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Nov
22

2014 Simming Fall Festival

Category: Events, Roleplay Systems, Roleplaying community, Trivia, Writing tips Tags: FallFest, IRC 8 Comments

FallFest ’14 will be here in just a few short hours! This year’s pinnacle event for the simming and online role play community is hosted by Phoenix Roleplaying and chaired by Misty Taylor. Let’s give a special thanks to Misty and everyone at Phoenix for all the hard work they’ve done in preparation for today’s festival. Bravo! As always, FallFest is open to all simmers and online role players, regardless of rank or club affiliation elsewhere.

The schedule of events includes interactive discussions, dynamic role plays, and engaging trivia games. Read More

Nov
21

By Charles Star

So you think you can negotiate?

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, Events, Roleplaying community Tags: FallFest, IRC 1 Comment

Negotiation table Earlier this week we announced that FallFest ’14 would be taking place this Saturday, November 22nd in IRC chat rooms. If you would like to pre-register or take a look around before things get started, here’s where to go. A special thanks to Threnody of OngoingWorlds for setting the site and chat rooms up for us. Well done! Read More

Nov
17

By Charles Star

It’s time to announce FallFest ’14!

Category: Events, Play-by-post discussion, Roleplaying community, Trivia Tags: FallFest, IRC 6 Comments

Earlier this month, we asked the community for applications to host and chair this year’s FallFest. The competition was fierce, but one team stood out above the rest. It gives me great pleasure to announce that Misty Taylor will chair the 4th Simming Fall Festival, and her club, Phoenix Roleplaying, will serve as the host organization. Congrats to Misty and everyone at Phoenix Roleplaying! It’s a great honor to host the premier simming and online role playing event of the year. For a few short hours, the entire community will circle around Phoenix and everything they have to offer us. Indeed, it’s been one heck of a year for Phoenix. Read More

Nov
10

By David Ball

Enhancing collaborating storytelling with open roleplaying

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, Roleplaying community, Writing tips Tags: open role playing Leave a Comment

I created a discussion on RPG-D a few weeks ago (also mentioned in this article), about open roleplaying. Elena from Before The Mast wrote a great comment which I want to show here because I think it does a great job of explaining the benefits of open roleplaying. Read More

Nov
3

By Charles Star

Applications now being accepted for FallFest 2014 host & chair

Category: Events, Roleplaying community Tags: FallFest, IRC 3 Comments

2013 FallFest Logo
Image by James Drysdale

I know, I know. We’re super late this year. Normally we have this post out in August or September. Unfortunately, I’ve had some major changes in real life that have taken just about all of my of my online time away. Without going into detail, we’re here and we’re ready to sponsor another great Simming Fall Festival. And we need your help!

History of FallFest

FallFest is a one-day online convention held annually in IRC chatrooms for anything and everything simming and online role playing. The first FallFest was held in 2011. It was intended to be a mini-SciWorld more friendly to European timezones. Read More

Oct
17

By David Ball

2 week Halloween writing challenge – What’s your character afraid of?

Category: Competition, Inspiration for writing, Roleplaying community Tags: Halloween competition 35 Comments

Hey roleplayer dudes. After last month’s image competition I wondered if we should also run a monthly (or twice-monthly) writing competition. – Hey that’s something we all enjoy right? Writing!

This idea was partly inspired by seeing writing prompts on Twitter (like #WritingDare), & especially the writing prompts my brother posts on his ScifiIdeas blog.

Write about…

Your character encounters the most terrifying creature imaginable. It’s the creature of their nightmares. Where are they? What happens? How do they feel? Read More

Oct
10

By David Ball

Keeping your players in the loop & developing your community

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, Roleplaying community Tags: Community 1 Comment

Roleplaying is great. Characters, story, worldbuilding. Great!

But what also makes it great is roleplaying with friends. People we like and trust, and enjoy chatting with. This is why it’s often important to develop your community outside of the roleplay too. Read More

Oct
7

By David Ball

Need to write characters with cancer, ADHD, epilepsy or are horses? RPG-D has you covered!

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, Roleplaying community, Writing tips Tags: Resources, RPG-Directory 3 Comments

The basic anatomy of a horse for roleplayers. You need this in your life!

I know this is a bit of an edge case, but sometimes you might be writing about a character with an ailment which you don’t have much experience with. I noticed recently that the RPG-Directory forum has a reference section called ‘D-pedia which has the following guides: