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Vampire the Masquerade

@Karos I mostly wanna be a True Brujah for the personality, really...the Clan interests me more on the philosopher-king side than the young punk brawler side. But since I'll be applying as an Elder, knowing the restrictions in advance will be helpful. Thanks.

Vampire the Masquerade

@Karos Are you down for a True Brujah, or would Temporis make him too OP?

Why did this RP never get of the ground?

@SilverRain Mind you that scroll image wasn't there in the original thread. In fact it appears he's editing the old one instead of composing a new one entirely.

Still, good steps forward so far. 👍

Why did this RP never get of the ground?

I, personally, didn't know the thread existed. You didn't advertise it very well (no interest-check, only three bumps), so I only would have found it if I dug back a few pages in the Casual RP section.

But even if I had found the thread, it doesn't offer the player much of a call-to-action. What do I mean by this?

• A significant bulk of your thread is devoted to describing the setting. Very little describes plot, or what roles the players are meant to fill in this world.
• When you finally explain what characters you want the players to play, I've already read well over halfway through the entire thread. I read this, of course, as a courtesy to you, so I could help you to answer the question you pose in this thread; if I was reading with the intention of joining it, I probably would have gotten bored and given up before ever reaching that point. This is because...
• You give the players no emotional onus. You never give them a reason to care about all these events; are they defending their homes from an invading threat? Pursuing a shot at wealth, fame, and glory? There's no tone to the RP; reading it is a sterile experience.
• Your worldbuilding offers nothing which other Fantasy RPs/worlds/stories don't. The "Emerald Coast" could belong to any medieval setting at all. Villages raided by bandits, too, are old hat.
• On the other hand, you severely limit the creativity of the players by setting guidelines like this:
  
  

  They will join the group as conscripts. This means they may have little to no formal combative training, even if mercenaries or thugs their prowess is most likely experience only.

  @ELGainsborough

  
  
  What if the players wanted to be battle-scarred veterans, or more mercenary, roguish characters? Your thread seems to forbid both of these. We're not interested in stories where we're not free to do what we want, and where our actions won't change the fate of the story.

If I think of more during a second skim, I'll edit them in.

What's your favorite stupid movie?

@POOHEAD189 I am bleeding...making me the victor!

Men vs. Women Race to 1000

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In Defense Of The Genre [Part II]

I won't get everything I want out of your decisions, @Hank, but that's fine. I'm glad that some progress, any progress, has resulted from this, and that with some cooperation between users and staff, we might never again have to create a thread like this and let it grow so big and urgent. I'm satisfied with the compromise.

In Defense Of The Genre [Part II]

Maybe one of the other five mods can fill in, then? Surely not all of you are "feeling unwell" simultaneously.

I hope you get better soon.

In Defense Of The Genre [Part II]

He's a hobbyist website admin, not the despot of a banana republic. He doesn't "lead" anybody. He gives you a space to fulfill your roleplaying needs, and we (the rest of the staff) help him take care of spambots, misplaced posts and trolls. That's it. That's all this place is. And frankly, your assumptions about his motives for creating, hosting and maintaining the site are disingenuous, and comparing a -- let me remind you again -- hobbyist forum to a democratic nation is at least melodramatic, if not outright ridiculous.

And by the way, websites are never democratic. The internet is an exercise in benevolent dictatorship to begin with.

If you thought my earlier post was vitriolic I implore you to reconsider your knowledge of the meaning of that word, but fear not -- I'll educate you on its meaning right now. Many of the points raised in this thread are valid. Yours are not. I don't appreciate your sensationalism and I'd prefer if you just keep out of the conversation entirely if you can't manage a reasonable level of discourse. Several people have complained in this very thread that users are blowing the issues out of proportion and your post is a textbook example of that very same thing. Overthrow Mahz? What the fuck are you talking about? Do you have the slightest idea how the internet works? And are you seriously implying that he go read a book written about war to learn how to administrate a hobbyist internet forum?

You need to get some perspective.

@Hank

I don't really buy this excuse, seeing as how people have raised many of RWBY's valid points already, without the same melodramatic rhetoric, and you've been perfectly content to ignore them too.

For example:

The majority staff isn't just eneough transparent, mature, and open enough to criticism to come here and discuss this with the community. Of the ones that posted here until now, @Ruby and @NuttsnBolts, seen like they just came to try to save face and looking like they are open to discussion, when they trully aren't. In fact, Nutt's first post on this discussion was an open attempt to shut down all dialogue and shift the blame on the community and, especially @Cyndyr, this thread's OP.

@RWBY Spectre

@Nytem4re already raised this issue here. Where's his explanation, if the tone of one's writing is really the basis by which we judge his posts' worth? Seeing as how Nyt didn't allude to any totalitarian imagery, no one should have had any problems giving him a proper response in the 24 hours since he uploaded this post. Right?