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« on: December 13, 2015, 04:59:33 am »
I was so happy to see this post today, it soothes my nostalgia for a populated roleplaying PS.
I come from a theater background, you are given a script, unlike PS, so you know already what your characters actions will be and exactly where you will stand on stage. With a script, the art is in developing your characters motives. The best teacher I had when I was studying character development, was skilled in the art of deflating the personal ego you bring to your character. He asked what the limitations of your character where, what underlying damage motivated your character, he made you step away from a glorious performance and your personal limitations, or intentions to bring depth to your portrayal, he made you go beyond yourself to create an authentic performance.
The challenges we face in PS...
We are a small community, with all sorts of glorifying magics, we want to support others role plays and character motives all the while appease our own motives and stories, and we can do that easily when we can fix it all up clean with a chosen magic way.
We try to balance interactions, in an infinite ongoing world, with characters dropping in and out, huge gaps in ongoing story lines, in a story that potentially have no end....my heart goes out to all the abandoned married characters, wondering when their lover will ever return.
we have an incestuous community that becomes far to supportive of each other IC, in its limited populace. Our characters work out their differences, eventually bond and thus run to save each other out of sentimental love that has developed over time.
We need more baddies to create conflict and sabotage IC sentimental love, this is an understatement.
Our characters need to live with the choices they make, with no exceptions or potions or magic to set it back to right again.
We need to let go of characters we spend to much time with and stretch our imaginations with new characters...sometimes our characters should just die from boredom.
There is a redundancy of know it all characters...oh how I crave interactions with flawed and limited characters...
We also must remember the more we play, the more we are invested in story lines, and this gives us a feeling of ownership in how the story shall play out...not necessarily godmodding, but more of a repeated cycle of rp deja vu, this has the potential to trample other folks who may have something to offer to the solution or chaos and possibly surprise you. Go into the roleplay with the intentions of always playing a supporting role.
and of course we all need to log in to do all of that...
This message was fueled by punchy insomnia.