Ellri

Greetings and Salutations!

That was more or less it, @Sei003. We can't point you to any RPs in those fandoms, but we have no doubt they're out there (at least some of them).

Do you create attractive characters?

We have a few times edited and reworked images created by others, @Orpheus/@BrokenPromise, as the appearance fit for the character, but not the colors... Naturally, if we wish to post up online, we always ask the original artist's permission first. We also make sure to heavily modify the image so it is not merely a quick change to the original artist's work.

example

Original:

Reworked version:

And naturally whenever one does something like that, in addition to asking permission prior to uploading to any public place, credit should be given as is due. Some artists excel at creating new pieces of art from scratch, others are good at making existing pieces into new pieces. Neither is better or worse than the other in our opinion.

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anyways... Let's get back to the discussion on hand...

Attractiveness of any character is largely in the eye of the beholder. (center eye, not one of the eyestalks). As such, it will never be attractive to all. Each character should have its own ideal appearance. For some, that ideal might not at all fit with the common definitions of attractive.

If your goal is "crotchety old man" you probably won't use a picture that most younger audiences would consider "attractive".

Greetings and Salutations!

we'come to the guild.

any particular non-anime fandoms you particularly enjoy?

Mahz's Dev Journal

we used to have a low number, but then mahz accidentally deleted the user database for the new guild on its first day... When we got up the next day to discover that, 106 user numbers had already been claimed. But 107 is a nice number, we'd say.

We're a hundred more than you, @Kangaroo. Thus, we can claim to be in a lot more places at once.

Creativity

well, maybe? we've occasionally looked at intCks to see if anything stood out, but not found something. But we've not been looking very hard, and our desires can at times be rather narrow-minded. At least when we go looking like that, as we then tend to have something very specific in mind that we want to fill up with. Probably something nobody else would make.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

what about when you accidentally misspell something in a status? maybe allow for new status input if you delete the previous status submitted within the last n minutes?

Mahz's Dev Journal

@NuttsnBolts

Mahz is planning to get rid of the PM-based RPs, replacing them with private RPs where the players control who gets to read/post, but which go in the guild forum sections instead.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz

Gonna add the suggestions we came up with in the Discord here, so that they're written down.

Roleplay roster, stage 1:

• Private roleplays
• Roleplay participant system
  Roster features:
  
  • GM/Co-GMs always on list
  • GMs can add people (perhaps send invite that the player has to accept?)
  • GMs can remove people
  • Players can remove themselves from an RP
• RP join modes:
  
  • RP public (no joining necessary)
  • RP public (GMs add players)
  • RP private (GMs add players)

Roleplay roster, stage 2:

• Mature roleplays + Opt-in system for those who want 18+ RPs
• GMs (and maybe players) can use @notify functions towards Roster members (initally: everyone, GMs, non-GMs)
  Changes to Roster system:
  
  • Players can request to join a non-jump-in RP
  • GMs can "block" someone from (re)joining an RP
• RP join modes:
  
  • RP public (no joining necessary)
  • RP public (GMs add players)
  • RP private (GMs add players)
  • RP public (players can join)
  • RP public (players can request to join)
  • RP mature (invisible to non-opt-in)

Roleplay roster, stage 3:

• GMs can create "factions" in roster, which in turn can be notified separately from other members
  New Join modes:
  
  • RP private, Friends of GMs/participants can (request to) join
  • RP private, friends of GMs/participants can only see

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If anyone sees something they feel is "missing" above, don't hesitate to suggest it.

Mahz's Dev Journal

not bad ideas, @JBRam2002.

As an added thought to that... If the mentors are being judged by others as well as helping the newbies, there should be a system in place for dealing with "bad" mentors. Dealing with those who prove they are unsuitable for mentoring anyone. Simplest we can think of there is for the staff to have a tool in place for disabling someone's ability to use the mentor tag.

naturally, we hope such a system would be utterly without use, but the guild is (mostly) populated by humans, and humans are fallible. We don't really feel someone should be banned from the guild entirely for just being poor at teaching newbies the ropes. (but of course, extreme cases will demand extreme measures.)

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

just be glad the toilet isn't part face-hugger, @Kho.