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Anyone actually here, I'm afraid that we've hit rock bottom again, I've been here constantly and constantly willing to roleplay, the only thing is, is anyone else actually here and actually dedicated?
The problem with everything so far is that a thread gets a good reception, a dozen characters start playing but they drop out quickly. You soon see who the dedicated people are, but the story ends up devastated because of those who have dropped out.
After all, how well do you think a novel or fan fic would do if it lost half its characters every chapter?
Like the last time I came here trying to get something started again, I proposed that we would need a different style of roleplaying, but it didn't turn out as such. Thus, I think we should try out something different again.
What I think is that we should start up a single, long, roleplay thread for the entire board. Organizing it into chapters, each of these rather short chapters has a long lying back story, but each chapter is essentially independent.
The idea is to make characters dropping out and not wanting to play any more such a problem. And those players who wish to stay in the story can do so. This would also mean a character could drop out of the story in, say, chapter 4, and re-appear in a later chapter. Of course the story needs to be built to reflect this, my initial idea for it would be some sort of a long journey, that way people can be 'dropped off' when they drop out. The party will be constantly changing and story would change in 'blocks'. A block would consist of several chapters, say 3 - 5, the story in these chapters being fairly strongly linked. But with the changing of blocks old stories would be pushed into the past and new ones on the horizon. This would also mean that getting into the story would not require reading ever chapter before then.
Of course material can be later brought up and characters, places, stories re-used and twisted in new ways, but new characters would not need to know everything that’s already happened.
Again, the story would have to be written to reflect this, But I feel, if there is anyone here still willing to play, then this is the right way to go about it. I'm going to try and find some players to come and try it out, in addition to whoever, like me, might be lurking about these boards...just waiting for another start up thread. Well, here it is.
Assuming that everyone has given up the Harsh Reality thread, (I've posted asking for people to reply but no one seems to be there, I'm considering salvaging the story into a fan fic.)
I'm not sure exactly what the story will be yet, but if we can find players we can get going. I'm hoping that this idea will work and the story can survive even if one or two or more characters were to drop out.
Thanks for your time, please post if you have any ideas or suggestions or want to join this upcoming thread in Chapter 1.
- Fang
Anyone actually here, I'm afraid that we've hit rock bottom again, I've been here constantly and constantly willing to roleplay, the only thing is, is anyone else actually here and actually dedicated?
The problem with everything so far is that a thread gets a good reception, a dozen characters start playing but they drop out quickly. You soon see who the dedicated people are, but the story ends up devastated because of those who have dropped out.
After all, how well do you think a novel or fan fic would do if it lost half its characters every chapter?
Like the last time I came here trying to get something started again, I proposed that we would need a different style of roleplaying, but it didn't turn out as such. Thus, I think we should try out something different again.
What I think is that we should start up a single, long, roleplay thread for the entire board. Organizing it into chapters, each of these rather short chapters has a long lying back story, but each chapter is essentially independent.
The idea is to make characters dropping out and not wanting to play any more such a problem. And those players who wish to stay in the story can do so. This would also mean a character could drop out of the story in, say, chapter 4, and re-appear in a later chapter. Of course the story needs to be built to reflect this, my initial idea for it would be some sort of a long journey, that way people can be 'dropped off' when they drop out. The party will be constantly changing and story would change in 'blocks'. A block would consist of several chapters, say 3 - 5, the story in these chapters being fairly strongly linked. But with the changing of blocks old stories would be pushed into the past and new ones on the horizon. This would also mean that getting into the story would not require reading ever chapter before then.
Of course material can be later brought up and characters, places, stories re-used and twisted in new ways, but new characters would not need to know everything that’s already happened.
Again, the story would have to be written to reflect this, But I feel, if there is anyone here still willing to play, then this is the right way to go about it. I'm going to try and find some players to come and try it out, in addition to whoever, like me, might be lurking about these boards...just waiting for another start up thread. Well, here it is.
Assuming that everyone has given up the Harsh Reality thread, (I've posted asking for people to reply but no one seems to be there, I'm considering salvaging the story into a fan fic.)
I'm not sure exactly what the story will be yet, but if we can find players we can get going. I'm hoping that this idea will work and the story can survive even if one or two or more characters were to drop out.
Thanks for your time, please post if you have any ideas or suggestions or want to join this upcoming thread in Chapter 1.
- Fang
