HOW'S THE GAME?

[paradisamods]

HOW'S THE GAME?

It's been awhile! It's time for another round of Game Discussion, also known as "How's The Game?"

Here we come together to discuss the game, its plots, the settings, and just about anything we can think of that we'd like to talk about, expand upon, improve, change, etc.

This is not an HMD for players and their characters; this should be about the game's function as a whole and not the people in it. If there is something you feel is absolutely necessary to address that involves a specific person, please IM a mod first to discuss it. We can be reached at terraqueous orb (Kayla), end title (Fudgey) or a great fanfare (Jenn). (Though Jenn is on hiatus right now because her laptop is broken, so Kayla or Fudgey would be best for right now!)

Anonymous will be left off for this round (see first section).

Here are the sections that we've come up with. Add your own and we'll edit it into the list.

Anonymous: Why is it turned off?
What do the mods/helpers do, anyways?
How is my activity being monitored?
Activity check changes
Applications/turnover rate
 → Test Drive Comm
Abilities on the application
Villains & Heroes
 → Recent Villain Activity
 → Upcoming Villain Activities/Plots
Death
World Plot/Paradisa Lore
 → Concrete Resolutions, etc.
Canon Updates
Mini-plot Planning
Changes since last HTG
Plots in General
Regular Plots?

How's The Game will now be held quarterly, in order to avoid excessively long stretches in which there is no outlet for discussion.

Comments

[dusk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see where that'd be a problem, but I don't think it would have to go that far? It doesn't need to be a new account, or an OC, or anything like that. Plenty would still be left to interpretation, it would just be something along the lines of like ... "Bob the Butcher is balding, and he has a bad temper." With that information, people could then occasionally mention him, how mean he was, how shiny his head is, etc etc.

But that's just my thought on it, I'm not sure exactly what people are interested in here. When I thought of the applications for NPCs, I didn't really think it was like ... a literal app to PLAY them. I think it was just "hey, I think it would be funny to have this mean butcher who people could run into, here's a few vague facts about them to play with" and then let people use him in their dialogue and threads as they wanted.

[valerie]

The whole discussion is here: one, two, three

If we're fleshing out NPCs, there might be a time when someone asks if they can thread with that NPC. I mean, I have no problem with a vague official statement saying "The owner of the diner in the center of the plaza is a greasy, balding man with a kind heart," but when he gets a name and personality, he starts to become someone's OC, you know? And from the discussion, I don't know if everyone was cool with that. It seemed there was more confusion than there was consensus.