HOW'S THE GAME

[paradisamods]

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 valawie (Valerie) or never die ftw (Ashley).

Anonymous will be on for this round. Sock journals are still allowed.

Please feel free to bring up any game-related topic you'd like to discuss. All topics will be linked in the main post.

➜ HOW'S THE STAFF
➜ PLOTTING 101
➜ SOFT REBOOT
➜ APPLICATION CHANGES
➜ ENTRY TAGS
➜ ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Comments

[frisky]

It's really discouraging to know that, while some OCs have a bad rap due to a lot of people being weak, trope-y writers who use recycled "unique" aspects to make up for a lack of their character not being interesting in the first place, that they write off the possibility that they might end up having fun with just another character.

Literally every argument that I have been hearing against ocs have been covered in my little guideline thing there. While we as staff can't control who tags whom, we can control whether or not things get abused or if the character is just bland and inconsistent. But it's really unfair to someone who plays an original character to not be threaded with just because they are an oc. That's like people saying "I don't want to thread with someone from a stupid font-changing webcomic because it's annoying" or "That version of X is stupid because it's the Y adaptation". A lot of interesting CR I've got over the years were from canons I had literally no interest in. Reservations should be put to the side if the writing quality is good enough and the willingness to be flexible with input is there.

[superheroine]

Yeah. I hear you on it, really. And I want to believe people here wouldn't be dicks about it, but I dunno. Fandom is just such a staple of this part of DWRP that I have no idea how people would react.

Test drive meme in a few days? Haha.

[nothingtobelieve]

If it helps, I don't think anyone here is really saying 'OCs are terrible, I will refuse to engage these players' or anything. Just outlining the reasons OCs aren't often embraced. And on my end... I've tagged OCs, I'm definitely willing to give them a chance. It's just that my past experience with them has not been stellar. Obviously, not all writers are the same, so there's no predicting what type of characters would app in. And I do have faith in the mods to judge apps well, but after awhile you just get into tricky territory.