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I wanted to get to this on Friday, but somehow ran out of time. There has been some really entertaining play-by-post writing happening on various roleplay forums. Of those I frequent, the Dragon’s Mark - Red Dragon Inn roleplay forums have been a gold mine lately:
The characters in Motley Moxie on the Move [...]
At a roleplay community forum revolving around an MMORPG (yes, Victoria, there IS roleplay in MMOs), immersion was recently dredged up for discussion. The context: Roleplayers not playing with the same toys in the sandbox they share are responsible for each others’ disrupted immersion.
One player’s sandcastle is built where people with mystical powers are either [...]
I was going to post about my road trip, which was a lot of fun, but I’m feeling too annoyed to write about that right now.
Annoyed, irritated, frustrated, disgusted, and stupid.
Why? My main character at Dragon’s Mark has been out of play for more than a month. Stepping aside from that fact that [...]
Hawking snake oil to sick people is heartless.
The FDA agrees and recently sent out a series of “warning letters” to various companies and individuals who tout unproven claims that their products can cure cancer. They’re talking about things like bloodroot, shark cartilage, coral calcium, cesium, mushrooms, black salve, etc., products which marketers claim can [...]
Dragon’s Mark has recently been playing host to discussions about the return of guilds to Rhydin. (See Guild Wars Committee, The Guild Wars, Guild Shout Outs.) There’s a lot of frank opposition based on hypothetical and speculative arguments about the idea of guilds, the conflict they bring with them, and the use of [...]
I was supposed to get a call from the doctor* Thursday to let me know what the biopsy results were and what the course of treatment would be. I didn’t. So I called Friday and spoke with a receptionist at his office who was either very stupid or hated her job or had [...]
Lil and I went to go see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Thursday night. Aya was four hours away, and Brian was at home because I was still irritated about something stupid he had said in the morning. I wanted to preview the movie for Aya to see if it [...]
Over the last few months, slavery storylines have made a notable resurgance at Dragon’s Mark’s Rhydin. It’s nothing new — a lot of roleplayers joke that slavery is the second oldest profession in Rhydin. It’s a topic that has always inspired much controversy.
From my point of view, slavery storylines are nothing to get worked up [...]
I have a much longer rant written about this, but I’m going to sit on it for a day or two. I may decide it’s a terrible idea to post it after I’ve had more time to think about it.
In the meantime, let’s try some roleplaying where I have MAGICAL POWERS to make other [...]
Some recent RP brought this to mind.
If you thought-snipe in a roleplaying chat and then add “::didn’t even bother to guard that thought::,” it is still thought-sniping.
I’ve already expressed my thoughts on thought-sniping, but in short:
So please, don’t do it.
Thanks.
