TheEvanCat — Roleplayer Guild

I don't know much about NRP, only been in two here on the forum before I stopped participating. (Actually it was one, but it had two parts.) - It is basically just what it says - it is more about the Nations overall than the characters. (Granted there are more character driven RP's.)

	Basic break down is you create a nation using a sheet like a character sheet but you go more into the demographics, populations, politics, religions, resources, and more. You work with others to plot out schemes, over throw other governments, take over territories. It's like the board game RISK, just in type form. It's a lot more complex than that of course but that is just an overview. It can be a lot of fun, loads. It to me though just takes a certain type of RPer to enjoy it. 

	Rpers like @Monkeypants, @Isotope and others in the NRP section could give you a much better idea.@Lady Amalthea

Eh, not as much as you'd think. Many NRPs actually function without a reliance on stats and the like, and without an emphasis on winning like a game like you've described. There are elements like demographics and GDP and whatever in play but it plays less like "I have 2000 tanks and he has 1000 so he's overthrown" but more of a way to set the story.

The way I view them is that they're bigger scale RPs where you display larger national concepts through your story. Take, for example, Precipice of War where I've been playing Armenia for about four years now. The characters are characters with their own stuff (a military policeman who wants to get out and become a musician, a gangster trafficking drugs to support his family, a president who's overworked and trying to protect his revolution's legacy, etc.) which would be similar to a regular RP except maybe with one guy playing more than one character... But deeper in it, it's not just a story about a military policeman detaining refugees illegally crossing the border, it's a story about the interplay between politics, ethnicity, economics, war, and everything else. 

The characters are less the story themselves and more the vehicle for the story, if that makes sense. That's what I feel like the main difference is.

TLDR it's not a regular RP and it's not a stats/tabletop RP either. It's some sort of weird mix.

I finally understand why people don't like the nation section (I think). It's fill with dead roleplays and people who don't really care about it at all. If there are active people, they either do something and/or add something that's overpowering and defend it. They say that they "care about the story more than winning." If you cared about the story, why do you have eight overpowering ships. I am done with the nation section. 

I was on the edge of leaving behind the section to rot, but I made up my mind. If there are more people out there that think it's fine to have overpowering shit, then I won't be able to stand it anymore. I can't take it anymore. The staff should delete this section and move the active roleplays to the Free, Casual, and Advanced section. The site would be so much better without it.

There are only a hand full of roleplays within that section that I have fun with. And I loved the players over there. I am not leaving behind the three other nation roleplays that I am currently in until it dies or the story is finished. I hope that the active users over the section do something before more people leave the section. Sorry for the long rant, but I needed to let it out of my systems before I do something stupid.@The Spectre

Don't hate on NRP, I think it deserves to be here. It comes and goes... It's going right now but I remember more activity.

And besides, it's the perfect spot for perfectly niche stuff like PoW. I don't think it quite fits under te Advanced section if posts are routinely thousands of words long.

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