rpanons | Your privilege at any time is only as strong as the wifi signal

Rundown:

rpanons is an anonymous community for role-play related topics. This place serves as a forum for game discussions, canon discussions, RP solicitations (ATP, game ads, open memes), and advice. The occasional off topic comment is inevitable, but please keep heated social and political topics to their respective communities. Posting them here will only get them frozen. Subsequent threads made to bypass a freeze will then be deleted.

Rules:

Do not post pornographic or shocking images.
Do not share private entries, plurks, chat logs, etc.
Do not use this community as your social/political/hatespeech soapbox.
Do not be redundant. One page does not need three or more threads on one topic/theme.
Do not treat this comm like your personal Plurk or Twitter. Off-topic happens, but it should be open for discussion and not just a play-by-play of your life. No one cares.

CONCERNS | RESOURCES

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I think it would be possible to have long-distance magical communication without having a traditional rp "network" that's available by default to all characters. There could even be a variety of long-distance communication methods! People could share enchanted diaries with their friends to chat by text, or they could use magic to be virtually present in another place... there are a lot of ways to overcome problems of distance without having a typical "network comm." Open network posts are convenient as a fallback method for getting initial CR or to scrape by with some last-minute AC , I guess, but in an AU game you can manipulate the character's backstory to give them instant CR.

I'd prefer a networkless game, but I do think that with a bunch of wizards around, it makes sense to have communication methods that are more convenient than letters and pigeons. But something like a magical amulet or a scrying pool would probably function more like a walkie talkie or cell phone than a magical jamjar network communication device that can be used for public IC blogging. It just doesn't make sense to have widespread magic and then not use it to solve a basic social need for rapid, long distance communication. It's been forever since I played DnD but I vaguely remember a spell where people could send voice messages using wind.

Nobody wants to see lazy players scrape by on AC by boomerang tagging a quick dialogue-only log right before AC is due, but ideally players who aren't participating in a meaningful way can be dealt with by mods.

Your privilege at any time is only as strong as the wifi signal

not OP

+1