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Keeping an RP alive is as much the players' responsibility as it is the GM's.
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The most important period in an RP's life is when the responses start to slow after the initial honeymoon phase. This is THE deciding time for whether or not an RP dies.
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HELLO MY NAME IS STONE AND I LOVE FANTASY - ALL SORTS OF IT - ALL MY RPs ARE FANTASY
MY FAVORITE KIND IS TECHNOFANTASY, THOUGH. THE KIND WITH SWORDS AND MAGIC AND GUNS AND MONSTERS AND SCIENCE AND SOMETIMES CARS TOO. YOU CAN DO SO MUCH WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY IN YOUR FANTASY WORLD
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The biggest difference between the sections is description. MORE STUFF DOESN'T "HAPPEN" IN "HIGHER" RPS.
You're in a response cycle, which means you have to rely on other people to continue forward and progress. No matter the RP, there is a sort of indeterminate limit where you can't continue any further in your post without stepping on someone else's toes. The difference between sections lies in there. Free will cut all the fat and maybe leave one or two lines of motivations or descriptions. Advanced will give intricate reasonings for actions and details about the scene. Casual will be somewhere in between.
However, the key thing they share is that one person is acting, and there's only so much one person can do. It's why, in general, Advanced is slower than Casual, and Casual is slower than Free - there's less stuff to write, so each rotation of the cycle moves faster the less there is per post.
You're in a response cycle, which means you have to rely on other people to continue forward and progress. No matter the RP, there is a sort of indeterminate limit where you can't continue any further in your post without stepping on someone else's toes. The difference between sections lies in there. Free will cut all the fat and maybe leave one or two lines of motivations or descriptions. Advanced will give intricate reasonings for actions and details about the scene. Casual will be somewhere in between.
However, the key thing they share is that one person is acting, and there's only so much one person can do. It's why, in general, Advanced is slower than Casual, and Casual is slower than Free - there's less stuff to write, so each rotation of the cycle moves faster the less there is per post.
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It might also be a player vs. GM mindset as well! Does the person have experience GMing an RP that needed lots of NPCs? They'll probably be more diverse in who they play!
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Started GMing Cardinal Rift a few months ago. We've got 12 players, and, personally, I'm ecstatic with the amount of diversity. Each character feels unique, we've got different backstories, origins, etc.
One thing that I'm really proud about is how I believe CR's diversity was brought about by the setting my coGM and I created. We wanted to make a world where anyone could play any sort of character they wanted. One of the principal character traits was magic. Our magic system is very limiting, and yet open at the same time. By giving people the chance to explore the boundaries of what magic can or can't do, I think we sort of brought about creativity in other aspects of character creation.
Of course, magic isn't all of it. Personality is big too. By making a world with very different areas and backgrounds, we let everyone really expand what they liked.
Sorry if it was a bit of a ramble. I suppose my end conclusion is that the setting itself is often what fosters character diversity. If the GM makes a world where there's options, the players will take those options. To answer the bit about through different RPs, I really don't know. I haven't been on the guild long enough to say.
One thing that I'm really proud about is how I believe CR's diversity was brought about by the setting my coGM and I created. We wanted to make a world where anyone could play any sort of character they wanted. One of the principal character traits was magic. Our magic system is very limiting, and yet open at the same time. By giving people the chance to explore the boundaries of what magic can or can't do, I think we sort of brought about creativity in other aspects of character creation.
Of course, magic isn't all of it. Personality is big too. By making a world with very different areas and backgrounds, we let everyone really expand what they liked.
Sorry if it was a bit of a ramble. I suppose my end conclusion is that the setting itself is often what fosters character diversity. If the GM makes a world where there's options, the players will take those options. To answer the bit about through different RPs, I really don't know. I haven't been on the guild long enough to say.
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this is not an advanced specific issue and i have encountered it the most in casual (though casual is basically advanced-lite now with all this high-casual bullshit)
What constitutes as high casual?
Want to jump in real quick with a small anecdote - I'm somewhat new to the guild, not to RPing.
The way I see it here is, at this point, the difference is purely who you want to net in your IntCheck and actual RP. I'm currently running an RP that's posted some pretty damn long posts (which might change soon) in a short amount of time. I don't think I ever would have caught the same audience if I had posted in Advanced, which seems to fit the amount of lore that my co-GM and I built for the world. I think I would have at least gotten people that tend to post at a slower rate if I had made my RP Advanced instead of Casual - not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
That's the main difference that I see - obviously there are different post lengths, qualities, guidelines, but at this point I'd wager that people cast their net because of who they want to catch, not because of lore reqs.
The way I see it here is, at this point, the difference is purely who you want to net in your IntCheck and actual RP. I'm currently running an RP that's posted some pretty damn long posts (which might change soon) in a short amount of time. I don't think I ever would have caught the same audience if I had posted in Advanced, which seems to fit the amount of lore that my co-GM and I built for the world. I think I would have at least gotten people that tend to post at a slower rate if I had made my RP Advanced instead of Casual - not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
That's the main difference that I see - obviously there are different post lengths, qualities, guidelines, but at this point I'd wager that people cast their net because of who they want to catch, not because of lore reqs.
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"Some suspicious figure is going about and slinging axes at people's doors. I want you all to be on watch," Yamarr said to the constables. Taft was a small town, but its police force was fairly well equipped. Each member had a sharpened sabre, baton, blinding spray, and whatever gate they themselves possessed. It was certainly enough to keep a town of several thousand safe.
Yamarr had sent the three teenagers home after calling for the police, and he now stood in the center of a circle on the cobblestones just outside his home. The rain lifted a few minutes prior to the meeting, and they now stood on the slick road, illuminated by the locked-up gemlights in the streetlamps.
The constables nodded and split up after receiving Yamarr's account of what had transpired that night. Lendal had died, the beastman was served justice, and now there was some mentally-deranged warmongerer throwing axes at doors. It certainly was the most excitement the town had gotten since the bank teller's daughter had ran away with a passing gypsy caravan. The day would certainly be remembered in the town's history.
Though, something even stranger was happening. A curious white powder was spreading through the air. It looked almost like snow... Yamarr reached out and brushed some with his hand. Fluffy, like pollen. But it was getting close to winter now. Why would there be pollen?
He suddenly felt rather... sluggish. Maybe he could... just take a rest on the ground, just for a moment. The cobbles were just so inviting...
"Some suspicious figure is going about and slinging axes at people's doors. I want you all to be on watch," Yamarr said to the constables. Taft was a small town, but its police force was fairly well equipped. Each member had a sharpened sabre, baton, blinding spray, and whatever gate they themselves possessed. It was certainly enough to keep a town of several thousand safe.
Yamarr had sent the three teenagers home after calling for the police, and he now stood in the center of a circle on the cobblestones just outside his home. The rain lifted a few minutes prior to the meeting, and they now stood on the slick road, illuminated by the locked-up gemlights in the streetlamps.
The constables nodded and split up after receiving Yamarr's account of what had transpired that night. Lendal had died, the beastman was served justice, and now there was some mentally-deranged warmongerer throwing axes at doors. It certainly was the most excitement the town had gotten since the bank teller's daughter had ran away with a passing gypsy caravan. The day would certainly be remembered in the town's history.
Though, something even stranger was happening. A curious white powder was spreading through the air. It looked almost like snow... Yamarr reached out and brushed some with his hand. Fluffy, like pollen. But it was getting close to winter now. Why would there be pollen?
He suddenly felt rather... sluggish. Maybe he could... just take a rest on the ground, just for a moment. The cobbles were just so inviting...
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