Feb
28
If you’ve not heard of meta-gaming before, it’s a term that exists in all types of roleplaying, especially play-by-post and tabletop D&D type games. Essentially you, the player might know some details that your character might not.
Link nhà cái game online https://thabet.fun/
Feb
18
This article was written for us by Brogan Young, who plays Thomas Plisken in Blue Dwarf.
So you’ve found yourself on the sandy shores of Ongoing Worlds. Perhaps it is just a pit stop to take in the scenery as you journey through the seemingly endless expanse of the Internet Ocean. Read More
Feb
10
There’s been a good article published recently on the Starbase 118 community blog, with some starting points which might encourage you to think about setting the scene in your own posts. They have some example paragrpahs showing how putting effort into describing the scene can make it seem so much more real, and I encourage you to take a look. Read More
Feb
9
You might have seen a fair few blog articles recently written by Tib, in his “Tib’s corner” segment, and also Xan/Mike’s regular game summary articles. Bothe of these members have also been a great help in the chatbox, often at hand to help moderate spam and keeping things civil.
This is why I’ve decided to award Xan and Tib the OWCH (OngoingWorlds Community Honor)! Both of these members have been a great asset to our community. Read More
Feb
2
This is a segment of an article written by Steven Savage from his blog. Worldbuilding is really important to us in roleplaying, especially if you’re the one who created the game’s world in the first place, but not just that, a world can continue to grow and change of course over the months and years as you tell more stories within it. Here’s Steven’s article where he asks Why Worldbuild?: Read More
Jan
5
Advertising is hardOne of the most difficult aspects of creating a new roleplaying game is getting players to join initially. Getting people to join a brand new game without an established story or any guarantee it’ll not be a waste of time is tricky. Finding the members is difficult enough, so you want to make your game as visible as possible.
A lot of this involves putting yourself out there, self-promoting, and just generally shouting loudly about your game into the ether until someone hears you. Read More
Dec
31
Yes that’s a photo of me with the award that OngoingWorlds has won this year, awarded to us by Obsidian Portal, who announced it at their panel at Gencon earlier this year.
Obviously the folk at Obsidian Portal recognise what a great website OngoingWorlds is, and I’m so very pleased that all the hard work I’ve put in has got an award. But tbh the best thing about OngoingWorlds are you the members who’ve put in so much effort into writing excellent stories in your roleplaying games! Read More
Dec
23
I found this comic recently which expresses perfectly why all-powerful characters are boring: Read More
Dec
19
Drama happens. It happens whenever people care a lot, and in roleplaying we care a lot about the characters and worlds we write about. RPrepository have a great guide for dealing with drama, I won’t copy & paste it all here, but I encourage you to go read it on their page. Read More
Dec
13
