Wow, I never knew this forum existed. wide eyes lol, I'll definately try that challenge very soon... Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone is part of a writing RPG? I'm part of two, one that seems to have died... pokes it with a stick then shakes head, focusing again on this post The other which a friend and I just started two days ago and are still working on. Lol, I don't want to spam here, so I'll refrain from posting linkage unless someone is interested... wiggles eyebrows Again, getting back to the point at hand, I find them really useful in breaking through writer's block and helping fine tune my character design skills. And if you join some diverse ones they help extend your writing skills to different areas. I'm part of a fantasy one pokes it again, and the one we've just started is a modern day RPG with human/animal half breeds. I've been trying to find a scifi one to get into, but that's more complicated than it should be. wide eye stare at all the star trek and star wars RPGs And I've never even heard of a mystery RPG. I suck at mystery writing and could really use the practice, but I don't think they exist. So, anyone else write RPG wise? ~Jade

I tried a role playing game based on CSI once, but I was awful at it. The problem for me is that when I get into a story, I see it going a certain way and it bothers me when it starts going another direction. I guess I'm just too inflexible. But don't heisitate to share your link...as long s you aren't providing a link to an adults only site, we don't mind linking. And please do feel free to join in the challenges and contests. The more people who join in, the more fun it is. :)

I once tried Writing RPG in a site I used to be intersted in but it didn't really work, it was an any-one join in kind of thing, I might be interested in writing Fantasy or Horror with some-one...

Lol, yeah, flexibility is hard, especially when you're dead set on your character's reaction to something and then that something doesn't happen, or happens another way. Sometimes it works out even better though, so I can't complain. I miss Kirainelle and I'm hoping the creator gets back into it soon. We went on hiatus for like a year before we picked back up and then three months into it again, she gets writer's block. Sooo... :*( That's another thing that's hard. When someone just stops posting and everything dies. It's like you write these really great characters whom you've fallen in love with and then you just have to let them go and not because you're tired of them, but because you have no where to put them. Before I never could understand why people wrote so many of the same characters in different RPG's. I now know and suffer the same fate. snuggles M'jora and now, Kathy too Anyways, ok, the linkage. http://www.icdesignz.ca/rpg/ So far Krish, Kris, and myself are the only ones playing, but we welcome anyone. smiles ~Jade~

I think it would be interesting if you told more about what it entailed. Some people might like to join in but might be a little afraid to ask how it works.

Attached Link: http://www.icdesignz.ca/rpg/

Have to admit, it looks a little intimidating.

Have to admit, it looks a little intimidating. This is more elaborate than the one I tried.

Well, the way it's initially described in one sentence is, "A modern day RPG with a twist of the wild" It's based on a simple plot, the character creation makes it more difficult. About 32 yrs prior to the storyline an enviromental group developed a chemical that combines animal dna with that of humans who come in contact with it. They planned it to go further than it had, letting the animal take them over. But it failed, instead only combining the human with about 10-15% of the animal's dna. I went into great detail in the forum if you check the character information forum for the post titled 'the list'. This tell how the animals and humans combined and all the nifty little details. Of course a lot of the action comes from the fact the change wasn't well recieved and people are out to rid the world of these 'half breeds'. We're working on the details of the science center, which currently does horrible tests on both half breeds and people who came in contact with the chemical and didn't change. lol, I think that's a good short explanation. If you have questions, just ask. smiles ~Jade

lol, yeah, it is a bit detailed, but it's not as hard as I'm sure it seems. It's pretty much just pick an animal, grab it's attributes (good and bad) place them on a human and combine the look, then type out their personality. Lol, that's what I did and I wrote the thing, so I hope no one goes 'too' overboard with it. ~Jade

But then you have to bring them into the story somehow. And they have to interact with the other characters, no? Picking the animal would be the easy part, but how do you integrate your character with the storyline?

Just post an open post, somewhere in there another player's character will talk to yours. I always make sure there's a way I can talk to the other players out of the RPG, instant messaging is a good idea, that way you can talk out the plots before you run them. It cuts down some of the plot confusion.

You need to find an Intro hole, much like you would if you were writing a story, which is basicaly what it is... The problem is time, the more people the more time you need to spend with the characters.

sounds like an online version of the old PPM (play by mails). They can be a lot of fun if people are active.