enablemeplz | April EMP Meme

ENABLEMEPLZ
meme goes up on the last Saturday of every month
FOR GAME ADS:

➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed.

➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad.

FOR GAME QUESTIONS:

➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme.

➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content).

FOR CHARACTER ADS:

➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join.

➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form.

➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences.

➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR.

➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above.

➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. Keep in mind this needs to be more specific than "this game has easy AC like you're asking for but meets none of your other requirements." Make sure you're advertising games that might click with that specific character, where a few elements fit what they're looking for. You should be thinking about the story reasons of how the character might click with the game.

IN GENERAL:

➤ Don't be a dick. This isn't one of the anoncomms, so any snide comments or unnecessary commentary on the RP plans of others will be frozen or screened.

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➤ Important note: IP logging has turned on due to multiple instances past and present of problem players trying to return to the dwrp community via emp after being banned other places, so I'll be IP logging from now on, and will compare notes with the rpa and wg mods (as well as game mods) where appropriate if it seems like someone that has been mass banned. I will not pay attention to IPs otherwise. I don't care what people like playing or who's who. So please feel comfortable to keep doing your thing, anon or otherwise. The knowledge will only be used for really egregious problem cases.

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Want to do an interest check to see if people would be interested in a game idea you want to run? Looking for comods to help you start a game? Or do you have questions about possible game mechanics?

Ask questions regarding starting a new game here. Please put the topic of your post (i.e. "looking for comods," or "interest check for a steampunk sci fi game") in the subject of your comment.

So, over the past few years I've been yearning to run an AU game set in the Heralds of Valdemar universe. And I guess at least some people have been really into the idea -- at least, I've seen it mentioned as something they were interested in even when I haven't been posting about it.

So, is there interest in such a game? AUing characters into a setting seems to have fallen off in popularity, but I know at least some people have said they miss doing this.

And also, how can I best make it work?

One of the things I've been toying with as I think through the logistics of this game is a DnD-style character sheet as part of the app. Given that HoV has a huge emphasis on skill levels in various discrete types of powers, that seems like an efficient way to parcel out abilities without having everyone create an uber-powerful character. Everyone would have so many points that they could assign to things like the different types of Gifts, and points not used toward gifts could ideally be used toward other character traits or backstory elements -- for example, you could assign points to Mindspeech, but you could also assign points to things like being connected with one of the canon noble families, having a foreign heritage, etc.

I've been envisioning this as a game set in the Collegia, so you could have characters who are Herald, Bardic, Healer, or Artificer trainees, as well as instructors or others who have earned their colors. That would also offer the chance for small player groups to go out on assignments for varying lengths of time.

But honestly, I've only got the sketchiest outlines so far, and I don't know how much actual interest there would be. I think putting this together in the way I'm envisioning would really require people to have knowledge of the series, especially since the Heralds of Valdemar wiki is... not the best. That would significantly narrow down the potential playerbase.

So. Is this worth continuing to work on? Does anyone have ideas for how to build the game system?

I might be interested, but would you allow canon HoV characters? Would it be strictly AU of other canon characters? Would OCs (in-gameverse or otherwise) be allowed? I know it's probably a little early to really have this figured out but I have been dying to find a place to put a canon HoV character.

I like the idea of a character sheet sort of idea and it would allow in-universe OCs as well.

OCs would absolutely be allowed!

Canon HoV characters is something I haven't figured out yet. Since the series covers such a wide span of time, it's complicated. Plopping, say, Lavan and Karal in the game would introduce time travel as an element. But on the other hand running a canon-setting game and banning canon characters seems pretty ridiculous. If absolutely nothing else, players could spend points on having a canon Herald reappearing as a Companion, but I'd like to be able to do better than that.

April EMP Meme

GAME START DISCUSSIONS/QUESTIONS

interest check/game mechanics help

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