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as nigh immortal space rocks, a lot of these characters are stubborn and stuck in their ways. they've learned some bad habits over millenia and need time to readjust the way they think and do things. basically i'm saying that gems can be really...

...hard headed.

as deep as you need to go for your characters and story to make sense. a children's story about a cute witch based loosely on fairy tales is going to require less intense world building than a dark fantasy epic about a young woman who grows to become a powerful sorceress. just be careful that you don't fall into the trap of using world building as an excuse to put off writing your actual story, and accept that you'll have to make some stuff up on the fly. if something doesn't work you can always fix it in editing.

assuming you're the mod, your players need to be able to envision their characters in the world. imagine you're in the middle of the city you want to build. what do you see? what do you hear? what do you smell? is this a normal amount of foot traffic or is it a holiday?

people don't need to know the brands of things being sold in the stores, but they need to be able to picture themselves in different parts of the world. you definitely need a map of the major cities (or major space stations or mountain ranges or whatever). if i want to talk about my character going from A to B, i should be able to have some idea of how far A is from B and what lies between those two points.

graphics are great for this. if you can get a good detailed picture of some endor-looking forest town for your forest dwellers and fanart from blade runner for your urban nightmare city, then that's less detail you have to provide in text.

it turns into banal padding when you make the world so detailed that nobody is able to interact with it without spending an hour or more reading over the locations pages to make sure they don't make any errors. so long as you're encouraging your players to use their own creativity, all you need is the basic structure of the place. most everybody can imagine what suburban sprawl looks like: just say "it's miles of suburban sprawl and strip malls and palm trees and ugly pastel ranch-style houses" and let your players fill in any other details they like in their threads.

Every series written by David Eddings tbh. When I was in high school my nerdy best friend recommended the Belgariad, and I fucking loved it; the characters and writing were clever, the stories were fun and interesting. It was basically my first foray into fantasy and got me hooked on the genre.

I had no idea how (intentionally) ridiculously, unrepentantly formulaic they were, or how awful his handling of women and fantasy-race-analogues ended up being. Even when he literally laid out his formula in the Rivan Codex, I didn't understand it. Like romance novel levels of clinging to the same archetypes and tropes and plot, that all the snark from those clever characters was hiding their one-note shallowness, and coming back to it a few years ago was really eye opening. They're still fun in a comfort food way, and one day I might revisit the Belgariad/Mallorean again, but the shine's definitely gone. I never even bothered past the first Dreamers book and that came out when I was still in my teens and still had pretty basic tastes. :|

idk, when my friends go on hiatus, i'll talk to them on aim when they get back. maybe her friends are just talking to her outside of plurk.

what in the fuck

this game is still alive??

who knew

http://www.novelupdates.com/series/otherworldly-evil-monarch/

God if I hadn't scrolled down, I'd probably be pissed off about 2 weeks later that I wasted so much time reading it.

Gross sugary milky coffee tbh! I do a lot of walking to, from and around work. There's a park I can walk in too! Dont kow any dog folk thpigh.

And I am down with eggs!

Will begin with noisy one next door

gilgamesh is best waifu

*though

Excuse my shitty typing

Noooot even sure if I will seriously play this guy anywhere (Junkrat from Overwatch), but the option is there at least, right?

they don't need to eat meat to get their protein though

nuts + beans will give you complete protein

their art looks fine

don't be a dick

you act like we don't laugh at other people's misfortune here all the time

mal/merrill, adoribull, gwen/disaster, twisted fate/nerva

Which is funny because most of the comments on the post are from people trying to skirt the rules (or just trying to make sense of their halfassed bullshit explanations)

Just had a couple questions since I'm shopping around for a game. I like the setting and look of this one but I've heard it's blown up in size in the past couple months.

What's the pace like? How does it change between/during events?

If I'm someone who can only do a handful of tags per day, am I likely to fall behind? Do people generally backtag, or will they drop threads if they're not being boomeranged?

Are logs or network threads more popular?

(And also since I guess it's kind of relevant lately) for anyone that's been in the game for a while, what sort of tone can be expected after all these murder rules? Is it more exploration, or humor, or slice of life in space, etc.?

make a general overview of the world but only focus on the things that will actually, you know, affect your characters. so if your world is a medieval world with magic, talk about it being a medieval world ruled by kings and queens and the magic being whatever it is but restrict yourself to only two - three paragraphs. after that devote the rest of the details to flesh out the country/city/kingdom your character is from and the other things they'll make direct contact with. are they a guardsman? talk about the organisations that protect people. are they a priest? talk about the gods and goddesses and the religious beliefs.

i know people get mad and complain about how the world building seems only to revolve around the character/s but there's a fine line of 'fleshing out the entire world' and 'here's a fucking article about a country my character will never go to but heard of'. spare yourself and the reader but focusing on details that will come up in your character's/story's setting at first. if you wanna expand upon later on cool for you but don't kill yourself trying to figure out the economics of gold/silver/bronze dragon shits or something.

fucking ass wombs, amirite?

"people get upset about unpleasant things" is not "un-modly behavior" unless you expect your mods to be robots

you seem to be more concerned with the lack of tags you're getting from her rather than any concerns about her behavior though

but mom, all the OTHER kids do it!!!!!

accept that you're not going to get the validation you were seeking for being a pathetic child and move on with your life.

The pace is what you make of it. There's an event at the beginning and one in the middle of each month. The events are take them or leave them, and you can do as much or as little as you want.

I'm slow tagging and people backtag and I've always had fun. The beginning of the month is usually busier because people tag to get threads started sooner.

I've noticed logs and networks to be equally popular. Though the first event log is usually the most tagged.

I've been in game a while now and some players pushed the focus to murder plots, which has nothing to do with the premise. There's a lot of complaining going on right now because it was cut out and the mods/players are trying to find the best resolution. Tbh, it'll all blow over when the crybabies stop whining and let the mods adjust to what is most wanted. I've been in about eight months now? And every time the mods have altered something, they've listened to their players and done the best for the majority. This just has a lot of attention because unfortunately every big game will get wankers and whiners and people that can't keep calm and be mature.

As for the tone, it'll be what it was originally before characters began murdering each other. The events range from horror to scifi to humor and players can involve themselves in whichever they want to most.

PC run police forces always end in disaster for a whole host of reasons

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