Gowi

Life Is Strange, Blackwell Academy RP

Allen’s just a punk with daddy issues. Which exactly explains why he wants to play the main character from Beyond: Two Souls if you think about it.

_{love you}

Life Is Strange, Blackwell Academy RP

_{Shut up, Gowi.}

@Mr Allen J

Life Is Strange, Blackwell Academy RP

@Gowi Still fits. Depending on how it's handled.

@Ermine

Yeah, no thanks if that is the case for me.

Making the jump from Casual to Advanced

The best thing to see with a well-laid plan is for one of your characters to waltz in and wreak havoc, rendering it utterly useless and irrelevant.

@Ellri

No.

Life Is Strange, Blackwell Academy RP

@ineffable Since I presume that everyone is going with original character, I have a character with an "Imaginary friend" that essentially grants her telekinesis and telepathy (along with a mental shield) that I think would fit the thematic of Life is Strange. Would that be coolio?

@Mr Allen J

This is Life is Strange not Beyond Two Souls.

Life Is Strange, Blackwell Academy RP

No preference, really. Interpretations are just as fun as new concepts.

Pariah (.hack//SIGN-inspired RP) — Discussion & Interest Check

T_____T

you want to kill me, don't you?

I'm currently in 6 RPs and now I see this one!

*hype*

@13org

Imagine how I feel! I might be GMing three or more RP's by the end of January.

Making the jump from Casual to Advanced

You should approach a RP you feel interested by and see if the GM appreciates your efforts; don’t let classists define how you look at enjoyable prospective projects. Ever.

@Gowi

I feel like this is a common concern. But no, you aren’t the only person who feels this way; I have many friends onsite who seem to still find the move to Advanced as this titanic and imposing thing, which I feel it is most definitely not. One could even argue that Advanced as a section isn’t even that rigid compared to how it was four-to-five years prior; back when RPG was a different site in terms of population and tone. So let me tell you something as a piece of reassurance— nobody is going to scoff at you and treat you unfairly for trying.

When I first began reading roleplays (because I do that) in the Advanced section I wasn’t that much younger than I am now; it was three or maybe four years ago. Perhaps it was fortunate it was in a roleplay that was inviting, active, and communicative— but I wasn’t someone who never planned ahead in most of their roleplaying experiences and only could give out a small amount of detail, diction, and depth. I could maybe throw out two to four small paragraphs. It wasn’t until I was surrounded with these writers in this Advanced game that my prose improved as I tried to keep up on a level that my peers… my co-writers were putting out. It was great, and it wouldn’t have done me any good to sit by in fear of not being good enough.

Sometimes you just have to get your feet wet.

For these last few years I’ve used a friend’s personal definition of what Advanced is and represents, you may remember it from me posting it in the roleplay you almost joined that I am a semi-active participant in.

"Advanced roleplaying should focus on developing interesting and complex characters that become part of plot-lines which catch the imagination and inspire the writer behind them to exercise creativity. It is mature, humorous, imaginative, tragic, terrifying, passionate, and rife with descriptive language and characters with real personality and relatable cares. Quality posting is far better than needless novels, yet one should never neglect detail when one feels the need. However, while word and paragraph requirements ought to be unnecessary, single paragraphs cannot contain enough detail to suffice."

Notice key phrases I’ve outlined with the olive green.

As an advanced roleplayer (when I feel the inspiration) and GM I can tell you that I don’t expect people to write a 1,600 word long post— I don’t even in the cases I’m writing longer posts expect players to match it. I just expect them to be descriptive, imaginative, dedicated, and cooperative. You don’t need to pull out a thesaurus. Advanced is more about depth than it is quantity; or at least it is to me. I suppose another question is how earnest and passionate are you about your hobby? Is this just passing fluff or do you have fun playing off people and new worlds in a bigger scheme? Advanced roleplayers generally only want to make sure that their peers care like they do about a project.

There are more specific answers I could give if needed, but I suppose that’s the gist of advice/thoughts on the subject from my end.

Life Is Strange, Blackwell Academy RP

@ineffable

Wait, do you want to roleplay with us on that sub? Because I actually was one of the very first members to join it upon creation, and I quit for personal reasons eventually, so I wouldn't be joining in that case. I also don't particularly like the reddit layout for roleplaying.

@Sunbather

Who would? Ew.

Pariah (.hack//SIGN-inspired RP) — Discussion & Interest Check

After doing a slight nostalgic distraction with Knights of the Old Republic II, I think I’m going to get back to finishing a lot of the finalization of the OOC. I’ve decided on cutting back on some of my fluff and getting to the meat of things— brevity and all that. In the nature of being transparent with each and every single one of you— I’ve thrown out a lot of shitty delays and excuses, but ultimately a half-baked vision was probably the biggest hurdle I faced here was overthinking the concept when I did put time aside to work on it.

At any rate, I sincerely apologize to everyone and am excited to move this forward this week with a simplified OOC.