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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:
The background for Alysia potentially obtaining [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I did very little that was interesting or worthwhile over the weekend.
I slept most of Saturday, nursing a sore throat and fatigue.
On Sunday, I sat outside in the sun and read Modesitt’s The Eternity Artifact while Aya made beds of moss and orange leaves for her Barbies. The little one wanted to go inside [...]
How to Take Turns in Collaborative Settings is a must-read for anyone who is working on a collaborative writing project or in a play-by-post or forum-based roleplaying game. It talks about how not to hog the scene. Capturing Fantasy has a wealth of advice relevant to online roleplaying and creative writing.
Screw You and Your [...]
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 [...]
