Huh. Revive the RP? I most certainly want to help. Anything you need.Glad to hear it. Are you interested in becoming RP Thane?
I’d love to take the job, I’ve been building the RP that could become an official fantasy RP on Discord for a bit now, and I’m very active on the Discord, just not so much on the forums. If you wish to check out my current idea, check out Pandemonium in the roleplay forum.That's great, it's good to know that there is interest in the position. I have a question: with your creation of a Discord RP, are you of the opinion that Discord is the future of roleplaying here or that it's another medium alongside forum RPs? There's no right answer, I'm just genuinely curious.
What would be required?So first, the RP Thane will join in on discussing the future of roleplaying in Wintreath. We'll talk about the future of the RP Guild and the RP subforums, ideas to bring back activity, how to solve the stagnation problem that many RPs pick up pretty quickly, and other issues of that nature.
In my opinion Discord is an easier and less intimidating platform, and the ability to switch channels so easily between roleplay sections and out of character sections doesn’t work as seemlessly if at all on a forum. I believe the two can co-exist, the forum for slower, less huge role plays, like one on ones, or small groups, but I personally think Discord is a better platform, as I’m part of one and I’m making Pandemonium with a few others from a Wintreath at the moment. If you wish, I can mail you an invite so you can see before I publically release an invite on the forums.Hmm, that's interesting. I hadn't thought about it like that. And yeah, I'd love to see the RP if you send me an invite.
Sure, I would be interested if you wish.Great!
- What would you replace the current round of RPs with? Or are you saying we just wipe the slate clean and try to get new RPs in the same model started?SpoilerWell, honestly speaking, the current round or RP's may need to end. It is unfortunate but neccesary. From there, we could create a central RP council with a bit more power than the current iteration. I also think that one of the best ways to increase activity is to merge the Werewolf, Spyfall forum games into the RP guild. More centralization would make navigation easier and the activity that Werewolf and Spyfall bring may help revitalize the forum RP guild. Of course, I would need to work with Gerrick and Pengu to check the feasibility of such a proposal but I think that it could work.
As for Discord, I can see how that would work. However, a campaign to drum up activity, in the RMB of the Nationstates region and here in the forum would probably be needed. I did not even know we had a Discord until recently.
- Are you saying the forum RPs would just be another medium for the RPs that also would take place on Discord? So for a single RP, the short-term posts would take place on Discord while the long-form posts would take place on a related forum thread? Is that viable, or could RPers end up just using one over the other? And would it be easy for new RPers to find every related thread/channel?SpoilerMy vision is a dual model, I saw something similar once in a RP I was a part of, for the faster say hourly posts or within the hour posts, we had a chatroom style format. In the long term, we called them quests, we had the forum. Not to say that there were not long term RPs on the chatroom, but generally weren't as far, as chatroom RPs went less to a day to sometimes a week or more, while the ones on the forum could span months without stopping or intertwining other quests. Another thing is that the chatroom usually had lengths from one-liner to posts as long as para or rarely multi-para, whereas the forum had posts from the length of para to novella, and I'll tell you Novella is quite long indeed, almost like a book's chapter entry. Personally, being someone who usually goes para, I stuck with the chatroom, but in times or lull or curiosity, I browsed the forum and saw that they were insanely long, as in thousands of words, possibly a post, and were epic tales, whereas the chatroom were smaller, but easier to read RPs. There's merit in both, but for games like Spyfall or Werewolf where the posting size is smaller, it could be a better idea to possibly do it in a chatroom like Discord, or maybe an equivalent if preferred. In my personal opinion, it looks a lot worse for a post to be say a paragraph on a forum than on a messaging app, especially one where there are character limits on a single send (2000 characters, still a lot to work with). Discord is avaliable on both PC and Mobile, on both iOS and Android, and as I mentioned previously I'm developing Pandemonium there, there's also the Wintreath Discord to boot. In closing, both have their merits, but the forums may need an overhaul.
For singular plots with a single story, forum works great. It gets convoluted when there’s two or three, and that’s when a multi channel system like discord becomes very appealing.Hmm... in your opinion, how does multiple channels on Discord compare to having a forum RP with multiple threads and/or subforums?