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I have recently written another RP. Only 2 people posted and there are over 130 views. I definitely did something wrong but I don't know what! My friends told me it was good. We tried revising it multiple times before I posted. Can someone tell me how I can fix what's broken here?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/540.382473-It-s-Only-a-Test-sci-fi-RP-Open-Not-started
 

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I'd recommend starting with a compelling description of what the players will be doing specifically. A lot of people I imagine wouldn't make it past the description of the usual dystopian future scenario, because a lot of time those are rather restrictive when it comes to RP, and don't make it to what the RP is actually about. The writing style has some small pacing and flow problems as well, but that's often less important than a clearly, early-stated purpose and role. It takes a lot of inference to understand that you're talking about a colony ship to escape a dystopian, censorship-obsessed dictatorship. And you have a lot of redundant statements padding out the explanation that can be just simplified for easier understanding, like I did above with summarizing things in one sentence. If you're going to add details, make them small and telling, like power-minorities and how they express their power and influence, in addition to common pursuits for the oppressed lower classes. Although those aren't really necessary in this case, if you want your players to fill in those kinds of things.

In addition, you may want to make clear what kind of scenarios and problems they might encounter besides the stated extended periods in a controlled environment. Players like to overcome things, face challenges and best them. Any questions?
 

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You know, I got an idea that will change this rp greatly. It will be focusing on a military group being sent to a spacestation after a new life form was discovered. I'm going to try to focus on the military perspective, their history, and role in society in the given time period. This story will be cheesy, but for the purpose of being simple and easy to get into. It will have quite a few story based moments, and changes of perspective. I'm going to try to focus on the character roles more than the story this time. So what if the story is made simple for it to be more character focused?
 

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Perfect. So long as it's interactive, it's hard to get bored with even the most common storyline.