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Category: Online Storytelling

Meanwhile, an update…

Posted on January 21, 2014 By Brody No Comments on Meanwhile, an update…

Now that the holidays are behind us and The War of the Weavers arc is wrapping up, I’m doodling on my to-do list, just to keep everyone apprised of what I’ve got on my radar, including potential timetables: * “Weavers” conclusion, hopefully this weekend, with an in-game event aboard the Galaxy Galleria (accessible via automated…

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MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

Another benefit of play-by-post

Posted on January 21, 2014 By Brody No Comments on Another benefit of play-by-post

As we get closer and closer to the conclusion of our War of the Weavers forum story arc experiment, it occurs to me that there’s another decent benefit of running major events like this in a format that’s unmoored from the rapid-fire nature of real-time RP. A complaint I’ve heard in the past, especially in…

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MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

Getting out of our own way

Posted on January 8, 2014January 8, 2014 By Brody 13 Comments on Getting out of our own way

A couple of weeks ago, as 2013 wound down, a player dragged me out to the woodshed for a beating over everything I’ve done to screw up the MUSH in the past few years.

Crafting? Awful.

Space system? Why?

Game lore? So terribly convoluted!

Bringing my alts online to pad the who list? Horribly deceitful and pointless.

Running RP threads in the forums as an alternative to in-game RP? Not their cup of tea.

How do any of these measures – these apparently half-assed Band-Aids that I’ve been slapping on OtherSpace – do anything to foster RP?

I’ll address these issues one by one in a bit. And later I’ll cop to things I’ve done in recent years that actually were detrimental MUSH.

But first I’ll say this: None of the items griped about above are detrimental to RP in the game. Period.

Later, I’ll talk more about what is, in my opinion, hurting RP. 

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MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

Player builders retired

Posted on January 3, 2014January 3, 2014 By Brody No Comments on Player builders retired

With the advent of Operation Sandbox and the ability of all players to build on the MUSH, we no longer need the handful of special builder characters that were made available to a handful of players. As of today, those characters have been retired and their rooms and objects have been assigned to actual player…

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MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

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