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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.

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GAME DISCUSSIONS

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CITY OF ARIEL

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CANON DISCUSSIONS

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MARVEL

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GAME ADS

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Super Robot Wars Unification

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Super Robot Wars Unification

SRWU is a multi-fandom crossover DWRP inspired by Super Robot Wars, a popular franchise of turn based strategy games based on giant robot combat. In our game, player characters become members or close allies of the Unity Group, an organization dedicated to battling many threats that endanger the Earth Sphere, both internal and external - aliens invaders, rampaging monsters, hostile human groups and many more.

In SRWU, events play out not only as DW posts, but also during AIM-run missions - combat operations during which player characters engage enemy forces in battle. Such missions are always scheduled in advance (from a RL perspective, not necessarily an IC one) and usually last 3 hours each, with an average of 2 missions being run per week, 6 to 8 player character combatants present in each mission.

Unlike crossover games that whisk characters away from their canons and place them in a completely new setting, SRWU integrates the characters' canons together - their events play out during the course of the game. However if one so decides, there is an option to app a character without any corresponding canon events.

Although SRWU is a mecha game, non-giant robot canons are also accepted if they fit thematically. OCs are also accepted.

The game is not out yet, and opens on Friday, April 18th. However recruitment is already open, and apps are being accepted. Don't miss out!

Useful links:

• IC Community (not much here yet)
• OOC Community
• Game and Setting Information
• Rules and Policies
• General questions thread (ask your questions here)
• Planning post (see what canons and characters other people want to app into the game)
• Testrun meme

GAME IDEAS

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Re: GAME IDEAS

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I was here a while ago with this game idea, and am still really interested in fleshing it out and setting it up. It's a kind of half AU game, where gameplay is divided into “In-town” and “out of town/missions”. The basic premise is that a lab of scientists, and some of the last of their race, pull characters into the setting to help do a variety of tasks they can't. When characters are out on missions for this group they have their abilities and memories to better assist in completing their tasks, but in the downtime they have only fake memories, and believe they've lived there their entire lives. Characters are divided up into families and live like normal, every day people.

I would like for the game to be plot intensive. Not so much so that there's no downtime for players, but It would probably run for a year or two tops, with there being a few different possible endings depending on character actions. Each month there would be two “events” one that's a mission for characters to go on, and one that affects the in-town gameplay. Some other basic info;

Network:
Short story: There isn't one. Long story: In town, characters can use telephones like you would in real life. You can call people, but there isn't any kind of mass broadcasting. Also, on missions, characters have an earpiece that allows them to keep in touch with others out there with them, but it wouldn't be a network like in other games in that posts on it would directly relate to the mission at hand, and not to baking cakes or hosting parties.

Drops
When a player/character drops, they vanish completely from in-town memories, and the lab makes it look like they were never there. They aren't perfect, though, so sometimes evidence will get left behind. A photo behind a dresser, for example.

Misc plot stuff:

In-town life is not static, and things will definitely get shaken up over time. Not just because of the world around their town, but because characters could find ways to alert themselves to the truth (it would just take some creative thinking).

-There are forces outside of the lab that want in, which could eventually lead to an ic divide, with characters turned against the lab/other characters.

-Characters would have their downtime memories while out on missions/in the lab

Problems;
I really want to set this game up. However, I don't have the time to mod a game all by myself, and I don't really know how to go about finding co-mods. I would also need help with coding and the like, as I can barely code my way out of a paper bag, and anything I attempt would take forever and look horrible.

So, thoughts?

APP THIS PLZ / ENABLE ME

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Still trying to find a decent home for a thief character (preferably one where said thief can actually steal things and be a magpie.). medium pacing preferred, no mem-loss, i can roll with just about anything else.

RP WITH ME

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Tolkien

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Fingon for my Maedhros? Is this a pipe dream?

CHARACTER ADVICE

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SOUL EATER EVANS (SOUL EATER)

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ooh, ooh! me, me, me! pick me!

breaking into this series and i would really appreciate any and all advice. i have started playing him a little here and there--meaning i may be pretty obvious--and i feel the problem with soul is that it's really easy to make him sound bland. i may even be doing this already.

anything i should keep it in mind? just avoid making him cooly talking about how cool it is to be cool and all his cooly cooly cool interests?

USERNAME SUGGESTIONS

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Kaneo Takarada | Kill La Kill

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Anything without underscores is fine by me. have at it, anons!

PB SUGGESTIONS

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Re: PB SUGGESTIONS

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Been toying with writing up Ramses Emerson from Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody books. Walter Peabody Emerson, AKA the Brother of Demons, AKA Ramses, is English, in his 20s, dark-haired and eyed, tall and able to infiltrate Egyptian and Turkish society and pass as a local. He's intelligent, thinks on his feet, a linguist and master of disguise. Any suggestions?

ICON/GRAPHICS & CODE/HTML HELP

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Re: ICON/GRAPHICS & CODE/HTML HELP

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does anybody have a reliable snip of code for hiding the plurk dash (basically everything below the timeline)? i can't figure it out and it's driving me nuts.

ideally i'd like to center the profile pic with everything else hidden, but just so long as i can get rid of the other stuff, that's what i'm mainly looking for.

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so empty
wow

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i poops in the corner

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someone needs to housebreak these anons

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screams into the void

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as someone poops in the corner

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Does anyone else think we make new posts too quickly?

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most places do the 'new post at 3000' thing for a reason. iirc, some time ago, dw asked people to make new posts at/around that comment limit because their servers were having trouble handling things that large

which really, you'd think dw would have fixed that problem by now but idk.

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people are talking about DMC and im disappointed they're not talking about Detroit Metal City

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GO TO DMC! GO TO DMC!

LOG IN

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What was the last movie you watched? Did you like it?

Re: LOG IN

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monster's university

it was okay

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my mom keeps almost walking in on me fapping and i am literally about to go insane

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after catching me a few times my mom started to knock so go for it

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I'm a very happy-go-lucky hedgehog, I am a plushophile at heart and will not change for anyone!

I have sex with Sonic the Hedgehog. I am not playing with you when I say this. I just ADORE him!

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Chris-chan pls go

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Any recommendations for AU games that are villain-friendly? I've been out of the RP loop for a while and have someone I want to dive back in with.

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Save the Earth (http://savetheearth.dreamwidth.org/profile) is kind of a mishmash of AU and memory loss. Your character is a modern day normal human on Earth who finds out that they're a reincarnation of someone else, and slowly get memories, powers, items, and physical features of them over time.

There's been talk of having characters actively acting as villains against the rest of the group, so you could possibly work something out if you want them to be actively antagonistic.

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So I'm looking at a game where the character I want to play was just dropped, and there's a couple of her other canonmates still around. Since I'm sort of cold-apping into the game with her, and into a spot that someone else recently had, do you think I should PM the other two canonmates to make sure I'm not stepping on any toes? One of the muns seems to be good friends with the recently dropped character's mun, if that makes a difference.

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If you have it in mind, it couldn't hurt, IMO. You don't have to, but if it would make you feel better about it? Either it could get you told no or help you get off to a good start with her potential canonmates, so whatever you want.

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i'm so glad we thread together

you got me out of my multi-year rp slump

so thanks

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I feel this way about one of my rp partners rn, anon.

Here's to yours and may you have many more fun threads with them!

LETTERS YOU'LL NEVER SEND

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Re: LETTERS YOU'LL NEVER SEND

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i wish i never got to know you ooc

you're a flaming bag of dicks which is a shame because our threads are really great

Your Dream Game Ideas

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Re: Your Dream Game Ideas

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A try out your game setting and rules comm, where the rules and settings changed every month.

Tips for people new to DWRP?

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A couple of my friends expressed interest in joining a game I'm setting up but they've never RPed on dreamwidth before. They've been RPing on other sites for years -- it's just that they're pretty new to the format of journal RP.

Any tips for getting used to it, and for dealing with the culture of DWRP as a whole?

Re: Tips for people new to DWRP?

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http://rpanons.dreamwidth.org/43384.html?thread=126761592#cmt126761592

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Hey, anons, some advice. I play a character who has a close castmate, and a few weeks ago I made a planned closed log for the both of them to just catch up since they haven't really threaded with each other for a while.

However, the castmate hasn't tagged into it, even though I linked the mun with the log right after it was posted and even gave them the link again a week later. And they're pretty active with their other characters, so I know they're not on hiatus or otherwise. What should I do? Should I send them the link again, and if I do, how do I do it without accidentally coming off as a rude pushover?

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just ask them if they're going to tag the log and if not if they want to work out a handwave. it's not like we're talking quantum physics here anon