ArenaSnow

[HIGH CASUAL] Welcome to Salem, Massachusetts

If I join officially, it will be after everyone makes their selection, and then to fill whatever role is understaffed.

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I believe not copying other people's roleplays and characters is conventional roleplaying etiquette. However, if those roleplays and characters existed in Expanding Horizons, this wouldn't be a problem, because the setting is designed to accommodate potential duplicates.

@catchamber

I believe that a good conversation with the GM you want to connect with would solve the problem that you're trying to present. Communication is key in any roleplay, and I don't see why using one's words to good effect wouldn't work in small scale organizations outside of EP - just like other roleplays have done for quite some time.

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You could assume that, but the Persistent World would serve as an easily accessible repository for all of that information. The Closed threads would just be your way of publicly roleplaying events that take place in a specific portion of the infinite universe. If they wanted to, other people could make a divergent version of what transpired in your Closed thread, or they could request to be allowed to participate in its development.

@catchamber

All of which can be done with existing forums, with connections that can be made, if people really wanted to, between GMs.

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The common ground would be "Given an infinite amount of space, everything that can reasonably exist will exist, and it'll be duplicated even further out, with some of the duplicates progressing at different rates of time." Beyond this, each thread would functionally be its own spacetime. They don't need to focus on specific locations, and could even be centered around certain objects, people, or other things. Whether a thread is Open or Closed is up to its creator, but each thread in the subforum would be part of the whole that is the Expanding Horizons. Nobody would be forced to roleplay with anyone else, and everyone can split off into their respective threads if they can't find a common ground. That way, everybody collectively decides which stories they want to participate in, with all contexts being agreed upon as they're presented.

@catchamber

I don't really see the point of this over just finding a gig in the casual or advanced forums.

If you're just going to close a thread while going in an infinite space-time where there's no real common ground besides infinite mumbo jumbo, then what would even be the point of being in a special PW in the first place? You could always just assume that other roleplaying forums, in their own way, are all part of a vast, creatively unlimited roleplaying universe.

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The above is a solid start. Another point where I consider there to be a problem is scope.

In the beginning, the impression I got was that it wanted to appeal to sci-fi, fantasy, basically everything. For a persistent world, that only makes things more chaotic. A PW for each general setting, sure. A PW that tries to appeal to everything is simply asking for trouble.

Give too many options, expect chaos. Provide some common ground - ex, fantasy world where everyone can pick a general region to develop for themselves, with very basic rules so everyone is at least partially connected - and you'll probably get a better shot than trying to put all settings in one and making ill-fated rules where completely different contexts meet in a supposedly persistent setting.

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