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Have you ever had a REALLY good character/RP idea, and for some reason, it just didn't work out? What was that moment for you? What was a really good idea you had, and what stopped you from pursuing it?
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A great idea, especially the metacurrency, but I understand how it will be difficult to actually make the currency work. I havent seen too much Fairy Tail, only watching the first season, but it all sounded like a great idea! Sorry the metacurrency idea didn't work ^^;I had an idea for a Fairy Tail rp that is based around using a metacurrency.
In short, everyone knows that Fairy Tail relies very heavily on "the power of friendship" trope and I thought it'd be kind of fun to include that aspect. But since people would inevitably overuse it if it left unchecked my idea was that players could earn "Friendship Points" by doing things like continuously posting in the IC or OOC thread, playing into their characters' flaws and weaknesses, etc. Then, during the rp a person could spend Friendship Points to do the kind of nonsense Fairy Tail is known for (gaining a sudden buff to your magic, ignoring injuries or other negative effects, a slayer eating something they shouldn't be capable of, etc).
I never got it off the ground for a multiple of reasons but the main one was that I couldn't really figure out a way to hand out the metacurrency that didn't feel completely arbitrary.
The concepts of elementals or like the Disney movie?I had an idea for an elemental based roleplay but everytime I tried it people would dismiss it. It's been years, I might try to bring it back.
sorry to hear that.i tried to play a gender ambiguous character whose entire personality was "cool" . the story i wanted to write for them was that a bi guy and girl were fighting over them. it didn't really go according to plan though.
Like the concept of elemental beings and like one of them landing in a place where they don't exist and they have to navigate this new world and try to get home but end up meeting new people and seeing if they really want to go home or not.The concepts of elementals or like the Disney movie?
I really would like to know how NOT being a vampire saved someone from the pointy wooden beam driven through their heartOne of the reasons I don't do one-on-one's much any more, and why I prefer this site over others.
I was proposed a roleplay, mixing fantasy and sci-fi, in which my character is a vampire who is offered a cure for vampire-ness. I wanted to explore the various implications that could have. I was expecting to be able to have my character reject the cure at first, but then decide to try it upon some sort of incident that causes him to change his mind. Instead, the other player decides to make my character almost die by heart-staking, and somehow despite the stake being indeed in his chest cavity.... Well, basically my character wakes up in a hospital room, being told that the cure saved his life and now he's a human.
I figured I could work with that by making my character react as he would, all the way up until the other player wrote "And then a sexy nurse walked into the room."
I never consented to most of the stuff that happened in the rp, but I definitely had to draw the line there. I wasn't even told that the rp was supposed to be sexual up until it just happened.
It's a shame, 'cause I think the premise of the rp as I was told it would be would have been really compelling to write if it could have been done without being railroaded.
I've been considering the worldbuilding for a roleplay with a losely similar premise, minus the railroading of course. (and minus the sexual content.)
I know, right?I really would like to know how NOT being a vampire saved someone from the pointy wooden beam driven through their heart
Oh, 100%. When I was 13-14 or so, I started on a book. Got 1 & 1/2 chapters in before I decided I didn't like it, and I didn't like novel writing. I'm not a natural born author.i think its worth mentioning that you should always write down discarded ideas bc they can always come back later! i roleplay primarily in fandoms but i keep a running list of my AUs in a word document and a few of them ive repurposed for other fandoms or, if they were outlandish enough (or otherwise far enough removed because they required so many tweaks to make sense,) original fiction. just because something doesnt shake out with one partner or in one group doesnt mean that its actually a bad idea or not worth pursuing.
this is especially true for goofy throwaway stuff. my most cherished AU of all time for my favorite pairing started as a joke inspired by a silly picture i took of two extremely incongruent stores next to each other that i saw on vacation and then my best friend said "wouldnt it be funny if [character A] owned one store and [character B] owned the other?" and 2 years later its a full-fledged fanfiction. worth it!
like, none of the ideas in this thread are bad. some might need more retooling or elaboration than others to work in another context, but none of them are, like, "just throw the whole thing out, it sucks"-type stuff. you gotta tuck those good ideas away for later, when you find someone/people who can appreciate them and help you grow them into something lovely.
Noooooo, that sounds so good!I once made an island RP where a plane crashed in the ocean, characters come ashore and must survive. I made a map with 60 points of interest leading to plots about lost civilizations and dangerous tribes, lots of magical realism inspired by Lost. It was gonna be awesome. There was gonna be different factions fighting over resources, a weapons cache among other loot people could find, and fifteen people made characters! I was hyped until the thread died after two posts.
Mind you, post #1 was my starter.
And post #2 was my OC
That's when I learned a crucial lesson about this hobby, don't make a fucking map until page 5.