October EMP Meme

[enablemeplz]

ENABLEMEPLZ meme goes up on the Second 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. MOD CONTACT: If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please! RESOURCES: enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games. dedoralive - A more detailed listing of DWRP Games. GAME/AD LINKS: General Game/Dressing Room Ads Link - New Games - Small Games - Medium/Large Games - Museboxes/Memes/Dressing Rooms/Misc. - Game Questions - Game Start Discussions/Questions PSL Offerings Find a Castmate Find Crosscanon Latest Page Textbox for Character Ads (Optional): <b>[character offered]:</b> <B>[fandom]:</b> <B>[rp you're offering for / rp type you'd wanna play in]:</b> <b>[preferences]:</b> Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required): <b>[game]:</b> <B>[fandom]:</b> <B>[game's current cast]:</b> (Please list this in sentence form with commas. Ex: "Bucky, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor.") <b>[who I play]:</b> (Who you play in the game you're advertising for) <b>[wanted]:</b> (Who you'd like to see) <b>[game info]:</b> (You can list some info about the game or what's been going on for the cast you're trying to lure people into). For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required): <b>[game]:</b> <b>[who I play]:</b> Character / Fandom (Who you play in the game you're advertising for) <b>[wanted]:</b> Character / Fandom (if it's a specific character. You may list more than one character if you have a few specific ones in mind character types you'd like to see.) <b>[why]:</b> (Maybe explain the dynamics you're interested in and how you think the characters would mesh interestingly. Explain what they have in common or how they might clash if you're looking for something more negative.) <b>[game info]:</b> (You can list some info about the game itself and why it'd be a good place to app to). ➤ 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.

Comments

[light_mischief]

I feel like come_sailaway would be a pretty awesome fit for jonathan!!! We're admittedly a medium/fast game, but we looooove to backtag! I would say we're pretty evenly balanced on plot/sol; if you want to engage with the plot, it's super easy, and as the characters just had an information-sharing event, Jonathan can get caught up to speed by literally anybody on the ship! (Skulduggery here is constantly stumbling onto random plot points and boy does he loooove to share juicy facts with any suitably nerdy investigators!)

Personally, I've just been powering through TMA and have been craving to see what the archivists would make of the ship and the creature in charge! There's a brand new October-themed TDM that highlights the ship's changing nature, and I think he'd do really well here if you feel like giving it a go!

[neonleon]

I'd actually looked at Sails a few nights ago and was considering it!

How's the pacing/AC like for actually being in game?

[light_mischief]

My perspective is slightly skewed because I play three characters, but I never have trouble finding characters to play against, and there are players tagging at all hours of the day and night thanks to a diverse array of timezones. The pace varies from medium to fast, but we're extremely back-tag friendly and some of us will tag for months after the fact if you don't stop let us.

Personally, the AC isn't particularly hard so long as you can find one meaningful thread to make ten comments to. Events happen all month -- there's usually one mod event, then a variety of group posts run by players -- and open top-level prompts on those posts count towards AC requirements. The Our Flag Means Death cast has a pirate crew meeting every month, there's a fight club where people can go to beat each other up... We had an information-sharing event to unload existential burdens on our characters, followed by a muppet movie marathon and a disco birthday party.

You can find threads literally ANYWHERE about ANYTHING, everyone's excited to tag around, and we love coming up with weird ways to torment/grow our characters!!!

[neonleon]

Oh right on, that's exactly the kind of atmosphere I vibe with. Hearing folks tag at all hours is a huge plus since [gestures at me responding to this at 4am]

Honestly with the information + what you've just told me makes me really nostalgic for an old game I was in back before the LJ migration, so that's a huge plus.

I'll definitely take a look and put one or both my boys on the tdm! thank you for the rec (also huge fan of folks playing from Skullduggery these days, bless)

[light_mischief]

WEST COAST BEST COAST i definitely passed out like right after replying...

I left DWRP back in like 2012 due to personal reasons. When I came back this year, sail was 100% my first choice because it really harkens back to the old style of jamjar, while still being very open to like, having the players affect plot and actually move things forward.

We look forward to seeing you if/when you put your boys up (I know there are characters who would lose their shit over a TMNT showing up)!!! And thank you 💀 he's my favorite guy to mess around with in the game, you'll probably see him around if you post to the TDM hehe

[eyediot]

WEST COAST IS BEST COAST correct.

I was out of public games for a few years until a game a few months ago that is no longer (WE ALL KNOW THE ONE....) but I'm really glad to hear the good things!

Funny enough, I just put him up so!!