Straight to the point: with everyone being so busy nowadays, one might think it might be a nice idea to have an RP be designed to be quick to respond to and easy to follow.
Enter LIGHTNING ROUND, an RP concept designed to be quick to take part in and respond to. Offering a post length limit of three (college (5) or elementary (3) level) or less paragraphs, forsaking artful writing for concise details and more player involvement, objective deadlines, simple, easy to follow story lines, and more!
Extended Details: Lightning Round RPs are all about favoring player involvement than the RP itself, and such ideas to encourage such are listed below.
- Conciseness encouraged: Some people really love to write. That's all well and good, but a lot of people don't have the time to sit through and read The Fellowship of The Ring (sci-fi version of course.) in a lunch break's sitting. As stated, such posts would be restricted to three college or elementary level paragraphs at maximum. Both the GM/DM and the players would be expected to obey this rule.
- Spelling leniency: Lightning Round would forsake varying amounts of proper sentence structure to keep things moving along. The less the players have to fix mistakes in their posts, the better. Commas (') (and possibly capitalization.) can be outright ignored entirely if the players see fit. However basic punctuation (,.?!") would still be expected for easier reading.
- Easy to follow plots: Now, everyone likes a good story with complex depth and morally grey situations, but sometimes it just isn't needed to have fun. Much like D&D, Lightning Round would favor the players' experiences over the story itself, and if that means it has to remain relatively simple with minimal twists and turns, so be it.
- Assumption is Truth: Three paragraphs don't leave much in way of exhaustively detailing every room and landscape, so let's have some fun with it. If it isn't stated, and it's within reason, it's probably there! Ex: "Your party enters a forest, and are ambushed by three cloth bound bandits wielding sabres!" "Daniel the druid reaches into a nearby hissing bushel and tries to throw a snake at the leftmost one!"
- And more! (depending on situation.)
Well, any suggestions or thoughts towards this concept dear reader? And most importantly, how likely is it that you would join one of these Lightning Round RPs given it appeals to you?
Enter LIGHTNING ROUND, an RP concept designed to be quick to take part in and respond to. Offering a post length limit of three (college (5) or elementary (3) level) or less paragraphs, forsaking artful writing for concise details and more player involvement, objective deadlines, simple, easy to follow story lines, and more!
Extended Details: Lightning Round RPs are all about favoring player involvement than the RP itself, and such ideas to encourage such are listed below.
- Conciseness encouraged: Some people really love to write. That's all well and good, but a lot of people don't have the time to sit through and read The Fellowship of The Ring (sci-fi version of course.) in a lunch break's sitting. As stated, such posts would be restricted to three college or elementary level paragraphs at maximum. Both the GM/DM and the players would be expected to obey this rule.
- Spelling leniency: Lightning Round would forsake varying amounts of proper sentence structure to keep things moving along. The less the players have to fix mistakes in their posts, the better. Commas (') (and possibly capitalization.) can be outright ignored entirely if the players see fit. However basic punctuation (,.?!") would still be expected for easier reading.
- Easy to follow plots: Now, everyone likes a good story with complex depth and morally grey situations, but sometimes it just isn't needed to have fun. Much like D&D, Lightning Round would favor the players' experiences over the story itself, and if that means it has to remain relatively simple with minimal twists and turns, so be it.
- Assumption is Truth: Three paragraphs don't leave much in way of exhaustively detailing every room and landscape, so let's have some fun with it. If it isn't stated, and it's within reason, it's probably there! Ex: "Your party enters a forest, and are ambushed by three cloth bound bandits wielding sabres!" "Daniel the druid reaches into a nearby hissing bushel and tries to throw a snake at the leftmost one!"
- And more! (depending on situation.)
Well, any suggestions or thoughts towards this concept dear reader? And most importantly, how likely is it that you would join one of these Lightning Round RPs given it appeals to you?
I like the idea. I feel like I could easily manage to get a post in daily or more with this type of format. (Though I cannot promise to exclude commas or capitol letters. 
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If you're volunteering to run one, I'll be on the lookout!
My only concern with this would be that it would encourage speed posting to the point where I'd be left in the dust if I wasn't online at the same time as the GM.
)If you're volunteering to run one, I'll be on the lookout!
My only concern with this would be that it would encourage speed posting to the point where I'd be left in the dust if I wasn't online at the same time as the GM.
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