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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 [...]
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 [...]
Over on the Starsider server at Star Wars Galaxies, roleplaying has evolved into a strange and awkward beast.
RP there is generally an “anything goes” system of semi Free Form RolePlay, occasionally and randomly mingled with the restrictions of actual game mechanics and a sort of tabletop RPG power system. This might work if much [...]
I found this while going through old IM logs to try to pull some details together about the New Hellions Academy of Rhydin.
In addition to some amazingly goofy and cringe-worthy roleplay which we shall pretend never happened, I found a heated discussion between Lil and I about an instance of god-moding. Our plans [...]
Conflict is the key to making roleplay fun, engaging, exciting, interesting, and real. This is true no matter what your playstyle is. And villains, and the conflict they inspire, are necessary for roleplaying.
Let’s start with a couple of definitions.
First, what is conflict?
“Conflict is opposition, either to a character’s situation or self. It isn’t always one [...]
I need to remember to avoid roleplaying with people who:
Claim poor understanding of the English language because English is their second language and romanized Japanese is their first language, then sporadically and paradoxically show great command of the intricacies of the English language, particularly when they’re irritated or distracted. (Don’t people usually resort to their [...]
