[quote=KabenSaal]
Some people like to play Dm of the Rings, and have everything set out for them before the RP has even started. She would like my PoTS. an old RP I one tried. lots of death and sex, but also very Railroad, I didn't have anything for my characters to do expect the explicitly laid out plot. So it crashed and burnt very quickly.
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Okay but I can already see where you went wrong with that, you need plots and side objectives, you have to think like an RP is an RPG, there should be side quests to fluff the main quest. For example before RPguild switched servers I ran my own RWBY roleplay, however it was poorly timed and fell apart when RPguild switched servers but like a good DM I had a plot laid out with sub plots for my players. The main plot was based after the events of cannon RWBY with the rise of the orginal grimm, ultimatly the party was to reach him and defeat him but I was not gonna reveal that right at the beginning, not I had meat added to the story, the beginning of new students entering the academy, preparations for the hosted tournament between other fighting schools, the investigations of a rise of grimm attacks, the disappearance of veteran Hunters. All of it leading up the discovery of the main plot. I dunno if you ever played a real game of dungeons and dragons but that is kinda how a game is supposed to go.