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Chit-Chat: General Roleplay Discussion Thread "the RPD" (archived)

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, I say you put it to a vote RPC-wide to decide, but really you'll never be able to please everyone.
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Agree with this. Let's just get a RPC wide vote and be done with it. Honestly looking at the current RPA and the RPers it's a much better situation than it was some time ago, so I'll go ahead and change my opinion and say that I'm okay with any system, including voting, as long as we have the freedom so choose who we vote for and everyone gets a fair chance to win.
 
HeyHey it's Apollo/Chili/David here :D got another name change... but yeah just wanted to let the general RPC know that it was me posting with the weird name
 
I've not personally seen any Nation-type roleplays around for a great while. Because of that, I wonder how well-received one would be.

Any thoughts on that?
 
Hey guys! Im pretty new to rping so i havent posted a lot around here, but im getting really into it (:
CosmicFury, what exactly do you mean by nation-type rps?? Sounds kinda cool
 
A nation RP is more or less exactly what it sounds like. It's an RP about entire nations more than focusing on single characters, from the geography to economy and general citizenship to, depending on how in-depth about the nation you want to get, religion and superstitions. It requires a lot of management and prior development of the nation you wish to create or get involved with.
 
Cosmic Fury said:
I've not personally seen any Nation-type roleplays around for a great while. Because of that, I wonder how well-received one would be.

Any thoughts on that?
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I haven't been in a nation roleplay in over a year and, honestly, I've been kind of itching for one.

Depending on the setting (modern day nation roleplays bore me) I'd probably be up for it.
 
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It's an RP about entire nations more than focusing on single characters, from the geography to economy and general citizenship to, depending on how in-depth about the nation you want to get, religion and superstitions
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Thanks sooo much dor the very detailed answer!!
It really does sound like a very demanding rp, but pretty interesting nonetheless
If someone creates one and the plot/nation appeals to me, i might try it out (:
 
From my experience, nation-type RPs are hard to manage beforehand and harder to maintain. Before you post it, you first need to plan a setting, and if you decide to design the nations the players will controlling, the amount of information you'll have to disclose in the thread will be off-putting for first-lookers (especially if the RP is non-Pokemon). Secondly, take into consideration the great responsibility each player will take into their hands while controlling an entire nation. I imagine a player must thoroughly understand how exactly his own nation operates, and of course the mechanics of all the traits mentioned (government, religion, etc.), otherwise IC-wise the RP might steer into an awkward direction where impossible events happen, and that could damage the quality of the story. Securing dedicated RPers who have time to read and love the setting and plot is essential to keep a nation-type RP alive, in my opinion. Regardless of any of that, good luck!
 
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From my experience, nation-type RPs are hard to manage and harder to maintain. Before you post it, you first need to plan a setting, and if you decide to design the nations the players will controlling, the amount of information you'll have to disclose in the thread will be off-putting for first-lookers (especially if the RP is non-Pokemon). Secondly, take into consideration the great responsibility each player will take into their hands while controlling an entire nation. I imagine a player must thoroughly understand how exactly his own nation operates, and of course the mechanics of all the traits mentioned (government, religion, etc.), otherwise IC-wise the RP might steer into an awkward direction where impossible events happen, and that could damage the quality of the story. Securing dedicated RPers who have time to read and love the setting and plot is essential to keep a nation-type RP alive, in my opinion. Regardless of any of that, good luck!
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Hmm. Let's see. That kind of roleplay sounds pretty fun. I'll try creating one in the near future.
 
I've never done a nation roleplay. It sounds like it'd be interesting. I don't mind if it takes a while to appear, either, since I have to figure out how to catch up with all of my schoolwork while maintaining the ones that I'm currently in (and GMing). d:

And there's potential for many time periods and worlds. . . . I'd be up for medieval, futuristic, magic, extraterrestrial, et cetera.
 
I had this idea to make a nation RP and i thought i would make it a bit different and make my own map, and tweak it a bit rather than your conventional game. I thought that I would provide a gym for each pokemon type, and that the elite four would be a bit harder than usual. Instead of each elite four being a specialist in a certain type, they would be like the champion and have different types. You would only need to beat 8 gyms and you can pick whichever ones you would like to challenge. When you defeat a certain amount of gyms you unlock more content. such as a battle frontier sort of thing and other stuff that I can think of. I understand that the map would be huge, and I hope that that wouldn't affect the RPing too much. Its just an idea.
I would appreciate any feedback from experiene RP creators and players on whether or not it would work and what suggestions you might have to improve my idea.
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Kirky
 
@Kirky how does the idea of nations blend in with a Pokemon trainer's quest of earning all the badges and beating the Elite Four? If you play as individuals from each nation, that would make sense, but it wouldn't be a nation-type RP anymore. Or did you mean that every player would be working his way to the Elite Four in different nations (you said the map had to be huge)? A roleplay is a collaborative effort, so I suggest keeping people's characters close to each other. I'm sure most of us want interaction, rather than writing stuff on our own. I've seen some journey RPs fail because stray people from the main group got bored and called it quits.

To move from the structure into more physical details (and let me be frank here): the RP you are planning to do has been done many, many times in the past. We all love Pokemon here, so naturally we come up with the same ideas, a journey, beating the Gyms of a new region, entering a tournament, etc. If you look around PC, at least one of those RPs will be up and running at a time. The element of 'Pokemon' is basic and overused, as it should be, so it's a good idea to draw players in with an original idea for a setting, based on Pokemon. Take a look at Magic's roleplay's; it's not hard to figure out why they're so popular!
 
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BURDEN​
GMed by Watchdog and Kikpanther​

Ten years ago marked the fall of Astrova's President Ivan Sokolsky and the end of a tyrannical government. With the protection of the Astrovian special police, the country has remained strongly independent and peaceful. However, every great nation has an enemy and in recent years they've become bolder in their attempts to destroy Astrova. The anti-Astrovian rebel group (often referred to as the AAs) is lead by the escaped criminal Ethan Sherbert, nicknamed The Catalyst. The AAs are adamant in their attempts to usurp the Astrovian government and have demonstrated their ideals with raiding, assassinations, and mass shootings. Under their new president Shaye Maclomhair the Astrovian government has made attempts to negotiate with the AAs, but have so far had no luck. The rebel group is unwilling to find compromise and thus all negotiations are at a standstill.

You are a new member of the Astrovian special police force, more specifically you are one of the few who guards President Maclomhair. You have only recently left The Academy, a training facility for young girls and boys who are to enlist in the military and protect Astrova. Like your classmates, you were enrolled by your parents into Academy around the age of five to seven and have trained since the fall of President Sokolsky's tyranny. You have not seen your parents since you enrolled and, as unfortunate as it is, it is a necessity in order maintain the integrity of the government and the Astrovian people. Per the Academy's system, you have been training with the same classmates since enrollment and each of you have elevated to proud, graduated member. Some of your teammates may be siblings, best friends, or long-time rivals, but above all they are your greatest allies. Though you are full members of the special police, your senior members will be acting as your mentors for the time being, so pay close attention to what they say! Volunteers, the Astrovian people thank you!

For the most part, Burden is an RP designed to focus on the characters, settings, and nuances of the Burden world rather than the plot itself. While the plot is still important, its main purpose is to push the characters to discover its many secrets and mysteries that pop-up within the Burden world. With so many Easter eggs (if you will) within the plot, there's a chance not everything will be discovered, but it certainly is possible! Think of it like a video game with multiple endings, whatever path you take can alter the ending entirely. Discovery is encouraged in the RP, so the real question is, what path will you take?​


I saw somewhere someone mentioning there hasn't been ads in a while, so I'm hoping that means this one is coming without any animosity! :) So as the ad says Burden will be GMed by me and The Final Watchman. We've been working on this for a couple of months and will hopefully be able to release by the beginning of summer. We're posting this here to see if there's any interest before the actual RP comes up! I'm really excited for this and I hope you are too!

So what do you guys think?
 
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I've been here for three weeks now. What's the purpose of all the CSS backgrounds? The forums I came from never used them, and it just seems to make things complicated.
 
It's mostly for the sake of style, Monster Guy, but it can be used for convenience as well (such as for organizing a post into an inventory and the text itself). Sometimes someone will go overboard with it and it ends up looking ugly as butt or horribly conflicts with someone's choice of PC theme, but most of the time it adds some flair to a post to give a sense of the poster's tastes. (Take PokéLINK's OP or Orianna's signups, for example.)
 
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I love beautiful opening posts in RPs but it bugs me when people add backgrounds, complicated fonts and inventories and images to common IC posts. It just clutters when all you want is to read the text easily. But that's my opinion :3 I guess there's a usefulness in listing your team/inventory in some RPs directly in the post.
 
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I love beautiful opening posts in RPs but it bugs me when people add backgrounds, complicated fonts and inventories and images to common IC posts. It just clutters when all you want is to read the text easily. But that's my opinion :3 I guess there's a usefulness in listing your team/inventory in some RPs directly in the post.
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I agree with this. I can see if you want to make the opening post for an OOC/IC thread look pretty to get attention/interest, but it seems cluttered in regular posts. Especially when everyone is using different themes.
 
There is definitely an art to simple yet stylish CSS designs. I prefer something that is just a block colour and fairly straight-forward. Some pictures/detail is good - but everynow and then you do see CSS overkill.
 
Just a bit of pre-mature advertising to hopefully hype up some further interest. Nakuzami and myself will soon be submitting our original roleplay, Fragmented (linked to post in the planning and review thread). If you like stories about supernatural beings, underground civilisations, superpowers and government oppression this will be right up your alley and we'd love it if you'd check it out once it is submitted.

Nauje and I will also be releasing an RP, a remake of the RP I ran with Resolution - Connections. The RP is based off of the Kokoro Connect series but we have made it accessible to those who don't know the series. It's a roleplay involving a supernatural entity that inflicts strange phenomena onto a group of troubled young people for its own amusement. The RP has a strong focus on character interaction and development and is something to look for if you're after something a bit different from the pokemon or action-based RPs usually submitted here - this is a little further off of being posted than Fragmented though.

To add my thoughts onto the current topic, I really like seeing well-done CSS on the OP posts. They help set the tone of the RP and make it more enticing. When it comes to CSS in posts though, I like it but I feel it is important to make sure it isn't over done, fits the tone of the RP and is easy to read such as Orianna's posts in the Hoenn Diaries or Sir Bastion's or Alby's in One Piece.

A new set of questions for you also! What is your favourite RP character that you have created and played as? What is your favourite RP character created by someone else?
 
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