I mainly GM, and with the common problem of RPs not getting off the ground or dying early, the worst feeling is always feeling like a world youve built has gone to waste. So I started recycling worlds from old RPs and making new stories in the same universe to build a larger continuity. Has anyone else done things like this? Timelines or multiverses?

Yep. I enjoy it far more than one-shot RPs.

I have an RP series called 'Into The Dark' set in the same universe of my own making, yeah. I just continually update the lore myself so it can seem far more new to players who are getting into another one.

Oh yeah, have a complete universe time line for my RP's that includes the alternate timelines. I never let a world go to waste.

if making revised versions of RPs, with some degree of character overlap then yes. If not, then not yet.

I have a continuing world in Allaria. All my Arena characters are of the same timeline and each fight is meant to build around that timeline.

if making revised versions of RPs, with some degree of character overlap then yes. If not, then not yet.

Oh you mean like rebooting/re-imagining? Its a new continuity but yeah its a way to not waste good ideas.

Yes and no. On one hand, I have a couple of worlds that serve as the central basis for 99% of my plots and characters. On the other, it's not much of a roleplay verse, as I tend to just develop it myself these days.

I also stick anything and everything that flops (and really, even video games count as plot and character content) into them, in one form or another. Always heavily adapted, but in the end, I don't care about flops. As long as I see material to work with, it will be worked with.

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Oh you mean like rebooting/re-imagining? Its a new continuity but yeah its a way to not waste good ideas.

It is also a way to fix an idea that didn't work exactly right.

I am seriously considering doing this myself. I was a part of a very fun and very original roleplay. It was a comedy/sci-fi about a group of people who traveled the galaxy doing good deeds in the name of the Hendersons Ribs corporation, which is basically the McDonalds of this universe. Their good deeds were rewarded with perks like free ribs or cooler toys and equipment. There was no overarching plot but there was some stuff going on in the background with some villainous characters that could vaguely be connected to the RP players. Kinda like Doctor Gel and Bea from Space Dandy. Sadly though it died four months ago. I think about it from time to time. Wondering, what if. Here's the link to it btw. roleplayerguild.com/topics/158151-int…

My character was a particularly zany one called Fiddlesticks. I was thinking I would like to create a new RP in the Hendersons Ribs universe centered around this character as well as anyone new he meets along the way. It would be about how the Hendersons Ribs team fell apart and how he continued on with his adventures anyway. Same tongue in cheek zany lightheartedness.

I'm sure you're all riveted. Sorry about all this. I guess this was a half anecdote half plug kinda deal. I don't expect anyone to read all of this. I just had fun typing it. n_n

I've had a series of 4 roleplays set one after the other with reoccuring characters and persistent world events going on since 2012 set in the Elder Scrolls universe. I'm actually kind of hard rebooting it because I kind of want to start fresh and almost all the players are gone.

Also as some of you may know I've created a set of online 'trading cards' for bunch of different stories with the Trading Card Game format which I'm hoping to re-use for many RPGs.

On top of that I have a Mecha universe, a dystiopian universe and a fantasy/horror universe.

I'll tie in material from other RP's if it's useful and relevant to the current RP, so in a sense you do get repetitions of names and places, and it's easier to use that material than reinvent the wheel. But it's not deliberate universe building, it's more that if things fit together, it gets thrown in there.

So if I had an RP in the past with a city setting and I need a city and it fits the purpose of the current RP, then I find the notes and use 'em.

I had a long-running NRP once that went across plenty of different alt-universes and a few universal catastrophes and such that gave me an excuse to reboot it to keep people interested. By the end of it all, only a couple people from the original RP were still there. That was some fun stuff.