Roleplay Discussion Thread

Ikca said:

Hello. I am very new here and I would really like to join a role play. They only thing is I'm not very good at it at all. But I told this would be a good place to learn.

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Again, welcome to the RP Corner!

Thank you for your quick replies. I feel a lot better now that I have some direction.

Alright guys, now that Novia's run out of juice I still find myself wanting to GM and play in a journey RP. So I have written another Journey RP, this one being set in the Hoenn region as opposed to a region of my own design like Novia. Whilst the RP still follows the same formula of other journey's (completion of the league being the centre-piece) I wanted to take a different approach, so the RP focuses more on the individual goals of the various characters on their journey through the region and completing the league will not actually be mandatory but rather more of a "recommended" option. Before I post this though I want to make sure that people are actually interested in taking part since there haven't been many RPs of the genre lately.

I also have two other RPs I am currently working on - but unlike the one above they're not ready. The first is one set in the Starcraft universe following a group of human characters as they are forced to go from ordinary colonists to soldiers in a war between alien races. The second is an original role play which deals with the inhabitants of a city attempting to survive a supernatural apocalypse consisting of various "plagues" (may or may not involve the development of superhuman abilities, expect zombies, hellfire and dragons.)

So, thoughts.

Also, welcome to the RPC Ikca.

Hoenn is my favorite region of all of them, so I would definately join. I think letting us choose our paths is cool, as sometimes I like being the bad buy, but then again, hoenn is just so cool you can't be the bad guy! I <3 Hoenn!

btw - that means i approve

as for you other two... I like the sound of the second one. An apocalypse is always good if you have a good plotline and something to base our ideas off (a reason to frequently post) a different apocalyptic roleplay I was once in died due to their being nothing to do, so you might have to think carefully about that one.

I love journey RP. Yet I struggle with them at the moment :x What makes me really enjoy them is the opportunity to kind of write an "original-trainer-fic" with inspirational help in the form of rules and events laid down by the GM. But that requires some kind of enticing setting as well as you creating a good character to play with, in order to last for a longer run.

I don't know if I maybe don't like my current RP character as much as I hoped I would, maybe that's keeping me :/

But if you think you can create an interesting enough premise and setting, I'll at least be tempted to join ;)

Blerg, people stealing my thunder with introductions for new guys! x3

@Ikca, I suppose there really isn't much more to be said, haha. Abandon all hope ye who enters here, the land of Roleplays and Fun, and bla, bla, bla :P *read as: WELCOME!!!!1*

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That's it, I guess, welcome~ :D

@gimme. HOENN RP! IMPOSSIBRU!
Actually, that's pretty cool, paths and individual goals and all that, just don't put talking walking omniscient Dr. Who-ish Lotads in it and it'll be just fine : >

@Elite - Don't worry it is entirely different to Hoenn ReBurst.

I thought about making a TWD-like RP based in a post-modern era. Would anyone be interested?

TWD = The Walking Dead. I dunno what Girls und Panzer is actually.

just a heads up to all my roleplaying champs:

in australia, university is heading towards the end of the year. that means final assessment and junk. so i'll be on the inactive side. Sorry!

Skymin said:

just a heads up to all my roleplaying champs:

in australia, university is heading towards the end of the year. that means final assessment and junk. so i'll be on the inactive side. Sorry!

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Same goes for New Zealand, yo. Four more weeks and I'll be free!

JNathan said:

TWD = The Walking Dead. I dunno what Girls und Panzer is actually.

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Girls and Tanks. Not really much more to explain, all I know about the show is the name.

I'm trying to put together a region map for a roleplay I'm planning on making and I'm having a lot of problems with scaling.

Main issue I'm facing is that locations on the map feel way too big or too small for the size of the map or for each other. I would go into detail about what I'm talking about, but everything's still in planning. Does anyone have any experience with map making or have any tips that can help me out?

@Kranic - sketch out the shape first, then decide how big you actually want this thing. When I make maps, I never actually draw on the towns and citys, but put little markings, or if its a very small scale map, little dots. Often I put a little flag. Then decide on your areas, and what type of ares it would be. If I were you, I'd plan it out on a4 paper first in rough, remembering to make the shape unique, and filling up the whole space. Also figure out how big your capital is going to be, then you can see how much that compares to your land. Big cities are fine, small villages are fine too. Basically, what I'm saying is, dont worry too much about scaling, make that up as you go along.

I have all that in mind, but when I look at the whole map, with bigger details in mind, things just seem really off. Like I'm not sure how far traveling distance would be and if the mountains or forests I have worked out are too big or small for events that I have planned in the future.

I think the main problem I'm having is considering how big a town should be compared to the natural environment, which is kind of hard to judge since it varies so much depending on the era.

I'd really like to have a map that could make an easily envisionable world and what I have currently just makes me feel like they're filled with contradictions.

I also feel like having a high quality map makes writing history a lot easier, since you have a much better starting point and roleplays generally are better when you have a nice thought out setting in place, which is why I really want this to be well done.

Hey everyone! Just wanna let everybody know that there's an open spot for an Earthbender in Swifty (Magic Fox)'s and my own RP :D It's not first-come first-serve, so if you feel up to it, give the OOC and maybe the IC a little read. Our earthbender sadly dropped out early on.

Hmm, just a reminder to the mods, the Life After Death IC thread has been waiting for four days and it still isn't up, and I'm starting to get impatient.

90FC3C said:

Hmm, just a reminder to the mods, the Life After Death IC thread has been waiting for four days and it still isn't up, and I'm starting to get impatient.

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