documenting the future
When a player starts a new character, the creative process sits somewhere on a spectrum between designing a fleshed-out background and creating a skeleton to ‘discover’ the character over time.
As an example, I preferred the latter for Joron, a character in Star Wars Galaxies. When I originally created him as a throwaway character to explore [...]
I have a passion for science fiction roleplay.
I want a game that immerses me, both in flavor and mechanics.
I want to be able to choose to play a character that interests me, live out his life in the game, and explore who he is.
I want my space respected.
I want to play with other people who [...]
I’ve had some really interesting discussions recently with a friend from SWG regarding MMORPG design. To be fair, we’ve had these discussions for a long time, but the recent conversations have really hit some hot buttons for me.
What is unique about SWG that causes so much angst among RPers? This is a MMORPG where roleplayers [...]
Disclosure: I was the Roleplay Senator for Star Wars Galaxies for several months in early 2008 and stepped down for health reasons. Today, I still have an active SWG subscription but rarely play the game.
I’ve been mulling over the recent comments by the SWG lead designer, Blixtev.
“Too much time was spent on that “feedback” like [...]
There are 10 kinds of roleplayers: those that understand binary, and those that don’t. (Geek joke alert!)
Well, I do believe there are two types of roleplayers, and I’m going to do my best to describe them here.
Group one, what I’ve called “immersioners” (or Motoko calls “rolegamers”, focuses on playing the game itself and immersing themselves [...]
Based on the Huttese dictionary at The Complete Wermo’s Guide, I created two sets of online flash cards for those wishing to learn Huttese.
Please let me know of any mistakes, corrections, or additions I should make.
Huttese-Basic
Basic-Huttese
First, some links (obviously not all are from official sources, but they’re well-referenced and I haven’t found any problems):
Star Wars Databank: Ithorians
SWG Wiki: Ithorians
Wookieepedia: Ithorians
Wookieepedia: Ithor
Wookieepedia: Mother Jungle
Law of Life
In my roleplay, physical mannerisms are always very important. Some mannerisms will be common to a species, or at least a culture. These are some I’d [...]
I wrote this once for an old guild. Most existing roleplayers already have internalized this stuff but I’m throwing it out there for people that are learning and a little concerned about being “accused” (and also because there’s occasional confusion on terminology). Please note that this is descriptive, not prescriptive. In other words, I’m just [...]
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