| How to Optimize Engagement; Struggling to get involved? | |
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| Castiel | Sep 11 2017, 12:25 PM Post #1 |
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Destiel Trash. Deal With it. Also: GM, Admin
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Okay so, as rooms expand, sometimes it can be hard to get involved. I'm going to list basic means and methods. Build Carefully Supernatural has a lot of room to make characters open. A rogue wolf is going to have hard time getting open engagement that doesn't involve getting stabbed, but a realiable precautionary psychic can be famous in her region to assist people - ask around a few hunters if it'd be cool for something like that. Informants, hubs, observative bartenders, there's all kinds of options that make it completely possible to network with even existing characters. If you make a Strong Independent Witch Hunter That Does Everything Alone And Doesn't Need No Nobody, you're going to have a harder time gaining, or keeping relationships with other characters and it chokes availability of RP down. Try to think of great ways to have diverse interaction. It's okay to not be completely self sufficient in all the things. It's okay to not be a master detective hacker witch-whatever that can fix all the problems, and it's okay to just come up with an attribute you can lead to a party. That's what we love about SPN, and our room is geared towards cooperation and compliment rather than 2,000 Strong Independent Hunters. We highly suggest making a hunter alt. We understand that some people prefer playing Bad Things, but part of the contingency of playing Bad Things in this room is full awareness that you will be hunted and by pure numbers, you will probably lose. You're encouraged to play smart, but playing smart also means you can't be at every scene ever. Hunter alts have the greatest flexibility and have a number of potential ins with little-to-no effort, so even if your Bad Guy doesn't have a moment to shine, you can hop in. - Current potential ins on Hunters: The Men of Letters went on a genocide path against American Hunters, who have pooled into reclaimed American Men of Letters strongholds. Bulk messages went out during this to call in hunter forces, and your character could have received this notice or even could have already joined one of these locations. These locations maintain connections and communications abroad, meaning that even if one character is in New York and another is in Kansas, even if you don't necessarily have someone's direct phone number you can always buzz another bunker for engagement. Run potential villain stories by the staff. We highly, highly encourage villains that don't have to be the next uber primordial firstererer evil thing or One Punch Man. If your character goes through baseline approval as a werewolf or whatever awesome, and you're free to play however you want. But if you don't want to Die Fast, or even if you want your case noticed fast, you may need to contact someone in the high engagement hub to orchestrate how initial contact is going to begin. Even if you're looking to do a high-tier villain, this is even more critical. In fact for high tier villains, it's mandatory. Most of all, listen to what the staff is suggesting. If you have a balanced/viable idea we'll never tell you that you CAN'T post, but we may say things like "It's going to be difficult right now", "people are generally occupied right now", etc. During these times, I fall back to the "make a hunter alt" point if you want immediate engagement. Join the Skype group This isn't mandatory, but it helps... a lot. People get to know you, you can call out to see who's active even if they aren't staring at RPH at the moment, and you can pull for general engagement and feel more like part of the community. You can join it here. Track villainry on a case thread in the jobs board This falls down to lack of immediate character availability, but if you track progress, someone will eventually pick it up. ---- This is gonna sound bad as a final point but, don't be presumptuous. I find a lot of great story POTENTIALS end up going nowhere because certain players are used to people flocking to them in other rooms. At the risk of sounding arrogant as fuck, most of RPH is a trash heap of lazy vagueposting, smut, or just one liners. Other rooms have people quickly idolize each other simply for the fact that someone can slap together a coherent paragraph. Some people migrate in with a tiny entourage and expect that to continue here, sort of randomly posting an idea in the middle of nowhere and expecting everyone to swamp to the small proposal in desperation. That, also, evolves its own form of arrogance where people kinda feel like all they have to do is launch text into the room and everyone will be obligated to answer to them in short time despite other events. Here, it takes more care and timing, and some people find that inconvenient, but that's just how it goes. Nobody here is going to come running when someone lobs a random mortar into the plot in a random location at a random time. They'll get to it when it's warranted. The fact is, there's no desperation for active story here. It's pretty much continuously maintained to the point that we have trouble juggling as many concurrent plot ends as we have. Our room has English PHDs, former workers in major media, published authors and generally borderline-career RPers and GMs as our core foundation. I'm very happy that our two longest lived Dean players have been a psychologist and a lit master because they both gave insightful renditions and not superficial tropes. And I love that about this room, but some people are too used to being able to pitch into the dark and assume everyone will come running to match paragraphs against them. That doesn't work here. So communicate, don't presume, by using the above mentioned points for consideration. We're happy to work with you, but you have to work with us back. |
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