Hey guys, haven't posted here in a while, but another RPer a few months ago gave me an idea of something really cool to do for an RP, that I suggest some of you consider in the future. It may have been done before, I dunno, but I haven't seen it, so I'd like to throw it out.
The RP was like many other ones, but the bonus feature was that there would be "surprise guests" in the RP. What I mean by this is having RPers not previously in a certain RP to appear as a character for a short while (depending on the GM) to perform some role. This would probably be best with RPs that have the traditional "bad guy" role in it. I notice not a lot of people prefer playing a bad guy (probably besides me and a few others), and having the GM make the main bad player an NPC is just boring, so what if you secretly ask others to join into your RP (via PM or something) requesting them to participate in the RP as an antagonist or any other role you'd like to see filled for a short time.
This would be really useful in many types of RPs, including RPs with many "seasons" with multiple antagonists, or even in traditional Pokemon Journey RPs, where I notice in the past that there would be gym leader characters, but because of lack of things to actually do, the RP often fails. Having a surprise guest appear as a gym leader for a short time is useful here in the fact that the RPer, if he would be busy, would only participate for that short time, and we would have a fun new character appear. This definitely would spice up any RP, and make it more surprising/exciting IMO.
Well, that's pretty much it. if anyone ever decides to use this idea, I think it would be great, and be sure to drop me a PM. I would love to show up as a surprise guest in a number of RPs I have wanted to participate in for a long time, but simply to not have the time to as a full-time RPer.