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Two Shon Harris'

Someone pointed out to me there are two profiles named ShonHarris (me) and Shon Harris. Mine was made a week ago and the other apparently 6 days ago, according to the user list. Now, for the life of me, I do not remember creating two accounts, but perhaps there was alcohol involved and I simply don't remember. Honestly, I have no idea why there are two of us.

Could you check this out by chance? The other Shon Harris seems to have no activity, but I'm afraid it may cause confusion when addressing PMs. Also, I do not think RPG should suffer two of me, nor do I want to muse each day on if it's Shon Harris', Harris's, or Shon Harrisi.

Thank you much and apologies for the distraction from your work.

The Insidious Night

Asyrdar said
I did my first post drunk after the first paragraph or so. But I was only moderately drunk.That being said, Ill get my post up today.EDIT: Short post is short. But I guess it gets the job done?

Don't be too concerned. Once Hank posts once more, and especially once we get rolling, there will be tons of material for us to post from I'm sure.

The Insidious Night

Real quick sketch of Thaddeus so far. Daughter woke up from her nap. I'll dab a bit of paint (real simple, nothing crazy) and will snap a shot with my DSLR rather than phone. Just wanted to give you an idea of what to expect!

The Insidious Night

Hey TP: What do you think of Mirion and Shi'mon having met during his time in service? I allowed myself to muse and perhaps Shi'mon was sold as a soldier to his or a related house. No intention of sewing deep roots here, and as Mirion has lived far longer, it is entirely possible only Shi'mon may remember if you'd prefer -- or the reverse. Anyway you'd like to play it. My aim here is to create some level of concern, considering Shi'mon's desertion. Let me know.

RP Thread Tabs

Jorick said
It must not have been a very thorough read of the comprehensive list. "Custom thread tab creation" is the fifth item on the list of things Mahz has spoken favorably of.

Yeah, a drink and my mind is absolutely certain that "Custom Thread Tab" does not equal additional tabs. I did the read the list and checked for those which had positive reactions too, embarrassingly enough.

Mahz said Kestrel brought this up as well. At the very least, introducing a Characters tab is a common request.

Custom tabs are the start of a cool direction of actually letting people shape a roleplay into something beyond the flat forum topic/post habit. Hopefully the start of a rabbit hole that inspires new ways of organizing roleplays for people with similar ambitions.

The forum is just over a week old now and I'm still locking down basic forum features. But I look forward to hitting the point where I can start iterating on the edge with features like this. I agree with your concerns, too. And I'm not sure what the solutions look like. I do know that the simple IC/OOC/Characters tabs are a good place to "freeze" at for most people. I would like to open an experimental category for people interested in going beyond it.

But that depends a lot on my ad situation a week from now.

Totally understand. I do believe giving people time to get rolling while knowing there is this sort of potential is going to allow them to consider what could be done with possibilities like this. The structure alone would be very advantageous, as I said, for world sharing roleplays and others, so I'm looking forward to seeing what innovations people think up.

Again, sorry about the redundancy. Thanks for responding anyway!

RP Thread Tabs

Kangaroo said
This has been discussed before in multiple threads. Custom tabs are in the works.

I think personally I separated those two ideas: custom and 2nd or 3rd ICs/OOCs. One seems like a bonus, but simply having custom tabs would solve my idea. Well, damn, wish that'd occurred to me before.

RP Thread Tabs

Apologies if this has been suggested already, I ran through Jorick's blessed collection and did not see it (wonderful idea, really!).

My idea is simple in nature. Like the Big Mac with three buns, I believe our RP threads could benefit from the ability to create an additional tab. All jokes aside, I find this could allow the ability to build off other roleplays, inspire GM collaboration (perhaps allowing new GMs to work with more established names), and additionally aid in creating that inner-community feel. Here's an example:

A popular fantasy RP runs through a wonderful set of plot arches until finally the GM believes its time to wrap things up. They intend on continuing the RP, but hear alternate imaginings about how to do this. 1) Continue in the world 100 years later & 2) Continue w/ a group parallel to the first. Rather than choosing one or the other, they simply open a second IC tab. One is designated for idea #2 and the other #1. New and old players become involved in this world, sharing similar pools of knowledge and coming together as a whole with their ideas and reflections.

I also understand there may be a few concerns. One would be people continuously adding tabs and stuffing their RP. To that, I'd suggest a limit of 4. This provides 2 OOCs and 2 ICs if necessary, or some other combination. I would also point out that many RPs simply remain in the same thread, choosing only one possible idea, or if they do continue on -- well, I don't see many Part III's. Another concern may be that this seems superfluous. I'd suggest that the idea would allow for a "persistent world" structure that is actually possible to maintain with one or two GMs. If the OP is able to mark themselves and others as GMs (therefore having some editing abilities w/in their threads) this idea would only become more useful.

I'll only state that this idea can wait. I believe it could be a positive feature, but I recognize other areas deserve your attention first, Mahz. Just thought I'd let you mull over this idea. You're doing great work so far!

The Insidious Night

How often are we looking to post, by the way? I'm accustomed to 2-3 a week, but can obviously adapt to a point. Probably won't manage 2 a day as full-time work takes its toll.