break the "plot" of my ongoing "Cathartic Pilgrim" thread to include you if you'd like to have another writer to work with. Of course, as Zark and others said (and will say) you're more then welcome to make your own way in self directed threads. If Xoverus agrees and we are able to find a way to include you; I can't see it being a problem.

Xoverus?

You can really, pretty much do whatever you want to do. You're a trusted member of the community and we (the Staff and Force Council) will step in if the situation demands... which it clearly won't, so...

Go for broke.

Like I said, I'd enjoy working with you (you know me better as Beff Pike) and think we could come up with some fun stuff but you are by no means obligated to work with anyone if you prefer your own, self sustained writing.

And so on and so on.

Also, TFU and TFU2 were awesome. Anyone who says otherwise will be most brutally abused. Even if it sucked, and I'm not saying it did (or didn't), I simply won't hear (or read) of it (or about it)!