Re: Thoughts of an Ikki Tousen RP
While they will most likely be too OP for low raning starting players, I think it would be interesting for people to be able to interact with the main cast at one point. So I probably will include them. As has been stated it would be rather discouraging for players backgrounds to dominate their roleplaying rather then make their own stories.
But I was originally meaning for this to be an Ikki Toussen RP, which features dominantly Rot3K. However unless I allow people to play canon characters, it really makes it hard for people to be able to play. So I suppose you can make characters based on other historical figures from Japan or mythology as well as the rest of the world. Just try to kepp them fitting to the Ikki Tousen universe, I guess.
Not to interfere with your ideas again. But ever play Dynasty Warriors?
Although most of the fights are setup in a way that certain events are going to take place, certain generals are put into obvious slaughter situations, different stages are designed for you to have easier times going after story-accurate enemies instead of branching off on your own, etc.
The game eventually boils down to whipping out whoever you like and kicking ass until you conquer all of china (with the story mode kinda pretending that that's not what you're doing, and there's actually more going on in the background).
If you really wanted to keep everything Rot3K, you could simply take this approach. Characters are not limited by their history (for whatever reason YOU decide), and the main cast is NPCed (or approved by you to be PCed).
The biggest problem with using Rot3K and characters from the series exclusively, is that a large number of major characters are already off the market, and unless you're INSANELY familiar with Rot3K, it becomes impossible to figure out who you're trying to use to match with your original character.
... Quite honestly, I've already given serious thought to simply stepping back from the RP entirely if I have to dredge around through the wiki to try to figure out what character is in my little gem.