The flag of Rubat, a kingdom torn by power - made on Photoshop
Le Trône des Sables (The Throne of Sands) is a roleplaying-focused discord server wich I created in 2020 and have been running for four years.
It is a place where dozens of people regularly gather to experience and write the adventures of fictional characters within a fantastical Egyptian universe born of my imagination.
Skills
• World Design and Building
• Narrative Design
• Community Administration
• Narrative Design
• Community Administration
Passionate about creation and imagination in all forms, I created a virtual role-playing game on Discord in 2020, set in a world of Egyptian Fantasy. This idea came to me during the first lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which prevented my friends and I from meeting up for tabletop role-playing games.
Willing to recapture the sense of immersion and storytelling of traditional role-playing games, I developed this online community structure based on Discord. The goal was to bring together role-players isolated by the lockdown, offering them a new way to experience role-playing games within a fresh universe.
An example of roleplay between two players, with their respective characters.
Roleplays are written in the form of messages that follow each other chronologically, and where each responds to the actions of the other.
Le Trône des Sables has purely narrative-based interactions, wich means that their are no extradiegetic mechanics as in regular tabletop rpg (such as character statistics or combat systems).
Yet, there are rules over what players are allowed to do with their characters and actions to balance out the game, and most importantly, story-level systems such as elections, laws, secrets, magic systems... wich are designed to give to players a strong agency over the destiny of Rubat.
The Throne of Sands tells the story of the kingdom of Rubat, a monarchy on the brink of civil war after the assassination of its Pharaoh, Osman II.
Numerous factions are seeking control of the throne, creating a role playing environment rich in conflict and drama. Each character created by the players belongs to one of these factions and more or less shares their goals, while also having their own backstory, relationships, strengths, and convictions.
Of course, my role within the community is not to write every character’s story but to manage role playing events, moderate the server’s text channels, establish the narrative context, and guide the storyline in a certain direction.
