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Oooh, well, thanks! That clears it up a bit! How can I tell who a GM is or not, then? redface

Excuse the newb questions ... sweatdrop

Oooh, alright. Thanks for the help! smile

I'm not the crew, but I would say about however long the two of you want to keep it going, though I assume it would be shorter.

And here's my question, what is the best way to get newer members for an RP in this guild? Barton's OOC is against the rules, and the Level 3 forum is kindof inactive. sweatdrop

1. A typical 1x1 RP lasts:

Beginners: A day to a week
Intermediate: a week to two months
Advanced: About 6 months (or longer)

Of course this is just a guideline based on my experience. I've seen advanced 1x1 only last a week etc.

2. I assume that you mean besides just posting the thread and bumping it. It's a little sneaky but you can go around reading people's post in other RPs and contacting people that you think would be interested. You don't have to harrass people, but just be honest and tell them that you liked their post you saw in such-and-such thread and you thought that they might be interested. You should have a genuine interest in them as a person and future RP partner if you are going to do this. Imagine if you went to all that trouble, and they did join, but they turned out to be a real a** or just not good enough for that RP. Also make sure that you only contact people that have posted recently or that have at least logged in recently.

3. Yes you should get help from people. You can take a look at RPs that do succeed and that might help you, too. Without seeing your RPs myself I would have to guess that your RPs might lack either originality, organization, or you don't stick with them and at least bump them. You can't depend on the first people who join to be with you until the end. You have to keep recruiting and be willing to PM players who haven't posted.

If you are making punctuation mistakes like that in your RPs, you may be attracting the wrong types of players-- the kind that don't stick around long. You may have low standards for the RPs that you join and so run into the same problem there. You also need to make sure that as a GM you give the other characters something interesting to do and that you are willing to PM people and ask them if they are still in the RP.

A month is a pretty long time in the RP world, so you should be proud of that one, at least until you beat your own record. biggrin

umm what about free rps like you being your character and other being their and just hanging out and stuff are there any of those sorry im completely new to rp and im still learning

I have a question. In my role play, I have four to five character profiles that are the leaders of these groups. (I'm still working on the idea, because it failed two times. sweatdrop ) The last times, I took control of 1 of them, and made the other four premade characters. This time, should the GM just take comtrol of all of the leaders?

Okay, I'm gonna start tabletopping with a system where you roll your attributes someday. How do I get my players to roll in a trustworthy manner?