BurningDaisies

Dragon's Ascent - An Eastern Fantasy RP (Interest Check)

I'm quite interested as well, if you still have room.

The best rp moments in your life.

I really enjoyed a short D&D-esque game where everyone was a zombie thrall of a recently slain Necromancer. We all regained our senses, but quickly found ourselves without work, so our party of undead characters became adventurers in order to search for a new employer. Plus, no one likes dungeon cleaning duty.

Ironically, it ended with us being inducted into a particular town's police force by a strangely open-minded mayor, instead of some lich lord. There was also a brief debate with the resident cleric's union. That was fun.

Give Me the Ability to Delete my Own Posts (And another thing) or Give me Death!

There may be other examples of how to abuse it as well (none that I can think of atm, but I'm sure there is). While screen caps are useful its not always possible to get them because some people don't think to save screenshots for later use when crap like that happens. Its nice to see that kind of community policing and investigation, but it seems much easier for the staff to just have a copy of the content and a timestamp.

However, there are other ways they could handle that kind of scenario, and my idea is just merely one of them.

Give Me the Ability to Delete my Own Posts (And another thing) or Give me Death!

As an example, say there's a case of flaming, trolling, or harassment where someone is being maliciously targeted. That violates forum policy. If the aggressor in this case deletes all his related posts, it can be cumbersome to retrieve that data and make a fair reasonable judgement based on it. If the post is entirely purged, it may be impossible. Then you slide down the slippery slope of "he said, she said" arguments. The idea is that mods should have good evidence to look at when resolving conflicts. If they don't have good data, good decision-making gets a lot harder.

TL;DR - At the very least the posts should be cached in some way, so they can be looked at later for conflict resolution purposes.

Give Me the Ability to Delete my Own Posts (And another thing) or Give me Death!

IF they're worried about abuse, the delete button could be more of a "hide" button.
That way the post (or even just the content of the post) isn't normally viewable except by forums staffers, so it remains for posterity and review, if there is a case of abuse.

I'm not sure how well it would work out for the mods, but it could also flag the post when you do that and alert a mod the post needs to be reviewed for permanent deletion. Maybe a multiple choice option for the "reason of deletion" could be added? [Duplicate Post, Wrong Thread, and things like that.] So they could be categorized.

That way you could have the self moderation and keep the post from interrupting the thread with unnecessary content, and the content could be deleted at the staff's discretion.

It sounds nice, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to implement something like that though

Campaigns, characters and so forth (D&D)

I'm old(?) to D&D, but I'd love to pitch in. I like brainstorming~

~ ❀ Swept Away, Underneath the Cherry Blossom Trees ❀ ~

As much as I wanted to keep these characters sheets concise, it really helped to just outline a rough backstory first. For now, I'll just keep it private.

Anyway, I'm more or less done with my character. I'll add it to the OP. Just give me a heads up when yours is done, so I can add it too.

No rush.
I wont be free for awhile anyway.

Edit;;

Aside from characters, is there anything else you want to flesh out before we start?
I feel we could really just jump in pretty quickly once characters are arranged.

~ ❀ Swept Away, Underneath the Cherry Blossom Trees ❀ ~

Still alive by the way. I've just been really busy with work. I should have some free time this next week.

~ ❀ Swept Away, Underneath the Cherry Blossom Trees ❀ ~

I feel that too often character sheets represent more of the what than the why of the character.

I like giving the "why" the spotlight because it not only helps me. as the author, understand my own character's motivations, it makes sympathizing with the character much easier when reading as a third party.

As a side note, I was originally thinking of presenting the first challenge as describing the character in the form of a haiku, but I thought that was too restrictive after idly mulling it over for a couple days. xD

~ ❀ Swept Away, Underneath the Cherry Blossom Trees ❀ ~

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:: Name ::
Ian Baird Chancellor, "Chance"

:: Age ::
21

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"A rakish youth of sharp wit and few scruples can make convenient use of mundane things to achieve towering ambitions."

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Dreams and Desires
"You can't escape your past, but you don't have to let it define you."

Like any other young man, Ian wants to live for himself: a simple wish. But, a dangerous lifestyle and a complicated family situation have been persistent obstacles. After a fortuitous turn of events, he's already well on his way to overcoming it. But freedom comes at a price, and old habits die hard as Ian struggles to change and improve. A heavy dose of indoctrinated pessimism and a lot of family baggage continues to breed shadows of doubt. Right now, his biggest obstacle is himself.