Ellri

How do you typically deal with Writer's Block?

hmm... there usually is no single thing that best solves it, mostly because writer's block usually has several sources at least.

But on the level of complexity we RP, there is no problem with taking a week off (or even two-three weeks). however, we've found that the source usually lies in RL. It could be anything from poor sleep, to not having eaten well, to RL issues, to countless other issues there. For issues from an IC perspective, it could be that something is trying to force your character into a position that would break it, or that you need some additional inspiration.

No doubt we covered but a small fraction of the possible sources above, but there's no point in every trying to cover all. For solutions, we usually take our time, try to sleep on it, discuss it with someone, maybe watch a movie, read something, write something else (if functional at the time), etc.

Watching some sort of movie or series or reading something relevant can also help inspire. As can discussions with others about it. If the writer's block shows up in a 1x1 or a collab, it can quite often help to discuss the block with the partner. If necessary, to go back and try an alternate path. There's nothing wrong with discarding a few paragraphs if you get stuck. In fact, there's nothing wrong with discarding multiple pages that way.

Same goes for sheets, really. We've lost count of how many times certain sheets we've got have been rewritten, sometimes partially, other times from the bottom up.

all in all, our solution lies in trying to find the source and solving that.

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

no specific plans yet. we've had extra D&D work recently, as we DM'd on sunday.

Do you prefer playing older or younger characters?

we have no clear preference. Some characters are old, some are young, some are in between. It all depends on what purpose the character is supposed to fulfill. Some characters get their age set by how they might relate to another character. Others by the amount of experience we want them to have from life.

Holy heck i feel inadequate

though some RPs in advanced use such lengths, not all do. In the RP we're running there, we generally don't care how much someone writes in a post (within reason), but rather what they do with it. Also, Aftermath (our RP) uses collabs heavily, which naturally tends towards far longer posts.

Give it time, and you will learn to write more too, @Rockerman403. Especially if you find the right GM that doesn't mind having someone around who posts shorter than the rest do.

• Tip #1: Find a GM that will let you participate even if you can't post the same lengths as all others can.
• Tip #2: Collabs with people who typically write longer. Though a 30-para collab can seem massive, remember that only half of that comes from each player, and that it is helped along by the other participant.
• Tip #3: Take your time. While some advanced RPs can have posts thrown in pretty quickly, most move at a slower pace than casual. Not all can throw up a long post in an hour. Some might write the post over several days, if not longer. Most reasonable GMs accept that posts may not come as quickly from all players.
• Tip #4: Have fun and make sure your character has sufficient depth. We've seen in the past how some characters sort of "overrule" their players in what they will/won't do. Those types of characters can easily let you churn out more than you otherwise would.

any questions?

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

The dislike doesn't have to be personal, after all...

The church is notorious for blaming mages for pretty much everything that goes wrong. Just look at that pesky habit of burning mages alive found among rural villagers and the generally uneducated masses.

also, if someone doesn't set something up to barricade @sundered Echo's machinations, Lana will end up ruling all of Formaroth in a backseat driver sort of manner, mind you.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

@Rtron@chayden13

here are the two reviews you've been waiting for.

Nazca

Those rings. It is physically impossible to fuse metal to skin. It is also a terribly inefficient way of reducing someone’s dexterity. If the image is anything to go by, those hands are wrapped in cloth and she’s got a set of vicious-looking brass knuckles in them.

Suggestion: If you desire to keep her hands disabled somehow and want to make them actually work for punching… Have the cloth wraps also be there, and that they are at least as well-attached to her arms as the rings. Then have them be a sort of armorweave, which will provide enough extra durability to ensure that her finger bones do not break if she punches something.

If you make the suggested change, you will probably need to fix a little towards the end of the bio.

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Considering that pigs don’t exist in SW, the joking on “oink” is breaking the 4th wall. Even more so than that trap thing in Sish’s sheet.

Corr Dallo

How do you keep yourself calm in captivity? How do you keep your will to escape strong?
I rely on the Force to keep myself calm during captivity. I spend the majority of my time meditating, trying as best as I can to maintain control over myself through the Force by allowing it to flow through me and allowing myself to become one with it. However, occasionally this control will break, especially after a particularly gruesome form of torture from my captors. In this case I will go mad with rage, screaming at the top of my lungs for hours and fighting like a rabid animal to escape or at the very least, land a hit upon my captors.

How well do you hold up under pressure? Do you have a high pain threshold?
I do have a strong threshold for pain. By connecting myself with the Force, I fade away from my body, feeling the very currents of life itself that makes up the galaxy. By doing this, I am able to escape, or at the very least, ignore, the physical pain to my body, though sometimes it is too much and so breaks my concentration.

Chayden13

These two sections don’t add up.
The first one says that particularly harsh torture will break his control.
The second section says that he can sort-of detach from his body, ignoring physical pain.

Separately, each of these are insignificant, together, they leave him with a powerful advantage over all others. As such, they will need editing to remove that advantage.

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We’re also rather curious about exactly how this ability to detach fits into the Force. It does not quite fit any of the Force powers we know of, yet takes elements from several. The closest thing to detaching we can immediately think of is meditation. However, meditation tends not to work all that well when torture enters the picture.

The only ability we know of that truly allows a Force User to ignore pain is Crucitorn. With that power, a Force User can transform one sense into another, increasing input from one while reducing it from another. Including pain. However, that does not fit with the description either.

Could you clarify exactly what the ability is, or alternatively, replace it?

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The force is your ally. How do you use it?
This section does not only concern how he uses the Force, but also the various Force “Powers” he has learned how to use, as well as his skill level with them.

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There is a moment in the bio, where the Jedi show up and he is awestruck by them. This is alright, but what did he think of the Sith who were there all along? They take to the field of battle just as often as the Jedi, and they are just as unstoppable and awe inspiring.

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You vaguely mention his brother in the section about encountering members of the Strike Team / Rescuers. However, we can’t seem to see him mentioned in more than two other places. There’s nothing about him leaving before Corr, nor mention of how he ended up in the strike team. Is his brother Force Sensitive? If yes, how is it Corr wasn’t picked up earlier?
If not, why is one brother relatively powerful and the other a dud? It can happen for two siblings to be somewhat different as force-sensitivity goes, but it is extremely unusual for two full siblings to be at opposite ends of the scale.

We can see two easy solutions…

• One is that they are not full siblings. That way, the Force Sensitivity could come from the parent that isn’t shared.
• The other is that they are both Force Sensitive. They probably would not be too different in level of Force Sensitivity, but they can have some difference. Corr would probably not be quite so powerful if his brother has almost zero sensitivity.
  His brother could’ve not been chosen as a padawan and ended up with three choices:
  
  • Service Corps
  • joining the republic military
  • Prison
  
  The reason for the last is that at this point in the war, the Jedi Order dared not leave untrained force sensitives to roam freely, as the sith might capture them and use them against the republic. Thus, imprisonment.

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What do you think your character is doing in a few IC months?
This section is about what you want to achieve with your character in the IC. What sort of stories you want to explore there. It is worded a little oddly, but that’s what it means.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

Following a GM discussion, it has been determined that a deadline is in order for incomplete sheets. This will be to set the stage for a proper launch of the IC.

We've got it noted down that the following people are working on sheets and are not waiting on us GMs for reviews:
@Heat@phoenixwhite@Vesuvius00@Sundered Echo@Demonic Angel@gowi

The following people either have their sheets approved, or are waiting on GM reviews of their sheets:
@Fallenreaper@Cqbexpt@SushiJaguar@Luna[@Dblade]@Chayden13@rtron@EliteCommander

We also know that @bingthewing may be working on a sheet. So that will be taken into account.

Anyways, the deadline:
It is at midnight, February 1st. Timezone is probably one of the American ones. So you know roughly when you've got to be finished.

Any questions?

So, the deadline for getting stuff ready so that it will be included in the IC launch is the end of this month, specifically, the day it changes from January to February. We'd say the moment, but that moment is 24 hours long.

Mahz's Dev Journal

plain, utterly biased opinions say the blame lies sorely upon spam and that mythical free section that some claim exists.

On a somewhat more serious note:

Long time no see, @Mahz.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

Fair enough, @BingTheWing.

Feel free to drop by the aftermath discord if there's any questions you might have or such.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

In principle, all four factions are open, @BingTheWing.

Either approved or in the making, we've got nine Sith, nine prisoners, four rescuers and five strike teams. As the last two groups will (mostly) be working together, that means its all fairly balanced.

As such, you can make:

• a Sith apprentice
• a captive Jedi padawan/knight
• a Jedi Knight on the strike team
• a Jedi Knight or Padawan among the rescuers
• a republic soldier that is part of the Strike Team

Know that the last option (Republic Soldier) will mean that your character would be at a severe disadvantage in quite a lot of the situations that happen in the RP. He or she will be far more likely than the others to die.