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rpshoptalk2015-03-06 11:10 am
overbringer) wrote in rpshoptalk2015-03-06 11:10 am
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The Meta RP
A problem a lot of really niche RP ideas have is that they will look REALLY appealing to you and four of your friends, but not be able to hit that critical mass that is necessary to keep activity levels up in a full sized RP. I may have come up with a solution to this:
Let us take four hypothetical RPs. Quiet_Shivers is a horror Jamjar game about doppelgangers that are stealing people from other dimensions so they can feast on their memories. Renewable_boners is an AU Smut game set in a sci-fi world where technology is fueled by the psychic energy generated by sex. The_war is an action Jamjar RP about a bunch of gods summoning warriors from across time and space to fight a giant war against an endless army of horrifying things from another dimension. Soup_high is a lighthearted slice of life AU game set in a culinary school.
Then you make a fifth community. We shall call it Hub. Hub is an RP that has no application process for characters. It has an application process for RPs. The mods of the four games above discuss it with their players, who agree with it, then send an application to Hub, which is accepted and processed. Now, the characters in each of these games have some form of access to a new world called Hub. The actual nature of Hub could be anything. It could be the city in the center of the multiverse, built on the backs of dead gods. It could be a massive space station who's research staff toyed too much with inter-dimensional distortions. It could be a back stage area that all worlds connect to where people can rest between scenes.
The basic idea here, then, is that you can have your small niche RP idea that you and your circle is really into, but then also occasionally the characters can get to a space where they can interact with OTHER people from OTHER smaller RPs, allowing for a wider range of CR opportunities. If mods were on board with it, you might even be able to have characters jump ship or trade places. Characters can meet AU versions of themselves. Communication across RP boundaries could become canon instead of restricted to gag threads. It would, in general, open up a huge range of RP opportunities that have never before existed.
Let us take four hypothetical RPs. Quiet_Shivers is a horror Jamjar game about doppelgangers that are stealing people from other dimensions so they can feast on their memories. Renewable_boners is an AU Smut game set in a sci-fi world where technology is fueled by the psychic energy generated by sex. The_war is an action Jamjar RP about a bunch of gods summoning warriors from across time and space to fight a giant war against an endless army of horrifying things from another dimension. Soup_high is a lighthearted slice of life AU game set in a culinary school.
Then you make a fifth community. We shall call it Hub. Hub is an RP that has no application process for characters. It has an application process for RPs. The mods of the four games above discuss it with their players, who agree with it, then send an application to Hub, which is accepted and processed. Now, the characters in each of these games have some form of access to a new world called Hub. The actual nature of Hub could be anything. It could be the city in the center of the multiverse, built on the backs of dead gods. It could be a massive space station who's research staff toyed too much with inter-dimensional distortions. It could be a back stage area that all worlds connect to where people can rest between scenes.
The basic idea here, then, is that you can have your small niche RP idea that you and your circle is really into, but then also occasionally the characters can get to a space where they can interact with OTHER people from OTHER smaller RPs, allowing for a wider range of CR opportunities. If mods were on board with it, you might even be able to have characters jump ship or trade places. Characters can meet AU versions of themselves. Communication across RP boundaries could become canon instead of restricted to gag threads. It would, in general, open up a huge range of RP opportunities that have never before existed.
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I always enjoyed them, it worked on both big games and small. I think some HP school games still do it for things like triwizard tournament.
I could definitely see it working to help people get more interaction here too — especially given the amount of games that are jamjars of one variety or another and could easily allow for an alternate dimension or something.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm trying to say. Ahem.