[quote=@Vilageidiotx]
I think the reason NRP's suffer so much early death is they bring out competitiveness more than other rp's do. It's almost a rule that an NRP must have at least one guy claiming unreasonable powers, fully expecting that he's going to 'Win' and take everything over. The end result is usually bickering in the OOC, which then kills the RP.
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Or they sit in a crippling state of OOC limbo for 25+ pages and never actually start.

World building is fun, but too much of it outside of IC posts can degrade the inspiration of the RP's participants.