Gwazi Magnum

Halo: We are ODST - Ghost Squad never dies, it just goes missing in action.

Ok, it's been 4 days and nothing's been offered.

Do people want to get going with just us or should I make a new Interest Check?
If I don't answers by tomorrow night I'll just go ahead and make a new Interest Check.

Help Me Write My Grad Blurb

"I'm all out of gum"

Red vs Blue Roleplay?

Use this to make your character pictures if you want guys.

If you want more from the CS's just say so, but I wasn't really sure what to add if personalities are being saved for the IC.

Name: Cortez

Team: Red Team

Appearance:

Other: Main fighting style is twin pistols, smgs or spikers.

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Name: Agno

Team: Blue Team

Appearance:

Other: Preference of Battle Rifles and DMRs

Heroic said The freelancer can be optional. And yeah, names for the RP. It'd be better to have something creative than just "A RvB Roleplay" haha.It's fine if you just have a red or a blue then.

Ok. Why not Blue Vs Red? :P

In all seriousness typical fancy naming requires the author to have a good knowledge of the plot ahead of time. Being a forum RP we're bound to make it up as we go, so we might just want to leave it as a RvB placeholder for now, and then change the name as we get a decent idea of the plot's direction.

Red vs Blue Roleplay?

I'm good for one red and blue each, I wouldn't try to reinforce a freelance for everyone at the start though.
I think the main focus should be on the two teams for a while.

Heroic said Now may also be a good time for us all to throw ideas for the name and such out.

Names for what? The RP?

HALO: WE ARE ODST (Interest Check)

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/59661/posts/ic

Still waiting on the majority of the old players to confirm in OOC they are there though and what characters they're using.

Play-by-post Roleplay VS In-game MMO Roleplay

My only experience in video game RP is the Habbo Hotel.ca RP's that used to exists and a Halo 3 Custom Game a friend made that was essentially a hugely expanded version of cops and robbers. Pretty sure I still have the map for it too...

Anyways, what you feel is completely natural.
Game's require at the moment/real time reactions, you need be quick on your feet and quick thinking to do well in such an environment.
While with forum RP's you have the time to sit down, clear your head and invest your time into a decent high quality post.

I'm largely the same way when it comes to playing strategy video games, I largely prefer the per turn ones where you plan each turn out rather than having to fight in real time.

Magic Magnum

Yes it's a joke.

Red vs Blue Roleplay?

I'm good with either a freelancer focused or another rvb focused RP.
If we go rvb focused though I'd definitely vouch for some neutral characters at least though, like say Doc.

feminist roleplaying

idlehands said Of course, a fantasy world is easier to make up whatever you want, but people and cultures are complex and sometimes contradictory. I did an RP once set in the height of the Black Plague in Germany. It was pretty damn gritty and awful. Society breaks down and people prey on the weak, superstitions run wild and lead to mass murders. This was probably the closest to anarchy that occurred in the Middle Ages.While life was certainly rough up until modern era and there was a reason for the gender roles seen as 'traditional' but like everything human, it is complex and not always what it appears. Certainly the Vikings raiding the coast of England and Ireland are a good example of barbaric hordes. They looted and burned, they took slaves and raped women. But on the home front a woman in pagan Viking society had a significant among of control over herself. Divorce was common and though it tended to favor men when it came to adultery, a woman could divorce her husband if they just did not get along. If he was caught hitting her in public, he would face a fine or even a challenge from the men of her family. So it was illegal for a man to abuse his wife and yet it was seen as perfectly fine for the same man to go rape an Irish woman during a raid or even kill his own slaves without a blink of an eye from the legal system. Anyway, that's enough from me about that. I could dig up examples all night.

On the bright side they had really good boats.

But yea, in practice that seems pretty double standard but honestly that just looks like a case of "You're a viking women, you will be treated well. But you're not a Viking women... rape!".
Essentially they care about their own and treat their own well, but anyone outside is suspect to anything. It is still a double standard, but it at least isn't one within their own community.

Kestrel said I don't see why people can't write feminist characters or activists in general. It'd be wrong to push a social agenda onto other players, sure, but if the setting allows it what's the problem? It's just another character. Yours even, so that's your idea. Likewise, for GM'ing, it'd be fine to boot up a roleplay about activists, the adversity they meet and their success and/or failure. I mean why not? Just don't force other people's characters to adhere by your ideals and you're all good.

Obviously in an RP made around activism an outright feminist would fit in.
But activism probably wouldn't be an appealing topic to most people, I can only see that facing a very niche target.
A target that get's even more niche because to avoid players all wandering off on their own protests they'd all have to be focused on the same charity or cause.

While in a non-feminist/activist roleplay, someone going around saying "These women are being victimized by sexism!" would just get really annoying when everyone else is trying to be enjoying a plot or story.
For another example, imagine you're doing some sort of Avatar Last Airbender RP and atm the Fire Nation is invading the Water Nation. While the rest of the players may be for the invasion, or focused on fending them off you got this one player running around going "Think about the seals! Baby seals are in danger!". It just doesn't mix well with the plot, theme or the other characters.

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Sole said
You could just put joke in parenthesis or brackets and call it a day

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