Slice of Life/Realistic thread?

[4weekcoma]

I thought it could be good to have a thread for realistic roleplays only. Most of what I find here is fantasy/sci-fi stuff and I have to look around a lot for stuff I'm interested in. I know there are other people who also enjoy slice of life a lot so this could be a really good feature.

I also saw that there could be tags for role plays (in the sticky topic), which would be helpful instead of a whole thread. Just an idea.

[Dervish]

I'm like 90% sure the tags are in the works.

As for a seperate thread just for slice of life RPs, I can't see it happening, simply because it subdivides the forum further and sets a bad precedent, as suddenly you have people asking for their pwn seperate forums for their own preferred niches. Easiest way to deal with it is to put the game type in the title or first thing in the interest check/ OOC.

Besides, Everyone has to go digging for a game that interests them, not just by genre. Think of it like digging through the discount movie bin at Walmart.

[Pachamac]

Dervish said
Think of it like digging through the discount movie bin at Walmart.

Are you implying slice-of-life rps are the 'bargain discounted movies thrown into a bin to rot forever and ever' of rps? ;D

[4weekcoma]

I'm just saying that there's nation and tabletop etc, and slice of life is a pretty broad spectrum, that has a lot of different genres within.

But yeah, tags would be good anyway. Like really good.

[Vanq]

Nation and Table top are different style of play, not just a genre difference, hence them getting their own division (as by their nature they do not so easily fit into the free/cas/adv divisions that RPG uses). Slice of Life can easily be classified as one of those depending on the gm's posting requirements.

[Dervish]

Pachamac said
Are you implying slice-of-life rps are the 'bargain discounted movies thrown into a bin to rot forever and ever' of rps? ;D

All of RPG is that big ol' Walmart Bin.

Slice of life can be, I don't know, a Nicholas Sparks movie or something. >_>

4weekcoma said
I'm just saying that there's nation and tabletop etc, and slice of life is a pretty broad spectrum, that has a lot of different genres within. But yeah, tags would be good anyway. Like really good.

Vanq said
Nation and Table top are different style of play, not just a genre difference, hence them getting their own division (as by their nature they do not so easily fit into the free/cas/adv divisions that RPG uses). Slice of Life can easily be classified as one of those depending on the gm's posting requirements.

What Vanq said. Tabletop plays out like a board game with dice rolling and actual DMs and goes in sessions, or so the idea goes. Nation RPs are distinctly their own beast, kind of like Arena, where it doesn't fit comfortably in the Free-Casual-Advanced line of standards. The only thing separating Slice of Life RPs from say a sci-fi RP is less laser fire and adventures and more, I don't know, clock watching waiting for the weekend to start. Same standards apply to them, as do the formats.

[Shienvien]

I disapprove of this idea, and I strongly disapprove of NRP section existing despite gladly participating in good NRPs (and yes, I would like to see the section merged back into free/casual/advanced). Why? Quite simply because NRP section doesn't have the advantage of free/casual/advanced subdivision. It is a quagmire mess of all kinds of levels, which often cannot really be differentiated between without there being at least a dozen posts in the IC. The free/casual/advanced division instead of genres was what I most loved with RPG compared to other RPing sites.

And no - NRP is still a RP and gets along with other RPs just fine. Especially since many of those predominantly focus on characters in the nations.