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Well, guess it's time to make a summary section for my RP haha

I love that, especially "if you're giving your players the opportunity to create social connections with each of the characters, and your players are not taking that initiative to heart, then something else needs to be fixed".

This is an idea I've been toying with for a while. Has anyone ever been in one of these and how did it work out? CS's have been a thing as long as I've been roleplaying, and I've only ever signed up for one no-CS RP that didn't last long (though not for that reason). I really think the CS is a...

Something I've ben thinking about for a while. At a party or in a bar you really only talk to 1-2 people at a time even if there's a group. You weave in and out of the crowd, talking to different people. If you do talk to 2 people, you really focus more on one at a time while the other one just...

One of the backdrops to one of my group RP's was taken once and I've never been more flattered.

I’ve found it’s pretty easy to get a lot of players if your RP is an original concept but not that complicated. Making them last on the other hand...

All the time. Good prose is very important to me, especially lately. I always feel like it can be better and sometimes rewrite the post from scratch, only to say the same thing. It's come down to trusting that I'm a good enough writer and realizing that most people skim RP posts anyway since...

Do we have hard data on user numbers? I've had this account for 5 years and if anything I think this site has gotten more active (at least with literate RPs). Last year I kicked off an RP that was almost the exact same as one I tried to boot up years before and got 3 times the number of CS'es. I...

The single biggest thing in my experience is dull cast chemistry. None of the characters really become friends (not to mention entering relationships) and they all "go around in a circle", travelling as one big group and obeying posting orders until some links in this circular chain drop out...

Brainstorm memorable scenes then cook up ways to get there. A book is made by epic moments: the Red Wedding, the Ride of the Rohirim. The plot just "connects the dots". The best books are packed with these and cut to the chase. Everyone can dream up an epic moment. Great writers are excellent at...

Agree. This also begs the question of what counts as a POC. I'm mixed race but white passing - should I count as a POC? What about Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, Henry Golding? Where do we draw the line - 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, or the good old "one drop rule"? Each of these is problematic for...

They've become diverse but not inclusive. Though there are obviously exceptions (shows targeted at POC like Dear White People or Wu Assassins), most shows have great diversity in representation of white characters but their POC characters are 1-sided tropes. Shows are still contaminated with...

In 1900, European professors believed there were 3 races of white people: Nordics, Alpinics, and Mediterraneans. British and Italian professors were constantly arguing as to whether the Nordic or Mediterranean race was superior. In the US, there was intra-white discrimination against Southern...

There's no way I'll ever finish a book by myself. The range of characters I can write convincingly is not terrific. Roleplaying is basically crowdsourcing ideas, dialogue, and plot.

Had none whatsoever

I only have 3 rules: 1. I'll never play the same character twice. Every character has a different inspiration - sometimes they're not even based on people but on ideas I've read about. 2. They have to believe something I don't. That's not just to make it more fun, but because people with...

Story comes from Greek: historia, "discovering/finding out", and histor, "wise man". A story is about characters discovering things and becoming wiser as a result.

Inkarnate: https://i.redd.it/r7827qx7n9l11.jpg You can have my login for the pro version if you want

In any RP, people will drop off. A hard posting order makes everyone else wait while that one person has quit (very few people say "I'm quitting", most say "I'll post soon!" and never do). This encourages even more people to get bored and quit. At the same time, no posting order means people can...

I'd rather join a roleplay that lasts long enough for this to even be a question. If you're at the point where you're actually looking to kill off characters, you've already succeeded.