RPT Secret Santa 2016 - Finished

[Ech]

This is a really unhelpful goal to have, Ech.
We're roleplaying to enjoy ourselves, not to amass points.
Playing this competitively in terms of points, and aiming to "troll people incessantly," will both make the other players not enjoy themselves.

Sorry if I gave you the wrong idea there but I was only being facetious, friend. ; 3

 

[Oddball_]

Not to be that guy, but I was told there would be CSS... :P

Also GP I still haven't gotten any DM's mate.

Also just read through and uh
"Joint Post – 1 Point + 2 points per player. A joint post will get everybody involved one point, and we'll even add 2 points per participant onto that!"
So a two man JP would be five points? Seems a little broken. Then again, not everyone forces people to finish JP's within a day or two like me.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

So I suppose, for the people who are Joint Posting, we may well not end up interacting with others, since the setting of this RP is a bunch of different houses from each other. That makes it kinda hard to know when to stop writing for any given Joint Post, since you're not waiting for anyone else to respond to you. You could just... go on forever!!

Or maybe I'm just way too new to Joint Posting. If anyone wants to input their thoughts about when to end a Joint Post in this circumstance, thanks in advance.

 

[gimmepie]

So I suppose, for the people who are Joint Posting, we may well not end up interacting with others, since the setting of this RP is a bunch of different houses from each other. That makes it kinda hard to know when to stop writing for any given Joint Post, since you're not waiting for anyone else to respond to you. You could just... go on forever!!

Or maybe I'm just way too new to Joint Posting. If anyone wants to input their thoughts about when to end a Joint Post in this circumstance, thanks in advance.

I'd say after delivering the present or soon thereafter would be ideal.

 

[JukeboxTheGhoul]

I've posted it, It's not the best quality but it's just an event.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

I'd say after delivering the present or soon thereafter would be ideal.

After the present's delivered? That's the endgoal, though. That would be a long, long essay of a post, longer than the ones I currently see in IC thread.

 

[gimmepie]

After the present's delivered? That's the endgoal, though. That would be a long, long essay of a post, longer than the ones I currently see in IC thread.

I'd break it down into a couple of posts myself.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

So, from what I've put together, this roleplay may have a bit of a dilemma.
Maybe I'm just speaking from personal experience here and this isn't how everybody feels, but perhaps it's how at least some of you feel.

So this RP was geared around a couple things: Joint Posting (huge point-based incentive to do so, not to mention the collaborative nature of the event), and CHRISTMAS.

But the roleplay started ON Christmas. And factoring in how long forum roleplays take to progress, and how long Joint Posts take to write collaboratively, the issue I identify is:

Most of us lose motivation to write about Christmas themed things past the first week of January. And the IC thread seems to agree with me. It could be other reasons, of course...

But, my point with this post was to recommend to the mods that next year, if you'd like another of these events, you could try a theme that is easier to keep going well into February and maybe beyond. Or, be really Christmassy but start the RP in early December.

I hope sharing my thoughts is at least a little helpful. Good luck!

 

[Oddball_]

So, from what I've put together, this roleplay may have a bit of a dilemma.
Maybe I'm just speaking from personal experience here and this isn't how everybody feels, but perhaps it's how at least some of you feel.

So this RP was geared around a couple things: Joint Posting (huge point-based incentive to do so, not to mention the collaborative nature of the event), and CHRISTMAS.

But the roleplay started ON Christmas. And factoring in how long forum roleplays take to progress, and how long Joint Posts take to write collaboratively, the issue I identify is:

Most of us lose motivation to write about Christmas themed things past the first week of January. And the IC thread seems to agree with me. It could be other reasons, of course...

But, my point with this post was to recommend to the mods that next year, if you'd like another of these events, you could try a theme that is easier to keep going well into February and maybe beyond. Or, be really Christmassy but start the RP in early December.

I hope sharing my thoughts is at least a little helpful. Good luck!

Eh, events happen from time to time, this one was just brought back from something that occurred last year and did... reasonably well? If I recall? I wasn't personally a part but nevertheless. I do know that some people are working on posts, and there are still roughly two weeks until it ends so perhaps we should hold off on feedback until its officially over. Some people like to work on long extremely good quality posts (and don't care about points.), and some people like simpler short ones. Both are just as good and valued in an event like this. (We're here to have fun after all.)

 

[gimmepie]

Eh, I agree that we should probably start this in early December next time. Rika and I had a bunch of other stuff going on so we took longer to get this all sorted than we normally would have.

 

[Groc]

I thought it was fun! I think the most enjoyable part is seeing how other people interpret a character. Of course, that mainly boils down to how much you enjoy playing a character you didn't make, as well as seeing someone else play a character you made. After that, you're looking at other people play characters made by other people. Loses a bit of the personal touch at that point...

In the end, I'd like to see more posts. In my personal experience, the holiday cheer is restricted solely to December. Perhaps in the future, the character creation could begin in November, and characters are assigned on the last day of November, so posting can begin on the 1st?

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

I thought it was fun! I think the most enjoyable part is seeing how other people interpret a character.

Sadly, we didn't get to see that for most of the characters. Only a handful have posted their interpretations

I can't get in contact with my Joint Post partner anymore so it might be some of that, too

 

[gimmepie]

That's all for this event. Scores will be posted at a later date. Thank you to those who participated.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

I'm curious how this'll be scored, given the circumstances...
Is that gonna be soon or I guess that's kinda low priority?

 

[Ech]

forget the score, is this finally the time we finally get to know who our Secret Santas are?

Cuz I want to know who decided to make a caricature of me just to make me feel super insecure.

 

[Groc]

I would also like to share who made who. Even if many of them didn't see play time, I'd like to congratulate some people for some very interesting characters!

 

[Foxrally]

I made Michael B.Z. Ness the pupper (obviously the superior one). Boom, confession.

N O W W H O M A D E H O L L Y

 

[GanguEevee]

Guess I'll confess too, since Foxy here already has: I made Mog. And yes, that includes the picture.

 

[Groc]

Confession time? Confession time. I made Mori and Mondu.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

I had a joy of a time making the Minior and Cleffa duo!
Since my Secret-Santa recipient didn't respond, I'll try to re-purpose them for a later occasion whenever one becomes applicable. You know, whatever's suitable for a character duo like that.