Hero needs villains!

[GM-Ayu]

>_> Don't single out any real player as "villain material" ever again... label sticks far beyond just RP or playing once you make it official in any form. Even having players (nobles) in last year's experimental run on the good side caused plenty of trouble, so until we have a better Story Manager, I doubt that we'll have player-centric approaches again.

It's not about making someone who doesn't mind being villain OR a hero so the "mistake to be learned" is to find someone who doesn't mind. Rather, the simple existence of them that's capable of having any effects that will actually matter will affect the whole server, and more often than not, players are easily offended by something they see even if they are not involved directly (most of the time, it's issues with "disturbingly inappropriate and unprofessional GM behaviors".)

I'm personally more aligned to the "RP Server's type of GM" in thinking of the story... since my RP experience is for table tops where one wrong move will definitely prompt the GM to kill off your characters permanently without hesitance. In here, even 1% exp loss can result in end of the world.

RO is a game about maximizing gain by minimizing time spent. A story usually does the opposite, as they use as much time as necessary to get a point across, while the drops aren't necessarily any good.