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Honestly this whole thread reads like a tinfoil hat wearing sameanon who really wants to play Natasha. I notice the multiple other MCU squatters haven't been brought up.

don't get me wrong, anon. i'm on the side of thinking ophelia's a squatter. she's done it in multiple games and i was the one suggesting she needed to stick to psls or memes instead of a game with a cast cap when she's not active in it. this is her mo. it won't change. she needs to politely step aside.

but as i myself have had positive experiences with the mod, i have to wonder if anyone's brought it to their attention or that the resulting letting it slide actions are coming off as favoritism. i see 'looks like favoritism', but it might not be. it might just be someone thinking they're doing a good thing and being taken advantage of.

Ophelia's activity aside, I'm mostly rolling my eyes because this thread is totally ignoring the fact the mod has given exceptions like this to multiple players in the past, including the PST time zone exception. Personally I think that sorta rules out the whole favoritism thing, but I'm also not personally invested in a spot in the MCU cast so ymmv I guess.

1. how many years have you been on dw/lj?
- 10+ years now
2. what keeps you here?
- I honestly don't know, I've been here since high school and it just kinda became my go to.
3. do you rp on any other sites?
- Not anymore but I used to
4. if so, which ones?
- gaia, I used to do all my voice testing stuff there before I made journals. stopped doing that awhile ago though.
- tumblr, I didn't like the format at all and stopped after a few months
5. if yes to 3, which is your favorite?
- n/a
6. why?
- n/a

then that's evidence to suggest it's not favoritism which is always helpful to bring up so everyone's getting all the deets!

it's still kind of weird, it doesn't take much to figure out the cut off in your own time zone and it doesn't seem fair to players that can't use that excuse.

agreed. if a game runs on a specific timezone, then that's the timezone it runs on. you don't get a freebie because you can't pay attention to shit. you have a whole month to get ac. if you have to squeak it out so that some of it eeks into the new month by the game's timezone, you're not playing the game right. it wouldn't count for reserves or apps, so why does it count for ac?

It kinda depends on what you're running. There's no one best way. If you've got five of your closest mates all agreeing to AU their characters into the same setting that's a lot different than 15 people you get along with but don't necessarily know that well having OUs in an arena, and that's a lot different than running El Nysa or Recolle and setting up an elaborate PVP system for those games.

I need more info is what I'm saying. I mean.

i think in this case though im wondering how to like factor in those upsets because powerlevels are all well and good and important but i don't want to underrate ingenuity.

If I'm tagging someone and we agree that Goku's going to beat Superman this time, then I'm not sure why you need to step in at all if we're both chill with it. Is there a reason for it?

the only clique i've really seen is probably the MCUs and they're honestly super easy to ignore

y'all shit yourselves over not getting tags? tag out, it's not hard.

just post to it anonymously, make a sock account to link interested parties to, and if it doesn't pan out, then oh well

When developing OCs, I've realized I tend to figure out their history first and only then think about their personality, which means that often I only have a loose idea of who they are and nothing about their personalities is as fixed as their histories, which often leaves me with vaguely bland characters.

I'd like to be better about developing interesting characters who aren't quite as reliant on their backstory/history to prop them up. So for those who do write OCs, how do you develop their personalities? What do you start with, how do you fully flesh it out, etc?

I've had that issue before and what helped me was this: I start with creating a group and then in the end pick the members of the group that have developed to be the most vibrant. So I can still start with the history, but don't end up with people who aren't much *more* than their history.

This obviously doesn't work for hardcore loners, but for OCs in groups (friend groups, family groups, work groups...) it's worked quite well for me. Essentially, since there is a group of people that I develop at once, I don't just develop their history but also their relationships, their opinions on one another, their dynamics, their strengths and weaknesses as something that is balanced out by or clashes with other members of the group. Their personalities grow because they need to be different from each other, and so on. And all of that happens fairly organically while the history is developed.

And then it tends to happen naturally that some members of the group are more colourful and vibrant and call out to me more to pick them up as individuals to play in DWRP. Sometimes only one, sometimes two or more. The advantage is that there's a fleshed out background (and the disadvantage is that I keep wanting to talk about those other character, but that's where self restraint comes in).

Maybe this means DPS will have to learn not to run ahead of the tank or constantly pull adds for shits and giggles

Speaking as someone who plays OCs and also published a novel (self-pubbed, but hey, I had to create all the characters in it) ... I tend to come up with a character's primary interest, and then think of what might conflict with that interest.

Some examples: My current tabletop character is a centaur who dreams of being a famous actress, but keeps getting cast as the horse. I thought, "Okay, what centaur wants to be an actress? What's her beauty routine like? Does she have a wish list of dream roles she's been denied? Is she angry at her director? Angry enough to frame him for murrrrderrr?"

My novel's main character is a teenage girl who's a good student and varsity athlete, but also loves trashy romance novels and wants to be taken seriously as a sexual being. Those two traits conflict when she dates a vampire who wants her to derail her life for him.

I feel like I'm not explaining very well, but that's my formula. 1) Give the character an interest or a drive. 2) Are they free to pursue it? What obstacles do they run into (internal obstacles count)? 3) What does a person in those circumstances act like?

World-building comes ...... close to last for me. Not saying that's good, but I do think nailing down what propels a character internally makes it easier to find hooks for them to interact with others.

there are, at a bare minimum, four people i can think of off the top of my head who will start cr with you at a moment's notice and tend to boomerang quickly. also the majority of people i've seen tend to tag back fairly quickly, at least on the network.

a quick question: did you get accepted past the initial week or so and tag into the intro log? i noticed tag-ins there have dropped a lot in terms of intensity, probably because people are building to the event post in around three days. if you throw a top-level up there, people will almost certainly tag in quickly.

I have no idea how they even manage, since the tanks are so far ahead of me most of the time catching up to them's about all I can do. And then when I do catch up they roll/leap/charge/whatever 20 miles ahead again.

Of course I'm also a mage who tends to hang out in the back, so...

Thanks anon, that's very helpful! And actually helps with an issue I have right now - the character I am working on is part of a large family with a number of connections and thus has a lot of people around her usually, and I have been neglecting developing them in favor of her. So while I can't use the entire idea, it does give me a starting point.

(Also will remember it for future OCs.)

1. 10
2. rping with my friends, and sometimes making new friends.
3. no, but i used to.
4. i used to play on forums.
5. dw is my favorite.
6. panfandom rp that isn't complete shit, and my friends are here.

Congrats on publishing anon, even self! That's awesome.

The interest/drive is a really good idea. One of the characters I am conflicted on has a drive - to protect people, as that is her life's purpose, but also to find love - so I need to work a little more on developing the whys and wherefores and answer some of those questions of obstacles and considering what people would do.

The other one I am working on has no drive yet, so I will have to figure that out. She's a fairly shallow character, which is unusual for me, both in terms of her temperament and development, so. We'll see what happens.

Again, thanks! That helps so much.

tbh you're the one coming off sounding the most defensive in this thread.

are you tagging out, anon? or do you expect everyone to come to you?

1. 8
2. the ease of finding people to rp with who are quality and ic (especially compared to other platforms), fandom rp, icons
3-6. no, but i used to 8+ years ago

Welcome new friend!

not sure if anyone else has asked this recently, but i just got back into the game after about 4 years away-- do any of you guys play on wyrmrest/moon guard (either faction, i play on both sides) and know of any social chat channels/guilds/etc to join? the official forums don't seem to be used much for this anymore. :(

mostly i just want to find new friends and have some people to chat with while i play, the game is pretty quiet solo right now and i'm hesitant to just join random guilds. those are the servers i have active characters on and at least one level 90, but i'm open to rolling elsewhere and checking other servers out if you have a good recommendation to give!

I mean, okay. But regardless of my tone and whether or not it hurts your feelings, if the mod has done the same thing a bunch of times it's not favoritism for her to do it again.

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