Lately, we've been having some trouble with pages in the Roleplay/ namespace, and much debate over how to handle said pages. Problems include:
- Auto-Erotic Troping
- Major problems with example context
- The difficulty cleaning up or verifying the content on said pages, often due to these roleplays being private or otherwise inaccessible
In this thread, we will discuss and clean-up these works so they conform to the rules of the wiki, and can be understood by any reader regardless of whether or not they take part in the roleplay.
Here are some useful sandboxes for our cleanup effort:
- How to Clean a Roleplay - a sandbox guide to determining availability of, locating, and cleaning up pages to roleplays.
- Roleplay Cleanup Thread is used for sorting pages after we examine them, whether they've been cleaned, cut, or shelved, and anything in-between.
- Roleplay Cleanup Thread Indexing is used after a cleaned and verified page has been added to the first sandbox. We try to add these pages to our indexes, with the plan to create actual indexes later on.
Edited by Tabs on Mar 15th 2022 at 11:27:21 AM
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I firmly disagre with that. Describing the players of a Forum Quest as just an 'audience' seems a bit dismissive of how much of a role they often have in how the story ends up unfolding. Whilst the GM could absolutely railroad their Quest toward an outcome they want... well, we don't consider Dungeons & Dragons to not be an RPG when the GM does that, only one that's being run poorly. If someone was going to railroad a Quest that drastically, I'd question why they're not just making full-on fiction, whether fanfic or original.
I've seen Quests go Off the Rails as a result of player action. I've seen Quests that go in with little to no plan for how things will unfold, leaving things entirely in the players hands. And whilst there are many Quests that take a freeform style of writing, there are those that use game systems to function, even adaptations of tabletop systems like GURPS. They absolutely are a type of roleplay, just one that functions as though it had only two participants, the GM and a single player.
Edited by Anura on Apr 15th 2024 at 1:15:31 PM
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