Little Bird

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

@mattmanganon are ok to collab on a post that gets Launchpad, Leon, and Hoshi to their place in town?

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Hope I'm not coming off as push or naggy by checking in on people.

@Sadu

I'm ok. Jammed 20 hours of over time at work this week.

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic (Cops and Robbers)

Another inviting idea.

Might be a good one to use my gunslinging mage.

Chosen Ones

I've been thinking about doing a roleplay where a group of randomly chosen people, no matter how they were before, are suddenly selected and 'destined' to defeat this great source of evil that will invade Earth.

@AlmostEternity

What sort of evil? Ancient cosmic threat? Demonic force? A madman whose pursuit of power took things too far?

What is the nature of the destined heroes? Supernatural gifts bestowed upon them? Randomly pulled by government as having unique qualities to deal with a threat? Something to the effect of Suicide Squad wherein they're expendable as criminals?

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

@Sadu I think this should be Morgana's song for when Organizaton XIII show up.

@Little Bird What was the Disney World you wanted Hoshi to explore first?

@mattmanganon

Was leaning towards Emporer's New Groove... not sure what we'd nane it in KH terms. It's technically the Incan empire though.

Also, for another time, the Axiom from Wall-E would be interesting to explore in KH.

Recollections: Primal Sinister

@Little Bird That sounds great! Recollections can be enjoyed separately or together, as each are in alternate dimensions. I personally have characters in both.

@Estylwen

I lean towards this one since it's not quite so far in as Sycamore. The less catch up I have to do the easier on me it'll be.

So hopefully the GM comes around soon so I can has out my ideas and make sure it'll work.

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Does Morgan get the PG13 one-off F-Bomb... or does someome snatch it from her?

Recollections: Primal Sinister

@Little Bird Good to see you!

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Post is up! Let me know if anything needs changing.

@Estylwen

Likewise from me to you.

Hopefully there's a place for me and what I have in mind here. Beeb exploring ways to rethink a character of mine from 10+ years ago.

If I'm interested in this, should I familiarize myself with the other "Recollections" RP?

Death of the genre

You bring up an interesting point, and there is understandable concerns around the cliques and it’s an important topic in any community, especially roleplay groups. Fundamentally with this hobby, we are creating temporary close-knit communities whenever a GM makes a game. These can sometimes feel exclusionary or difficult enter, especially when it is a game in progress.

However, it is important to distinguish the difference between harmful exclusion, such as elitism or GM’s being ‘Warlords of their Domain’, with the balance of RP groups needing healthy boundaries. Communities thrive when everyone feels safe, respected, and free to express themselves. RP is an intimate experience both in-character and out-character, so trust is important.

Sometimes our decisions to exclude certain individuals from an role-play wasn’t about forming an elitist clique or being unkind to people. This can be making sure that people who join are a ‘Good Fit’ to enter the RP. These decisions can be around ensuring the safety and well-being of our members which has to be the foundation of any healthy community.

So, when someone engages in behaviours like harassment or makes others feel unsafe, it just doesn’t work, and things fall apart. it undermines the trust and enjoyment that makes these roleplay communities so fulfilling. So, addressing those issues is necessary to maintain a positive environment for us all to thrive in.

I think it is good to be open to discussing ways we can make the community more welcoming for our members.

@Silly

This is (relative in Internet terms) a long standing community, with equally long standing members comprising it; if we go back to the old vBulletin forum that was once the Guild, there's close to/over two decades that have lead it to where it is now.

Inevitably, a place that's been around a while, playing host to people that have been around a while will see the development of groups that are more tight-knit than the average one-off RP cast: people who have been in multiple RPs together, people that have migrated as collectives from one site to the next for whatever reasons, people who have established a sort of lore between their OCs or have collaborated extensively in the past. This is the territory wherein cliques start to lean into exclusionary behavior, I think moreso than people coming together for an RP of common interest.

Wanting to maintain the effiency and consistency of the creative group is one thing. But then, maybe don't open it for the RPing public? Or if if the intent is hold a higher level of skill as a standard, set up shop in the Advanced section wherein the talent sought is more likely to come around.

My personal experiences with cliques in RPing have been situations wherein a few people with history together seemed to relegate those not of the in-group to background noise, and their characters being kneecapped into irrelevance either from conception or through the collaboration and plotting; GMs at the core of it. Fundamentally a GM should bd able and willing to account for players and characters outside of the clique, especially in RPs not driven by an official central plot. When you try to iron out character relations with the GM and their adjacent circle and get told to instead work with the other newcomers... that is kind of a red flag; "you can play near us, but not with us." In essence, a clique within an RP.

This was in the Casual RP section.

If I were in any position to GM, I might well have taken a stab at running my own RP.

The School Of Special Skills and Talents- Applicants Accepted Now

Can I join, and if I do I’m running in at the next lesson as if I slept in 😭

@MaxieIsNykx

This RP is dead.