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Hey, not sure if this should go here or under Smalltalk, but I'll put it here. Anyways, here's my problem. There's this guy I solely rped with for about a year. During that time we interconnected almost all our characters, and came up with backgrounds to show such. I've been here for a while without him, and developed some new backgrounds that don't connect them at all, or not specifically. Now to the point. My friend just joined recently, and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas how we can use like both sets of backgrounds, yet keep them entirely seperate? Like have the new stuff for rps we're not both in, or that the other rps don't want our characters preconnected? And have the old stuff available when we do private rps, or ones based in the world we've built, or in public rps we're both in and the other rps allow? If that made any sense...

When you edit a character you can go to "manage pages" and create a new page and put one set of information on one page and the other on a different page.

The only problem with multiple pages, is we have multiple characters on profiles so we can get all the characters on here that we want.

Hmmm. That's slightly problematic. I'm afraid I have no other ideas.

The only thing I'm coming up with is putting both backgrounds on, and collapsing them, then titling them so other rpers look at the one that applies? But I don't know how to word those, and make it known..

That's a difficult one to answer due to the available length for page titles. However you could place the one that is for the people in your character connectivity web NOT the first page they see. The first page seen could be for the people that aren't included in the connection web thing.

I meant, like





Something like that, on the same page? Maybe titled differently. Depending on which character, some will stay connected a little, like siblings stay siblings, but are mostly seperate.

Idk... just trying to figure this out..

You could do that as well. I've never quite figured that out or had a reason to figure that out.

Okay. Well, was just wondering if anyone had any other ideas.

Not me, it seems like I'm out. *Picks up hat and shakes it upsidedown*

Hmm.. looks like not all our characters have drastic changes in backgrounds. Some actually have the same background either way, just with some connection details missing. Like, X is Y's husband/wife or child or cousin or something.

Actually, we came up with a better idea. We're going to just put the seperated backgrounds on the profile, and make a group with our world and connected information. Any rps we do outside that group, will keep our characters seperate, while things inside the group can be connected. Eventually we can let others join if they want to play in our world, or with our characters connected.

Perhaps what you could do is put the default information that you know new people you're going to roleplay with need on the main page of your character, with the information you use for your connected RPs/private RPs under a collapsible tab with the title "alternate info/background" or somesuch.

That way, you and your friend both know the alternative information is relevant to you, whilst all the other info is, by default, for everyone else.

That's a good idea too. But we do like the idea of the group.