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@RisingManes: Yeah... There's a good chance your character will be rejected. Maybe you could make it an NPC down the line, like the talking Mudcrab from Morrowind?

Sorry for the slight misunderstanding. When I said "nobody posts", I meant "nobody presents a continuation", or something along those lines. But yeah, I see your point. I just had a somewhat bad series of experience involving scenarios where, after slowing down to somebody posting only every other day, the RP just dies off completely. I just don't want that to happen to newly formed RPs is all. Sorry for my impatience. Also, about the Day 2 thing- I'm not so impatient that I'll jump the gun and go into Act 2. I just want to get to some character interaction. Which, since my character went to s

What's the point of an RP where nobody posts? If no one else posts by tomorrow, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume everyone's done for the first day and double-post starting from day 2.

Let Amaterasu decide.S/He's the one who made this RP, so s/he makes the rules on what is permitted.

MUCH better explanation than what I was going to give. Mostly because I hadn't gotten QUITE that far in how much I've learned. Also partially because I tend to forget some things when trying to turn a concept into words.

THANK you. I was trying to remember it, but couldn't for some reason.

Think of it like the character is writing into a diary, with the character's thoughts interspersed between some of the actions.

@Color: It's a literary technique, but I can't remember what it's called for the life of me right now. Basically, you write from the character's perspective by following their train of thought so as to give meaning to their actions. It's a pretty high-level technique, and only the really good authors can pull it off well. @rustytengo: For what it's worth, try picturing each action, and maybe one, possibly two, related actions as one segment, and make that into its own sentence. And when I say related actions, I mean actions that directly affect the first action, or lead from it. Following the

@rustytengo: No offense, but it isn't your character that you need to work on, so much as it is the way you present him and the events surrounding him. Fortunately, yours is a problem that will be corrected by gaining more experience as an RPer and by slowing the pacing of events and providing more details. Mostly, the pokemon interactions could have been less rushed, meeting Boulder for the first time could have been worded better and the battle could have been more flushed out. Like, saying "Boulder used a horn attack and knocked out the Teddiursa" is a lot less descriptive than desired, giv

This is EXACTLY what I was talking about in the Johto OOC thread. There also needs to be a section on writing styles. I'd write it now, but it would take me two hours to write something that is both relevant AND interesting, and my meds wore off for today already. ; Also, this needs to be stickied.

Oi. We have just enough people for a Homestuck RP, albeit a small one. Now we just need to designate a Time player and a Space player, and make sure the male:female ratio of characters is 1:1. Or just do dreambubble shenanigans, in which case we just throw all that out the window and make everybody dead from the start.

Looking down at his pokegear, Jake sighed in exasperation once more. Rereading the email he received that morning, he was still not quite sure it was real, even after checking in at work to confirm it. "Really now. They realize I'm a Computer Engineer, right?" Looking into his product kits revealed that he had been given a series of unknown substances labelled HP Up+, Atk Up+, etc. to choose from. Deciding they all looked rather sketchy, Jake chose one at random while not really looking at it. There was no way in hell he was going to give such a sketchy product to any pokemon he would pair

I think a thread sharing RP advice might be in order to help less experienced RPers notice some basic errors. Does anyone want to help with that?

Can I use Dream World and Gen IV tutored moves for Beldum? Otherwise, he really only has Take Down as his only move until he becomes Metang.

@Wish: Yeah, I've seen that happen before, too. Unfortunately, there are also situations where one character somehow gets some sort of dominance over a situation (usually only happens in conversations), severely limiting possible character actions, and that's usually what causes that sort of thing to happen. It's part of what killed the Muse Gate RP after 3 years of running. It's back up now, with a soft reboot setting the whole thing 3 years after the events that stalled it. If you would like, I can send you the link to the site in a PM, as I think you might be suited for it.

Cool. Just making sure. I just wish there were enough people for a Homestuck RP.

List of verses I'm qualified for: 1: Homestuck. I am on my 8th read-through. I am probably the most qualified to handle any discrepancies with that verse. Do NOT trust its wiki absolutely- people tend to post speculation as fact. 2: Pokemon (up to Gen III). 3: Digimon (but not season 4).

^This. This is what usually happens for forum-based RPs. With exceptions for certain situations.

UTC-5. I live in Florida.

I might as well sign up Jake for this, though please excuse any misinformation on my part, as I haven't played Gold, Silver, or Crystal in YEARS, and never got to play ANY games for the DS. Is starting with a Beldum okay? EDIT: Also, @Lunar081: My character was originally much, much worse than yours was Marty Stu-wise, and yet he was technically pretty much average in the RP I used him in. It all depends on how you portray the dude. Sure, a tragic backstory involving attempting to create a portal to another dimension backfiring to completely incinerate one's left arm up to the shoulder resul

-Name: Jake Lucas -Appearance/Characteristics: 6'3" lanky man with messy orange hair, heavily freckled, and starting to show signs of male pattern baldness, despite his young age. Likes wearing casual clothes, even in his workplace, usually with some sort of sarcastic message on his t-shirt. This would usually get someone fired, if it weren't for the fact that he's just good enough at said job to get away with it, and that he's usually not involved in stuff where he has to deal with people. -Birthday: June 25th 1990 -Things to Know: He's a computer engineer who pretty much got left with 3 p

I have been guilty of this before, but only because, at times, there are really only a few things a given character can do under certain situations, usually because one cannot take control of another person's character. As such, there should be exceptions to the rule, such as for situations where any extended actions make little sense in the context besides upping the word count. Generally, though, I think it should be up to whomever moderates/oversees/whatevers a given RP to make their own judgement over what is "too short of a reply" in a given RP.

When it gets updated with Fairy, I'll retake it, but for now, I'm Steel/Psychic. I'm a goddamn Metagross. What's funny is, the first time through, I got pure Fighting type. That was going as I would WANT to react. Then I took it as how I would actually react, and I got Steel/Psychic.