RPing as a group

KaiserMelech

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So, while I am brand spanking shiny new to this forum, I have years under my belt doing internet roleplaying. One of my preferred RPing forms is, what can really only accurately be described as a merry band of bumbling idiots, stupiding (a situation where you have no idea what you are doing and yet still succeed in the end) their way across numerous storylines. I have a few questions about how this play style fits in with these forums and this RP community as a whole.

How do I actually go about starting this out? I see that there is a character creation section of the forum, but do I really need to make an individual page for each of the 3, 4, 5, 6, etc members of my group? Usually my characters are often defined by one or two distinct quirks (kind of like the seven dwarves in Snow White), so there isn't a whole lot to write up about them. It is the group dynamic which makes it work.

What is the tolerance for sillyness here? I've seen some comical pages, such as a character page for Slim Shady and a technology page for a robot horse, so I know it's not totally straight faced. Naturally, joining many of the storylines here would require me to make my intentions clear to the author and get their permission to join, but do people generally try to keep things serious business here?
 

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Even user is only allowed 3 members, but we are about to have a change in TimeLines soon and in the new TL everyone will be allowed 4 characters. If you want you can create all of your characters to be part of this merry band, but each individual character will need a separate profile. Unless you create one character as your actual playable character and others are NPCs, but I'm not sure how the rules are on that at present. Will leave that to a admin or mod to clarify.

Ideally the way to do this would be to create a group with other writers, instead of just controlling everyone on your own. As for silliness, you're free to do as you please as long as it's nothing over the top or implausible. We are a free form RP site, plenty of emphasis on the free.
 

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I usually need to control all the members of the group, since it is their interactions that kind of melds the whole group into one barely functioning human being. That being said, I fully expect to team up with several other authors to form a grand coalition of stupidity.
 

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So if i understand what you are trying to do, you want to create a group of characters to control at once and interact with eachother. Now if you want them all to be individual Player characters who can operate independently of each other then you would have to use up all of your character slots to do so, as each member will only have 4 character slots with which to work next Timeline.

You could also make 1 player character who is a member of this group, and have the rest just exist as NPCs. However NPCs cannot be used independently, and would only be useable in a thread with the PC, so you couldn't really split up the group except for playing with the Player Character independently of the group. Also an important note is that NPCs don't have the same rights and power as PCs, so someone could technically kill members of the group in PvP without you having much say in the matter, likewise if you got into PvP with the Player Character member of the group, the NPCs couldn't be used to give your PC an advantage in the PvP.

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So if i understand what you are trying to do, you want to create a group of characters to control at once and interact with eachother. Now if you want them all to be individual Player characters who can operate independently of each other then you would have to use up all of your character slots to do so, as each member will only have 4 character slots with which to work next Timeline.
Any independence would be minimal, but it is good to have the option to split the group up (for brief periods of time) should the situation call for it.

Also an important note is that NPCs don't have the same rights and power as PCs, so someone could technically kill members of the group in PvP without you having much say in the matter, likewise if you got into PvP with the Player Character member of the group, the NPCs couldn't be used to give your PC an advantage in the PvP.
I wouldn't worry too much about that. My PvP tactic is essentially condensed to "run like hell."

I think I got the general gist of the situation. Thanks for the help, and I'll patiently wait for the next timeline to start up.
 

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What character's are you working up for the next TL?
 

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What character's are you working up for the next TL?
I'll have to do a bit of pondering with that, but rest assured that one of them will vehemently argue that Ryll is the classiest form of spice.
 
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