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Harry Potter - Sandbox style

I still have a craving for a HP roleplay, but I don't want to GM. I have no plot in mind, I thought we could brainstorm a rough setting and just go with it. Any thoughts?

If we're in Hogwarts, I hope there's no class-curriculum. I don't know why a lot of HP rp have a school schedule.

I was thinking, too, an adults dark ages setting, in the heyday of Voldemort. In which case, I'm open towards inclusion of canon chars being played. I'm fond of this idea or on related notes.

Incoherent ideas: looking for a Co-GM / brainstorm partner

@Dark Light Thanks for the offer but my plate's a bit full with this RP I'll have going on. Good luck with yours.

And to conclude this thread, I've found a co-GM.

Dee's Cleverly Named Interest Check [fxf and fxm]

Do you do fandoms? I feel like you'd watch Carmilla or The 100.

Era of the End ~ Interest Check! (Dark/Modern/High Fantasy/Apocalyptic)

Free bump.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@Royzooka Oh I get ya (Soz, tired with slight headache again). People that say they're interested so you go to the effort of starting things up and setting up a new RP, only to find no one follows through. Heh... Yeah, that's part of the reason why I'm not interested in GMing anymore as I put in a fair bit of effort to start up some RPs and all of them never really took off. :\

@NuttsnBolts

I've always found the opposite. Every game I've ever joined, the GM - even with co-GMs - disappears soon after start-up.

I Honestly Did Not Need to Know That -- Useless Facts

Ancient Chinese people have much longer lifespan than us modern rats. There are records of some who can live up to 800 years old.

@tsukune

Source?

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

GMs whose character sheet tells of someone who's near perfect, whose only imperfection in power or personality is so minor that it's eye-rolling insignificant and added on as if to say, "There, that's their flaw!" E.g, a master swordsman who's well versed in magic, languages, music and only-moderately capable in guns (that humble pie!), a philanthropist and empathetic in any situation, whose only weakness is his friends in danger.

If I had known the GM would make a character so strong to play with the rest of us as equals in the game, I wouldn't have created a character whose abilities are like a freshly graduated mage. Then again, both as a player and GM, I like characters who start out weak and mortal, to develop into something else surprising down the line; I don't like to detail out every aspect of amazingness my character could have, esp power-wise, right in the beginning of the story. I feel it's limiting.

Character Descriptions

I'm not a fan of detailed physical descriptions of chars like you are, @The Mad Hatter. I feel they aren't necessary and takes a lot of work for me to imagine each slight part of their feature - unless, of course, the particular feature comes into play in the story at a particular point, for example Harry Potter having eyes like his mother's. I much prefer large brush strokes when describing their physical looks, like a caricature; something that gives me an idea what they look like and I can fill in the rest - just like the world or the story the char is in. The whole lot is mostly filled in by the reader's imagination with scaffolding in place by the author, and necessary pieces that the author insists is rather important to the narrative to convey the message, set up the plot, or to create the wanted atmosphere.

Ianus Congreatio: Secret societies, horror, and mystery in the shadows of Prague.

How well would an old aristocratic English man who's racist, sexist and elitist go down in this game? :P Not that he means to, of course, but it's par for the course for someone of his ilk.

Edit: No, I don't have time. Must... resist... joining....