BrokenPromise

Where do I go from this point?

I could offer some help, but as you've done to me and others many times in the past, you've completely ignored any actual suggestions to fix the problem in favor of going on with your pity party. The answers to all of your problems are staring at you right in the face in the last six topics you made. The only thing that's necessary to do is to try something different. Be it changing your interest check, interacting with different people, or finding a hobby where you can't possibly face rejection from a partner.

Re: Zero: The High Council

The clinic has become a death trap, with the only possible escape resting on Chieko's next words. Aer's group has been attacked by assassins, one familiar, another unknown. Troublesome scenarios to make sense of, and lives are being extinguished with each passing second wasted...

Thoughts on discord RP?

@Stitches I would very much like to make a physical copy of a book I have on my computer. Given enough time, I could complete that task by copying the words off of my computer screen and onto a roll of toilet paper. But if I have access to a printer, wouldn't it be easier just to use that?

There's certainly nothing stopping players from writing well on discord. You don't magically dumb down your writing just by moving to a chat service, no more than writing on a forum enhances ones grammar and understanding of writing. Though it should also be noted that writing these types of messages don't come flying out of the fingers faster just because it's discord. A thousand words is a thousand words.

I suppose my real concern is that I don't really see any mechanical advantage to writing on discord. In high fantasy settings where the players are expected to drop a paragraph of world building narration every time their character looks at something, my posts easily surpass the two-thousand word mark. Discord's message limit is about that many letters, so I would need to break up those posts into many messages, which is a step I don't need to do on a forum. While I realize some people aren't a fan of it, I am also very much in love with collabs, but that's not really part of this discussion. However, the word count can get really high on those. I also like that I can turn words into clickable hyperlinks, and any pictures I do post can appear on the page at the size I want instead of as an extension.

I really think it's mostly what you want to do. I am unwilling to put up with the handicaps discord puts on me for an RP. The only real advantage I see is that you know when someone is online and typing (unless, like me, they type in their favorite word processor) But you mentioned that you wanted to write smaller posts, and don't strike me as the sort who nerds out over formatting. I'm unsure if your players will post faster, but it certainly sounds like discord won't hold you back.

Ban the Person above you

Evicted for having a noodle noggin.

Thoughts on discord RP?

I'm curious to know what you mean by "impulse" posts.

@Stitches

Posts with very little thought put into them. You log in, you see an opportunity to do something, you respond before it's too late, and hopefully you can do so again before your battle with the orcs gets buried by all the flirts in the bar and whatever the hell everyone else is doing on the pirate ship. You post quickly to do something in the story. There's no time to think. You are encouraged to respond, not do something interesting. You are posting on impulse.

For you, a discord RP sounds great. especially if you don't care about stuff like post length or quality. Myself, I like the writing more than the roleplaying. I like having some time to think about what my characters are going to do, and what sort of drama I can pull everyone into as their GM. I also like that I can balance some of the slower posters and faster posters because in not logging on for one day, they didn't miss out on an important event. Also, I find pure sandbox RPs infuriating and will always insist on working with everyone, co-gm or not, to do special things with the RP.

Thoughts on discord RP?

Do you want your posts to be limited by discords relatively short message parameters?

Do you want your RP to be "free" level?

Do you want to personally host a discord channel and monitor the posts as they come in?

Do you want to give up the clean formatting and BBC code that the forum affords?

Do you want the mod team to be powerless to punish something that happened outside their jurisdiction?*

If you answered "no" to any of these questions, you probably shouldn't host a discord RP. From what I've seen, most discord RPs tend to be very "impulse" post driven, which isn't my cup of tea. But if that's your sort of thing, I don't see why you shouldn't.

*_{You can remove people from your own server, but they will have gotten away free, as they can still hang out in the RPG discord or the forum.}

Educational Video Thread

Just a thread where we can share and discuss videos that might be beneficial to one's writing or roleplaying. Be sure to keep your videos in hiders if you're posting more than one. I heard the guild does funny stuff if you don't.

To start off, I'd like to share something that a lot of original fantasy GMs will likely find interesting.

Hard Magic Systems

The video is part of a three-part series on magic systems. I found it very interesting, and think anyone who's thinking about building their own world should give the entire series a watch.

Well, Can They?

Literature Devil's channel is entirely dedicated to how SJWs need to be stopped because they are ruining our media. But some of that relates to writing characters. In this video, he puts emphasis on how flaws are necessary for characters to become human and relocatable. He only has about five videos on his channel, but I found all of them fascinating. Not all relate to characters however.

Ask Out the Avatar Above You

I'm unsure what you are hero, but when I look at you... I feel happy.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

So very Briza

What went wrong with Expanding Horizons?

I don't have a lot of stuff to add that pugbutter didn't already cover in the gif thread. My biggest problem was that there was that there was too much freedom. You had joke characters and serious characters, anime characters and semi-realism characters, strong characters and weak characters, all scattered across three different planets. The fact that the new PW is based on star wars will clear up most of these problems. Just because everyone knows what star wars is doesn't mean everyone has the same ideas about it. In the movies, the force is a clearly defines thing that has powerful, though limited uses. Though in videogames it seems like the force has a great number more abilities. What the force can and can't do still needs to be defines, even in a pre-established setting like star wars. Another problem was that there was very little lore to go on in EW. Something about multiverses and shit. Hopefully there will be enough going on that people who don't live and breathe star wars will be able to get a handle on what's going on. Not everyone has seen all the movies/read all the books/played all the games.

But to summarize, too much player freedom and a lack of anything to clearly define the world had me quickly retreating to the group RP part of the forum.