I've noticed of late that the number of active roleplays seems to have declined. Currently, you have a Battlefield, Imagination, and Shades of Light. The latter two have just been revived and are going slowly, while the Battlefield series quickly knocks people out. I don't know about you guys, but I like to participate in roleplays. However, the number which I can participate in is very limited, and it's probably the same for other people. Does anyone know why this is, and am I alone in wanting more roleplays?
On a similar note, there haven't been many new stories. Ever since the Roleplay and Literary sections were merged, quantity has declined drastically.

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Then make your own RP.


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What if you're getting changed or something and they just barge in, saying "I OWN THE HOUSE, I OWN YOU. DINNER'S READY." ...doesn't seem very fair to me

I believe this discussion has just been brought to a close.

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But then I don't really get to participate, really. I'm not sure I could be both a character and a moderator, given all the arguments I get into with my opponents.
Why don't you make your own RPs?

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I have; it's called Shades of Light.

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What if you're getting changed or something and they just barge in, saying "I OWN THE HOUSE, I OWN YOU. DINNER'S READY." ...doesn't seem very fair to me

I have. Battlefield: Tournament Terror and Battlefield: Custom Characters ring a bell?

Both died.

Then again, I guess this proves the true problem. The truth isn't that there isn't any RP's being made, it's that there's no-one to MAKE those RP's. Active members are few in this forum.

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I guess those two problems go hand-in-hand. For active roleplays, you need active members. Plus, this part of RuneVillage seems to be not a popular section.

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I'm both in BF9.
True. It doesn't take much to attract people and start a RP. Your REAL trouble comes in keeping it active and ongoing. Do The Knights of Adrian or the Epic Journey for Great Justice ring a bell? The first just basically died, but the second died because 5-8 people joined it and two pages later, 1-2 still had interest in it, 1-2 posted only because they had to, and 2-4 refused to post altogether, saying they'd lost interest already. That killed it.

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Fall of Crandor progresses slowly because Znath has cycled through so many roleplayers, he's run nearly out of options. The few people he HASN'T tried are either people he doesn't want to try, can't try due to their horrible activity, or are people who show no interest in the complex story.
You're not limited to roleplays unless they're literally not there or you're banned from a topic. You're not alone in wanting more roleplays, either. But I already have a topic. So does Znath. And Stip. And Earl of March. Most people are calling dibs on battlefields (thank you, Adam, for starting that trend <3). So join the trend; if you want to get more roleplays out, MAKE one.
And there was a decline in topics before the merge. Some time ago the roleplaying / literary forums were wiped clean. I remember being within one of this place's first topics that brought roleplaying back to where it was, and I'm pretty sure Shadow7 remembers how the literacy portion of this place got back on its feet



Have you never considered to change your tactics, at all, to be less... to put it bluntly, annoying to everyone else? There are probably very, very obvious common links between what the arguments have been about. To be a character demands common sense in posting. To be a moderator of a roleplay demands both common sense in posting as well as respect from others.

If you truly enjoy roleplaying enough that the village isn't covering it for you, join a site dedicated to roleplaying.

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It's a problem in its own way I guess. I've tried adding more people to mine time
to time and then sometime like what happens in my last group, they just turned out to
be a couple "red-shirts" and just died on the first tour of duty. Then the other problem
with mine having an actual setting is that, I can't just randomly add people,
they need to come in somehow that'd make sense rather than just poof in like
which is more possible in like the Imagination one.

Each topic requires a different type of person anyway it seems. I can never seem
to really follow what goes on in most Battlefield topics just due to either lack of
description of who's attacking what, where and how. So it kind of pushes me away
from joining those. A topic like my "FoC" is more focused on the characters rather than
oriented about combat and killing eachother. I'd suppose that's why it tends to
progress a bit slower, and also makes it a bit harder for me to find people for it.
I imagine I could get more posts easily if I just let a ton of people in, but then I imagine
the quality would be watered down and I would much rather keep it how it is.
So when I don't invite people in, it's not because I don't want any particular person.
It's just I'm a bit selective since past mistakes have proven a bit hard on the topic.

Anyone's welcome to make their own RP's though. And for that matter anyone by any means
should try and find friends interested in joining from outside or something. Usually if people
in some way like writing, they might like it to join RPs. It just depends on each person.

If you are going to make a RP of some sort, keep things balanced. Don't be too controlling
but don't let people just run rampant. Nobody will play a RP where they're moved like chess
pieces around, and then on the same token, there's not much point to an aimless RP either.
For mine at least, "Zemdi" is both a plot device and a main character, as are many of the
characters I control. This is partly cause otherwise if you just watch over people like
some kind of dungeon master, they might not know what to do, also it makes things a bit
more interesting for the topic creator to join in. Also that Zemdi's power is limited.
I could easily have them rain down hellstorms from a magic vortex from beyond but then
where would the fun be in all that. If we made a RP about everyone being a deity
what would happen? That's why characters often need to be mortal, or at the least, semi-real.

Also keep in mind the type of RP, I think at the time BF:CC failed as well as others similar due to
the fact that at the time the RP area was super saturated with battle-based RP's
So don't just make variations on the same idea, try to come up with something new that
people can try out and go along with.

Also kind of pointing back to a previous point. If a character gets out of hand, it can
some time make the story go off track. This happened at various points in my RP.
People can be creative which in some ways is helpful, but then sometime people's
creativity gets the best of themselves and they may start pushing down a path
that isn't quite the way you want. It's ok as the topic's creator to nudge that person
a few times and arbitrarily move things your way... just not too much. In some extreme
cases the topic creator does have to intervene and play referee. in cases like
two players killing eachother or something major like that not directly caused by the creator.

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Let us not forgot our past either: the roleplay forum was "pruned" (a moderator word for deleting topics) three times when it should not have been. Each time that happened it killed a bunch of great roleplays and their devotees. We, like Znath and Kikori, are a sort of band of survivors.

I hate to say it, but Runescape has changed too. Back when I played RS you had to have a lot of imagination to make it really fun. With people like that playing the game and coming to the pub, roleplays were down right awesome. They had a great mix of humor and seriousness, like Runescape. Now that RS has changed its attracting people with less imagination and even less humor. I don't mean to put down RS, but the pub, and thus the rp board, are closely connected to the state of RS.

The best thing we can do is pressure Jagex to make Runescape less "kid-friendly" and more oriented to older audiences (as it was made for), and to try and be the most mature funloving people we can be.

I agree. Back when RuneScape was what you made of it people were definately more imaginative. Even RuneVillage seemed to be more mature.

But since they've take a more childish tune a lot of people have left the game and those that keep playing forget that the players aren't all small children that need sheltered.

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I was considering joining the Imagination RP because it sounds like an awesome concept, but i really don't want to read all that.

This is just me, but I was participating in an RP on a different site for about 2-3 years, and I just recently quit last month. Quite frankly, when I write, I don't want to write for anyone else. I want to write for myself, and what I want to do. Also, they get boring.

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I can deal with it! I roll with 8ad 8r8ks all the time. No 8iggie!

If you'da asked, I can PM you a complete recap of where we've been, where we are, and why what's going on where.

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It's not really necessary to read the whole thing before joining either.
Whenever I have people interested in joining, either they've been reading
along already or they're people I've asked to join and I give them a recap
on what they need to know. Some of it then isn't really relevant at the point
where the person is joining. It's usually ok to just read over the last 5-10 pages
and then see from there if you should go further.

So far as that goes, asking the owner of the topic what is relevant would
be best, since in some the basic premise is most important, and others
the most relevant events are happening in the later pages.

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Also I honestly think that it's more realistic for new players to not know much more than the basic concept. (Battlefields are player vs player, Imagination is scenarion, etc.) Their lack of knowledge helps with character development in my opinion.

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Like in some cases with mine it's important to tell them of events that happened
before such as like Falador being attacked, or the major events that the average
civilian would know about through the gossip chain. In others where the previous
events could not be known by people not part of the main characters.

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I've tried joining other RP forums; Random Hogwarts, for example, completely died (and no, my trying to become an Animagi of a recombinate life-form doesn't have anything to do with it; that was later).

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Yeah I hadn't thought of that.

Then again I usually stick to RPs that have a light story to them

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I want more RPs also, even though from now on I have to be off the computer indefinately. But although there are very few RPs, their quality is really good.

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