- Invitation Status
- Posting Speed
- 1-3 posts per week
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Online Availability
- Afternoons and evenings, some weekends.
- Writing Levels
- Intermediate
- Adept
- Advanced
- Prestige
- Douche
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Primarily Prefer Male
- Primarily Prefer Female
- Genres
- Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalypse, Horror, Romance, Survival...
@Staff: Keep in mind that (with Diana's permission and Astaroth overlooking it) I'm posting threads in GC first, leaving them there for a week, and then moving them to RP Help & Discussion after! This way, my demographics threads can have the widest breadth of community input without asking for unfair administration favouratism. Thanks.
Question: How much power should a player have over their own character?
Clarity: As in, how much deciding influence should a person possess over their own character, versus how much others are allowed to influence or interfere with that character. Pick the answer that is most closely related to your ideals as a role player. As for the answers, find clarity here. Clarity for answers is not the norm for these polls and never will be, this is simply a complex question in wording. If you think you understand the answers as is, then you don't need to read the clarity--it's just there for those who don't have a solid grasp of the English language. (ex: ESL students.)
Additional Questions
Community Choice Poll: Vote for the topic of the next poll! (You can choose multiple options. To vote, simply post in this thread which option(s) you want.)
Demographics threads are, essentially, an attempt to record the community's thoughts and feelings on RP-related subject matter via a series of votes. Iwaku's tastes, habits, et cetera. If you want further information on prior demographics threads, you can find the demographics hub thread here. (There are five other Demographics Polls to check stats on & vote in so far!)
Demo threads are not an appropriate place for hardcore multipage debates. You can ask questions about each other's positions, but keep them professional in tone. Otherwise, the spirit of the demographics threads will be lost. They're meant to sample the community and put it into an easily digestible form of numbers that anybody can look at later when creating their own RP threads or when curious about Iwaku's general demographics. If you're really interested in discussing the subject matter, create your own discussion thread. I would be delighted if demographics threads started to spawn further topics of interest by the community itself.
Demo threads are not an appropriate place for hardcore multipage debates. You can ask questions about each other's positions, but keep them professional in tone. Otherwise, the spirit of the demographics threads will be lost. They're meant to sample the community and put it into an easily digestible form of numbers that anybody can look at later when creating their own RP threads or when curious about Iwaku's general demographics. If you're really interested in discussing the subject matter, create your own discussion thread. I would be delighted if demographics threads started to spawn further topics of interest by the community itself.
- A. Longevity: 2
- B. Pace: 0
- C. Romance: 2
- D. Genres: 1
- E. Politics: 0
- F. Mechanics: 0
- G. Character Fate/Ownership: 3 (Winner!)
- H. Surprise me: 0
Question: How much power should a player have over their own character?
Clarity: As in, how much deciding influence should a person possess over their own character, versus how much others are allowed to influence or interfere with that character. Pick the answer that is most closely related to your ideals as a role player. As for the answers, find clarity here. Clarity for answers is not the norm for these polls and never will be, this is simply a complex question in wording. If you think you understand the answers as is, then you don't need to read the clarity--it's just there for those who don't have a solid grasp of the English language. (ex: ESL students.)
Additional Questions
- Q. What option did you vote for on the poll?
- Q. Did you wind up more individualist or collectivist? (IE: Do you think players should have exclusive control over their characters? Or do you think characters should be collectively shared by everyone?)
- Q. Do you think severity of actions helps determine whether or not you would accept someone doing something to your characters without asking you? (Ex: Does "a pat on the shoulder" require the same level of permission as "and a ferret rabidly bit into [character]'s neck?")
- Q. How much power do you think a GM should have over a player's characters?
- Q. (GM's): When do you think you might be forced to violate a player's ownership over their character to keep the story going?
- Q. (Players): How do you work around other players using player ownership to prevent you from progressing the story?
Community Choice Poll: Vote for the topic of the next poll! (You can choose multiple options. To vote, simply post in this thread which option(s) you want.)
- A. Longevity. (How long an RP lasts.)
- B. Pace. (How fast RP's go/how fast you and the rest of the community post on average.)
- C. Romance. (As a follow up to "sexuality" and "genders.")
- D. Genres. (New topic expansion: Polling to see the community's general interest in a wide array of genres, such as fantasy and science fiction.)
- E. Politics. (New topic expansion: Polling to see the community's general interest in how politics manifests in role playing.)
- F. Mechanics. (New topic expansion: Polling to see the community's general interest in how artificial mechanics like dice rolls and stats influence role playing.)
- G. Story Themes. (As a follow up to "Tone" and "Character Ownership." Has to deal with what themes people find most appealing in a story. Would be the first multiple choice poll by necessity.)
- H. Surprise me. (None of the above.)