The next RP and the future of Spidweb RPs
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 09:45
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I have noticed that in the past 8 months, any RP that was started on General eventually curled up and died. Including mine. Is Spidweb just plain becoming inactive or what? The latest topics have all been boring and most of them completely pointless. I take it that my RP is dead now, unless someone creates a new topic with a summary of the latest happenings. Humph!! Like that will ever happen. :rolleyes: :( But my main question is, are all future RPs on here doomed to die like mine from lack of participation? If so, then I want no part of these boards anymore. And if so, what's the point in having RPs anymore then? If people aren't willing to take responsibility for the character that they took their own time to create and place in the RP, then why expect anymore RPs, let alone ones that will last? :( -------------------- "Keep your wits about you, the game is afoot!!" - Sherlock Holmes Gay Christian Network The Polaris Board Posts: 935 | Registered: Friday, August 8 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 09:53
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Spiderweb is not a board for RPs. It doesn't work out. There are too many people coming and going, there are too many members who make forty posts and disappear, too many people who don't really give a toss about RPing but think it's cool for about five posts. There are too many feuds and too many differing opinions. Quit whining and go somewhere where there is a single, dedicated community of people who live for RPs. EDIT: Also, boring and useless are subjective adjectives. And just because there are no RPs here doesn't mean it's inactive. It means RPs are inactive. Gawd. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 09:55: Message edited by: Magic Hunter Gurrrrl ] -------------------- fame fame fatal fame it can play hideous tricks on the brain Posts: 407 | Registered: Friday, May 14 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 12:22
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As I recall from PPP1, most RPs end up locked or die out anyway. This is not a new trend in SW; it was true well over a year ago, too. Look at the New Silvar Inn RP, or any of the many others that existed at the time. An RP is pretty good if it can get to ten pages, and if it can break twenty, it's very successful. At least, that's the way it is here. Maybe at other boards it's different. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 12:26
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Tu autem. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Master
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 12:26
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Go ahead and start a new RP if you want...you just have to want to type a little bit to start it off interestingly. ^_^ BtW, this is post #400. Cheers! -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 13:47
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quote:Uh, if this isn't a place for RPs, then why have so many been made here? Since I have been here, I have seen at least 12 RPs come and go. There are people here who can really write and do well in Spidweb RPs, but cannot do the same in RPs elsewhere. I am one of those people. I starting RPing on this board first and I will continue to RP here as long as there are other good writers here. I am not good at RPing elsewhere, as I do not play other games and as I happen to have Social Anxiety Disorder, I am afraid of trying new sites. I also only have time to RP here and perhaps Polaris if I can find the time. I got off to a rocky start when I first joined some RPs here, but I learned to adapt to situations and I eventually got to the point where I am now. I do not feel comfortable trying RPs elsewhere and probably never will. This is the General board and people have been creating RPs here for years. So who are you to say that this board is not meant for RPing? Unless you are a veteran hiding in a new account or a person stalking the boards for a while but never registering, you have not been around long enough to make that judgment. -------------------- "Keep your wits about you, the game is afoot!!" - Sherlock Holmes Gay Christian Network The Polaris Board Posts: 935 | Registered: Friday, August 8 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 14:29
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There are boards which are created especially for RPs. Spiderweb is not one of them. There are boards which people visit solely to participate in RPs. Spiderweb is not one of them. Yes, people have created several RPs here. But most have eventually dissolved into bickering or a natural death. Yes, there are good writers here. There are good writers on lots of other boards, but they don't create RPs there. I know you know about Polaris (first link in sig), which has RPing. There are other boards, perhaps more successful than Polaris, (try Santharia, in Aran's sig) out there as well which are fairly accessible. Since you seem to come here only for the RPing, I was merely suggesting that you would perhaps be more at home at a board where all the members are focussed on that. I guess your disorder might prove obstructing, but, well... how did you find Spiderweb? EDIT: Re Thuryl's post: Oops, yeah... maybe you remember Rosycat? I registered December 2002, I think. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 17:28: Message edited by: Magic Hunter Gurrrrl ] -------------------- fame fame fatal fame it can play hideous tricks on the brain Posts: 407 | Registered: Friday, May 14 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 14:35
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She is a veteran with a new account, by the way. She's been around longer than you, anyway. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 20:24
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Not a good place for RPs, Rosy? I don't know about that. It has a steady flow of members, which is both a blessing and a curse - blessing because we get new RPers, fresh blood, like FZ, Prem, etc., and a curse because of what you said. Polaris doesn't have enough dedicated members to sustain a good RP long enough. Were you around for Dragonfire or Sleeper Cell? Not bad RPs at first, but then lack of new posts and ideas got the better of them. The exact opposite is often the problem here. At Spiderweb, at least, we have RPers to work with. Stricter, unofficial, enforced newbie-RPer rules might help here, but they couldn't at the smaller boards. MSW, if you don't like the current topics you could take a break from General. Maybe they'll improve by the time you get back. -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon Polaris = joy. In case of emergency, break glass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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Bob's Big Date
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 21:01
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Some charitable person needs to write up rules and a scenario for the BoA Arena, and then we'll be in business. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 21:16
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quote:As you were not here when I first joined, because someone told me you had taken a hiatus, I have no choice but to shoot your theory full of holes. :mad: I did not come to this site for RPing. I came to this site to get help with the Exile Trilogy. I stumbled across the General Board and the RPs there and decided to take a look at them. I had never seen an RP before then and was intrigued at their style of creativity and their organization. I joined two as a result and got pulled into the world of RPs. As time went by, I needed help with Exile less and less. And I stayed around for the RPs more and more because they were interesting to be in. I did check out Polaris once, before it had its melt down, and the RPs were far too advanced for me to be part of and did not resemble the RPs on Spidweb, so I stayed away from theirs. I would have tried playing some of Spidweb's other games, but they were all far too advanced for me. I did not grow up with the Internet or computer games like many of you did, so I wasn't used to their advanced gameplay. I just stuck with Exile because it was simple and easy to understand. I only just within the last month tried playing Blades of Exile and found it to be fun. It may open up the way for me to play other games perhaps. And in whatever month, April or May or whatever, I created an RP. But not just any RP. I wanted to try something different and host it on a totally different World. Though with Eferas being there, it seemed to end up on the Exile and Avernum world anyway. But still, I created this RP as a means for people to have fun and show off their talent at writing and creativity. In addition, we did get an interesting newcomer. Mordrith. He is an excellent writer and added some very good content to the RP. :) But then people started going on vacations and the posts got fewer and fewer until they stopped. I had been told by someone that the time in which I started the RP was a good time for doing so. That person ended up having lied to me as I was told by others. As of now, I am still a little sore at all the planning, brainstorming, and writing time that I wasted on this RP. I had actually planned to use this RP as an outline for a Blades of Exile or maybe even Blades of Avernum scenario. But as it was never finished, I cannot do that now. Still, I find it very unfair of you to judge me when you weren’t even here when I first came. :mad: Spidweb RPs are very unique and they should never be gotten rid of. If they are, then an entire genre of RPs will die out. Would you honestly be able to live with the fact that you helped bring about their destruction? I wouldn’t. :( -------------------- "Keep your wits about you, the game is afoot!!" - Sherlock Holmes Gay Christian Network The Polaris Board Posts: 935 | Registered: Friday, August 8 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, August 29 2004 02:02
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Well, there's currently a very Spidweb-General-like RP at Polaris now called League of Little Old Ladies. Maybe you should check that out. It seems interesting enough. I haven't joined it yet, but I will after I return from work today. -------------------- The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) Famous Last Words - A local pop-punk band They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Bob's Big Date
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written Sunday, August 29 2004 07:31
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Don't get your panties in a twist, MSW. Has it occurred to you perhaps that, it being August, a sizeable percentage of the RPers here have school and such to worry about? Approach-avoidance is a lousy and histrionic excuse not to do anything. I can tell that you didn't exactly grandfather into this community like some of us did (say, me and Drakey), so you had to have made that jump somewhere. So either go find a board which is actually meant for RPs (as opposed to one meant for miscellaneous discussion on a tangentially-related-to-SW level) or stop hectoring us because they don't exist here. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, August 29 2004 09:31
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Sigh. David, maybe it's just that I don't care enough about RPing. Maybe Spiderweb is a good place for RPing. Maybe. But I'm not ready to help a big omigawsh restore the wonderful and dying art of spidweb RPing before it is XTINKT project. Because I never liked what Spiderweb RPs I did see. I frankly wouldn't care that I'd helped 'bring about the death' of a genre of RPs, as I wouldn't have been destroying anything intentionally, and Spiderweb RPs don't really matter to me. Nor do they matter to a lot of people on General. MSW, I wouldn't say I was 'judging' you, etcetera. I never said you joined solely for the RPs. I said it seemed as if you were here, i.e. staying, only for the RPs. I do not know or care how you joined; my point was that you did come here, and... what Alec said. Goodbye. -------------------- fame fame fatal fame it can play hideous tricks on the brain Posts: 407 | Registered: Friday, May 14 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, August 29 2004 12:48
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RPs are just another thing here. They're not vital. They're not what you would expect. But they do happen, and when they do, they're just as much a part of the boards as the members themselves. -------------------- Aut Tace Aut Loquere Meliora Silencio Posts: 1487 | Registered: Sunday, February 10 2002 08:00 |
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Master
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written Sunday, August 29 2004 14:00
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Well, considering the fact that I didn't start here until June, I've never really participated in any RP (whether that is a good thing or not, I'll let you decide). I haven't yet brought myself to goint through VoT, so I guess I don't really plan to, anyway. That said, I think we should make a new RP here and start it going. Then I could see what it's like, and then I'd have an idea on how RPing goes and therefore could develop an opinion on whether or not Spiderweb should have more RPs. But unfortunately, I for one am not that good at coming up with ideas. :( -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |