Fanservice

Love that pic!

If I had something to add to this it's that your guidelines is more of a list of Don't that "Do's and Don'ts" and if there's one thing people don't want to read it's lecture.

And in all honesty the people who make those kind of mistakes aren't reading guides in the first place, so they're of doubtful help.


So some Do's to actually get into RP!


Start the Conversation: It can be a little intimidating to jump into an established setting, especially City of Heroes that's been going for so long. If you want to get involved though you're just going to have to be forward about it. Jumping into a conversation is the best way to get others to take notice of your character, have opinions and try be helpful. Or if you'd prefer to have more control over it, arrive with a few interesting questions to ask. The "Where am I? What's the sky?" character idea isn't one that can run for long, but asking about villain groups or looking for someone who can analyze some weird goo you found? Easy in!

Don't make your first character cringingly shy, abusive or moody. Just like in real life, people tend to ignore or avoid them.


Wing it: If you're not sure about an aspect of your character. Making it up on the spot is not at all frowned upon and is probably one of the best skills you'll pick up while you roleplay. Starting off with a Hero with a Secret Identity really helps you to get an idea of what people are going to ask new characters, while also giving you a convienent excuse for not answering people right away while you think about it. Can't tell all your personal details after all, or it wouldn't be a secret identity. Try not to have the answers to everything though! Even if you're right, it's a bit obnoxious to deal with.


It's Superheroes: Ultimately people like playing Superheroes for different reasons. Some like a mroe realistic approach, while some like the Truth and Justice vibe (And some jus tlike beating up giant robots). Thankfully City of Heroes caters to all of these sides, so feel free to go for the one your prefer! Superheroes are naturally larger than life and so being a colourful personality isn't even seen as all that weird. Everyone else deals with interdimensional travelers, aliens and advanced AI's on a fairly regular basis! So don't feel you have to be an average joe who can shoot fire. Feel free to make something a little weird. Just don't overdo it, people have got to be able to hold a conversation with you after all!

Sure! But I don't think anyone from it is in this thread.

I admit the Arbiter in the Dusk Spider was weird, we'd have done fine with just a Commander. As really how Sueish is it being in charge of a group of people who infrequently try to kill you/get you in so much trouble your head explodes? With an amazing roster to draw from of a hard luck villianous Mastermind, a scientist who keeps trying to poison the troops with sandwiches, numerous failed experiments, a Bane Spider with narcolepsy and a shape shifting spy who can only speak in pidgeon english.


I kinda miss them now! It was like a disfunctional Suicide Squad. Which is really saying something.

The moderator unlocked this thread because people said the discussion was getting interesting and that people would behave. Please don't prove them wrong, if you've got issues with someone stick them on ignore and/or take it up in PM's. Publicly announcing it isn't going to lead anywhere productive, there's no need to stir.

So yeah, not touching that one and moving on.

Warscythe seems to have a pretty good grasp of where that middle ground sits. I know the Corp has done some big stuff and I've even delved into it on occasions. Which is what I like about Unionverse there's things that have happened in the past that people bring along with them as history, both large events and small that makes the world seem a little more alive.

As long as they don't get so big as to start dragging in people who never showed any interest in the first place, or require people to see the world differently to how it's generally portrayed. If I do a short bit of RP in Dark Astoria, I don't want to find out a few days later that everyone's pretending Dark Astoria is fine and that what I thought was a quick plot in a shadowy city devoid of life actually doesn't make any sense any-more.

It was, as he said, a generic you. Addressed to everyone who was reading it, including Shadowe himself.

Well as said, the current Open Season plot line was doing this just fine until it breached the level where people not interested could no longer ignore it. Personally I won't ever join a 'Massive' plot as I find that unless you really, really ham up your capabalities you get lost as background noise while the plot itself unravels into a million sub plots that are almost impossible to keep up with. Eventually resolved by the few 'lead voices' in a rather unfufiling climax in which the bit part players stand around twiddling thier thumbs.

Which isn't to say you can't have 'Save the World!' plots, but a sense of urgency near the climax is best for those. Else you have people sitting around waiting for a chance to resolve it all and it starts to drag something awful and the whole things gets a bit farcical as others try to join in right at the end, so those there from the start spend an awful lot of time explaining what's happened to others to get them up to speed, sometimes more time than they actually spent participating and that's not much fun at all.

That wasn't entirely clear! I thought the aftermath was on Skype, not the problems you have. Really not much we can do about that, the threads stopped short of going that crazy. What people do on Skype we can't help.

Makes sense why, if there was a super tough ranged character, it'd have to have really poor damage to offset it and I doubt people are going to find that much fun to play.

Yeah, I don't like the Court stuff or CB's plots but I don't mind them happening until they become so shambling and monstrous they start to intrude in such a way that they're impossible to ignore.

While you were keeping it inside an Open RP thread I didn't read, I didn't mind. When it starts to spill out into the overall meta-plot it becomes a problem.

Two more! With another funny one.

Rattleslap - Hurt
Bangwiches - Bombs