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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 [...]
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 [...]
Sympathizing with my current annoyance over RDI drama, a SWG roleplayer saw some similarities to another situation and pointed me to Elijas’ Guide to “Drama” Free Roleplay over on Starsider Galaxy. Elijas distills the requirements for avoiding OOC drama into four points:
IC Actions = IC consequences: “If you kidnap the leader of a roleplay [...]
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 [...]
It is a generally a bad idea to roleplay online when your judgment is impaired from intoxication, exhaustion, illness, and/ or emotional upset. The problem is not only the sluggish and stunted creativity that accompanies mental fog; roleplaying with impaired judgment has put me in some situations that have been bizarre at best and [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
