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News & articles about play-by-post games, for roleplayers & writers

Apr
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2014 SciWorld: starting Thursday!

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Logo 2014 SciWorldYes, YES! You know it as well as I do: 2014 SciWorld is near. Almost every of our slots has at least one of the two chat rooms filled with an event, and my stress is slowly heaping up (yes, it’s my first time!)…

Don’t forget about this event filled with good advice, informational posts, chat role-playing and much more. The following links are your friends:

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Apr
28

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Games that can’t ever succeed – and how to fix them

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, Writing tips 1 Comment

Roleplay apocalypse

Sometimes sites pop up here and there that can’t ever do very well. They can’t achieve reasonable, realistic growth expectations, and slowly decay over time, unable to grow. Read More

Apr
27

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Way With Worlds: Character Creation

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This is a segment of an article written by Steven Savage from his blog. Character creation is obviously important to us roleplayers, but obviously they should fit hand-in-hand with the setting of your game – the world that you’ve built. In this article Steven refers to a “character sheet” which is more of a tabletop roleplay concept, here on OngoingWorlds, you have a character bio. Same thing really, it’s somewhere to store & present important info about your character.

Michaelangelo

Characters are your setting come to visible, relatable life. Or at least should be.

The problem in discussing “how to create” characters is the process itself is also unpredictable, personal, and unique for everyone – just as characters are unique. So I can’t give you a system or even a list of questions that’ll “do it for you.” In fact, I shouldn’t because we all do this differently. Read More

Apr
24

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Going Nonlinear: Like Going Green, but with Words

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DavidThis article was written for us by Kyle Richardson, an avid gamer and writer who enjoys finding ways to mix those passions with his latest love: mobile tech.

Hostorical text

How do we make a leaner, greener, collaborative-friendly environment for creative writers? Let’s see how the text-based adventure does it with nonlinearity. Read More

Apr
23

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The new “Game Information” tab

Category: Website Improvements Tags: 1 Comment

long homepage description textApologies if you’ve had a long wait for the OngoingWorlds site to come back online after our transfer to a new hosting provider. But this new move brings you an update, and one which was requested by several users.

The Game Information tab is for more detail about your game

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Apr
21

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Way With Worlds: Magic And Technology

Category: Inspiration for writing, Writing tips Tags: , Leave a Comment

This was originally posted by Steven Savage on his blog, but has allowed me to republish it here as I think it’s useful for roleplayers! This is part of Steven’s Way With Worlds series of articles. -David

Magitech

We’ve all heard the saying that goes “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” made by the incomparable Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

I would ad a corollary, especially in the worlds of world building (and perhaps in an age of mind hacking and psychological techniques, our own).  “Any sufficiently organized magic is indistinguishable from technology.” Read More

Apr
20

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The next 3 people to donate $25 will get a mug

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Edit – This offer has now ended as we’ve had over 3 people donate. Your donations are still welcome and needed though! 

Stack of OngoingWorlds mugs

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Apr
18

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What’s the downside to your character’s superpower?

Category: Character Development, Writing tips Tags: 4 Comments

Cyanide and happiness comic

I saw this Cyanide & Happiness cartoon and thought it was a great lesson for us roleplayers (and all writers everywhere actually). Characters without limitations are just boring (see our article about God-man and all our articles about god-modding). Read More

Apr
16

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Announcing the 2014 SciWorld Online Convention

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Remember last year's SciWorld?Hello, role-playing and simming community!

I hope this is not a horribly late timing (yes, I know it really is though), but here it is: 2014 SciWorld Online Convention — the convention every role-player or simmer, including you, must have visited at least once in their life! With the merge between SimEnc and RPWiki in November of 2013, this edition’s being organized by RPWiki, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be any less spectacular 🙂 Read More

Apr
15

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The Monster Wars’ One Year Anniversary

Category: Interviews, OngoingWorlds site news, Roleplaying community Tags: 1 Comment

DavidThere’s been a few milestones reached recently, if you follow our Facebook page you’ll have seen that the game Nova Lux is 200 days old, and I posted a graphic Tib made to mark the occasion. On the same post, Luke mentioned that his Darwin game is celebrating 100 days. Of course this is a mere blink in the lifespan of our longest running game Blue Dwarf, which was 14 years old this month!

Here’s an article written for us by Ralazie, talking about another anniversary, and what that means.

Monster WarsHello all! Zie here! Recently my very first Role-Playing game, The Monster Wars celebrated it’s first birthday. Not only did this game have its first anniversary on this site, but I did too. That’s right! I’ve been here for a full year now, and in the process, joined more games then I really should, but enough about me! Read More

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