It probably should be rogue/thief in my case, for I take every locked door and chest in a RPG as a personal affront. The nerve of NPCs to put barriers between me and what’s rightfully mine! 
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I went with a ranger, because I choose to play an archer pretty much every time it is available.
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I like both, I’m one of those peeps who plays through the story multiple times so that I can experience all the ROs 
. The more variety, the better.
The writing. You can be frugal with the physical description and people will make do with their degenerate minds (unless you upload crappy character art which traumatises the readers…). You fall in love with the chars story not the char itself kinda i think.
As far as I’ve seen, yes. This is the case, cuz writing chars is a pain in the arse and you’d rather write a few and focus on their story, or, write a lot and forever regret that you haven’t fleshed them out enough.
I personally prefer those that kinda gimme a sense of freedom to do anything that I want, I also love management games cuz I’m a lil bitch that wants to make his life more stressful. On the other hand, I wouldn’t say no to wips that come up with newer and rarer ideas, they keep the forum fresh and save it from becoming Wattpad 2.0
Longer obvi, I love escapism.
I personally don’t understand why most people stan fantasy, maybe its how its so detached from reality that people feel comfy being lost innit and not worry about real consequences. I, myself, will read any well-written story
Yes, very much. Not in the sense that you add sexism and anti-homo cultures everywhere, but you can’t have a world without any problems, that’s why the solarpunk genre hasn’t taken off very well. I personally want some kind of evil, shitty stuff to be there in the story cuz well, it makes it feel real and make us wanna read it. OR, you can write a slice of life story with a solarpunk setting…anyone up for that?
You can suggest and present your opinions on how you would like the story to be, but at the end of the day, it’s the author’s choice on whether to implement it or not. You vote with your dollar. If you don’t like it, don’t read it, don’t buy it; that’s the choice that you have, and whether to implement your suggestions in their game or keep it as it is is the author’s choice. This is the right that we all have, bullying the author to write the story in your way, OR, the authors all coming together and deciding that they will only publish fantasy kingdom sludge for the next 10 years all the while not letting other authors with different ideas post on the forum, are both shitty things to do, if you’re one of these people, you need to ask yourself some pretty searching questions.
As far as ik we have an adult club where all nsfw games are posted, each game warns about what it contains. We might check the user’s age max, but that’s all we can do; they’re teens, they’ll find a way somehow to read those. I don’t really see the point of moderating the wips to such an extent that authors can only talk about light-hearted stuff. As I said, everyone has the right to present whatever work they wanna present, as long as it doesn’t violate any common moral rules that any person who has a proper upbringing would understand.
…why did i even comment on this…whatever, just giving my opinion. Hope ya’ll have a grt day
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I’d end up with a story where the tech is secretly powered by blood sacrifices and eldritch abominations, which… probably not what you were asking? 
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ooh, a slice of life that unravels into a lovecraftian horror
I’m all in for it, tbh I would also do the same, I simply can’t digest the fact that a world is all pure and innocent and everything has been solved, for one, there’s humans innit, and as long as they’re there ain’t nothing good happening.
So..when should I expect the first draft of this wip? 
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I have two others on my plate, sorry! (One is kind of slice-of-life with blood sacrifices and eldritch abominations though, without solarpunk and with a post-apocalypse, but I don’t really have a roadmap, I’m focusing on my space opera first.)
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Good luck to ya mate!!
Any chance I can get the wip links for those…I can’t find them on your profile
There aren’t any yet!
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Because I’ve gotten mixed feedback elsewhere, and I think people’s feelings on this in IF are about the opposite than in ttRPGs:
Which is harder to bear, as a reader?
- Death of my Player Character.
- Death of an RO/love interest NPC.
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For me, it depends how it’s written and what you mean by “hard to bear.”
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“Depends on how it’s written” is something that should always go without saying.
“Hard to bear” means whatever is hardest for you, personally to bear, whether it makes you so sad you don’t want to finish playing the game, or so angry to want a refund, or whatever else. I was trying to phrase it in a way that leaves space for players’ disparate reactions, but everybody’s always gotta nitpick.
You play a game, and at the end your PC dies, and you think, “I hate this”. You play a different game, and the romance arc ends with the RO dying, and you think, “I hate this”. Which is worse?
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I agree totally, though I chose that the death of an RO is more hard to bear (At first I chose player character but I did not read the question properly lmao) for one simple reason: I often care more about characters I meet, especially the romance options instead of our character. I try to roleplay as “Me” or “Better me” in those games, and the better me tells me that saving someone I care about (not even RO, maybe even a close friend) at the expense of “my” life is a much better choice. Of course, sometimes I roleplay as someone else, but even then I like to care about some characters. So… The choice is simple for me.
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I don’t want any of them! Under any circumstances! 
But to be more helpful, both can work if it’s tied to our choices. I don’t think either of them should happen no matter what. And I don’t think it should be super hard to survive. It should be a challenge, but any MC could theoretically be able to do it while staying in character.
That being said, I still don’t personally like it
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For me its MC because if the RO/friend is part of the story so be it…Ive not gone back and finished stories because I just didnt want to go through the whole story again over 1 wrong choice…
What do you think of POV switches? [To ROs/Villains/Establish Story Elements/etc]
Specifically talking about alternative perspective POV without choices [snapshots, like Wayhaven for example]
- I love em!
- I love em only if ROs.
- I like them only if they are needed for the story.
- I don’t care about them
- I dislike them, they are distracting
- I dislike them, they bring me out of the story
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Honestly not sure this is even personally relevant for my story since I would find attempting to use alternate POV to be clunky within the first book but it might be handy in the second! [I am planning for an extended ‘separation’ where the MC and a character will be apart so it might be a necessary evil]
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So in this case you mean “hard to bear” in a strictly negative sense, as in something that would make the game a less satisfying literary experience, rather than something painful to read that makes for a better story.
In that case, I don’t have a preference beyond what feels right for the story, true to the characters, and resonant with the themes (or discordant in a way that makes artistic sense). I will say it’s probably a lot harder to make a PC’s death narratively satisfying (because there’s no possibility of recovery if you don’t stick the landing), but if you have the chops to pull it off, go for it!
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What kind of POV switches are you talking about? Multiple protagonists you take turns controlling? Long passages of choiceless text inserted haphazardly into chapters? A few pages between chapters that briefly explore a different perspective before returning to the main narrative?
I like reading different POVs in IF (though mostly just ROs). I don’t like playing different POVs. I’m the player character, not this other guy. Why am I making choices for him?
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I’m all for making choices in other characters’ POVs if those choices are something that can make things worse for my MC (I mean, as long as it’s a choice I can make and not forced on me).
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