Opinion Poll: Discovery Nomad ***~"RP"~***

[Treewyrm]

Can RP be improved? Sure, but then I'd say my preference would mean going back to older style we had back at Keepers.

But there was a problem with it - over time it became complicated for other players to figure out. It was lot more into wordplay of allusions and metaphors, layers of different meanings entwined, it was also lot more into third-person narrative mode as well. I loved it myself because it was a bit of a challenge to come up with all that and to improvise along the way, that was the essence of fun RP for me here. I suppose it became too complicated both for other non-nomad players as well those who wanted to join the faction. At the same time community overall level of RP complexity was going down as well. It was a change that plenty had noticed too. As a result over the time it became necessary to gradually decrease complexity to remain accessible to players. I cringed at that, to me it was like butchering the original concept we built the faction upon, but given the tendencies in community there wasn't much choice: either the faction would adapt to this more "accessible RP" or they'd dwindle in numbers till it was just two-three capale players left. Would it possible to go back to 'old style' complexity now? As much as I'd want to the answer would be negative. It's just admission of times now. So I resort to that older style RP and into visions stuff when I know the player(s) I'm interacting with would be able to figure it out, or at very least they'd try to. But that wordplay and puzzles wouldn't work with majority - they wouldn't bother trying even, quickly dismissing and then complaining that I'm playing nomads wrong and that I should play them much simpler. "We must be more friendly to newcomers" - various folks here kept repeating all the time.

So what you'd typically encounter these days in terms of nomad RP is a very bastardized version of what was before.