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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 [...]
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 [...]
Spent some time roleplaying as Lia’Vrei in Star Wars Galaxies Thursday night. A couple of hours, actually.
Bella-donna took one Lia’Vrei, erstwhile archeological student and possibly the galaxies newest Sith apprentice, to what is referred to as “The Bunker.” It’s a bunker decorated as a cave on Dantooine. There they met a couple [...]
“Bad RPers Suck” is a Live Journal community I occasionally visit for a laugh. I am not a member.
There are some genuinely insightful rants there, but those are unfortunately rare. For the most part, the community features a unique blend of cathartic and sophomoric waaaah and whinge personally directed to mysterious Bad RPers across the [...]
I’m really glad the On Banning dramabomb has been mostly wrapped up. I still have no idea what happened, but I understand that handling the situation in private allowed those involved to maintain a reasonable amount of decorum. Both parties to the situation could have been a lot nastier, so I think it was ultimately [...]
Best quote ever from Lilithiel:
I’m always glad to hit an unsuspecting soul with more than they ever wanted to know.
Taken from a discussion at Starsider Galaxy, where Lilithiel is known as Bella-donna, formerly Daydream.
One of Dictionary.com’s recent Word of the Day postings was virago:
virago \vuh-RAH-go; vuh-RAY-go\, noun:
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.
I chuckled over the definition, then trailed off as a moment of blushing realization dawned; between those two descriptions, I have all of my [...]
A large part of the fun in play-by-post and forum roleplaying is the sheer entertainment value in reading what other people have written about their characters’ lives and motivations.
Dragon’s Mark - Red Dragon Inn has a very large community of prolific forum RP posters. While a lot of the writing there is mundane, poorly [...]
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 [...]
