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enablemeplz) wrote2024-01-13 06:23 pm
enablemeplz) wrote2024-01-13 06:23 pm
January EMP Meme
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. ➤ All mod responses regardless of whether they're rule breaks, correction requests (like someone posting in the wrong section), or thwapping someone for spamming copy-paste ads, have always been and will almost universally be public. If someone sends a PM and the conversation gets combative, this will also be made public and posted to the comments of the mod contact page. This is for the sake of transparency so people can judge the emp mod's communications for fairness themselves. There are times where the player's post may be screened (such as if they posted to the wrong section) but the mod's response will be left unscreened. ➤ Players may sometimes be allowed more than one strike for copy-paste ads since this is often just enthusiasm behind it, but game mods should know better. They'll get one warning for copy-paste ads, and if they spam anymore copy-paste ads after the warning, they'll be banned from the meme. MOD CONTACT: If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please! RESOURCES: DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games. ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} 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): Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required): For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required): ➤ 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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Next TDM after this one is March, yes! As far as cross faction interaction goes - characters get to visit a neutral faction called Nocwich every first weekend of the month, so folks get to do their in-person cross faction stuff there (that's where we have Durge and Astarion meet up!). There's also an IC mechanic called Horizon, it's a kind of mental plane that all characters can access where they can create their own permanent domain. Most of domains are structures/landscapes, Astarion's is a flying airship-castle...
Events can sometimes be cross-faction too, usually the ones that involve heading into neutral territories, but there are also events where the main tasks don't allow travel beyond the factions borders - it's about 50-50!
Thorne could definitely be a good option for Gale! We have a handful of wizard-y characters there and a lot of spies. Fwiw, while he will have to live in the castle there are other cities he can visit, such as Nott which has tensions with the crown. Solvunn could be a neat option too, idk if he'd enjoy the rural life but they are heavy into polytheistic god worship there and all sorts of creepy ritualistic stuff. Really depends on what you want to do with him! I've found it helps to come in with a general plan/character arc, there's a lot of ways to have characters interact with the setting and the mods have always been chill about helping with that in my experience!
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How did you & Ammay's Durge work out your stuff, assuming same playthrough or as 2 separate verses? Extremely nonissue for me either way just for curiosity since I'm willing to match if it's more fun.
(I lived through the trenches of dragon age rp with different playthroughs I've seen it all).
In return for answering my questions have my favourite Gale meme.
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the answer is "both, kind of?" -- astarion's tav is the one the dark urge murders in the pre-game, and so haelva will be the corpse in the temple of bhaal near orin's bed. but they haven't realized this yet on account of not having the context for it (not there yet/memory loss) but that's what we're going with.
as someone who rp'd dragon age I BASICALLY TEND TO APPROACH IT LIKE THAT, yeah, so i'm honestly down for whatever is fun for other people since i'm good with anything
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I'm still in Warcraft hell send help
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BUT ANYWAY YES PLEASE BRING GALE or like, wrathion
please bring both
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But yeah I'd probably do at least one of the two! My current plot game ends its final arc March-ish (?) I believe so I won't wanna pick up new things at full strength before then, but I could still TDM on this one to feel out Vibes (TM) for Gale canonpoint/choice things
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yes please do! it's good at least to try out which faction might be a better fit, too -- thorne is a lot of fun, personally speaking, and he'll easily find a bunch of weird magic dudes to be an academic to
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Listen if you want to try again hmu I can slide you tags from Anduin
But yea equally good point, I could Faction Test too. HMMM CHOICES
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We technically did two separate verses! Astarion's has a palading tiefling Tav, and some minor decisions have been different between the two, which has been funny for them to slowly figure out. Whenever I canon update Astarion further into Act 3 we did plan to say that the corpse found in Orin's bedroom looks like Haelva instead of the default white dragonborn dark urge, just for funsies and angst.
You can always hit up Ammay about that at some point too though since it affects her more!JK SHE ANSWERED(I played Aveline from DA2 approximately 5000 years ago, I know this well lmao)
Always happy to answer q's! Like I said I have 3 characters here so I am biased, I have enjoyed playing in this game a lot. I will say starting in Thorne with my first character was a bit of a struggle at first, it can be kind of daunting figuring out what to do especially since there's not always a mingle for new characters and your first event doesn't start for a couple of weeks after you first get in. BUT eventually I found his niche and he's well entrenched in the setting.
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My sympathies to a fellow survivor of the Dragon Age RP trenches
I swear the templar vs mage wars were real to some people. The best of times and the worst of times
ANYWAY
Good to know about the mingle! I'm pretty ok about reaching out and doing my own things so i don't think it'd be a deal breaker, but equally Gale is inclined to forget the world because he got distracted by a book so I'd need to plan incentives for him! I will dwell on it and maybe test up some options on the TDM for faction/canon point/ The Vibes (tm).