OngoingWorlds blog

News & articles about play-by-post games, for roleplayers & writers

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Unlockable perk – Social icons

Here’s another option that isn’t available until your game has at least 50 posts. After that you can add social icons to your game’s homepage to a Twitter or Facebook account (if you have one). Read More

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StatCat – Games with the most posts this year so far…

Statcat

StatCat – Not actual size

StatCat is back! Last week the clever moggy told us the top 10 busiest users on the site this year, and now he’s going to tell us which games have had the most posts.

Here’s the top games, by number of posts since January 1st 2014. Read More

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Who is the main character in your game?

Post apocalyptic roleplay

Sorry for the misleading title, because it’s actually a misleading question. There should only be one main character in your game and that’s… Read More

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Adding infinite depth to mediocre game characters

XCOM characters

Boring game characters? Write your own backstory

I replayed XCOM: Enemy Unknown recently, where you recruit lifeless characters and equip them to fight aliens in a pseudo-realistic game of chess. In the game, characters are nothing more than lifeless puppets that you dress up in armour, then toss a dangerous weapon in their arms, and send them out into the battlefield. Read More

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Knowing Which Genre To Pick

Different genres, star trek, star wars, harry potter etc

Experience has proven that there is no cut and dry formula for success. There is no genre that one can pick to have instant, guaranteed success, as there are no guarantees at all in roleplaying games. But we do know that certain genres do and don’t lend themselves well to roleplay, and that others may never be as popular. Read More

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StatCat – The busiest roleplayers this year so far…

Statcat“Who is this stat cat“, you might ask?

Well he’s a feline with all the info, like a furry statistician. He’s given me a list of the most prolific roleplayers on OngoingWorlds in 2014 so far (he coughed it up onto my lap like a furball). Read More

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Volunteers needed for new roleplaying magazine

stripes-roleplay-mag

My name’s Silent Hunter; I’m the soon to be former General Coordinator of Phoenix Roleplaying and am planning a new project to run after my retirement from the position of heading the Squiddie-winning club. Read More

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Way With Worlds: Pyramids of Power

This was originally posted by Steven Savage on his blog, but has allowed me to republish it here as I think it’s useful for roleplayers! This is part of Steven’s Way With Worlds series of articles. -David

villain hierarchy

Have you ever read a story and things just seemed to work . . . wrong? Read More

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Thanks to DocAnvil for the donation

S. S. Seiklon Axel roleplaying game

DocAnvil roleplays in the S. S. Seiklon Axel

Not long after I published a thanks to Xexes for donating, we got another donation. Wow that was fast! This time the donation came from DocAnvil, a roleplayer from the Borderlands Star Trek roleplaying community. This is the 2nd donation since my promise to send out mugs the the next three.  DocAnvil plays in the S. S. Seiklon Axel a roleplaying game set in the Star Trek universe aboard a civilian spaceship. A post by a member of Seiklon Axel was a runner-up in 2011’s Flashback week competition (read it here).

Why we need donations

The web hosting needs to be paid for (there’s a cost breakdown here), and usually that’s something I have to do. But it’s really great when everyone else can contribute. Your donations really do help keep OngoingWorlds going.

Thanks so much to DocAnvil for the donation!

 

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Need new members? – Don’t Forget Your Friends

Friends can be roleplayers too

The wait can be unbearable. It can be a year or a week. But however long we have to wait for the next episode of our favorite series, we can’t wait for that day to come (or year, though that can test our patience; we’re looking at you, Sherlock!). But then we have the inevitable problem: have our friends watched it yet? Why does that matter to us? Because we like sharing things that interest us with the people we care about.

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