Posts Tagged “Open Thread”

Just Do It 2: Problem Solving the Hurdles

By | April 18, 2012

Two frequent commenters and contributors–Rhoelyn and Kyraine–brought up to common hurdles to RP in an MMO: Scheduling and Burnout. While solutions for these common complaints have already been discussed, it’s worth discussing them here to figure out how to Problem Solve after one Identifies a hurdle. Getting everyone together for an RP night isn’t easy. [...]

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Lurch

By | November 3, 2011

On occasion, we encounter an character who is a bit of lurch. Someone like this guy: A character who is either stupid or willfully obtuse. Dealing with a lurch is no different than dealing with any other difficult character. Some might scream at a lurch, some may ignore a lurch while others just love their [...]

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RP Check

By | August 5, 2011

Time to check in and take the pulse of your RP.  Is it happening?  Is it dead?  On Hiatus?  Is it Thriving?  Is it booming?  Is it political?  Is it personal? Fill us IN!

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Open Thread: This is How it Ends

By | February 15, 2011

Wrath ended with a bang:  By killing Arthas.  It is far too early in Cata’s to accurately predict how this expac will end (though I think we all have an idea), but to be fair, those of us at WTTRP care about the overarching plot of WoW in how it relates to our own stories. [...]

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Open Thread: The Shattering

By | November 24, 2010

The Shattering has occurred: How has this affected your RP? Did you see how Azeroth has changed? Are people “missing” since the Shattering? Fill us in!

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Open Thread: Add-Ons

By | November 9, 2010

‘Round these parts, we find WoWScribe and FlagRSP to be addons we cannot live with out. WoWScribe enhances our logging features while FlagRSP helps us flesh out the character descriptions. What sort of Add-Ons do you find to be indispensable for RP?

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Open Thread: Describe this Scene

By | November 7, 2010

Welcome to the projective test edition of WTTRP. Describe the scene and what’s going on here, and we can have one of our qualified mental health professionals diagnosis your unconscious.

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RP Reboot!

By | October 27, 2010

Burnout, tedium and boredom are not limited to the professional world. Even Die Hard RPers can run into this issue. The RP gets stale, Raid Drama brings one down or, worse yet, one feels that the character is “done before their time.” In addition to solutions we’ve discussed before–rolling alts, taking time away from the [...]

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Pre-Cata Open Thread!

By | September 8, 2010

Operation Gnomergon and Operation Echo Isles have been live for 24 hours, beginning the pre-Cataclysm events. How are the events affect your RP? Did you run the event with a gnome or a troll? Did you riff off of the Flyers passed around or was it organized by someone else? How would you rate the [...]

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Wacky Wednesday?

By | August 25, 2010

Let me be blunt: I typically hate wacky RP. Zany hijinks and wacky adventures don’t do a thing for me. This is just what floats my boat: A lot of RPers I know and respect have Wacky Adventure Time–so while it doesn’t work for me, it works for someone else. That being said, Bricu has [...]

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