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Quotes of the Day.

"Deception was not the problem; deception was cream of war, and the deceived only cried foul because brilliance is like immorality to people who do not know how to be brilliant."
- Internal monologue of Ras Hassan, Precipice of War. Post by @VilageidiotX

Foreign names check: So I don't sound like an idiot

http://babynames.net/all/chinese

When writing traditional Chinese names keep this rule in mind: the family-name goes first. Never the given name.

If you have a guy by the given name Joe with the family name Smith (Joe Smith, in European convention) it'd be written in Chinese and by most East-Asian conventions as "Smith Joe".

You should also keep a mind for syllables. Many Chinese names are a single-syllable long, though you may have doubled-up hyphenated names when transliterated through Pinyin.

And for the love of God, do not use Chinese characters when applying. Transliterate that shit (which isn't as hard as Arabic or Persian where there's no one commonly held or academically "correct" method of transliteration).

I've been writing as China for Precipice of War for five years now. This is stuff I've learned.

What are Your Expectations While on the Internet?

I expect to see stupid shit being taken ironically.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

That moment when Vilage posts but I don't have time to read it.

Fallout: Equestria - of RP and Bellyrubs

It may have. But someone can still post.

Damn it, where's @Raddum?

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Project Freddy

@Vilageidiotx

Some several million words later...

What Is The Avatar Above Thinking?

"Now hold the fuck on."

Question: would a roleplay with stats be good or bad idea?

Stats are a taste that folk either have, or have not. It's particularly prevalent in NRP with folk who like to try and have the next non-videogame Civilization of Age of Empires... game... for the time or their needs. And the there's morons like me who would rather not keep an excel spreadsheet.

Neither is right or wrong. Just taste.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Evan has valid excuses.

He then over comes them.

Do the same.

Looking for tips and suggestions on how to run/moderate a Nation Roleplay.

My general practice is to treat an NRP as a normal single-character RP except people are permitted effectively infinite characters to use on their own without reapplication. As such, as I handle them they're more often than not narrative driven. I don't do dice-rolls. I don't do Excel spreadsheets. I don't do delivering orders to a GM who interprets them and their effect to whatever power fantasy he's running, statistical claims no withstanding.

This may seem like chaos. And it would be, if the people who participated lacked mutual respect and were not at ills at talking things out to devise a story that makes both parties happy, so even if someone "loses" they both win.

IMO, if you want to GM I would still advocate that you start with participating in a few yourself and not barging into the administrative function of running one totally blind. Because if you don't understand the House of Cards as well as you should, or have a terrible stat system then it will no doubt break down and you will be frustrated. So even if there's nothing in the Second World War time-frame that's new, you should at least check around some.

Speaking of myself and my own projects, I and the others would be more than willing to assist you in getting up to speed for something like Precipice of War, which actually sorta fits that bill; despite being set in the 1980's. Apart from helicopters much of the military functions - and likely even nationalist philosophies - are in a sort of quasi-40's attitude despite being 40 years late. We're actually just getting to our promised Second Great War, despite having ran for more than five years now across three forums. So stop in, we can fill you out, and maybe you can partake in some madness in Africa.

Otherwise for new, there's Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains which serves as a medieval-fantasy NRP. This comes without the stress of mangling a real nation's history so much to fit your own fetish you risk offending non-nationals for your ignorance. It also absconds away with the more complex ideologies of nationalism and post-19th century race/culture politics (well, sorta) and complex modern-economics, replacing them largely with a vague understanding on how feudalism works.