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Dec
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Flashback week competition runner-up – Savis from Nova Lux

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Here’s the runner up for the Flashback week competition 2014, written by Tib. You can see the winning story by clicking here.

2nd place – “Savis” from Nova Lux

SavisWritten by Tiberius Creations

The morning rose over the mountains, the wind whipping the sand around like mini tornadoes dancing to nature’s barren ballet. The sun peeked through the small window and into the basement that the inhabitants of Defiance called home. It eventually reached Savis’ eyes, blinding him and waking him up. He sat up and grumbled “over ninety million miles away and it has perfect aim.” Savis stood up off the bed and moved towards his closet. Read More

Dec
2

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Announcing the winner of the Flashback week competition – 2014

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Flashback week - write and roleplay about your character's past

A few weeks ago we ran a week-long event called Flashback week where we encouraged roleplayers and writers to think about the backstory of their character and write about a flashback to a different time in their lives. We held a competition for the best story, and our team of judges have voted, and the scores have been calculated! Read More

Dec
1

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How to create believable characters – use the 2:1 rule for flaws vs awesome

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Doctor who saying I'm brilliant

I found an article that gave some simple advice on creating characters recently (you can see the article here). Most of the points are to prevent you from creating Marty Stu or Gary Stu characters. One of the great points was that you should use a 2:1 rule: Read More

Nov
30

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New way to tag characters on a post by searching

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Got loads of characters?

too many characters

Ok yeah this might be quite a lot! The screenshot above was taken by Leon from his game Spellbound, which has quite a few characters!  Read More

Nov
28

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The differences & similarities of godmodding, metagaming & powerplay

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, Play-by-post discussion Tags: , 2 Comments

Don't write them into situations their owners wouldn't want

Godmodding is taking control of another player’s character during roleplay. It’s usually frowned upon with the reason – you should only control your character and no-one else’s. Read More

Nov
27

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The importance of “Yes, and…”

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This article was written for us by Brian aka Crimsyn from the USS Portland in Obsidian Fleet.

the louvre

At heart, role-playing is an exercise in improvisation (albeit, in our medium, with the advantage of being able to coordinate out of character as we write), and if you google “improv rules,” you’ll find numerous lists of dos and don’ts on how to do improv successfully, but one of the most important is to always say “Yes, and…” So, what does saying “yes, and…” entail? Read More

Nov
25

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How much do you care about grammar in you’re posts?

Category: Roleplaying community, Writing tips Tags: 11 Comments

Grammar nazi

We’re all writers right? We write posts, we roleplay, we read each other’s posts. How much do you care that other people use correct spelling & grammar? How important is it to you? Read More

Nov
24

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There’s nothing better than encouragment

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Encourage each other

Roleplaying is quite a difficult hobby, it requires real effort and thought to be put into story and characters. It’s one of the reasons I like it, but yeah, it’s not an easy hobby! Which is why it’s important to get good positive feedback and encouragement from others. Read More

Nov
22

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Random ghost, werewolf, vampire & zombie description generator

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Werewolf

We’ve posted articles about random generators here before, because they’re relaly useful. I use them mainly if I need a character, alien or location name quickly. Recently though I’ve found a great site that has some really good descriptions that actually give you some details that maybe you wouldn’t have thought of before.  Read More

Nov
20

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What’s the most random thing that ever happened in your roleplay?

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dinosaur being eaten by rabbits

Random things happen. Fun things happen. Read More

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