Suggestion: Role-Play Sub-forum.

Cinia Pacifica · 2014-08-07T05:10:04+00:00

Hi, I'd like to suggest the creation of a Role-Playing Forum, once again. There are several users that I'm sure wants this. Well, more than several, if anything. It'd make for more fun story-writing writing experiences. This may be a bit long, but please, bare with me here. Role-playing, in this case is starkly different than what goes down in CTFG. There is a level of seriousness, and the players/posters usually knows where to draw the line. It's where multiple users come together to work on a story together via playing the character they create themselves, thus playing their role. The old play-by-post is definitely one option, while some may organize a Google Doc or an online writing-pad where they may do real-time writing and simply post up the text (the current norm in Fakku's RP community), and hence post in the RP threads located in the RP forum. A more natural way may be to simply have a discussion thread, while having the main RP thread at the same time. Problem with having all this in the Writing and Fanfiction Forum is that it sometimes tosses off the other writers' threads below to the second page, or just places them lower in the page. This is actually happening even now as more RP threads are being created, there are roughly about 35 or so threads related to RP in the Writing and Fanfiction forum about right now. I'm quite certain that some writers don't like this, as every writers wants their works to be up there for possible readers who'd read and comment on their work(s). The RP'ers on the other hand wants a forum where all their RP threads are located in; it's easier to navigate this way. Due to the lesser possibility of it, it'd be likely a sub-forum. Preferably, it's best if it's a sub-forum of Incoherent Babbling (since I doubt this may get it's own forum) - because then it may not easily be overlooked. While it may be more appropriate as a sub-forum of the Writing and Fanfiction forum; it's at the bottom of the Forum page, and I feel that it's one of the factors that makes the forum very unpopular. Well, one of the factors, anyway. I, for one would definitely like more people in the already-small RP community of Fakku. This is just my opinion on the matter, though. Moving on, there was a concern of the possibilities of trolling, and the cases of particular rules of RPs that may be broken – as suggested by the arguments from the last suggestion thread for an RP sub-forum in this forum, but this may simply be resolved with the click of a report button accompanied by a terse and concise report of the issue – a moderator may hence solve the issue after a period of time when they see it. While it'd be nice to have a moderator – who understands RPs more in-depth in general – for such a forum; I don't think Jacob wants any new moderators here. I think the Global Moderators can deal with most situations provided they receive a simple detail of the issue, for, say, trolling. They may simply delete the posts of the troll from the thread and provide him a warning, perhaps. Honestly, I can't see trolling happening often, there was only one troll in the past 3 years (or, roughly, 4 years) in which RP'ing has sparsely occurred in the Writing and Fanfiction forum. Then again, the Writing and Fanfiction forum was unpopular, and the actual trolls may not have noticed. I don't think we'll see too many instances of trolls appearing regardless, even if the section is indeed made. I don't think there's much to say regarding the cybering issue here. It is definitely banned here and I don't have a problem with that, and I think most people would be completely fine with it, too. Others may carry out whatever cyber-jerking they prefer in private. If they're posted somewhere, people may as well report them. At least, I would. Since I don't really like them myself. And lastly, regarding the many benefits of Role-Playing. I think Xenon summed this up quite nicely in his old thread: Xenon wrote...-Role-playing can help you improve your writing ability -Role-playing can be a great activity to boost your creativity or show it off -Role-playing can create a strong sense of belonging to the group you participate with -Role-playing can be as fun an activity as a sport or game with a combined use of reading and writing -Role-playing creates a sense of productivity and can be as relaxed or intense as you make it I am well-aware that a suggestion such as this was made in the past, but I'm trying once again, as there are more RPs than before now. I don't think the RP forum would be unpopular if enough people gets to know of its existence. There are large RP sites and many people do these activities in the internet; it isn't anything new. I'm sure a lot of people would love to see the forum being made here. Plus, I don't think it takes that long to make the sub-forum, as far as I know, anyway. And that's all I have to say about this here. Thanks for taking the time to read the post.

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If a Role-Playing sub-forum was created, would you be interested?

mibuchiha Fakku Elder

10 years ago

I don't think mine will make a difference, but I fully support this idea as well.

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

10 years ago

Some of you guys who want to RP but haven't - should really try joining the RPs that becomes available around this month or the next (we have some new RPs coming), instead of waiting for the section that may take a long time to be formed.

Try joining our Skype RP group chat, or an RP when they come out. We'd love to have more people on the group.

Gravity cat the adequately amused

10 years ago

I'm a bit late to the party but I see no harm in an RP section.

I wouldn't go there myself, but a specialised section in a popular activity can't hurt, right?

Melfice_1

10 years ago

Extending on the Idea of an RP Forum/subsection, not knowing how hard this is to be implemented

A Site I have been on previously had an own RP Section. not in the way of a Forum, but as an actual Section.
Images:

Spoiler:

Managing and administrating your RP, including who plays whch character, what characters are there, adding characters, how many players, what theme, entry restriction etc.

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Character creation. Images can be added as well as a default for the player state, Images for the character and a brief description.

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the RP itself. the Poster can select between all characters assigned to him and post something "In-Time" (meanng the font color is black and counts towards the RP) or not in time (Text is grayed out and is taken as "off topic") as well as Action (Italic font. means the text is taken as a description of an Action) or as non-Action (as a said text)

This system is more accessable, especially when RPs are Understocked or when people are using multiple characters in general, like alternate versions of a character (Vampire Form and Human Form, for example)

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

10 years ago

Melfice_1 wrote...

Spoiler:

Managing and administrating your RP, including who plays whch character, what characters are there, adding characters, how many players, what theme, entry restriction etc.

Spoiler:

Character creation. Images can be added as well as a default for the player state, Images for the character and a brief description.

Spoiler:

It's interesting, but certainly an impossible set of features to ever see in this site. For now, I'll be glad to just see a new section called the "Role-Play" forum.

The most I knew before I read your post was that places like RPOL tend to have different sections for RP'ers, and various tools including even dices, until I saw all this.

Melfice_1

10 years ago

Cinia Pacifica wrote...

Melfice_1 wrote...

Spoiler:

Managing and administrating your RP, including who plays whch character, what characters are there, adding characters, how many players, what theme, entry restriction etc.

Spoiler:

Character creation. Images can be added as well as a default for the player state, Images for the character and a brief description.

Spoiler:

well, its only for basic text RPs. been in a few back then so yeah.
it could become kind of a sub-site tho.

xhimitsu

10 years ago

Cinia Pacifica wrote...

I would love to as long as the RPs are within my gasp of information. Like I saw the Aikatsu RP one but I never watched Aikatsu anime so yeah D:

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

10 years ago

xhimitsu wrote...

Cinia Pacifica wrote...

I would love to as long as the RPs are within my gasp of information. Like I saw the Aikatsu RP one but I never watched Aikatsu anime so yeah D:

The next set of RPs are originals and not Fanfiction RPs... but I guess I see your point. Aikatsu RP takes... a bit of dedication of few episodes of the show to understand what goes on.

xhimitsu

10 years ago

Cinia Pacifica wrote...

xhimitsu wrote...

Cinia Pacifica wrote...

I would love to as long as the RPs are within my gasp of information. Like I saw the Aikatsu RP one but I never watched Aikatsu anime so yeah D:

The next set of RPs are originals and not Fanfiction RPs... but I guess I see your point. Aikatsu RP takes... a bit of dedication of few episodes of the show to understand what goes on.

Yeah, I thought it was all Idol at the beginning since I watched love live but yeah not rly~ I'll keep an eye open for them though~

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

10 years ago

Timely reminder that this should happen (at least eventually).

For those interested, a new RP did came out. Link in the sig. /Shameless advertisement

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