Hey Folks: Attached is a link to my latest YouTube movie "Vendetta on Vilhon." It depicts my gaming group's latest (mis)adventure in our Star Wars RPG...
Character Biographies are in fact a necessary evil. However, like most things in the role playing world these days it has been taken too far. Sadly, if you let...
Name: Benjamin Blessed Outcast Age: 18 (19 on the 26th) Bio: Greetings to all, in types of role plays I do, I play all kinds, I love hearing a good story and...
... The biggest of problems we all face as writers, is there is always the chance, that we put our TLC into a character sheet, only to have it rejected. That...
I have found several groups on yahoo in which character biographies, when they are submitted, are nit-picked to death, and so many revisions are demanded that...
... Adding systems isn't going to solve the problem of a lack of creativity which you seem to actually be complaining about. Have you ever tried it? A system...
... Regardless of how long a post is, I think it takes 2 to 3 posts Maximum to introduce a character before pushing him or her into forwarding plot. Anymore...
While I am happy to know that I am not the only one who has seen the recent decay in text based RPGing, I think we are both looking different problems. When...
... That varies from player to player and character to character. I would say however, no character is adequately introduced in a single sentence such as this...
... With that being said, how long do you think that an adequate introduction is for a role playing character is? Do you feel you've successfully introduced...
I've noticed that a lot of people dont know the difference between Non-Descriptive and Descriptive Writing. When you are role playing online, what you write is...
This can be used both in text based role playing games (ie, yahoo groups), in books, or in any general writing that you do. I by no means claim to be an expert...
Well where I see your point, dont make my admonishments about being polite to each other as successful as the Hindenburg, get me? Respectfully discuss this...
... I find the insinuation that online games are not a valid way to role play insulting. Or the insinuation that every game online is the same, and has no...
... having ... Boy I dont know who was ruder, Robin or you. I already know you have a prejudice against PBEM's, and Robin does have a point about how its not...
... Well, you could say that, but then you'd be caterwauling about something that's been sitting on the list for almost exactly a month, without having ...
Here is where I point out that while that may be true for some of the people on here bellyaching about round robin excercises with no rhyme or reason, some of...
... Is this where I step in and point out that what you ladies are describing really aren't role-playing games? I think that's my usual role here, punnily ...
Those one or two line clubs put together by thirteen year olds hardly qualify as being role playing games, in my opinion. One of the first things that I do,...
A problem that I see as being just as big, has to be, without a doubt, moderators of these games that ask for multiple revisions of a person's character...
A lot more of these groups are destined to fail for another reason. You ever seen how many one or two line post role playing games that are out there? Heaven...
RP 'Sheeple': WAKE UP! Let me begin by saying that I am rather disappointed with much of the state of RPing today. I feel that people have lost their lust and...