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
Apr
4
So… yesterday I posted that the future of OngoingWorlds is Virtual Reality. If you haven’t seen that, read it here.
I’m sorry to tell you that this was an April Fools day joke. The next version of OngoingWorlds.com won’t be in 3D, you won’t have to wear a VR headset, and you won’t have to talk or act like your character! Read More
Mar
31
Virtual Reality is cool. Take a look at this video:
Cool right? Imagine roleplaying in a virtual world that augments your own. Virtual reality isn’t anything new, there’s great devices like Oculus Rift that can immerse you into virtual reality.
OngoingWorlds is going to grasp this virtual reality future! Read More
Mar
30
I saw an article on Gnome Stew with some ideas of what to do with abandoned characters. See the article here.
It’s inevitable, some people will leave, and their characters will be abandoned. What do you do with them? Keep them forever? Kill them off? Or allow other players to adopt them?
Mar
28
I found this great article on Jesse Cohoon’s blog, & thought it would be really useful for you guys.
Player backgrounds are important. They tell where characters have been, what their goals are, and who their friends and enemies are. Read More
Mar
27
Just had an email from someone who’s lost a post they spent time writing, and then lost it all when they computer crashed. I would have been so angry! Luckily this person wasn’t the aggressive type, or had at least calmed down before emailing me to let me know that it might be broken.
In most cases the auto-save would have saved the post, as it does every minute, but there can be times when it will fail. Read More
Mar
26
So… yeah… your character is lost in the wilderness. You might be stuck for ideas for what happens next, so below is a list of ideas.
Mar
26
Yeah, don’t ask me why the thumbnail to this is a picture of me really pissed off. I finished the thing and made this around 12:13 am and I have to work the same day so I was tired and cranky [pic’s a bit sloppy too]. But, long story short [trying to stride past my pissed off self] I wrote the first edition to something that could help you [or someone you know] with the in’s and out’s of the wonderful world of writing. Read More
Mar
23
This article was written by Matthew Ipock, for RoleplayingTips (see the original here), I thought it was useful to look at an iconic film & think about how it can inspire your roleplay.
The Princess Bride has become a great romantic-comedy cult classic. This is because the film has all the ingredients of a great movie: action, comedy, memorable characters and dialogue, and “true love.”
Because the movie has these essential ingredients, The Princess Bride can also serve as a wonderful tutorial on how to run a roleplaying game that includes humor, and as a treasure trove of basic roleplaying tips for almost any game your group plays. Read More
