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What's better; starting your own RP or reviving an old one?

I'm mainly asking because I miss Feast or Famine (Pirates vs Gypsies)

What you all think, yo?

I say we revive it a bit then (like a few posts a day are fine, if possible), then RESOLVE it!!

I think I know how it can end... The MODERN AGE!!

...too ambitious? It was supposed to be set in a time before factories and modernization. confused

Yeah, I periodically want to do RPs again, but I don't really spend much time on Gaia as it is and I would feel bad bogging anything down. And I take a long time to write out and format and spell check and go back and re-word stuff (seriously, I pretty much rough draft this stuff) so I'm lucky if I post more than once a day.

Plus, pretty much every time I've been in one it's a small group of people so we'll all end up with multiple characters. It always happens that someone with a bunch of important characters gets bored and disappears so unless someone is willing to jump in and write for them the whole thing disintegrates.

More on topic: If you mean reviving a concept, I think that's always fine. I don't particularly like reviving a previous thread but that may be because I am intimidated by RPs that already have more than a couple pages under their belt. I feel like by then there are a lot of established relationships and it's hard to write yourself into a plot that is already moving.

I think temporary writers would be fine. I've definitely done that a couple of times, in the sense that I attempted to write the characters to the side lines until the player got back. And if they're gone for more than a week or two without notifying someone (thread creator, I guess?) of reason for their absence/that they're going to come back, I think it should be fair game if someone wants to take them over. Or, like, kill them off or something. I just hate to see a decent RP stall out, even if the person has a good reason for not being able to post.

I think people taking over my characters sounds a little weird to be honest, but it would be interesting to see what happened, how someone else interpreted them. Like one of those Round Robin stories*. As long as they don't change personalities completely on me it would be fine. It could even be a good exercise for the writers out there to see if you're conveying the kind of personality you want a character to have (assuming your ghost writer doesn't just take all kinds of liberties).

*I'm actually surprised that I don't see those more on Gaia. They're a lot of fun even if you only have a few people contributing. And there's less pressure to post a whole bunch every day.


....I should start one so I have something to do at work.

Muahahahaha I call dibs on pixie boy when he goes missing

...I have no idea about this pixie boy business.

The idea sounds interesting though. I'll play if we do it.