Apr
13
SciWorld is an online roleplaying convention that brings science fiction and fantasy writers together. This is an online convention & is hosted over dedicated chat rooms & features many different play-by-post and PBEM games coming together and sharing stories & ideas. You can attend sessions to help you become a better writer, join in games, share in open discussions & make new friends. Read More
Apr
12
This is an extract from a blog article on the Starbase 118 website by Sal Taybrim. There’s loads of great articles with tips for roleplaying in their Writer’s Workshop section, so make sure to read that right after this.
This is harsh, but true. In a writing game, we all imagine what your character looks like. If you insist that they are attractive, leave a few details and then move on to the action. Your readers will fill in with how they imagine the character to look and be depending on their own definitions of attractive. Read More
Apr
12
Well, it’s about that time! After a few days [couple of weeks really] A portion of the Ongoing Worlds desktops have been created! There will be a collection for free OW desktops in different sizes and resolutions and some for donors only [such as custom OW desktops] See below for the current desktops available! Read More
Apr
11
It started out as an April fools joke, but several people kept asking me if I’d update the HolOW-lens world and add more hidden codes, places to discover, and billboards for their games. So I’ve worked on an update with 4 new hidden codes.
Here’s some screenshots:
Apr
9
You might have noticed on the homepage there’s now an area for “Featured games”. This is something I’m trialling to see if it’s popular, as it has been requested by several people now.
I don’t really like to show favouritism to one game over another but this might solve 2 problems: Read More
Apr
8
I found this great advice on the RP community Starbase 118’s website, which is a simple tip to improve your writing. Read More
Apr
7
For quite a while (probably since the last major update) the Story Summary input has been broken. But now it’s fixed, and you can continue adding your story summaries again.
If you don’t know what thsi feature is, there’s a video where I explain it here.
Thanks Jaxx for letting me know that it was broken. Read More
Apr
6
This post was written by Alexander Williams (@squidlord).
Last week this question was floated on Twitter.
David Onion Ball (@ongoingworlds)
If you allow characters in your RP to cast magic, do you always make sure there’s a penalty for using it? – Mar 18
To put it mildly, “a conversation ensued.” You can go to the linked Twitter procession if you want to read it in full, but the core conflict is that David espouses a position in which the actions of a character have a “price,” and I believe if you charge a character – or their player – for engaging with the story, you get what you reward: less engagement with the story.
I think that’s bad. Your opinion may differ.
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Apr
4
Written by Andrew Facemire.
After a period where I was in a malaise as a host of my long-running chat-based RPG, Excalibur, I began to realize that, for a variety of reasons, many of the plot-threads I was expecting players to work with were, to them, what many of the “legacy” storylines I inherited were to me when I came aboard almost ten years ago. Read More
Apr
4
Wonder how we do our jobs? Wonder who we actually are? Whether we’re robots,human hybrids, or aliens? What we like to do in our spare time or just general boring questions? Is Dave really a tea powered robot? Well! Now you can! Read More
