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GAME DISCUSSIONS

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HOLLEY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

CANON DISCUSSIONS

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FREE!

[(Anonymous)]

GAME ADS

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APPRENTICE WANTED a sex positive fantasy game

[modofguilt]

APPRENTICES REQUIRED apply within?

The allure of the sign is just too strong to resist, isn't it? Why, it seems to dismiss other pressing questions such as WHY AM I HERE? or maybe even HOW DID I GET HERE? or the ever troubling WHY ARE THOSE GNOMES STARING AT ME? All important questions, but none so fascinating that this sign could not stir some curiousity in you! Last you remember, you'd been walking. Headed nowhere fast with your feet as your guide. It's the sign that brings you back to Earth, and it's almost as if you'd been day dreaming until now. Seems you'd taken a wrong left turn somewhere and come to be, as the Maku Maku call it, 'dirt-roaded'. The surroundings are unfamiliar to you, it appears as if you're in some sort of fantasy land. There are castles on the horizon and critters abound, but the only real lead you have is this sign with a fantastically flashy arrow. Your feet don't like this lingering! They practically begin moving themselves in the direction of the arrow! Practically? No. They're definitely doing it. They'll lead you into a fabulous castle and directly to the court of the Mistress. She greets you with a grin, and it's terribly offputting, you wait with bated breath for some sort of clarification, perhaps some assistance in your time of need... "I hope you aren't as rubbish as the last one." And that's when you black out. Welcome to apprenticewanted a panfandom Jamjar set in the universe of the NSFW comic OGLAF. While there will be heavily sexual themes and sexual events, this is both a fantasy and a smut themed game! The world of Oglaf is very much like a compilation and parody of fantasy and fairy tales. Your characters have been summoned by the sorceress known as The Mistress in order to liven things up a little. She will take everyone as an apprentice in order to humiliate them allow them to learn magic, but characters may opt out of their apprenticeship and take to the surrounding village. They will be stripped of their powers, but may gain them back through events of both a sexual and magical nature! For updates, please follow modofguilt. Reserves open FOREVER Applications open FOREVER We currently have a TEST DRIVE MEME up for playing around with.

NAVIGATION: ☆ PREMISE ☆ RULES/FAQ ☆ APPLICATIONS ☆ HIATUS/DROPS ☆ RESERVES ☆ TAKEN ☆ MOD CONTACT COMMUNITIES: Main: apprenticewanted OOC: arrowofnoregret CODE CREDIT

GAME IDEAS

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Fantasy AU Game

[(Anonymous)]

Hi again! I'm the same anon from the last post. I think I've got a bit more of a concrete idea in mind now, but I was hoping I could get some more feedback to hammer out what will and won't work for this kind of game!

Setting
A medium-to-small-sized kingdom. ICly, travel from one end of the kingdom to the other would take about a week and a half assuming characters were traveling by horse and stopped each night to rest. Most characters might not own horses, but they would be common enough to rent/borrow in the event that players needed their characters to get from point A to point B quickly.

There is a coast in the south/southeast; the border at the south/southwest is a desert which is known for its terrible sandstorms and mirages. The western border is with a neighboring kingdom, but traveling regulations are strict enough that casual travel from one kingdom to the next and back again isn't readily an option (which serves, OOCly, to keep characters contained to one kingdom to start out with - though with time the border could be opened, depending on player/character choices). There are mountains and hills in the north, and thick, dense forests and woods in the northeast. There are waterfalls in this area, and rivers flow from here into the ocean.

The capital city is in a central location near a lake. There are local lords overseeing other parts of the kingdom (player characters could fill these roles/be related to people filling these roles).

Right now, I've got first drafts for the capital city and a handful of larger and smaller towns and villages, but that's not really enough to fill the whole country, which is where worldbuilding comes in...

Wordbuilding
I'd like players to have some degree of control over their environment. I also don't want them to feel as if they're locked into having their characters hail from the pre-established towns if they don't want to. Working within the framework of what's been described, players could come up with their own towns and/or landmarks and would have a lot of freedom in describing things outside of the pre-established cities - if a player wants their character to find a system of caves in the mountains that hides a vast treasure, they can! If they want their character to be from a small village deep within the forest, they can do that too. If they want their character to be from a town near the desert, or to have grown up on the coastline, or anything that isn't already defined, they can do that sort of thing and can come up with locations within the framework of the described environments.

They'll be able to make things up on the fly if they so choose, but I'm thinking of implementing some sort of a post for them to comment to with new locations that can be added to the setting description - that way when newer players come in, everything that's been added to the setting via worldbuilding will be right there at their fingertips rather than having them have to hunt for it.

I'm worried about that kind of a system being a little too complicated/dependent on the mods to keep updated - I certainly don't mind putting in the work, but I know a lot of players do have concerns about relying too much on the mods for this sort of thing. If anyone has some suggestions as to how to streamline it and make sure things go smoothly, I would definitely welcome them!

Pantheon
As in most fantasy settings, there would be a general belief in gods (though not all characters will believe in the same gods or will necessarily believe in the gods at all!). There would be a pantheon of six "Old Gods" - the ones that were, according to legend, the first beings to exist - aligned with the Sun, the Moon, Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind; aside from that, however, there will be a smattering of other gods and goddesses, and players are free to invent their own if they have ideas. Some overlap would be okay, too, because even in myths and legends the dominions of various gods and goddesses overlapped depending on the belief system.

This being a fantasy realm, the gods could vary from region to region (the mountainous region might have more gods having to do with stone, people living near the river might worship local river gods, etc), race to race (dwarf gods vs elf gods), or even person to person (character X sojourned in a foreign land and came to believe in a certain god or goddess there). Much like with the setting worldbuilding, I'm thinking of having an entry for players to submit deities to the pantheon themselves, with a description of what the deity is known for in legend and how their worship tends to be conducted, etc.

As for whether or not the gods really exist... no one knows for sure, but the general consensus is that they do. They wouldn't be putting in direct appearances most of the time - but many of the things that happen are attributed to them (an earthquake being chalked up to the earth deity being in a foul mood and so on). Player-submitted gods and goddesses could appear during player plots if you wanted them to! Mod-created gods might put in appearances during mod-run plots, but personally I prefer for the action to be centered around the characters rather than NPCs.

Again, if anyone has any suggestions for finding a balance between "mods define all the gods" and "players submit gods" please let me know!

Plot and Plot Hooks
For game opening, everyone would be starting at the same time (regardless of whether or not the game does monthly app rounds or has continually open apps). Play will begin in the capital city during a festival, which will be all fun and games until an eclipse, on what was meant to be the night of a full moon! This is obviously a sign that something has happened to the God of the Moon.

From the night of the festival on, strange things will begin happening in different parts of the kingdom; an out-of-season blizzard here, an earthquake there, et cetera. The royal family will issue a "call to arms" of sorts - basically, a proclamation will spread through the entire kingdom (and into neighboring kingdoms) that everyone with some sort of skill - whether they be a warrior, a merchant, a wizard, a scribe - is necessary to figure out what is going on and to keep people safe. Warriors? Great, go fight off some monsters swarming a town on the border. Merchants? We've got an important delivery that needs to be made to a city that's in drastic need of supplies. Historians? We sure could use some help deciphering this ancient prophecy that might tell us how to fix this...

Of course, the royal family's requests are long-term concerns, and will continue to be issued as time passes so even new arrivals can get involved there (during monthly or bi-monthly mod-run events)! Player plots will be encouraged, too; after all, the local lords and common people need help, there are all sorts of nooks and crannies in the kingdom to discover, and every player action - even in a player-run plot, especially in a player-run plot - will have a direct impact on the game and the overarching plotline.

For those who need a push or don't want to run their own plots, smaller, individual plotlines can be NPCed by the mods upon request - if you want to explore some catacombs and want a mystery about what you'll discover. But you don't need the mods' permission to play things out, and you are free to come up with the catacombs and what's within them and adventure to your heart's content!

Classes
The more I think about it, the more drawn I am to using the base classes from D&D as the classes for this game. Multiclassing would allow for a very wide and customizeable range of characters, and with some tweaking should work if people want to mirror their character's canon abilities. On the other hand, if they don't want to mimic their character's abilities exactly, that should also work fine!

The base classes in this case would be Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, and Wizard.

Some of the alternative classes - Shaman, Healer, Knight, etc - could also work well.

And then, for people don't want to play adventurers, the NPC classes from the DM Guide - Adept, Aristocrat, Commoner, Expert, and Warrior - are pretty good baselines.

Of course these would really be more guidelines than anything - I'd be tweaking some of them to fit the setting, and players wouldn't be stuck only ever doing things by the book - but these would also be the terms that people would be using ICly for characters who fit the descriptions, so it might be useful to have them defined.

Magic/Abilities
Magic in this universe is ambient - it's just there waiting to be called into use, though the majority of people (NPCs running shops, generic citizens) aren't in tune enough with their environment to make use of it. PCs, on the other hand, have the option of having the ability to use magic even if they weren't capable of using it in their canon, so long as the reasoning for it is explained in their application (and said reasoning can be as simple as "they're from a family of mages in this AU" - it is an AU, after all!). This is to help level the playing field between people apping from canons such as Tales of the Abyss and people apping from canons such as Free!, for example.

There are some ways for even those who aren't tuned into it to use it, however. This universe's magic is referred to its locals as either "Divine" or "Arcane" - Divine meaning "a gift from the gods," as in a naturally-occurring ability to use magic, and Arcane meaning "known or knowable," as in the study and practice of words of power and rituals to tap into the magic around them.

A character with no naturally-occurring magical ability can still use Arcane-style magic via spell books or spell scrolls, if you prefer to keep them closer to canon by not giving them the ability to use magic on a whim but want them to be able to hold their own in a fight.

(So basically it's the difference between magic used by the Sorcerer class in D&D and magic used by the Wizard class in D&D).

Wherever possible, I don't want to have to nerf character abilities - but some things, like hyperresonance from Tales of the Abyss or Meteor from Final Fantasy VII, may need to be limited. Situations like this will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

That being said, your character's abilities should be reflected in their AU backstory. Frankly, if you're playing Jade Curtiss as nobility, not as a military man, and nowhere in his AU background does it say that he trained and improved his skills, and it isn't mentioned somewhere that he's meant to be a natural prodigy, he is not going to be more powerful than, say, a version of Natalia who has been training with the bow and with healing arts since she could walk. Period. Canon gives us a general idea of what they have the potential to do, but you determine what they can do in your app - even if it's as simple as mentioning in your character's backstory that they have a natural, but as of yet untapped, talent for magic.

This also means that a character's abilities could differ from their abilities in canon, if you want to play them with a different class setup/focus on their skills based on how they were raised in the AU. All I'll ask is that any changes you do make, make sense. If suddenly Anise Tatlin is a druid who can talk to animals and makes nature do her bidding, that probably wouldn't get approved. Arietta the Wild, on the other hand, might work well as a druid-type character.

Pacing
An anon mentioned last post that a slow OOC-to-IC day ratio would help keep things from devolving into slice-of-life, and having looked at a variety of games, I agree. The question is would people prefer 3 OOC days equaling 1 IC day, or 2 OOC days equaling 1 IC day? And with a slower pace, how would people keep track of what IC day it is? I've seen some games successfully make use of write-ups detailing what's going on in the game during certain IC time periods, and others have a calendar on hand for people to compare the OOC and IC days. Which method would you guys prefer?

Applications
The general consensus seems to be that the playerbase won't be super-huge. Large or small, I'm willing to mod for as long as people are willing to play, but that brings up the matter of whether or not there would be a large enough draw to justify having application periods, or if it would be better to just leave applications open indefinitely.

App rounds: On the one hand, applications only being accepted at a certain time of the month would free the mods up to focus on other mod duties during the rest of the month. It would also allow us to schedule events such that new characters would have some time to get acclimated to the setting before something earth-shattering happened to them. On the other hand, if there aren't many people coming in, it seems sort of unfair to make just one or two people wait until the end of the app round to stop playing - and since the game would probably be small to start with, it might kill the game before it could get its feet off the ground by limiting the chances people have to join up. Introductory posts in this case would be either on an individual basis, or with a catch-all new character/old character meetup log at the conclusion of each app round.

Always open: On the one hand, this is ideal for gathering a playerbase - because if the concept catches someone's eye, they can join in immediately if they so choose and don't have to wait. It would be easy enough to make sure apps were looked over in a timely fashion, too. I can personally guarantee that I would be tracking the application page so that new apps would show up in my personal inbox, and even if whoever was helping me co-mod wasn't, I could very easily send them a message saying "Hey, we've got apps to look at!". On the other, this opens people up to having their character arrive during inconvenient times (in the middle of an event, for example) and getting either overwhelmed by the amount of action, or overlooked because the old characters are in the middle of something. Introductory posts in this case would be on an individual basis.

Does anyone have any input on how they would prefer to see apps handled for this style of game?

Activity Check
After last post, I'm leaning towards a comment AC. Does 15 comments from your character during the month sound fair? Considering that each month would only cover about 1 1/2, 2 weeks of IC time depending on the ratio, I don't want to force people into too many things.

I also want to come up with some kind of a reward system to encourage people not to drop their threads even as they tag into new things. Penalizing people on their AC for dropped threads seems a little harsh (especially since the playerbase seems like it will be relatively small), but... I'm not sure. I'm thinking maybe some kind of a "random chance" thing? People can submit their completed threads when they're completed (to encourage backtagging to completion, there wouldn't be a time limit), and at the end of the month it's submitted in, the characters involved in each completed log will have their names entered into a list randomizer once for each log they were involved in. That would be handled OOCly - ICly, whichever character(s) are chosen could have something lucky happen to them (maybe they were given a gift of some sort of artifact by an NPC, or were honored at a festival, or... something).

I'm not totally sure what to do about this part yet! I just want to do something fun and nice to reward people for finishing what they start. If I were running a jamjar it'd be easy - I could just have people regain items - but since this is an AU that makes it a little tougher... does anyone have any ideas?

APP THIS PLZ / ENABLE ME

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FINAL FANTASY @ HOLLYHEIGHTS

[nagyka]

hollyheights is a jamjar slice-of-life game that's a busier medium-pace and a bit slower right now because of the holidays, it would seem. AC can be met through split comments, so you don't have to do a straight-up amount in one thread and can instead make it through multiple threads. AC can also be met through contact posts!

Our current taken and reserve lists aren't too shabby:
IV: Rydia
VI: Celes
VII: Aerith, Cloud, & Zack
VIII: Rinoa, Quistis, & Seifer; Selphie & Squall are reserved
IX: Garnet & Zidane; Quina & Vivi are reserved
XII: Basch & Larsa are reserved
XIII/XIII-2: Serah & Snow

Reserves are open from December 25-31 and applications are open from January 1-7. You don't need to reserve to apply, but HH does not allow challenge applications.

If you have any questions or concerns, you are more than welcome to direct them here, comment on my HMD, or you can PM me (or the players of characters in the casts you would like to join)! Hope to see you around!

RP WITH ME

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Re: RP WITH ME

[(Anonymous)]

This is a long shot because I don't think I've ever seen anyone playing from it, BUT...

I'd love to play some Wheel of Time stuff in a musebox. I honestly don't care if that's using canon characters from the books (I play Aviendha and Tuon, and would love to play off anyone), or just OCs set in the universe - because it's such a big place, that would be easy enough to do. I'm just really hankering for it!

CHARACTER ADVICE

[rpanonmod]

Rukia Kuchiki | Bleach

[(Anonymous)]

Either the Arrancar or the Fullbringer arc as canon point. Any help - specifically on the way she talks to people - would be appreciated.

USERNAME SUGGESTIONS

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Fou-Lu | Breath of Fire IV

[(Anonymous)]

Aside from underscores, I'm just about cool with anything.

PB SUGGESTIONS

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Re: PB SUGGESTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

mixed race or not white teenage girl with black hair and hazel eyes? i'm looking for alternatives to nicole anderson and early career kristin kreuk.

ICON/GRAPHICS & CODE/HTML HELP

[rpanonmod]

Fate icons

[(Anonymous)]

I'm thinking of making a Gilgamesh journal, anon. Can anyone point me where I could get good Gil icons? Thanks in advance.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm first again...

[(Anonymous)]

you never even gave me a reacharound

asshole

itt: log in

[(Anonymous)]

and post some lyrics from the last song you listened to!

[dumbspurs]

In a trail of fire I know we will be free again
In the end we will be one
In a trail of fire I'll burn before you bury me
Set your sights for the sun

Only since my music today isn't hilariously embarrassing.

[(Anonymous)]

hello boys and girls

this is your old pal stinky wizzleteeks

[(Anonymous)]

I TOLD YA I'D SHOOT!

[(Anonymous)]

http://thefattestfox.tumblr.com/post/71498174029/hoping-this-will-inspire-me-to-actually-try-to

this girl is very cute and pretty, but i will never see the appeal in wearing such skintight clothing when you're that overweight. there's flattering ways to wear plus-sized clothes and then there's... not.

[(Anonymous)]

maybe it's what she prefers

[(Anonymous)]

A+ title thank u based mods

[(Anonymous)]

i need a new canon to play from but idk what

what's a good anime/manga

no sol/plotless garbage like free

[(Anonymous)]

play from digimon with me

idc which one i just want more people to play with

[(Anonymous)]

sometimes i love looking at fake digimon/pokemon people draw

but then i see a generic sparklewoof being passed off as an ORIGINAL POKEMAN © ME!!!!! and i die a little inside

[(Anonymous)]

the other day on tumblr someone reblogged the 3d sprites from x/y of the fairy type which yeah okay they were neat! but one was no joke just a fucking keychain. an actual pokemon design is just whatever was on the artist's left the last day of his deadline.

[(Anonymous)]

i love anime

[(Anonymous)]

i love manga, i never get around watching anime. i wish i had the attention span to finish more series.

[(Anonymous)]

god whose bright idea was it to allow fanfic on tvtropes?

the site is already neckbeardy as all get out but i'd really like to be able to search for something without having to scroll through shitty fanfic

why should anyone give a fuck that garbage mlp and hp fics break the fourth wall or avert tropes? no one fucking cares, they're not canon

[(Anonymous)]

makes about as much sense as having pages for various DWRPs, and they have those too

ITT post horrible fanart of your character

[(Anonymous)]

i want to see the abominations

[(Anonymous)]

it's all nsfw because she gets a lot of hentai drawn of her

[(Anonymous)]

are test drive memes a good indicator of how a game is going to be? like, if you get a lot of hits you'll probably do well in the game and if you don't get any you won't?

[(Anonymous)]

i wouldn't say so.

i can only speak from my experience, but in the games i've been in, a lot of established players don't check the test drive because they literally have too many game threads to keep up with already.

if you app in and your IC intro goes fully ignored, that's a different kettle of fish.

[(Anonymous)]

i've been trying to tag out on memes recently after writing them off for not giving me any good threads but i've been pleasantly surprised with the turnout recently. i can't tell if it's because more people are off for the holidays or if it's just luck.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm sure this has been asked before but i can't find it: how do you write good smut? an rp partner asked me and i don't want to be boring and awful at it, but i have no idea where to even start since most games have their logs locked and i wouldn't be able to tell "good" and "bad" threads apart anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Kinda the same way you write good gen, I'd say: give hooks, keep forward action, listen/respond to what the other character is doing. If you troll around bakerstreet (maybe go back a few months since most of the smut memes are sparse due to them cropping up constantly) you might be able to find good examples.

If it's just in general how do I get the feel, maybe read some more explicit fanfiction?

[(Anonymous)]

say if you wanted to app in a character who pilots a giant mecha, would it be overkill to want to bring it in-game with them? also if not, which games would allow that?

[(Anonymous)]

the question isn't whether the game would allow it

the question is whether it would be appropriate for the game setting

tiny town in the middle of the desert? sure, bring a mech, it might be useful

derelict spaceship? your mech will just take up room, theres no fuel, it might punch a hole in the wall, leave it at home

ATLA/LOK

[(Anonymous)]

Re: ATLA/LOK

[(Anonymous)]

is the second season of korra even worth watching