Jedi Council OOC planning

okay im curious since im about to bring Sihnyad in as a hopefully major role in Kel's rp proposal. Where and who is the Jedi Council more or less these days?

K....looks like once I get news of this with Sihn that i'll be making contact with you then. You'll likely be on Felucia at that time right?

That does indeed sound like a decent way to start rebuilding the reputation of the Jedi Order as peacekeepers. Were you thinking of doing the reaching out primarily OOC? I was thinking that another idea based on yours, and given that not everyone will necessarily pop into the Jedi OOC planning thread and see what we are thinking, that we could possibly make another thread in the RP planning section (kind of "Want a Jedi or two to help maintain/ restore the peace? Let us know here and we'll send help ASAP!") dedicated to requests for Jedi intervention maybe? As in our leadership could keep an eye on it, use it for "quest giving" at the various academies, and/or individual Jedi could use the thread to find new people/ places to write?


Welcome back Taralorn!

I agree, Rawkill, that devoting a lot of time to debating how an IC council would work usually ultimately comes to nothing, so I would say that rather than trying to figure out a way for it to work we just settle for starting smaller, like with the thread to see about generating peace keeping missions and other "assignments" for people to participate in and also maybe doing some OOC leg work as you suggested to accomplish the same. Maybe, if that does in fact succeed in generating some IC work that would get active Jedi writers out and about and making the Jedi a legitimate "presence" in the Uni, we could then possibly see about making some kind of IC council, if it would even be necessary or wanted.

The idea of a council just never really seems to work out in Uni, so I'm not sure it's really necessary, unless maybe as a kind of background character. Maybe it could be mentioned in RP in a "the council decided x or y or z", or "the council assigned Jedi X to assignment Y", but it would never really need to be interacted with or RPd out IC. We could use the planning thread(s) to hash out what we'd want the council stances or decisions or assignments to be, and then just RP as though they had handed those things down.

As for Taralorn's idea about having a system in place to move things along when people disappear for extended periods of time, I think it's a fantastic idea, and would not even really need to be a GM type situation; I feel pretty sure most writers can always creatively "write" around an absent person without needing to actually write what that missing character did, provided they aren't a central piece of a story (like the "big bad guy"), in which case some other method of moving things along or finding an ending that everyone involved could agree on as how things played out might be needed.

Sounds like a pretty good plan to me.


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I agree, a PC Grand Master has always caused problems.

Part of it is bad history, for sure, and I definitely don't doubt that ego was involved in some past opposition (not in my case, I don't want the role). There's another part of me that wonders why there even is a single Grand Master and why not just let the Council act as a unified body, but I'm sure I'm the only one who feels that way about it.

Another thing I could foresee about a PC Grand Master, even if the intent is just to be the IC figurehead and not the OOC decision-maker, is that that could possibly be putting the character in a tough spot; while other would prefer one event to happen and therefore the "Council" agrees to it, the IC Grand Master may not feel that way and could feel like an out-of-character moment.

These and other reasons are why I feel like we should go with no PC Grand Master, or have one as part of an NPC Council. I'm probably the only one who sees things some of these ways, but that's how I look at it.

The reasons we shouldn't have a Grand Master are simple, really, when you think about it.

Way back when, you had people claiming the title despite being clear and utter Mary Sues who did little - if anything - to really earn it. They'd just show up with their improbable youth and their unparalleled Force power and say they were the head honcho of the Jedi. Even if it was only their particular little sect of Jedi, the fact remained that people that could barely string a sentence together thought themselves on par with folks who could - and really should - be novelists. Like a good deal of things in the early days of JvS, it has something of a history of being something anybody could grab and nobody could really question on account of "limiting creativity". God, it makes me cringe just typing that statement.

But that's not really an issue anymore. Much like the folks causing the ugliness, the primary reasons for the sullying of the Grand Master title have since left, leaving...well, us. We merry few. A good and proper council ruling over a handful of people. Easy to manage? On paper. But then ego gets in the way, and nobody is innocent of that. We simply don't like playing second fiddle to someone else, or losing, or what have you. It'll happen. Maybe not immediately, maybe not even soon, but it will. It always does.

In my mind, I'm thinking an occasional big damn gathering would suit our purposes far better. Like a galactic State of the Union. Or a barbecue. Speech-now-beers-later sort of thing. Have all available Jedi meet up in some big secret location and discuss what needs discussing before acting in the best interest of the galaxy at large.