Dinh AaronMk

If this thread overtakes the MLP game, I'll wear a Brony avatar and sig for a year.

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@Dinh AaronMk

If this thread overtakes the MLP game, I'll wear a Brony avatar and sig for a year.

I'm shutting this thread down now because chlamydiae was found growing in between the posts. Further brony avatars will be suspended until further notice.

@Vilageidiotx

Go through the Alphabet before someone posts a My Little Pony Picture

How do you Usually go About Combat RP?

In my experience it's best to recognize if you should be on the inferior side of things or know where or how someone else would "give". In most cases on my end and among the people I RP with we establish if we're going to fight ahead of time. As we work up to the moment we may have figured out details on how we want it to go so we can work it into our story with questions like, "How will this enrich my writing?" worked out.

In the case of something like Precipice of War we've had the idea that we need to kick up the major second Great War for a while. The RP was built on the idea it'd happen. But it took four years to get to it somehow because previous suggestions were just too forced. The chips fell right and we had the right people in place to move smoothly into it.

Military

No banging, sergeant's orders...

Hider

Unless he gets to join.

[RP Closed] Warlords of China

@Dinh AaronMkSo how do you prepose that we handle this then? The GM only has the power to accept apps and everything else cannot be interfered with?

If so, I see a tread that tends to happen with these free-form styled RP of them dying out pretty quickly. At least with the ones I've been in.

@ClocktowerEchos

Stats RPs are just as likely. It's not a factor that comes down to genre. Merely the commitment of the players within to the story and to the theme.

Real life will come up. Pluck a few people away from the thread to manage their own life and things will grind to a stop when it comes to their turn; more-so if they're needed. Someone will get impatient and leave or stop posting without an announcement. They'll be needed, more will leave. Stats or no stats an RP is weak to this sort of attrition in all but a few rare cases.

[RP Closed] Warlords of China

Well, to be fair, in WiR generally the GM/Co-GM isn't a player. But regardless the stat can't exactly be abused if everyone is starting at the same level and then it increases/decreases based on player choices/decisions. I just honestly do not see the issue...

@Chairman Stein

Favoritism. The GM doesn't need to be involved to possibly see something they'd like done and will tip the stats in that thing's favor. Or someone they really like joins and they'd like for statements akin to

The Ma Clique shall rule China's steppes!

To become legit because perhaps said person has positive experiences and may count this person as a friend, and despite technical neutrality may privately adjust things to their favor because "lol so funneh"

Sorta like two snipers who are friends who will pick anyone off in a online game but themselves.

Not meant as a personal attack against you. But the nature of those statements should be purged all together in the interests of proper story-telling.

[RP Closed] Warlords of China

What is the issue with a single GM controlled stat? I've run two WiRs respectively and those are entirely based on Stats run by the GM >.>

@Chairman Stein

It's a lack of creative control and the wide window for fabrication by the GM or the co-GMs to suit their own course of the RP since there's no on-sight program to track things like rolls or determine anything that couldn't otherwise be fabricated in the process of reading, interpretation, and assigning values for calculations. It's an undue complexity better suited for a simulation specefically designed or built to run these calculations on the spot with minimal human intervention.

If it must be done by a person, it's better run in a physical environment and where all equations are out and in the open for all players to check as they go and to keep a environment where everyone can keep the other in check.

Military

Honestly, I think I'm probably gonna enlist and go into The Green Berets.

@TheMusketMan

>Berets



Join tactical weather bro. It's Spec Ops.

[RP Closed] Warlords of China

You know, got as far as the military in the app and... well...

stat system controlled directly by the GM and co-GMs

stat system

controlled directly by the GM and co-GMs

I can feel the joy leak out of my heart.