So, like, I should clarify before I start that while there is an RP in mind for this, I wanted to check how people felt about a specific concept first. What I'm about to talk about is sort of, thematically related to the RP I want to use it for. Although it could be applied to others as well
NEways, I'm sure you know about character sheets. The thingamadoohickies you fill out when you wantr tyo join an RP. They're used quite commonly across Reborn's RP forum and are very useful for helping establish a simple format that all players can easily look through and learn specific information about the characters
Another common format for entering a roleplay is an introductory ppost. I haven't seen any RPs around here using them so I don't expect everyone to understand what they are. In short, you write up a post that introduces your character into the story and make sure to describe all important details about them in it
Well, I recently thought of a third idea (I'd say invented but I doubt I'm the first to come up with this even though I've never seen it before). Descriptive essays. Having prospective roleplayers write essays to describe their characters and the role they intend to play in the story. This format would be focused on describing the character fluidly, much like the introductory post
I've already thought of a lot of pros and cons, but I don't think I'll list them here quite yet (I'm sure most of what I've thought of is pretty obvious anyways). I'd like to hear your opinions untainted by mine, at least at first