Hey there, EJ! I was still pretty new around here when it was still running. I took a look a couple of times and the threads had gone a little... odd. I probably would have gone on anyway, but then came all the unpleasantness and it shut down.
Now the freaky side of things is well catered for in the GDF, so like I say, it seems a good time. I;ve got some stuff we could run through it, but ass it seems the COuncil is showing interest as well it would be unnecessary.
AH, I see.
Well, it depends how we are defining role-playing. At the basic level, it's simply character acting, exactly like we do in the GDF. The old role-playing forum (from what I saw) was interactive storytelling in the idea that someone continues someone elses story- not strictly role-playing, but perfectly valid, though it didn't always seem to be working out.
On a more advanced level, someone (presumably one of the Council) could host a story in which the other posters play the participants. This could be as complex or simple as you like- you can set how many people can be in, or have it as a complete free-for-all, whatever you like.
The most advnced level would be to completely transfer a tabletop role-play into on-line form, whicvh is actually nowhere near as daunting as it sounds, but it's not for everyone. In that case there would be definite rules, what the rules are depend on the host and the system used.
WEG do an official Star Wars role-play, which is reasonable enough (and certainly has extremely well-researched supplements), but the action movie simulator role-play Feng Shui is actually far better at getting the Star Wars feel, being a game entirely based around the idea that heroes takeon loads of unnamed charatcers in huge numbers (they call unnamed characters 'mooks', in Star Wars a mook would be a stormtrooper or battle droid).
I like the idea of continuing posts that build a story, but character based rather than just pure story.
Character definition could be used???
What I could abide was the stupid, jokey lines of the old RP forum. Lits keep that in the GDF where it is enjoyed already and have serious roleplay in a role play forum with a mod who understands roleplay.
OK, so who knows about roleplay. I'm just an idea man...😂
Actually, I preferred the serious role-playing to the silly, I only posted silly things when the thread got silly by someone else's hand. Now having the colorful reputation I have in GDF, I know some of you find this hard to believe, but I love writing different story lines for SW as I wished things might have happened. JediOasis and I had (what I felt, IMHO ) was a killer story going back and forth for awhile under a topic called "what if". I found it very exciting going back to it every day to see what JO had added and how the storyline twisted and turned. (He writes good stuff 🙂 )We didn't play roles, we just used the SW characters and made up a new storyline as to what happened in the throne room in ROTJ...and beyond. I thought it was pretty cool. 😮💨
Is EJ eating his own words again?
I did some role playing at TF.N once. People played out their characters and the character's stories mingled into one great story. The participants sometimes used the Private Message system to synchronise their stories in secret. It was great fun, but it went so fast and I was in the wrong time zone. Wheneve I returned 5 or 6 pages had passed. And no one was online when I was, so I decided to become one with the Force and disappear from the story.