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yes, it has. some shithead put up one of their accounts on a journal trading comm, then reported it stolen. the person that got it received a permanent ban, of all their journals.

Game type:
Fantasy, horror, exploration
Canon characters, canon AU's characters AU'd to the setting, setting OC's with no ties to canon characters

Your characters would fall into one of four categories: Wardens, Legion of the Dead, random explorers or adventurers in the Deep Roads, or ghouls.

Game Setting:
The Deep Roads
*Orzammar
*Warden outposts

*The Test Drive meme would be game canon. Depending on which type of character you wanted to play, your Wardens would start on the surface and your future Legionnaire in Orzammar. Explorers and ghouls would play from specific prompts for how they got to be where they are or what happened to them. Only dwarves may join the Legion. Wardens can be of any sentient race in Thedas. If you play a golem, you will automatically be grouped with random explorers in the Deep Roads.

Those who decide not to app either die in the Joining, aren't exiled, die from Blight poisoning, etc. For purposes of duplicates on the TDM who don't app, they aren't considered the same people, only people who looked similar and had some things in common.

Game length:
Limited run, no more than a year to a year and a half.

Game size:
Small. Limited number of players and characters, app caps, possible cast caps. Also possible class and race caps to keep it balanced.

Game speed:
Fairly fast. 1:1 day ratio. Fairly plot heavy, so being uninvolved will be a hindrance.

Game mechanics:
Combination of dungeon crawl style with free form interactions possible in base camps.
AC operates on a points base system. Minimum AC keeps you in the game, and that's it. There would be a tiered activity system and other ways to earn more points such as running a player plot or possibly helping NPC in some situations.

Rewards would range from anything to better gear and equipment, better food and resources, bonus areas to explore, or if players cooperate and pool reward points they can build fortifications and stuff like that for more permanent security. You could also possibly earn the right to app another character. I'm a little on the fence about that because of the small player pool and wanting to give other people a chance to get in.

There would be no AC strikes. If you squat a month without declaring a hiatus, your character dies, and you are not able to app in another for at least one app cycle. Same for abusing the hiatus system.

Permadeath would be in play. If you idle out or drop, your character dies. No one else can app them. If you decide to have them die in game, they're dead. You may choose to app a new one without giving up your spot. There would be a limited number of times any one player could do this to discourage rotating character, new shiny syndrome.

The game would end with everyone dying. There are no happy endings in the Deep Roads. The only question is do your characters go out in a blaze of glory or with a sad fizzle.

Events:
Exploration based. No opt outs. You go where you go in a group or in your scouting parties. What you come across is what you deal with. The only way to "sit out" is to contract Blight sickness with the understanding your character will be dead within two app rounds or forced to undergo a Joining, or as a Warden or golem, go explore somewhere else with the possibility that what you come across could be worse than what you wanted to avoid.

Network:
No. You're all moving together in the Deep Roads. If you split up, you can't communicate until you rejoin the group. Small splinter groups run the risk of being overrun by Darkspawn with the chance of it increasing the longer they're away from the main group. This will be handled with RNG by mods should the mechanic come into play.

Powers:
All powers must be translated into setting compatible powers.

Themes and Content Warnings:
The Deep Roads are a violent, grim place filled with corrupted creatures and all kinds of nastiness. There will be brood mothers, captives of Darkspawn, possible cannibalism in the case of ghouls, and an overarching theme of fighting a hopeless battle your characters know they ultimately can't win. Amidst the horror will be occasional discoveries of beauty and wonder. Ultimately, it will not be a game for sensitive players. In joining, you acknowledge that you are able and willing to deal with these types of themes and will not be fighting against the setting or plots at a later date for being disturbing.

i'm really confused about widowtracer because people have taken their backstories to be proof of a canon lesbian relationship and???????????? w h e r e tho??

i'm all for shipping ladies together and i normally do, but i hate that people take the teensiest bit of 'proof' of a ship and act like it's canon. i always feel like doing so takes away the burden of writers and game companies from actually making a statement and making the characters canon gay and openly so. it just feels like appeasing dudebros by keeping everyone just straight enough for plausible deniability while queerbaiting LGBTs looking for representation. goddamn do i hate it.

shut up you nerd

Two plots I'd love to play out: Fenris and Hawke falling into a strange facsimile of a D/s relationship, complete with Hawke fumbling and making bad jokes and Fenris having no real idea what he enjoys because of his past. We could develop this further, or we could just do a one-off. Honestly, I've been dying to play gentlest dom Hawke enjoying the aftercare more than the actual sex.

I'd also love to explore a verse in which Hawke and Fenris never got back together after Fenris ran away that first night they slept together. Fastforward to after DAI, when Hawke somehow manages to make it out from the Fade, they meet up again. We can go from there.

Shoot me a PM if you're interested!

soooo was this person wanked out of dwrp or what because i never heard of this

how does dreamwidth make money?

is it just paid accounts and renames? do people really buy them enough to support the site?

i've bought a bunch of rename tokens but that doesn't seem like nearly enough

that's really weird because in the TOS it says:

I. Your Account
If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account. You are responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the account. You must take reasonable steps to guard the security of your account. We will not be liable for any acts or omissions resulting from a breach of security, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

and it says nothing about giving accounts away or the security thereof. citation needed.

"we're not liable for damages" isn't the same as "and you're fucked and can't get your account back." either way, i don't know exactly where it is but denise has talked at length about it being against the TOS and why.

yeah cause rpers make up the entire site

wow

well i would like a link to this if you can find it because it's news to me, tbh. if it's not in the TOS and it's such a serious offense it really should be. i'd never do that to someone, but if it's happened that's a big deal.

well, they don't have a large staff, and they have a limited about of server space to keep up. all the paids and extra icons we buy adds up.

it also helps them when we buy points and use them later.

rpers and hms_anon people pretty much make up the entirety of dw if im not mistaken

wouldnt be surprised if it was a hms person tho

just seems like the amount of server load vastly outweighs microtransactions. i mean clearly it doesn't but i'm curious about the actual numbers

cursory googling got me this https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=239

i'm sure it is there somewhere, just maybe in an obscure place, but either way it's codified in the faq if nowhere else.

you are mistaken. there's plenty of accounts that predate the move and plenty of accounts that are still used as personal accounts.

granted, i'm sure rpers are a majority now, but acting like we're all there is to the site is silly.

huh. i actually didn't know this. i wonder how the investigation on that went since wouldn't they take into account receipts of agreeing to trade? like i know trading is supposed to be against the rules but if someone said "this person hacked my account" when they clearly gave it away is that still a bannable offense?

that sounds fucked up if not since i assume it's mostly friends trading/giving away usernames

basically all i can ask is do you like really shitty main characters who are irredeemable garbage piles that fandom treats as gods and do you like women characters who get fridged worse than if they were a side character girlfriend in a 90s comic?

do any of you believe in ghosts

i haven't been on lj/dw in years. i just thought about rp today and decided to check this place out. i'm shocked at how dead it is/how few games there are left. is it just that people are moving to different venues, or did a lot of people suddenly grow out of the hobby at the same time? i mean, when i first started rping, most of my castmates had full time jobs or were full time students, so i'm not sure it's about time management.

anyway, hello to those of you who are still around. hope life's been good.

dwrp's still really active but a lot of it has moved to plurk. there's a shitton of games i have either never seen dropped here, or very rarely get dropped here, but they're alive and well

if anything it's anoncomms that are slowing down

yes but i think 99.99% of "evidence" posted on the internet or on tv is fake or explainable

oh, okay! glad to hear the scene's still active. thanks for explaining to me.

definitely and while a lot of people have either fully moved to tumblr or tried to, i know the ones on my timeline who have complain about the interface constantly and talk about coming back p often

that or they do both dwrp and tumblr at the same time

most of us are too old to want to deal with the culture shock of tumblr rp and the ugly, complicated interface tho

yeah, i heard about tumblr rp and i'm honestly not sure how people manage to do that? it's great that they do, but it seems like it would be really messy/hard to keep threads distinct. maybe you really do have to be young and persistent...

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