Help with Plotting

JasRonq · 2008-11-23T16:04:47

I am attempting to create an RPG. Ideas for game mechanics, setting, world building in general all come fairly easily to me. What doesn't is plot. I need some help. I feel like if I can get a good plot idea fleshed out, I can fill out the rest of the story circle, but my attempts so far to build a world and fit a plot into it are dissatisfying at the least. The idea I have so far (very very rough) is that the player is in some area such as a school, or temple or some such, but a magically inclined place. A Rogue Meanie opens a portal into the Nasty People world where all sorts of monsters pour out. The place the player is is quarantined with huge magic walls. The player is trapped and must defeat monsters and close the portal to lift the quarantine to get on with his life. There is obviously room for lots of extension here, such as the Rogue Meanie opening subsequent portals leading the player on a merry chase to go kill him. I'm looking for advise on where to go with this kernel of an idea, and I also need a question answered. Why did he do it? Why did the Rogue Meanie open the Mean People portal? (please, dont just call him evil, I need to find his motivation here.) [Edited by - JasRonq on August 12, 2008 11:43:37 PM]