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Credit where credit is due!

You may remember my rants last year about image copyright/license violations and the importance of giving credit for images.  The issue came up several times on this blog, most notably in More on plagiarism and copyright, Image Theft, and Free Publicity .

I was very surprised to finally see this posted at the Red Dragon Inn [...]

AA on Guide DM

The hazards of working as a Guide in the Red Dragon Inn, circa 1996:

SolarDruid:    ::chuckles:: Guide DM?
SolarDruid:    —-AA on Guide DM—-
OnlineHost:    SolarDruid rolled 1 20-sided die:  10
SolarDruid:    ::sighs:: Ah well.
Emma FR0ST:    ((ROFLMGDFAOBHOKRRRRH Sol…))
OnlineHost:    Guide DM has left the room.

For those who avoided dice Back In The Day, generally, he would have had to roll a [...]

Roleplay Pet Peeves

It’s finally come up at yet another roleplay community forum I frequent: a Roleplay Pet Peeves thread. Right now, the thread has almost 100 responses, mostly variations of:

-I hate people who do/do not play Character Type X.
-I hate people who observe/ignore RP Guideline Y.
-I hate people who get more attention than me.
-I hate people [...]

More about metagaming

If you’ve roleplayed for any length of time, at some point, no matter how perfect you are, you’re going to make an IC reference to something which your character has no way of knowing. It could be something you read in a forum post.  It could be something you observed in live RP while playing [...]

Wraith

Lilithiel rendered an amazing character image for me a bit over a week ago.  Because Alysia is now without her signature weapons (er, I need to actually write that up, don’t I…), I requested my twin try a picture Alys with a lightsaber.  The final version turned out absolutely amazing:

Immersion

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 [...]

Trust + PC = NPC?

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 [...]

Drama Free 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 [...]

Out of Play

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 [...]

The Return of Rhydin Guilds

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 [...]