haruka rp brainstorming.

[saramichiru]

How to create a Haruka RP, hm~~~♥. I myself grew up on forum RP and am most familiar with that and real-time RP, but since we're all here, LJ community is probably the way to go. XD

Structured but casual fun is my vision. And lots of Hachiyou love. :) If we can get even one good story out of this, I think it will have been a success!

Comments

[thisissong]

Couple other things I've thought of:
RPs with a mod/mods who enforce a posting policy (at least one post per certain amount of time) tend to stay alive a lot longer than ones with lax rules. This also seems to include RPs where character journals aren't necessary. I know maintaining another whole journal can be bothersome for a lot of people (myself included, I think), but it seems to me that the more a person invests themselves in an RP the more likely they are to stick with it. Plus, that's a good way for characters to interact on a small scale (through commenting on posts) rather than always in logs. There would have to be a reason for everyone to have a journal, but I'll get to that in my next comment.

It's hard for me to tell with the first idea for setup that you proposed whether or not this is what you were thinking, but personally I think it would be a good idea for people to be able to claim characters that they get to RP exclusively (unless something in RL keeps them from being able to get involved for an extended period of time, in which case they would probably drop the character), if for no other reason than for continuity's sake. (I know I would get attached to a chara as I wrote them, so...) And along with having permanent charas, a limit on how many a person could claim would be a good idea too, if that was how you decided to set it up. For example, start with a limit of two and if a person has show themselves capable and wanted a third chara then the mod(s) could decide if that was a good idea.

Just some things to think about.