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Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Just a gone with the wind reference.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Just a gone with the wind reference.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Veoline said
Okay.Jawjun? India?

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

If you want to piss people off in an NRP, limit the number of aircraft carriers to something passingly realistic.

They hate that.

Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

Plus I got to once destroy a handful of tanks with a group of African tribesmen armed with spears.

Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

Well, that, and reading a post that is mostly weapons and armor specs is about as fun as reading a textbook on the history of electrical circuits.

Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

kingkonrad said
WW1 isn't a nice context.

Well, war isn't a nice context at all. I don't think that is the point.

Ah, if only World War Two wouldn't have happened. There would be all those people allowed not to be dead, of course. And our view on war might have stayed "Dulce et decorum est". There should be something dark and depressing about RP's that take place in war, even if it is beneath the surface.

Also, I think the Thirty Years War is underrepresented. If you are going to do some battle-writing, might as well add frilly collars to the mix.

Anyone ever formally ended an RP?

Dinh AaronMk said
Most stuff I launch usually ends up going in such a way there's no ending. It just evolves and changes as it ages and we progress with our history.

We did end one with a rap battle once...

feminist roleplaying

It would be interesting to see somebody successfully subvert a lot of the common time-period norms. There isn't any rule written that all pre-industrial societies have to be patriarchal. You'd have to attend to the reasons why gender stratification existed in the first place (primarily, the difficulty of maintaining households in time periods where there was no microwaves or washing machines or Lysol, or the reality that having and raising children was vital to the community back then because infant mortality rates were so high and there were not a lot of nursing homes around). I have definitely seen it done successfully. The Adem in the Kingkiller Chronicles come to mind, where the society is so matriarchal that they believe the idea men have a hand in conception is foolish, and don't see a connection between sex and reproduction. You can do a lot of things, especially when writing about societies that don't exist, whether they are in fantasy worlds, or set in the future, or set in an alternate version of our world. Make a Gay Caliphate on Mars. Your options are limitless.

What you should avoid is the thought that your morals would somehow bring about a utopia. Question yourself a lot. If you made a society where your belief, whether it be third-wave feminism, or Christianity, or egalitarianism, became the moral norm, would that really mean the end of society's problems? Would a feminist society, where your beliefs became law, actually manage to eliminate prejudice? Finding the holes in your own ideas and reflecting on what they would mean will make for the most interesting writing. And really, it makes you a better person.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

If Hitler had spent less time gassing Jews and more time on the internet.