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World building actually isn't essential to Role Play.

Role Play is called Role Play for a reason. It's more about portraying a role, or a character. The world building is kind of a side product of that IF the player wishes to build worlds. Not every RP'er is going to be a world building, writer.

Now let me be frank, our RP community has forgotten what the general RPer base is. The players here have played together for a long time, and accepted the way that each other plays. It's become acceptable here to puppeteer and god mode, and other things that are considered taboo to RP'ers. I could start jumping into RP'er mindsets and talk about it at length, but the RP competition isn't a world building, writer contest -- It's a test of ones ability to create a role, use it, and play it.

This is exactly what Role Play is. Making a role and using it efficiently.

Think of it as writing a character bio and saying the character is a control freak, with a very self centered attitude. Then they start the second phase of the contest - like the WC which is a reflection of the character - and portray him as a selfless, do gooder, philanthropist. They've broken the role they set themselves up to play.

It could be something evn more slight than that.

I hope the point I'm making is making sense.

That is a fair point; the RP community here has mostly been focussed purely on the writing aspect, and less about the faux-sociality of it all.

I think we've been getting a bit narrow in our views here, which can be easily fixed by Fifi's suggestion;

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We should just have 4 events though

RPing is a very flexible thing, and if we're going to represent it we might as well try to incorporate as much as we can. So we have separate events, each worthy in their own right, much like how the Creative Writing is split into two events, but you don't have to enter both.

So we have an event which focuses on character creation, and then using that character with a given prompt or challenge; I still believe there should be some sort of given RP as a baseline for creation, 'cause of course part of RP is making a character who can fit into the given scenarios.

Then we have an event that focuses on RPing with other people. This'll be hard to figure out semantically, and certainly will be a bitch to organise, but I imagine that if you have entrants agree on something to base it off (since there's no way to make an RP, a group of characters, and then still allow enough time for people to RP it, in my opinion), nothing too niche and something the judges are familiar with as well, then you could hold a short RP over the month and judge people on that.

Then an event for RP creation; people write out the first post of a hypothetical RP, with focus going on creativity, flexibility, and how well it lends to having a bunch of people jump into it, as well as the usual factors. And of course this could go from having someone creating a basic background of Chosokabe High School for the Super and Kawaii to someone building a whole world and detailing the specifics of alien genital mutilation, so long as it doesn't go over the word count.

So character creation and usage, RPing with others (in an 'FRP'), and RP creation are covered.

If we had more time we could get everything properly represented and organised, but given we have two weeks until a month event begins that isn't going to happen.

So if we go with separate events.

Can run a World Building event, won't have as many tiers as something built around characters. Not so multii-tiered, much more involved - would need more time depending on how much work you want someone to do to build the world. Otherwise it could have multiple facets, and can appeal to people beyond Role Players. Maybe people who write as well.

I can work with building a set up for people to build these characters towards, but I wanted to try to keep it open so people can build whatever kind of character they want to. You're not comparing space marines to pirates after all. You're judging the characters people make for believeability, originality, and all that fun stuff in between. Not whether we like gun totting Emperor worshiping jug-heads, or magic flinging mages who order dragons around.

By letting people build what they want, the competition isn't limited to people who just enjoy Medieval RP, or Modern RP. Makes it easier since I'm not expecting a high enough turn out to run separate categories.

And coming from a RP environment like Rhy'Din, I'm used to seeing all sorts of people playing together. Knights working side by side by motorcycle gangsters. You don't need a story, or setting to really generate a foundation. A good RPer can come up with a history and details for a character with little effort.

They don't need a foundation. A Foundation just limits the type of characters that can be made. Shouldn't be an issue unless one judge is all "Huurrr Durr I picked A53 because I like marines."



Which then I'd like boot them and have someone replace them as a judge.

Ugh. Not sure what to say. Keep it as open as possible for the most people to be able to take part, and want to take part, while offering enough limits that everything has an order to it. Unless, of course, people want to try some character creation challenge where themes are ran for character types.