Any of you guys part of a wheel of time RP group 'outside' of DM?

I seem to have spotted a few, and they do appear to have a bit of activity.

 

http://wheeloftimerp.net/

 

 

I was actually thinking about joining up there. The only other ones I can think of are netlandtowers.com and grey-tower.net. Don't know the activity levels of the other two.

Dragonmount is still the largest, yes?

I'm not sure. It's been quite a while since I have been here so I don't know who is active and who isn't.

We're active...ish.

 

To be honest we could use more people, but that is just a standard rule, there is always room for more voices in RP.

I think one of the major downsides to our current RP section is the lack of 'structure'.

 

I know what this sounds like, How can we not have structure? We've written whole boards on rules etc..

 

What I mean is there needs to be more consistency and explanation for each new Role Play. When I first saw the role playing sections, I was kind of lost and I found I tended to read RPs that have OCC introductions to what will be happening instead of being thrown right down the deep end.

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one facing this kind of problem. Role plays are only enjoyable to read once you 'get in to it' and I think the lack of out of community interest, has caused a major declines in fresh writers from participating.

I can feel a major reform necessary to stir up activity here.

Believe me when I say that a lot of what you said really does have some credence to it. There is a lot of stuff that myself and the staff are doing to attempt to fix the problems, and its taking longer than we want it to.

 

The structure will come in time, hopefully sooner than later, but yeah.

 

And while OOC instruction in threads is nice, I tend to not use them, they take away from the immersion in my eyes.

Believe me when I say that a lot of what you said really does have some credence to it. There is a lot of stuff that myself and the staff are doing to attempt to fix the problems, and its taking longer than we want it to.

 

The structure will come in time, hopefully sooner than later, but yeah.

 

And while OOC instruction in threads is nice, I tend to not use them, they take away from the immersion in my eyes.

I agree with the OOC instructions in threads. Its easy to sort things out over PMs and not have that break in character in the actual RP.

I've had good results with a "Story so far..." OOC post at the top of each RP thread (though I've yet to use it at DM). Makes for a useful hook for new players (if a particular RP is open to new players). Also helps with getting an audience for an RP (if an audience is wanted).