vscarhp11Join Date: 2009-03-22
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I took a break from ROBLOX for quite a bit and came back. Checking the Role-Playing forum first, obviously, I can tell it has been going downhill since I left. (I'm not trying to say I kept RP together, I'm merely saying that it was in better condition before I took a vacation from it.)
So, genre? Plot? Characters? You remember how it works, right? |
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*Comes out of the pile of rubble that is named RP*
A collab? YES! RP has gone bad, and we need a collaboration. |
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EwtronJoin Date: 2008-10-22
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*Stands on top of a mountain of old parchments representing the thousands of deceased threads, picking them up and reading them one by one.*
"Hmm... Many a good story, but not what the public desired."
I slide down the cascading pile of paper.
"A collab is what we need, but we are, pardon my french, damned if we do, damned if we don't. The majority of the RP pracitcally has ADHD in the sense that they can't stand anything that takes any sort of real thought. If we do create something mature and deep, we can't expect it to proceed quickly or last long. Most of my threads haven't lasted beyond page 10. If we don't go on that path, our RP will be like all others, and that is worse than having it die.
"I propose a medieval-gothic, 15th century dark fantasy RP." |
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-_- When you role-play in a collab it never goes well. |
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Amber has a point. They usually veer away from the topic of collabing and just become another pointless rp. No offence, of course. |
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I have ADHD.
Me no like u bad speaky. |
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EwtronJoin Date: 2008-10-22
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Sorry, I'm just going with herd mentality. Someone began with a roleplaying post, and I said "Fine. What the heck.".
Sorry if you actually DO have ADHD, but I'm using that as a metaphor for the RP in general. They can't stand an RP that doesn't have fighting every two posts. It's madness.
(inb4SPARTAAA)
My last thread died at page 7, because only three people stuck with it (it had no fighting). |
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Well, there are only a few good threads, but they progress much faster than in the old days. This is an alt of a perma'd main, BTW.
But yeah, RP is still up, when it should be dead. |
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This is already steering away from the topic.
So, what genre are you thinking? Fiction? Sci-fi? History? Action? |
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chaseer3Join Date: 2008-05-22
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We need some good action, war-kind of roleplays up in here! Possibly sci-fi, possibly History ones, maybe even post-apocalyptic. These are the RP's that I like to do. |
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Personally I think it died when people stopped accepting ideas other than Zombie Vampire Sci-Fi medieval or highschool..... I really wan't the brawl roleplays to come back THOSE were fun the right blend of fighting and negotiation and people with a low attention span are amazed by the mass of characters and such. |
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I think we need a random, imaginated idea somebody came up with. Imagination fuels RP. And imagination is what we need.
And RP is obviously not dead. It may not be as good as a few years ago, but it is still full of plentiful ideas and good RPs. I rarely see Zombie, Vampire, or High school RPs anymore. And Medieval is a good topic if it has a decent plot.
If anything, Pokemon is a bit overused. |
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EwtronJoin Date: 2008-10-22
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I propose... Native American fantasy, set in North America before the Europeans came. |
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EwtronJoin Date: 2008-10-22
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Edit: Either that, or while the Europeans are just arriving. |
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That's a good idea. I've never seen an RP like that. It would be a great RP based off an even greater culture. |
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EwtronJoin Date: 2008-10-22
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In my region, we have the Passamaquoddy and Maliseet tribes.
(In their language, "Qey! Tan kahk?" means "Hi! How are you?") |
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I am already having trouble pronouncing that X3 |
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-_-'
I'm having trouble when I come up with orriginal roleplays, posting them, and only getting a few joiners. For some reason, threads I participate in seem to die off slowly...
I don't get it, the first day I made a thread here in the forums, and it lasted untill I had to quit. I come back to forums, same as you. The good roleplays don't make it, it's over-run. I'm not much of a sci-fi fan, I'm more of a modern-fantasy thing. Or medieval. I write books, short-stories as well, just for fun nearly all day. Not now, I'm finishing a novel now...
Anyways, I'd like to see roleplays again like they were, yes. |
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EwtronJoin Date: 2008-10-22
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You're writing a novel? Interesting! I'd like to write one, but I have trouble stretching out the story. I always end up making the plotline too quick. |
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calxllum2Join Date: 2010-06-03
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same with me....
I like the anthing to do with war lol, with a rp like that I can post like 5 big posts of what I do without anyone else on :D rrcently I tryed a combination of gears of war alien and space marine :D it din't go well |
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Heh, stretching out is incredibly easy. All you have to do, is; one: Have a big plot. Or, two: Have many other sub-plots that somehow end up relating to the main plot, and concentrate on those, while going through the main part. You have to also stretch out dialog, if that's actualy in the story. Some don't have others speaking to you, or have them noted directly. I have around, eh... 20-50 sub-plots? All I'm wrapping up during the story, and creating new ones as I progress. In fact, an easier way to stretch out, is vaguely cover the plot through all the characters do, so you generally will have to explain it more through all the course of the book. Developing the beginning quickly is common, it's the middle you really need to use these techniques in. |
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calxllum2Join Date: 2010-06-03
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what? all I got was sub-plot or big plot? |
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Ive just realized something. When a RP is collab'd, the now-admins join. Since people see a active roleplay, they also join. Thats what i found it. |
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