I think the plot-free RPG with a different theme every month or so would be a good idea, Shadowfaith.
The RPG School idea is a definite yes in my opinion.
RaZoR LeAf had something simular to that, I'm not sure any of you remember it, but it was known as the winterball. Here's the link(s):
RPG winter Ball
Second Annual Winter ball
One of the reasons I left for a little while is because of the super laaaaaagggg. It deserves way more As and Gs. The only time it seems I can get on is when its like 2 a.m or so when everyone else is sleeping. That in my opinion is ridiculous.
Yes, Lag has been a huge issue right now its 1:25 AM my time, the reason I'm up might you ask? I have to write a 10 page script by tomarrow which I started one half a page yesterday....
Lag has driven many active people I knew on serebii away, but once D/P dies down as PMD has done, I think the forums might be slightly better, not garunteed better, but maybe less white screen and a little more green screen.
I'd honestly like to see:
-A thread or an entire board devoted to getting help with fixing broken RPG plots.
Although one would think it is nice, I would have to disagree. Maybe a big brother little brother type relationship can be made, like the 'adopt-a-newbie thread' could work, or maybe one could just PM a friend who is already what they considered skilled and ask for help. Yet allot of people are stubborn and this thread if implemented could collapse easily.
-A thread or entire board to advertise upcoming RPGs
You mean like spam? There is already a thread technically for this, Innerflame has advertised her/his RPGs there. Wannna Check it out? Another thread made by RaZoR LeAf
RPG Ideas- Share your thoughts here. Although this place is just for 'ideas' you can give a brief promo of the idea of your RPG. InnerFlame has posted her/his RPG ideas, which are good, and can be developed further into plots, so one could just go in there and say:
-- "Hello people of Sppf, I have this RPG I've been working on and here it is [insert block of RPG-ness] What do you think? It might be coming to a sign up sub forum near you!" --
-Catagorizing RPG plots based on overall difficulty and complexity
Explain? Ratings aren't enough? MA, or NC-17, for the more adult crowd/mature members of Serebii are often very difficult, look at RaZor LeAf's many RPGs, for one thing, he had this Nos-Feratu RPG it was wordy, I might of signed up for it, but at the time he posted it I was very very busy, and I'll address timing later in this post. Difficulty can be read, if you are too lazy to read posts that have many many words to them, and have a complex plot, then why should the Mods baby feed you?
-A thread or entire board devoted to helping maintain a long and healthy plot once an RPG gets started.
Again, how will that be needed? It is up for the GM to have a heathy plot, don't aspect mods to baby feed you, they have their own lives to attend too. Maintaining an RPG requires work, if you can't handle the work, why did you become a game administrator in the first place?
-RPG schools for RPers depending on their skill levels [That'd definitely help. I think I have some dents that I got to fix.]
BuTcH During your long absense there has been one, but Lady Myuu took it down for she was tired, and didn't want to deal with the constant spam involved by noobs not reading the School's rules. I Pmed her once asking if I could take care of it, and she replied stating that she would only want a trusted friend of her's or a Mod, and at the time, mod activity was wavy.
I too would like to see another one of those to help those starting into the world of RPGs, cause I would not want to see newbies's dreams shot down after one lowsy RPG. (Although I am being a hippocrit, cause I do complain about noobs to my MSN Serebii friends...I assume if newbies don't read the rules the first time their automatically noobs, but a certain modfriend is helping me out of that viewpoint YAY here!)
-Votings for a favourite RPG, character, RPer, RPG plot sometimes with a theme (and perhaps some sort of Hall of Fame?) [That could work.]
Yes it could work, the fanfiction has this, and we all can be democratic about this system right? So no one complains about who wins what? Monthy contests/award ceremonies can be given out, but the mods would need be active, or trusted members could run this.
-Contests for making plots or characters [I would like that.]
Contests, OH FUN! YAY! The mods have tried this, with a character creation contest, RaZoR LeAf again sacrificed his time to make the RPG board a better place, but sadly the competition failed, I would of joined, but...meh...I'm lazy, people hassle me to get my sign ups, and rpgs done, like right now I have five fics being made, and four RPGs being created, well once my friend comes back from camp, we can probably post the RPG we two've been working on, but she has all the documents on her comp, so all I can do is wait :'(.
-An RPG where all different characters (that you used in the past) can "hang out" and just sit around and talk (like an actual Café) [If we can pull off something this complex, that would like the coolest thing! Or one of.]
The winter ball which I talk about was something simular to it, LegendarySuicuneGirlofPokemon, Cdra, and I once had a crazy idea of a Bishie RPG which would be simular to this, but the idea became way to complex and we trashed it, if any of you want to make a Bishie RPG go ahead, I'm still trying to ressurect the Classic PBA.
I'm just throwing this out there, but the amount in activity has gone down since the rule on threads in the Cafe section was put up.
Although that might seem true, also D/P came out, Exam week came, Summer Life awoke, not everyone's like me and sits all day home like a hermitt, well exceptionw ith ~Hyuu, he out hermitts me! I don't think that is the cause, in fact I think it has helped take away some of the noobishness of the rpg forum, although there HAS been allot of locked illegal RPGs lately, which are just....annoying...
I do like the idea about posting pics of your characters, as I have made my main character into a Mii. xD
Yes. Picture = fun. Cdra's drawn Plum, from F.R.E.E, her last RPG before she left for Summer, and that is one of my favorite character's i've ever created. Maybe a showcase thread can be made, where we can showcase all our work. Then again, we have threads already in existance, such as the
RPGers, share your character bios here thread made by Hazey Lucario.
I like all of your ideas Shadowfaith and I would definately be interested in it. I think we should have a place on the RPG we be can talk about our characters and how we got the ideas for our RPG.
The point of a Cafe is to be social, so maybe the mods could have a social cafe thread where we discuss about RPGs, etc. but Hazer Lucario's thread can demonstrate the 'Talk about character's' Need.
In Spellbinder I got much more excited about it when I began to make my character talk to the other characters. I got the chance to get an idea of how to play my character and how the other people maybe react. Is it possible that we can to that in our RPG discussion thread if we keep somewhat related to the RPG maybe we could make a place like that somewhere.
If ur saying "No straight business in cafe, but add social and fun elements to the threads." then I agree. Although it is ideal that the cafe threads stay stricly professional, I do think that talking about the rpg in a social manner should be allowed.
Other thing, why is it we cannot advertise RPG? They can do it in the Fanfiction place, I even read the Fic commerial place and it got me to read some of those stories. I mean as long as people aren't going to every RPG and post "Join blah blah blah it's fun" it should be fine, right?
As I said earlier, we can 'advertise' in RaZoR LeAf's RPG Ideas thread, I don't think an RPG advertising thead is nessessary, but meh.
Oh maybe we can make RPG for beginners that everyone can join and selected amount of people(Or whoever offers) can help the RPer improved. I been working on a RPG like that. But right now I just have the plot down.
I also have been working on that, I've been transforming PBA into an "RPG SCHOOL FOR BEGINNERs" type RPG to help the less experianced RPGers.
I think the plot-free RPG with a different theme every month or so would be a good idea, Shadowfaith.
The RPG School idea is a definite yes in my opinion.
And that was what the Winterballs were like, maybe if a mod did it once a month or 6 times a year, then it could be fun, for 12 times a year seems somewhat chaotic if you want to keep the rpg running, good rpgs last more then a month.
Well I would post but the lag just keeps me doing it, like if it lags an entire day, I kinda get lost then forget about the RP I am currently in, or it takes forever for one to start that I evatually forget about it anyway (The lag is also the reason why I barely read fanfics here either, no point in getting exited then waiting a whiole day to read the rest).
And then there's also that not alot of RP's seem to spark my interest anymore.
LAG IS EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! Willow, don't worry, I promise you ONE DAY the LAG will CEASE to EXIST! (God I hate that lag it so annoying, and I'm a one-forum guy, and Serebii is that one forum)
Yah, I havent been able to get on for many MONTHS due to the super lagging. I am waaay over due on posting in the RPG's I had signed up for alooong time ago. Plus, there are soo many rules. I could post in a sign up thread stating, say "Thanks for letting me join! I'll do my best" And then along comes someone like, say, RaZoR LeAf and he yells at me and threatens to LOCK up the forum, even after the person had just worked for maybe 4 whole days trying to come up with a great story line and 6 more days waiting to get the right amount of people to sign up for the RPG! Yes, I agree that we must have rules, especially with a forum of this size, but too many rules, and enforcing them soo forcefully like "some" of the mods do here, will push people away. The whole point of having a forum is to entertain and please the members. No members, no forum. Too many rules, no members.
I blame myself, sometimes I'm report trigger happy...And yes, the mods have been trying to keep socializing to a mimimum, and work to a maximum, the slightest chatter could fuse a noob spamfest, ya never know.
Well I have no ideas as of yet, and I gave my imput to all your comments. I do have something to bring up that no one has said yet, and ShadowFaith we've talked about it over MSN, and that is the idea of timing. Like ShadowFaith's nippon RPG, or Digimon RPG, they are good, people signed up, but it was the wrong timing, cause schedules outside of serebii conflicted with them. Its hard to find the right time when the RPGs would be most active. Well now its 2:10 AM, and I need to get back to my script, so g'night to you all!
