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Amongst Gods (High sci-fi NRP)

Amongst Gods (High sci-fi NRP)

For anyone who missed it, there's a chatzy

Amongst Gods (High sci-fi NRP)

Pepperm1nts said
Actually, aren't you being over-descriptive?You don't need to know the intricate details of a character or nation's history in order to effectively collaborate with the writer behind it. All you need to do is read what the writer posts. By reading, you learn about whatever the writer is roleplaying and react to it accordingly. You will eventually gain an understanding of their creation, and be able to make posts about it without having to consult a sheet. Take Precipice of War for an example. We all play countries that are wildly different from their real-life counterparts, yet not one of us needs to consult each others' sheets to make posts and create a story together. This is because we have read each others' posts and watched our nations grow and be defined through in-character posts. We know what our nations are about because we created them together, in-character.

See that's a straight up insult and I don't appreciate that. I'm not continuing this conversation.

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Pepperm1nts said
It's done passively, bit by bit, as you go. George R.R Martin didn't publish a huge sheet explaining everything that happened before he published his first A Song of Ice and Fire book (he did release a book detaling the world, but only long after he had created it through the book series). He published his first book and unraveled the backstory as he went. Little by little, using everything from character thoughts, to speeches, and the occasional in-character history lesson (or even just passive references), he built a rich world that is the setting of one of the most popular book series and TV show. He built this world through the eyes and words of the characters, and now fans lose themselves in it.

He wasn't collaboratively roleplaying a game based story. Forum based roleplaying is at it's heart about a purposed sense of writing. I'd rather an interactive player than some over-descriptive story whore. Not that I'm saying anybody is as such.

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zombieaccount said
There's truth to this. For instance I find it really annoying how terminal wants to have such detailed pre-contact records and only interact with him to some regard on it because IC isn't up yet. Like, I can just make up what the annihilators did to destroy their interstellar civilization of why they made/uplifted the sugarcubes in the first place as we go into IC. But some brief glimpse into what the hell Ari are in more regards than beings that like order and try to uphold galactic law. At least a picture or something of what they look like would be nice. If I could draw better i'd make a picture of a sugarcube.

Terminal is merely asking if people want to have had contact in the past. I thoroughly enjoyed discussing our first contact, but each to their own.

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Pepperm1nts said
Because he hates sheets, as he said. And I don't blame him. I do too. It's a lot better to just lay down the history through IC posts than to puke it up into some sheet. It's simpler, and it allows for more freedom. He can make it up as he goes and that is way more fun than restricting yourself to what you wrote down in a sheet one night.

Which is why you can play in different RPs with different nations etc.
How exactly is the history going to be IC without being disparate to the current events? I think random info dumps on history would be rather jarring.
Look our philosophy on how to do things is different. I've been doing it like this for six years now and we're never going to agree so there's no point arguing about it.

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Pepperm1nts said
He told me a bit about his plan and, basically, he's going to play as righteous badasses that go to extreme lengths to keep order and uphold law in the galaxy.

So why not share that with the rest of us?

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Pepperm1nts said
I can guarantee you Gorgemast is among the best writers in this entire forum. No, that isn't sarcasm. Jeddaven has been around the Precipice crew long enough to know Gorgenmast is a really damn good writer. I'm not going to go into how IC posts are infinitely more valuable than sheets again, but really, it's IC posts that should define a character and/or nation. You can learn just as much from a handful of IC posts as you can from a bloated character sheet and, honestly, it's a better means with which to judge the the character as well as the writer.In this case though, you're the trash.

I never once questioned writing ability, I just personally, and I think I speak for several other players, think that some pretext isn't too much to ask for.

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gorgenmast said
Name: Ari [The Custodians]Logo/flag:Location: Inner Sagittarius ArmHistory: To be RPed.I really fucking hate faction sheets.

Pepperm1nts said
The best sheet by far.

Considering how we're starting at a Galactic Council whereby nations already have a fair idea of each other it's going to be hard to RP all that history.

Plus the whole point of a sheet is to gauge what the nation is like. The GM uses them to assess everyone and such. You can hardly expect the GM or the rest of the players to work with nothing?

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Vahir said
Updated map:

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I realise the Technocracy is represented as massive but this is more the fact the factions are spread out within it. Don't take it as it being some kind of super power or anything. It could be represented as several smaller patches but it doesn't really bother me.