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

Jul
13

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RPG Rating: Provide a standard rating for your game

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs Tags: 1 Comment

RPG ratingA while ago I asked Sarah Carney the creator of the RPG Rating system for an interview. Because I’m an idiot I forgot to publish the article, & it wasn’t until Sarah emailed me a year later (almost on the exact same date – freaky!) that I realised I hadn’t published it. So here’s the interview!

To give you a bit of background info, RPG Rating is a universal rating system which comes as a little graphic you can add to your site to display the levels of bad language, sexual content or violence the game allows. Sarah’s created a snazzy website at rpgrating.com where you answer a few simple questions and can get your own graphic. Read More

Jul
12

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Spellbound Narrated – Requiring Voice Actors!

Category: OngoingWorlds site news Tags: , Leave a Comment

Leon Archer

Leon Archer, GM of Spellbound

Hello everyone, Leon Archer here – also known as Phantasmagoria.

I’m here for something a little bit special today.

Today I have started to record some of your stories into fully voiced episodes that I’m hoping will be available on a weekly basis.

But to do this, I am going to need your help. Read More

Jul
11

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Disown & adopt characters

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, OngoingWorlds guide, Website Improvements Tags: , , Leave a Comment

Part of the updates I worked on last weekend included improvements to the way characters can be “disowned” and “adopted”. Read More

Jul
9

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OWCH awarded to Jack Tennant & other awards

Category: Awards Tags: , , , 1 Comment

The OWCH awardI’m proud to announce that I’m awarding the OWCH award (OngoingWorlds community honour) to Jack Tennant, for being an awesome member in Blue Dwarf and for going “above and beyond” being just a member of a roleplaying game. For months Jack has been recording the Blue Dwarf story into an audio podcast, a task which isn’t as easy as it sounds. it takes careful planning, organisation, practice, a talent for recording your voice and… well… the guts to record your voice in the first place! Believe me it does take guts, and I’m almost an emotional wreck when I record things like the how-to Youtube videos. Read More

Jul
9

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How to: Remove a member and adopt their character

Category: Behind the scenes - running RPGs, OngoingWorlds guide Tags: , , 7 Comments

Adopt a roleplay character

Did you know that characters in OngoingWorlds can be adoptable? Here’s a scenario:

A person joins a game, and creates a fantastic character. Lets call him… Bob. Pegleg Bob who’s a dwarf. And a pirate. (the name or description isn’t important btw, I’m just adding colour to a boring example!). Read More

Jul
7

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Updates on a sunny weekend

Category: Website Improvements Tags: , Leave a Comment

the sun nothing todo with pbem roleplayingI’ve some small updates to announce. This weekend has been baking hot, and for some unknown reason I decided to spend it indoors, sweating my nads off, working on some updates for OngoingWorlds!

New award

Moderators in games can give awards to their members, and they’ll normally all look like a black trophy which you’ll see on many people’s profiles. Most trophies are given to reward excellence in a particular roleplaying game. But I’m going one bigger, and have created a trophy to reward users that have done something extra special for the entire OngoingWorlds community, not just for a specific game. Read More

Jul
7

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Interview with David Ball about Blue Dwarf, going 13 years strong…

Category: Interviews, OngoingWorlds site news, PBEM games Tags: , , 2 Comments

Blue DwarfSo David, give us a little introduction to Blue Dwarf. I assume it is related to the classic Red Dwarf Television show?

It’s based on a British TV show called Red Dwarf which is a scifi comedy about a small group of characters adventuring in space, trying to survive. When I started Blue Dwarf I wanted a game that had the same feel, but didn’t want to be limited to the few main characters, so used the same universe and set the game on a similar ship, the Red Dwarf’s sister ship. Read More

Jul
4

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Why Role Playing Games Improve Speech and Language Skills

Category: PBEM games Tags: 3 Comments

Some dudes just sat on the grass, chillin

Role playing games (RPGs) have been around since the inception of Dungeons and Dragons in 1974, and have since developed into a variety of role playing games and scenarios in recent years.

Whether it’s a historical event, mythical place, exploration or some other type of experience, the idea behind an RPG is that you collaborate with real people to engage and immerse yourself in an imagined and theoretical world. Read More

Jul
3

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Stick your face in a cake for Moderator appreciation day

Category: Events Tags: , 2 Comments

It wasn’t widely announced, but Monday was Moderator appreciation day. I completely forgot until the night before, so didn’t make much of a big deal about the day itself apart from a meek message on our Facebook & Twitter.

Kim from RPRepository put up a fantastic message, thanking all forum moderators. She’d even baked a cake, which she proceeded to stick her face into. Seriously! Watch this:

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Jul
2

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Nomatter how hard I try & ask you to subscribe, it won’t be as good as this video

Category: OngoingWorlds site news Tags: 5 Comments

Stupid subscribe video

I noticed recently that this blog gets a lot of viewers (I assume all cool roleplayers & writers like yourself), but not many actually subscribe, which would make it a whole lot easier for you. Subscribing by email means you’ll get a friendly email reminder when we publish a new blog. Read More

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