What would make your Forum RPing more fun? Updated 5/14
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Something tells me you were a DM at one point. Cryptic suggestions and implications?Spinwhiz said:
I love it. It's another quest for the great Emu to solve.
Actually, I did used to GM/DM a RIFTS campaign that went on for quite some time and I'm developing my own table-top based on The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. I also used to mod/DM on a RP chat forum much like this when they first started getting popular about 13 years ago. Damn...I'm getting old!Flying-Emu said:
I'm placated, teased, angered and aroused by your blend of torment-ish foreshadowing and much appreciated lettin gme know i'm not twitching like a spider freebasing sugar for no reason. In short, I feel loved... but it's annoying older relative love where they dangle goodies above my short-as-gnomes childness. Appreciated, though.Spinwhiz said:
Cut the childness, i'm just short as a damn gnome period.
I think we need some sort of quality control. There has been a massive influx of half-baked RPs that are driving the good ones off the front page.
There are a few good ones floating around, they just tend to be posted in much less frequently and so they live on pages 3 or 4. We have novel-length, novel-quality RP's around, they just tend to be the whales in this thrashing sea of tuna. Surfacing rarely, but they're the ones you wait hours afloat to catch a glimpse of.Shapsters said:
I don't think we need quality control, but a way to 'favorite' threads like those would be great. Informing subscribers of new posts, GM updates and the aformentioned 'play-casts' (now named playcasts). Some people do enjoy the one-lined RP's, but if we had a way to keep tabs on the leviathans, it wouldn't annoy the more involved RP'ers as much. They could conduct their RP's from their subsription list rather than the RP forum, and never see the 2 solid pages of... stuff.
If it helps, i'm looking for devoted RP crafters to PM me. I'm revamping one of my old Rp's with some re-written rules and could use a brains trust to help me churn it out. A quick warning; This is work, and it's not the place for half-assed efforts. If you can't give your best regularly, and your best is lacking because you can't put in effort, then please stay in the shallows. If it works, we'll have a whale on our hands, if not then we'll have 4 weeks of panic watching it drown... So don't let it drown.
There is the bookmark ability which is essentially what you are asking for. It doesn't keep tabs per say but it does keep the thread at the top of the page so you can always find it and see when someone has made a new post. It's very helpful and I recommend for everyone to use it when taking part in a role play.Ultrajoe said:
That does sound awesomesauce but also sounds very unlikely. It doesn't make sense to include this rather complex feature for a small part of the forums.Ultrajoe said:
What might be neat is a 'favourite threads' box that everyone can view from your profile page. You can put whatever threads you want in that box, including any RPs you may be playing.
What would be nice is maybe a "Join my RP!" thread that is stickied. Give some info for your RP, Character specifications, and a link. The active ones and/or the ones with spots open could be put on the OP.
Yes, a much expanded one. That thread seems to assume that you're already pretty informed about RPs... Sure, it lays down the law, but explains not the letter of it. It's got guidelines, but I don't need guidelines: I need INFO.Zemalac said:
The thread doesn't even say what a RP is. It also doesn't explain the term OOC. My point being, there are a lot of questions the new people will have that could be answered fairly easy by expanding the thread (this is also evidenced by the trench-coat question from above).TikiShades said:
All I'm asking for are definitions of commonly used terms, a general explanation of what a RP is and how one can work, and advice for beginners who have no idea what the hey is going on
