UPDATE: RP Prompts (ARES) and Important Changes for RPers

[Mooncalf]

Automatic Roleplay Events System
ARES is a system which uses the Storyteller account to automatically reply to posts made in the Hardcore Roleplay board with plot prompts and story twists. Each time you reply to a thread there, there's a 1 in 20 chance that the ARES system will give you a random prompt.

These prompts are kept purposefully vague in order to allow writers creative freedom on how they approach these subjects, and how they resolve them. Writers can also feel free to get very creative with the revelation behind these prompts. For example, one prompt is that the last character to reply is suddenly shot. You could roleplay that the shot came from a hidden enemy, or perhaps you'd instead opt to agree with another writer that their character chose that exact moment to shoot them for one reason or another.

If you find a prompt simply does not fit the given situation (unlikely that may be), please feel free to ignore it. For example, your group might be in captive in a cell, and the prompt might say that you come across a dog. This is unlikely in such a situation, so ignore the prompt. Hopefully this won't happen too often. If you find you get a duplicate prompt, try to spin it in a different way to last time.

We're working on adding hundreds of prompts and twists, so hopefully they won't get stale!


Hardcore Board VS Official Events Board
With the inclusion of this new system, we've re-purposed the hardcore board, and made a new board.

The Hardcore Roleplay board is the only board in which the ARES system is active. We've also cut down massively on the hardcore ruleset guidelines to allow for more freedom. The board now only has 3 guidelines, and one of which is optional. The other two will likely not come up very often at all. This forum still gives 50% extra RPP for the posts. (Hardcore guidelines may change just a little over the following week.)

The Official Event Roleplay board is new. This is now where all the official competition roleplay, chapter roleplay, sidestory roleplay, and officially GMed threads will go. This board does not use the ARES system at all, but it does give 50% extra RPP for posts.

If you have a thread on the hardcore board which you want moved to the official events board, please let a mod know.

[Mooncalf]

There are now 121 plot prompts in this system. More will be added if it proves to be a popular addition to the game. Have fun!