Nov
5
It’s always good when a character has some unique personality traits. Here’s a big long list of personality traits grouped into positive, negative and neutral. Just… because… you never know when it might come in useful! Read More
Nov
3
2013 FallFest Logo
Image by James Drysdale
I know, I know. We’re super late this year. Normally we have this post out in August or September. Unfortunately, I’ve had some major changes in real life that have taken just about all of my of my online time away. Without going into detail, we’re here and we’re ready to sponsor another great Simming Fall Festival. And we need your help!
FallFest is a one-day online convention held annually in IRC chatrooms for anything and everything simming and online role playing. The first FallFest was held in 2011. It was intended to be a mini-SciWorld more friendly to European timezones. Read More
Nov
2
Johnny recently won the Halloween writing challenge, and in the comments of the announcement set a challenge to everyone else to write a thanksgiving story. The following was written by Johnny:
Johnny, winner of the Halloween writing competition
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations.
In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII. That was in 1536. Read More
Nov
2
We all put effort into creating our characters. Some of them are unique, some are not. We might think about what their personality is like, and what traits they have. There’s some ideas listed in the article here, which lists believable traits. But “believeable” isn’t always unique. Read More
Nov
2
Flashback Week is a week-long writing event where writers and roleplayers are encouraged to think about something that happened in their characters past.
Flashback week is now over and the competition results have been announced here.
Nov
1
A few weeks ago I set a writing challenge to write a scary short story for Halloween. Entrants were asked to submit on the comments on the original article, so you can see all entries here.
Oct
31
Hey roleplayers, Logan (username Star) wanted to post a notice about a regular questionnaire hell be running on both the Facebook group, and the new Google+ group (Logan set this up, which you can join here). Read More
Oct
30
Wikipedia’s definition:
In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community who observes, but does not actively participate.
As all posts on OngoingWorlds are publically accessible, you might have lurkers reading your posts. You might consider this good or bad.
But remember:
Lurkers might be people who haven’t joined your game yet.
Because all posts on OngoingWorlds are public (except for private games),they’re viewable by anyone. Someone can just start reading your posts like a book if they want, which is great because they might like it so much they’ll join. Or they might even decide that they’re just happy reading. Read More
Oct
28
Nothing lands a roleplayer in hot water faster than when they write another character’s actions incorrectly. And by actions I include, personality and emotions. Especially personality and emotions. Read More
Oct
26
Dealing with overly-powerful characters can ruin your day more than having “who let the dogs out” stuck in your head. Read More
