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Nether

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Roleplaying
« on: January 28, 2010, 07:23:45 pm »

Hi, it has been years since my last roleplay and I feel rather dismembered from the whole thing. Back then I was quite active on gaiaonline (before it got illiterate). I'm wondering, how could I start again? Any strict rules you guys have here when it comes to roleplaying? What should I not do (you can expect me to know not to powerplay and stuff like that), what types of roleplay's are played here?
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Strife26

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Re: Roleplaying
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 05:16:21 pm »

Roleplaying around here tends to be occupied by the various god avatars players have. Usually, it very quickly degenerates into nonsense and random side battles between players. Honestly, that and the idiocy of certain forum numbers is what drove me away for a while. I'm not sure if I'm going to come back and post any more (although I still check the dev_log)
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LeoLeonardoIII

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Re: Roleplaying
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 05:22:02 pm »

I hear the Mafia and Roll to Dodge are pretty popular. Mostly we tend to see the referee get bored and stop updating after a month or so.
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Strife26

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Re: Roleplaying
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2010, 05:25:11 pm »

Okay. I'm going to start a new roleplay. Just to see if I should return or not.
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Re: Roleplaying
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 05:27:04 pm »

Awesome. I want to play a guy who is at work posting on the B12 forum in a thread about forum roleplaying.

> I start rolling up a character.

That should be Rule 1 of any game - no recursion.
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Re: Roleplaying
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 06:16:04 pm »

Recursion can be fun if it's done right. It tends to break the wall to easily though.
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Re: Roleplaying
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2010, 04:14:30 pm »

> My character grabs some parchment and starts whittling dice. He rolls up a character.
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