As you can see, I am asking a question in this thread since it is the Roleplaying Discussion table and I want to know about what goes into the setting 'Highschool/Academy' theme of the inner workings of other people's minds.

Out of everything, I am somewhat interested in creating a High School Themed RP. Just the details, rules and regulations in said role play theme I have no idea about. Mostly because of certain reasons, because of my primary expertise is in Sci-Fi, Space Operas, and other theme settings. I somewhat erratic, mostly because I usually classify my projects of creating profiles over rping most of the time, and I have a major project I am working on at the moment, 10 Profiles with Super Detailed Information.

So it will be a great help if you could give me hints and a good explanation on this setting, I know much about the other settings I enjoy. Also I am quite happy that this forum has a massive character limit again. =P

My advice is, if you're going to make a school RP, that you focus less on classes, and more on character dynamics, and add an interesting twist to it (And please don't let it be something like myth/demon/vampire school).

I guess those additional themes added onto the High School setting is done to death, mostly the Vampire one... lol (Ugh, Twilight)

That's nice to know, to focus less on the lessons at hand and focus more on the dynamics of other people's characters.

To add to what Allen said, you can't go wrong with drugs, alcohol, and the like. Dark and mature themes like that really add a sense of realism to High School Rps.

I think the downfall of most high-school type RPs are the following:

1) too much focus on romance
2) not enough focus on a plot driven storyline
3) players writing their characters as actual high school students

The third point seems counter intuitive but it's true. A high school based movie is appealing to a wide audience when your actors come across as being mature and older than actual high schoolers. Let's be honest - 15 yr old students in real life are kinda boring and silly.

Write your students as mature, write them as people and not horny animals, and stay focused on a plot and you should have a decent RP.

Highschool RPs I feel are sort of doomed to a quick death anyways because of attention spans. So you may need to do something or develop something later that'll throw such a wrench in the work it breaks up the monotony of "Joey Castonaza exchanges awkward small talk with John Seinfield and they suddenly become best friends". And as said earlier: don't do the typical mythylogical/ghost/demon/hell/heaven/anthro/anime theme that tends to define the way of "different" RPs in this genre. It's not really different at all, since the basic theme doesn't change and it's all the same, just with different salad dressing.

I think there was one I was in that had some purpose for being different. But the purpose and reason for it was hardly thought out at all. Which may be another thing these sort of things lack: proper world building. A basic setting is plopped down with no standardization of the world at large. Not even basic shit like city, state/province, and country it's in. And when quirks are added that isn't supernatural: they're not given a strong meaning. So I'd strongly suggest that if you seek to break the image of the genre to consider why you're doing what you're doing, how, who thought it up/is doing, and ramble through all the questions for that to build up a proper engaging lore.

Now of course, success is also random-ass luck. So who knows.

@Altered Tundra: Thanks for the advice.
@Imaginary: That is neat I guess, about 'write your characters more maturely than actual children that age.'
@Dinh AaronMk: World Building, that's something I have in spades mostly because I am the creator of a massive multiverse called Jaina'Res Multiverse. As well, as a secondary side story classified as the Main Realm, in terms its an Alternate Universe Storyline slightly based in Real Life. Let's just say the Jaina'Res Multiverse is about 150,000 times larger than our known Universe, mostly because of there's no Dark Matter and it has massive 'Suns' in the middle of each universe called Universal Suns.

So I can turn anything on its head, mostly because I take my time in world building that's why I create profiles, mostly.

@Altered Tundra: Thanks for the advice.
@Imaginary: That is neat I guess, about 'write your characters more maturely than actual children that age.'
@Dinh AaronMk: World Building, that's something I have in spades mostly because I am the creator of a massive multiverse called Jaina'Res Multiverse. As well, as a secondary side story classified as the Main Realm, in terms its an Alternate Universe Storyline slightly based in Real Life. Let's just say the Jaina'Res Multiverse is about 150,000 times larger than our known Universe, mostly because of there's no Dark Matter and it has massive 'Suns' in the middle of each universe called Universal Suns.

So I can turn anything on its head, mostly because I take my time in world building that's why I create profiles, mostly.

I'm not even thinking of catagorizing it into its own artist's universe as you're proposing, or thinking, or one or both it seems. But rather to consider some overlooked things.

Even if it's a fictional school, what city is it in? Is it fictional or non-fictional? If it's fictional where is the city located? If it's in our "world" then where is it in relation to familiar locations? Even knowing where it is in the continental United States is a helpful clue-in for what it'd be like on some fundamentally intricate details. As an example: basing something out of New England or even coastal New England would mean that stuff like lobster would be basically street food.

If it's a real city like Boston or Bangor (to stick with the New England theme) then we have some readily established details about the environment. Or if it's in its own fictional town then there's so much more basic information that's helpful that doesn't even need to be exact. And everything I've seen to that attempt has been lacking in everything but the town name.

I want to see a high-school RP based on the Duggars.

I want to see a high-school RP based on the Duggars.

"Milinda Duggars was a pretty kind, sensitive and quiet girl who was never touched inappropriately by her father."

The World works in mysterious ways, most of the time.

I might start up an High School RP or I might not. Who knows, how the my mind works since atm, I am working on a massive profile project of 10 profiles atm. It might be based around an All Girl School/Academy/Private or an regular public school, who knows. However, I will have the based realistic facts about this high school rp down sooner or later.. lol

In terms of where it is exactly located and even some other things.

not entirely sure here as we don't really follow high school/academy RPs... but is it just us, or are "All girls schools" more common in RPs than "all boys schools"?

In all fairness, most school rps will be largely boys unless you make it all-female, at least in my past experience. Most all-boy school rps I've seen were code for 'yaoi rp'.