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So we decided to beg up here for a reason...

The whole point of RPGN is to continually provide news about the Guild and recognition to players within our community, but it was built with the idea in mind that no one group of people should maintain control over RPGN if they were unable or unwilling to put in the work for it. To that end, we've maintained a revolving door for staff wherein new blood is always welcomed and those that didn't provide during the latest issue are let go without rancor. Of course, they're welcome back, but we don't do the dead weight thing.

For whatever reason, we're getting down to a handful of people doing this week in and out, and so it's time to ask for people to please step up. If you think you can contribute to the RPGN, you need to let us know, via PM, so we can cut you in the loop for the next issue.

The Conversation:

How to make people (other than yourself) like your character
Guild member axleonex gives their opinion on how to make an interesting character.

Ask Away

Fast? Slow? What is just right? What sort of pacing do you like for RPs and why? Please feel free to post your answers in this thread!

Up and Coming

Interest checks are often the first stage in recruiting players for an RP, and a really good one can net you a lot of applicants. These are some of the interest checks that caught our attention recently. Best of all, they're looking for players!

Notable Interest Checks

Free Interest Checks

- A Night in a Haunted Hospital? - GM: SyrianHamster

Casual Interest Checks

- A Port in Chaos (Work In Progress) - GM: Tixxy Savage

Advanced Interest Checks

- Star Trek – USS Tyson - GM: DeadBeatWalking

Tabletop Roleplay Interest Checks

- Dark Heresy (Warhammer 40k) - GM: Raineh Daze

Nation Roleplay Interest Checks

- Mass Effect: Underworld - GM: Sundered Echo

1x1 Interest Check

- The Purge-Night of Anarchy - GM: MistressCyanide

Arena Interest Check

- Warfare Scenarios - GM: Fluffy Warlord

Current and Cool

Roleplays on this list have already started (but may still be recruiting, please consult the GM) and also caught our attention; the hard work the GM and players put in to setting up the RP, writing their sheets and hashing out the details have paid off and now they're writing their in-character (IC) posts.

Notable Roleplays

Free

- Young Justice(Remake) - GM: WizardGirl

Casual

- Streets of Fire - GM: Blitz

Advanced

- Chasing Neverland - GM: FrozenEcstasy

Tabletop Roleplay

- Sailing the Seas of Aquarianus! (A D&D 3.5 High Seas Adventure!) - GM: Fallen Muse

Nation Roleplay

- The Land of Odesh - GM: Solamelike

1x1

- The Dead Colour of Darkness - GM: Vale Kaiser

Arena

- Nobody’s Battlerama! - GM: ImportantNobody

On Display

- Art: Monsta's Assorted Art Owner: monstahunta
-Film: Moving things Owner: catchamber
-Writing: You are my Drug, I am your Liquor Owner: FrozenEcstasy

About RPGN

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- Let us know if your RP has a birthday coming up or is successfully concluded -- We want to give credit to the committment that both players and GM are showing in keeping their RP's going strong in the long-term.
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- We are Recruiting Staff - If you wish to be involved in the next edition of the RPGN, please hit up the RPGN PM box! (Note: You will be cut into the loop for the issue after the upcoming one, so if you PM between today (date of current) and the next issue (date of next) you will be working on the issue after that (date of the one after next) The way the PM system works, we need to have who is doing the work set a couple weeks in advance. In the event of a large number of applicants, we will establish a queue for subsequent issues.)

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[Dinh AaronMk]

Fast? Slow? What is just right? What sort of pacing do you like for RPs and why? Please feel free to post your answers in this thread!

Given I'm someone who writes more for NRP than anything then it'd be odd to say that I like it "slow". Most of the time my contemporaries act like they simply want to be the biggest the soonest. I prefer a sort of style where the individual actions of characters within the nation/faction can be played out and shown how they effect the greater scope of the nation/faction in their own way. On this basis, I like it when I can do something of at least a day-by-day basis, generally ascribing each page as a week.

This helps in "modern day" RPs where travel between countries is roughly a day and by your next available post you can have an envoy on the other side of the world to carry on a story arch. I'll admit it's not a healthy system for RPs set in earlier periods where flight isn't possible. But I still like to move at a pace where I can explore the possible dozens of arcs/sub arcs as a way to dictate how the larger nation/faction acts as a result.

[vancexentan]

-Fast? Slow? What is just right? What sort of pacing do you like for RPs and why? Please feel free to post your answers in this thread!-

A roleplay needs to start out a bit slow and give people enough time to get into character but needs to increase the pace once the situation in IC requires you to do so. If you go full on slow people get bored if you go to fast no one has any idea what to do. You need a mix of both to succeed in my own opinion as well as a dedicated crew. One person who chooses to leave without saying a word can and has destroyed roleplays in the past for me.

[The drunken Welshman]

I agree with vancexentan on what he is saying. if you rush a RP it gets confusing, and it is a absolute bloody pain. But too slow and people lose interst and bugger off

[vancexentan]

Thank you very much welshman.