I've never been an online roleplay kind of person, I don't know why, it's just never been something I've seriously attempted to get into. Probably because I'm not someone who works well with others there, I'd try to take over the operation all-powerful villain style. (Which I suppose doesn't entirely exclude me from being a potential player there, but still...)

I would theorize that the big problems with a thriving SKU RP are:

1. Spread out fanbase. No majority of SKU fans gathers in one place anymore. An RP on livejournal or IRC or wherever else is completely unknown to the majority of potential players. This here forum is the largest group of SKU fans that have gathered in one place in years, and I don't know that there's enough of us that RP to fuel such a thing.
2. Hard to lay down rules for dueling/character selection. Is everyone their own character or do we act as mouthpieces for the cast? Both? How do we duel and on what grounds is the winner chosen?
3. Differences in character. What makes SKU beautiful in an analysis makes it a miserable pain in the ass in an RP: no one can agree on how most of the characters should act or what you should let motivate them. Someone RPing Akio will (as the other thread is discussing) just reduce him to a foreboding manslut. Someone will want to be Shiori but end up acting like movie Shiori instead of series Shiori because they see her as a dangerous seductress bitch where someone else will get irritated at the not accounting for personal weakness.

I think these tpyes of RPG's just naturally don't reach conclusions no matter what series people are RPG'ing - its just the nature of the beast for it to drag on forever and ever.

Nevertheless, I think they are fun - I'd definitely be up for the sister-school version of RP'ing SKU.

I currently run an Utena RPG which is currently looking for new players to revamp the game and get it moving again.  I also play in another Utena rpg.  In my opinion, unless you have a mod who has a definitive plot with a beginning and an end, they tend to not have much as far as conclusions.  It becaomes more of a character development thing as well as character-driven plot.  I happen to enjoy character-driven plot myself.  They aren't for everyone, but those with patience that don't feel the need to post every couple days, they can be quite fun.

I've never run an Utena RPG, but I've run a few others and from personal experience these things are always character driven and even if you have a beginning middle and end you spend most of your time mentally struggling against what the people playing the characters want to do.

Oh an only semi related note, I've always been interested in what would happen in a MUD that was based on an Utena/Ohtori-like universe. A buddy of mine toyed with the idea back when we were really into making MUDs but the idea kind of died in the process. The character development there could be the hard part, though, since most people tend to focus on the other aspects.

/me shrugs. I'd participate if it happened, but running RPGs tend to be a bastard.

Lady Chani wrote:

I just prefer not to play series character games, because I never feel I am good enough to pull of some of the complexities in character that are so intrinsic to Utena.

That's what keeps me from getting involved in one, too. Even if I feel I have a good understanding of a character there's a lot open to interpretation.

Then again, the only written RP I was ever involved in had no plot in mind and was based on Final Fantasy VII.

Aww, does this mean no one would be interested?

satyreyes wrote:

A Day Without Me wrote:

Aww, does this mean no one would be interested?

I think if you built it, I would come, but I don't have a burning desire for it... I've done face-to-face RP my whole life, and I have trouble imagining that it could be the same online.

Yeah, its a bit different, but I think its less intense doing it online.

Anyway, I'm writing up the plans! I think an Utena RP with you guys would be a crapload of fun!

If you're interested, say 'aye'.

Last edited by A Day Without Me (12-12-2006 05:39:49 PM)

Mm... it'd be one person posts what their character is doing, then another one posts, and eventually characters interact and all that jazz. I'm not too sure how to explain it, sorry

I'd make it at the sister school, so everyone would have to come up with a character to use - I trust you guys not to come up with Mary-Sues. We'd have a person to take on Utena's role, and the role of the Rose Bride, and then have a student council. I think Akio would have to stay put though, just have him transfer from Ohtori or something (might be interesting if he's finally married Kanae).

Does anyone know what Ohtori means in Japanese, by the way?

No, you wouldn't get to say the other character's lines - you would have your character say something and then wait for the other person to post and have their character reply.

Aye! That sounds interesting.

I've seen forum RP's before that worked... and then there was the ginormous vore furry/scaly one with the carnivorous genitalia. Here's hoping that if someone starts an RP thread here, we don't need kinky fetishes to keep it going.

As a potential player, my preference would be to have the series characters either a) assigned to players who play them as secondary characters when needed, b) gone entirely, or c) under the control of the GM or whatever whoever's running it wants to be called. I'd be too tempted to ignore roleplaying with others and just chat up whoever's playing Akio, Touga, or Saionji otherwise. Also... I have this burning desire for some sort of gaming system, like BESM, since dice rollers are easy to find and I can't imagine being able to do anything cool on just say-so alone.

As Ms. Hopefully-Impartial Forum Admin... do whatever you like guys, so long as you enjoy it and it doesn't get out of hand or turn into drama. I think it's a great idea, and a lot of people had mentioned it when we were first starting up the forums.

Unfortunately, I'm on hiatus until Friday at least, and I shouldn't even be posting right now, so don't expect more feedback or any sort of commitment to it before then.

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But-but-but... Can we start the furry unbirthing RP anyway? It seems like super fun!


Ahem. Other characters. Akio's the only one we would really need to have kicking around in any sense, and he's a perfect candidate for GMplay anyway so I don't think it'll be a big deal.

And since someone else volunteered and I just realised I have a lot less on my plate than I thought I did (other than these freaking weekly taxonomy tests my Prof. insists on giving) I'd be willing to co-GM. I'd even leave my kinky fetishes out of it! maybe