RPing Questions? Ask Here!

[The Macabees]

Is that question a point in a direction, or a question you want me to answer now?

If you want to answer now, I can help you flesh out what this RP might look like.

But also, yes, I am going down a path of questions. My goal is that by helping you think through the ideas and by being a wall you can bounce ideas off, you'll have a clear direction for your RP.

[Untecna]

Is that question a point in a direction, or a question you want me to answer now?

If you want to answer now, I can help you flesh out what this RP might look like.

But also, yes, I am going down a path of questions. My goal is that by helping you think through the ideas and by being a wall you can bounce ideas off, you'll have a clear direction for your RP.

Well, the idea that I have is that following a much larger conflict which ended up uniting several systems into a temporary confederation, those who supported the continual existence of a unified state, particularly a certain noble house, would push very hard for the Great Convention. It would work somewhat like a political RP, with sides vying for greater power in a central assembly, though with a guaranteed outcome for part of it. I believe it might be beneficial to have others join in to RP.

As an extra question, what forum should this go into?

[The Macabees]

Well, the idea that I have is that following a much larger conflict which ended up uniting several systems into a temporary confederation, those who supported the continual existence of a unified state, particularly a certain noble house, would push very hard for the Great Convention. It would work somewhat like a political RP, with sides vying for greater power in a central assembly, though with a guaranteed outcome for part of it. I believe it might be beneficial to have others join in to RP.

As an extra question, what forum should this go into?

I'll be honest, after 21 years on this forum, I don't know what the differences between II and NS truly are. I tend to post exclusively in II. Neither am I convinced by the many of the attempts of differentiation I've read over the same amount of years.

For internal politics RPs, typically the recommendation I've read is that you should post it on the NS board.

Regarding the RP, I might not have understood the original question. It sounds like you have a pretty good idea about what you want to do. You're wondering: how do I get other people involved? Is that right?

[Untecna]

Well, the idea that I have is that following a much larger conflict which ended up uniting several systems into a temporary confederation, those who supported the continual existence of a unified state, particularly a certain noble house, would push very hard for the Great Convention. It would work somewhat like a political RP, with sides vying for greater power in a central assembly, though with a guaranteed outcome for part of it. I believe it might be beneficial to have others join in to RP.

As an extra question, what forum should this go into?

I'll be honest, after 21 years on this forum, I don't know what the differences between II and NS truly are. I tend to post exclusively in II. Neither am I convinced by the many of the attempts of differentiation I've read over the same amount of years.

For internal politics RPs, typically the recommendation I've read is that you should post it on the NS board.

Regarding the RP, I might not have understood the original question. It sounds like you have a pretty good idea about what you want to do. You're wondering: how do I get other people involved? Is that right?

I was more concerned about presentation, how to get people involved, etc. Developing the idea is something I would like to do, but my original question was more so aimed at finding advice for the OP and getting interest.

[Untecna]

I'll be honest, after 21 years on this forum, I don't know what the differences between II and NS truly are. I tend to post exclusively in II. Neither am I convinced by the many of the attempts of differentiation I've read over the same amount of years.

For internal politics RPs, typically the recommendation I've read is that you should post it on the NS board.

Regarding the RP, I might not have understood the original question. It sounds like you have a pretty good idea about what you want to do. You're wondering: how do I get other people involved? Is that right?

I was more concerned about presentation, how to get people involved, etc. Developing the idea is something I would like to do, but my original question was more so aimed at finding advice for the OP and getting interest.

As of now, I've begun to draft the OP and some other stuff.

[The Macabees]

As of now, I've begun to draft the OP and some other stuff.

Awesome. Once it's up, you're welcome to advertise the thread in my region to see if anyone wants to participate.

If possible, I would have some part of the OP be dedicated to something in the plot that gives other players an in. I don't know what a good example would be, but your objective should be to make it explicit or close-to-explicit on how other players can join.

[Untecna]

As of now, I've begun to draft the OP and some other stuff.

Awesome. Once it's up, you're welcome to advertise the thread in my region to see if anyone wants to participate.

If possible, I would have some part of the OP be dedicated to something in the plot that gives other players an in. I don't know what a good example would be, but your objective should be to make it explicit or close-to-explicit on how other players can join.

Could you elaborate a little? Any example doesn't have to be specific to this, it would be helpful to see what you mean.

[The Macabees]

Could you elaborate a little? Any example doesn't have to be specific to this, it would be helpful to see what you mean.

A basic example would be your leader, an opposition leader, or someone explicitly asking for foreign aid or intervention. Or it would be an action that you know will rile foreign nations up: genocide, other human rights abuses, the rise of radical politics, etc.

I just feel that if you don't have a network of players you already plan to RP with, and so will reply no matter what, or if you do and you want to open it up to more than that group, you need some sort of hook or call-to-action that makes it easy and obvious to join. For example, I have a current RP that has no third-party contributions (that last one is a puppet of mine), and it's because it has no clear way in. It's based on canon that you have to know to understand, I don't have anything in the content that asks for other people to participate, and it's not obvious what the thread is even about. I did this purposefully for this thread, it's a maintenance thread, but it's a good example of what doesn't work on NS if you want wider traction.

Another option is to create an OOC thread where you might clarify certain things about the thread and how others can become involved. See for example this OOC thread.

[Untecna]

Could you elaborate a little? Any example doesn't have to be specific to this, it would be helpful to see what you mean.

A basic example would be your leader, an opposition leader, or someone explicitly asking for foreign aid or intervention. Or it would be an action that you know will rile foreign nations up: genocide, other human rights abuses, the rise of radical politics, etc.

I just feel that if you don't have a network of players you already plan to RP with, and so will reply no matter what, or if you do and you want to open it up to more than that group, you need some sort of hook or call-to-action that makes it easy and obvious to join. For example, I have a current RP that has no third-party contributions (that last one is a puppet of mine), and it's because it has no clear way in. It's based on canon that you have to know to understand, I don't have anything in the content that asks for other people to participate, and it's not obvious what the thread is even about. I did this purposefully for this thread, it's a maintenance thread, but it's a good example of what doesn't work on NS if you want wider traction.

Another option is to create an OOC thread where you might clarify certain things about the thread and how others can become involved. See for example this OOC thread.

Well, I intended to make an OOC thread in order to grab interest.

[Nalver And]

Ok I know this sounds stupid but am I in a good shape to roleplay? My factbooks and all aren't detailed but at least it had information, I still haven't finished but I wanted to roleplay just a tiny bit.

[Neu Engollon]

Ok I know this sounds stupid but am I in a good shape to roleplay? My factbooks and all aren't detailed but at least it had information, I still haven't finished but I wanted to roleplay just a tiny bit.

Well, what’s RP a tiny bit? RP regions have some restrictions, but you don’t have to be in a particular region to role-play in an open RP thread. Players have sign-up threads for their role-plays and you can just sign up. Just be aware that there might be some requirements stated by the OP in the sign-up threads.
I would suggest you join one of the lights social RP‘s in the Nationstates forum to get your feet wet in a sort of starter RP.

Alternatively, you can start your own interest thread for an RP, but I heavily suggest that you put as much detail in your OP as possible. Perhaps invite some veteran role players to join, either in the OP or telegram ones you like.

[Nalver And]

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Well, what’s RP a tiny bit? RP regions have some restrictions, but you don’t have to be in a particular region to role-play in an open RP thread. Players have sign-up threads for their role-plays and you can just sign up. Just be aware that there might be some requirements stated by the OP in the sign-up threads.
I would suggest you join one of the lights social RP‘s in the Nationstates forum to get your feet wet in a sort of starter RP.

Alternatively, you can start your own interest thread for an RP, but I heavily suggest that you put as much detail in your OP as possible. Perhaps invite some veteran role players to join, either in the OP or telegram ones you like.

Light RP, I am a player who joined WAY back during the durrnil incident and left after only about a few months since I wasn't interested and were busy with irl stuff. I wanna be back and join some FT RP because... I kinda get a feeling I might godmod on accident since usually I only RP characters, not nations.

[Santheres]

Well, what’s RP a tiny bit? RP regions have some restrictions, but you don’t have to be in a particular region to role-play in an open RP thread. Players have sign-up threads for their role-plays and you can just sign up. Just be aware that there might be some requirements stated by the OP in the sign-up threads.
I would suggest you join one of the lights social RP‘s in the Nationstates forum to get your feet wet in a sort of starter RP.

Alternatively, you can start your own interest thread for an RP, but I heavily suggest that you put as much detail in your OP as possible. Perhaps invite some veteran role players to join, either in the OP or telegram ones you like.

Light RP, I am a player who joined WAY back during the durrnil incident and left after only about a few months since I wasn't interested and were busy with irl stuff. I wanna be back and join some FT RP because... I kinda get a feeling I might godmod on accident since usually I only RP characters, not nations.

You can (and should) still do character RP on these boards. The idea of what qualifies as godmoding is the same for nation RP and character RP, though - you don't control other players' characters or responses or the actual outcomes of what occurs to another player's characters/nations/whatever, you control what your character/nation does and tries to do, and supply the information necessary for responding players to decide what actually happens.

[Shwe Tu Colony]

Ok I know this sounds stupid but am I in a good shape to roleplay? My factbooks and all aren't detailed but at least it had information, I still haven't finished but I wanted to roleplay just a tiny bit.

You really don't need overly detailed factbooks to roleplay. Heavens know mine aren't developed much...

[The Kalythian Star]

Are most RPers in the II forum not that interested in PT threads? The ones I've tried to make picked up no steam at all, meanwhile the first MT thread I made kinda blew up unexpectedly. If so, I'll focus more on MT and basically anything else apart from PT

[Shazbotdom]

Are most RPers in the II forum not that interested in PT threads? The ones I've tried to make picked up no steam at all, meanwhile the first MT thread I made kinda blew up unexpectedly. If so, I'll focus more on MT and basically anything else apart from PT

PT seems to be more labor intensive and you need to research tech more than MT as MT is easier to research for RP purposes, at least in my opinion. There are PT Roleplay Communities, but they are more niche than anything.

[Santheres]

Are most RPers in the II forum not that interested in PT threads? The ones I've tried to make picked up no steam at all, meanwhile the first MT thread I made kinda blew up unexpectedly. If so, I'll focus more on MT and basically anything else apart from PT

I feel like that probably the case, and has been for a long time. Not sure what it is, exactly, but PT has the hardest time getting going and usually only does because a specific group starts one together. It's unfortunate but also is what it is.

For MT's part, it's just easier to slid into since it's what we know. So, MT is going to outstrip PT in interest by a margin regardless of the community's thoughts on PT itself.

[Onon country]

How to post maps on wars

[Bears Armed]

How to post maps on wars

1. Create the map, using the graphics programme of your choice.
2. Save a copy of the map on an image-saving site that's acceptable to this game's management: See this list.
3. Where you want to post the map in the forum thread about the war, place the url that the image-saving site provides for it inside the code [ Img] [ /Img], but without the gaps before the "I"s. (N.B. At least one image-saving site provides different urls for different uses, and if that's the case for the site that you use then make sure you choose the url specified as being for forums,)

[Kaminokaze]

I want to raid, but don't know how. pls send help

[Erythrean Thebes]

I want to raid, but don't know how. pls send help

That's not considered RP (roleplay).

For what you are looking for, check this out.

[Pelz]

I recently stumbled upon this website and still trying to set up my Factbook, hoping that I'd find a good fit for my nation to RP with but still trying to figure out the stuff since there's so much into the community part of things. Are 1x1 RPs also being done in NS? Or It's mostly nation-building political RP? I like the mix of both with politicians and more in depth dive in the scenarios.

[Asucki]

I recently stumbled upon this website and still trying to set up my Factbook, hoping that I'd find a good fit for my nation to RP with but still trying to figure out the stuff since there's so much into the community part of things. Are 1x1 RPs also being done in NS? Or It's mostly nation-building political RP? I like the mix of both with politicians and more in depth dive in the scenarios.

That really depends on who you want to RP with. This is a community-oriented site, and who you surround yourself with influences the kind of RP you do. Everyone has their own tastes and will want to do different things. There are some people who greatly prefer close-up character RPs and others who like the challenge of writing the intricacies of a nation's politics and culture on a grand scale. I'd highly suggest you take a look at open RP threads either here or on the NationStates subboard and hop into any that catch your fancy. Otherwise, you can check out roleplaying and worldbuilding regions (such as my own, shameless advertisement) which generally have a strong sense of community and a diverse group of players for you to find a niche in.

[Pelz]

I recently stumbled upon this website and still trying to set up my Factbook, hoping that I'd find a good fit for my nation to RP with but still trying to figure out the stuff since there's so much into the community part of things. Are 1x1 RPs also being done in NS? Or It's mostly nation-building political RP? I like the mix of both with politicians and more in depth dive in the scenarios.

That really depends on who you want to RP with. This is a community-oriented site, and who you surround yourself with influences the kind of RP you do. Everyone has their own tastes and will want to do different things. There are some people who greatly prefer close-up character RPs and others who like the challenge of writing the intricacies of a nation's politics and culture on a grand scale. I'd highly suggest you take a look at open RP threads either here or on the NationStates subboard and hop into any that catch your fancy. Otherwise, you can check out roleplaying and worldbuilding regions (such as my own, shameless advertisement) which generally have a strong sense of community and a diverse group of players for you to find a niche in.

Thanks for the honest guidance. And will definitely check out your region! Cheers!

[The Macabees]

I recently stumbled upon this website and still trying to set up my Factbook, hoping that I'd find a good fit for my nation to RP with but still trying to figure out the stuff since there's so much into the community part of things. Are 1x1 RPs also being done in NS? Or It's mostly nation-building political RP? I like the mix of both with politicians and more in depth dive in the scenarios.

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