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enablemeplz) wrote2025-08-10 12:00 am
enablemeplz) wrote2025-08-10 12:00 am
August EMP Meme
FOR GAME ADS: ➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / kink 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 fonts and other html that make ads super long, 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 canon 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. ➤ There is a "Pairings You Want to Play" section, where you can ask for castmates or crosscanon you'd like to ship with. Please format this with "[YOUR CANON] seeking [CASTMATE/OTHER CANON (if crosscanon)/SEE DESCRIPTION (if a general character type)]. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Pairings You Want to Play" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. Alongside castmates and crosscanon, you can choose to ask for OCs or general character types as well. Try not to get too wordy and please don't outline entire scenarios. ➤ 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. 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Anyone with experience in DWRP would be very helpful in general, yes! I am used to ones on discord and have seen some on other forums and seen how they were run, but I have some idea on how to settle it into DWRP. I've researched there was danganronpa-like murder games and I'm trying to figure all that out as well.
That's pretty smart on your account to know that kind of journal could be filter-locked to certain players, I assume that would mean only the werewolves could see it?
I definitely think it is doable as well as a fun kind of format. As for pacing, I was thinking of having it be moderately paced at least (a week or two for "day" phase so people can rp, with the second weekend being the conversation, then a few days for night time rolls to act (with a potential "After conversation" section for all players being that week (kinda like how after your conversation you can go talk to the characters in Gnosia). Something like this at least, can be adjusted.
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I do have lots of DWRP experience!! I'm happy to help you with any quirks of this side of RP. Murdergames seem more structured compared to typical DWRP games, so your Discord and forum RP experience might actually translate really well.
Yes! On a personal journal, it's possible to set custom filters so only certain accounts can view an entry. So you could, like, have a filter for Round 1 Werewolves and only those accounts could view the entry. With the bonus that you can unlock the entry after the round is over, so everyone can see what was happening behind the scenes.
That pace sounds good to me! I think it should give people time to play what they want to play, especially with the longer day phase for the investigations to happen. From what I gathered from other murdergames, the trial/discussion part usually takes place within a day, at a set time, but expanding it to a weekend should let people have more leeway. I also like having the option to have some post-conversation chats, makes the night phase a little more fun for villager roles. |D
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And yes, I would agree it would be best once it's been trial ran. On that same note, I would want to include some common roles to see how they function. (Seer/Engineer and Guardian Angel/Doctor to be exact. Even just engineer/seer cause that's very standard and other roles will work similarly.) Unironically, I think Gnosia picked out a good set of roles from the original games of Werewolf/mafia. The only one I'd consider additionally is the lovers, which is a secondary role that if one person dies, the other does too; but that's debatable if it should be included.
That would be super helpful to have more DWRP experience! I get most of the lingo and have existed in a few DWRP groups so it's not like I'm totally new but the extra help would be appreciated!
Oh my, that sounds PERFECT. And yes that would be really fun to allow for players to see what people are doing, it also allows the werewolves a chance to be in rp while they decide who to kill for the round!
Absolutely. The one thing I would want to avoid a little bit (just a tad) is making the murder scenes be like directly pointing to the set of werewolves/mafia. This of course is because it's not like Danganronpa where the murderer is heavily pointed to, but is supposed to be players keeping an eye on each other. Has two people revealed themselves to be the seer and one was killed the next day? Was two characters beefing or highly suspicious of another then that person is gone or vice versa? So that investigation would need to have some balance to it. My thoughts lie more in the discovery of how these events are happening (for example with Gnosia, SQ's situation when she's chosen as gnosia, or the perspective of gnosia and how that works) rather than outing the werewolves/mafia.
Finally, and I feel this is most important, characters that have mindreading abilities would need to be disabled/nerfed. Not much of a game if you can basically run around being a seer without being the seer because your character happens to read mind. Not sure about mind control though....