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does anybody do fandom rp on jcink? some of the games look interesting (i'm getting an old school ljrp feel from them) but i don't know anything about the community or etiquette over there.

take my response with a grain of salt because i'm kind of a forum curmudgeon of many years who has diverged from the culture, but:

terminology: the owner is the admin with the board's root account. the admins are what we'd call the mod team. mods over there are basically what we call list mods, sometimes with app mod duties.

forum rps are usually for oc's, that's the majority. fandom games tend to be about one fandom (frequently just oc's, sometimes even just reenacting canon with bonus oc's) or about smashing a few specific fandoms together. it's extremely la heavy and they often use 'panfandom' to mean any fandom as long as it's once upon a walking teen superwholockvengers diaries (or whatever else is trendy rn).

this isn't to say there's not any anime/animated/vidya fandom, just that it's the minority. there's definitely a small subset games where you play oc's and are just required to use an animanga faceclaim.

ads asking for people to come play 'canons' are often asking for canon characters, but can also be oc-only games asking for players to come pick up mod-created characters that are 'canon' to their original setting.

you will encounter many people that sign up to rp and then do nothing but sit in the forum's c-box sighing about how pretty their chosen pb is and posting tumblr gifs of them.

there's a big culture of coding and making lots of graphics/ensuring character info pages are super pretty according to mod specifications, which can be fun but is also a major way of not actually rping.

quality varies massively, you'll see a lot of cringeworthy oc's running around. there are some great ones too, but steel yourself and be ready for all the edgelord mcrapebackstories you're gonna see.

lots of games have minimum wordcounts, though there's been pushback against that recently.

games die a lot. a lot lot. there are many more of them and they sort of cannibalize one another whenever a new shiny appears. if a game does get off the ground and have a strong player core it can go for years, but the first months are critical and you see a lot of fad games spring up and die within six. if you love a game, get involved. advertise aggressively. befriend your fellow players. help it look active.

idk what else, any questions you can think of?

thanks for the info! i kinda miss the single fandom/fandom oc animanga games that used to thrive on lj, so maybe i'll give a forum game a shot.

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