When did World Problems become a fantasy roleplaying game?

FabioTheBrain · 10ヶ月前

Look what WP came from, /r/fifthworldproblems. That sub has been teeming with evil dark spirits since before the worlds higher than it were even born. It's only inevitable that magic and stuff would show up in the seventh circuit. Just look at Chimaeras. Straight outta Greek mythology, and they've been around in these subs forever.

And like /u/CuttlefishCuller69 said, there's not a universal set of rules here. There's some unwritten rules that everyone manages to follow without ever asking what they are, and some suggestions that usually come from Fade or Swarm, but all other rule enforcement is left to the taste of the local mods of each sub. And those'll depend on the feel the mods are trying to create. Obviously magic ripped off directly from something like FF would be out of place in a sub that's run by a mafia with a 1920s-50s theme, unless we were trying to make it [I'm not even sure what prefix would go here anymore]punk, but trying to remove it circuitwide, even in subs where it'd make more sense to have, would be ridiculous.

DraygenKai · 10ヶ月前

You claim this is a free writing project... But then I read complaint posts like this, and I realize that is not the case. This is a you can make a character to be in our story line but you gotta go with our story, and that's fine. I am 100% ok with that, but it would be nice to actually tell people this before things escalate to this level. If a guy randomly creates a GrandWizardMike, you could, you know messege him and ask him what's up... You know guide the guy through how this thing is supposed to work instead of just slapping his wrist every time he crosses the invisible line.

The-Internets · 10ヶ月前

Its kind of awkward to me, I never treated it as a game or a fantasy, since the majority of the time I post on actual 'experience.'

I guess here, since already that, is where I mention, my life is quite a spectacle.^{^{geh^tee-hee}}

Edit: This post/comment/whatever combination made me think: wonder, DID THEY have the ability to comprehend the perspective of the one whom said "for they know not what they do."

Fade_Seer · 10ヶ月前

I think it's simply the nature of what we are. This thing.. this project, it's so niche and strange that every new person takes it as something different. Each new writer adds their own take to it. The problem comes in when too many overused tropes are added to the mix.

To say that new blood erodes the quality of the content is to be lazy. Yes, some writers are better than others, but change isn't inherently bad. I've seen some great talent with some of the new blood recently, and I expect great things from them in the future. I understand, there is a lot to take in after the great flood from the askreddit threads, but just as it always has, this place will endure.

This all said, I see where you are coming from. The lore of this land has it's roots in times when the writers went out of their way to avoid the cliches of overused tropes. We need to get back to that. Like others have said, we need to avoid all crossovers from now on.

We need to root ourselves in the Metaphysical. I think all newcomers need to truly study that word and understand it's meaning. We create the strange, the esoteric, things different from your average story. It's what sets us apart.

We cannot condemn those who wish to join the project, but by nature we also can't make the project private. I think we simply need to adjust ourselves to account for the sheer numbers that we've never had before.

I think we need rules. A strict guideline to follow that all newcomers will be directed to. Things to avoid, things to lean towards. I hate the idea of controlling the creativity, but with our swelled numbers what more can we do? We can't just keep fighting against every story element we do not agree with. No one writer controls the flow of this story.

This world had it's roots in an RPG style project. It's to be expected that those elements will endure. We may fight against it, but I think that's simply how it is, and how most will take it. Without "Rules" or guidance of any sort, what do we really expect? In the past people found these subs through exploration, and simply understood them by the time they posted. Now we don't have that luxury.

Fluoroserum · 10ヶ月前

I mean, it's a writing project, but it has to be somewhat of a roleplay too. I'm agreeing with everything you have in the body paragraph though. It's just...

Damnit, I always argue with these, but now, I can't, and I feel awkward and confused.

TL;DR yes okay

CuttlefishCuller69 · 10ヶ月前

Well its not like there's a set of rules, so how would anybody really know?

buster2Xk · 10ヶ月前

I'd like to counter this by saying: has it really become a fantasy RPG at all?

I mean, anyone can sorta just pop into a sub and make some posts that fit the sub's feel and general direction and it's okay. People talk about characters and arcs here but I don't see as much of that as I see out-of-the-box world-building.

I've moderated several of these subs (like many others here have) and had a "character" on 45thworldproblems while I was a mod there and never really saw it as roleplaying or a game. There was kind of a story, but it was vague, subjective, and changed frequently.

More than anything else I see these worlds as something for people on reddit to stumble into and explore, say "what the actual fuck am I reading?" and then maybe join in and be creative alongside us. I think calling it an RPG might be taking it too seriously. It's too disorganized for that, a great hydra with too many heads going in too many different directions.

TheSpiritOfBloodFang · 10ヶ月前

~Sigh... Fine I can take a hint... I know when I'm not welcome Mortal...~ Na but seriously... I created this character because I thought that with Ovrato using so much power to reform the mountain there should be adverse effects but if I am not welcome here, I will stop posting... I'm not here to cause issues, I'm here because I enjoy this.

Aswarmofragebots · 10ヶ月前

This seems like something I'd post during one of my "angry periods". I agree in part - if someone wants to roleplay on Reddit, that's fine, but there's no reason to connect it to /r/seventhworldproblems.

[deleted] · 10ヶ月前

I think that it really is just how things evolved. Somewhere done the line, it came to be like this. Should we accept it? It has changed, yes, but don't let that get you down. Those are my thoughts, though.

New_Car_Wrecked · 10ヶ月前

It makes me uncomfortable that my main sub was directly called out in this.

Just throwing it out there that I didn't make this post.

OldManScuttleButtle · 10ヶ月前

Are you referring to me, about my space time travel coin flip ability? I appoligize I just really thought an old man with time altering ability so would be neat... Especially with a cat.

magi093 · 10ヶ月前

I'm just saying this for the record: this clearly wasn't me, and I'm about 99% sure it's swarmy.

Carry on.

magi093 · 10ヶ月前

I'm sick and tired of the "evil dark spirit" characters

Well that one's not me (for the most part, dunno if 15 counts), so I'm not gonna talk.

numerous medieval fantasy worlds that you-know-who-you-are makes up.

Again, not me, not gonna talk about it

If your character is going to have magical powers, fine, but make it make sense within the general idea of these subs

So for once the blow hits. Hard. At this point, I should know what I've done wrong and right, but I don't. The only thing that I know I completely botched was the Magistrates-war. And that's only thanks to Fade.

Anyway, let's make the world problems circuit unique, not just your run of the mill fantasy sandbox game.

Sure, how can I help?

Seriously. What can I do to make this place better?

New_Car_Wrecked · 10ヶ月前

Alright, I'd just like to set some rules down. Here's how it's gonna work:

For every month you are subscribed to a given sub in the circuit, you get 10 HP. For every battle you win, you get 10 XP.
Now, damage effectiveness will be determined by plugging the date, hour, minute, and second of a comment response into a differential equation. Please see /r/7thWorldMath for a full explanation.
Abilities can be earned via side quests. These usually involve you acting as my personal virtual assistant in some capacity. Skype me @PriestOfKAd for more details.

drsamtam · 10ヶ月前

Tbh the whole thing is so baffling to a newcomer that it's really hard to maintain a direction that you might want. People are gonna have their own ideas without really being aware of what's going on. The first thing I thought upon discovering all this was 'text based RPG', thankfully I stumbled across this sub before making any major posts.

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