Owner: Eve
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 [...]
Thinking more about Drama Free Roleplay.
My characters aren’t here to act as NPC’s for yours or vice versa.
That is a key point to keep in mind in free form roleplaying, where one of the main precepts is that you choose what happens to only your own character. But it gets sticky when roleplay [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jewell Ravenlock’s Perchance to Dream storyline over at Dragon’s Mark - Red Dragon Inn come as close to perfect as anything I have seen for a FFRP / collaborative writing Playable. What makes it great?
There is an extensive OOC post explaining how to make use of the storyline as a playable event. Jewell takes the [...]
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 [...]
In her email to me, Tara Rynieyn addressed the very thorny issue of Dragon’s Mark roleplayers spending too much time OOC in The Lobby instead of roleplaying in IC rooms. She touched on the problems with multi-character syndrome. More importantly, she expressed her concerns about closed-off cliques, insular storylines, and roleplaying in a cocoon.
These [...]
(A couple days ago, I received an email from Tara Rynieyn posing some thought-provoking questions about the state of roleplaying in the Red Dragon Inn at Dragon’s Mark. We’ve republished it on this blog as a guest post, with permission and by request. -Eve)
Dear Eve,
In accordance with my public promise not to post on [...]
How do I find interactive roleplay?
Interact!
Try making the first move. Be social. Even if it’s contrary to your character’s nature to be talkative and social, you can still find ways to be engaging. If you wouldn’t want to hang out with a bored, angry, sullen or hostile emo-tard, why should anyone else?
Bait the hook.
Direct specific [...]
