One thing I think people look for is high quality spotlight time. Most people dont want that 100% of the time, but when they get it, they want to really roll with it. That was one of the things that MUSHes inadvertently did well from time to time.
And a sense of building up personal relationships with PCs and important others, not just single scenes.
I think these are why people preferred RPing with features than with GM controlled NPCs -- the people playing the features were just more immersed than a GM who hadn't been playing the NPC 5 hours a day for the last 3 months and were able to actually have longterm personal relationships with longterm personal interactions. (ie. spotlight)
I think you are right about the character detail book. Something interesting I saw was a girl who was selling Warcraft character books. You could pick one of several pictures for the front (which covered every race and class) and there were spaces to write down what quests you had been doing, who their IC friends were and how they'd met, notes on gear you either got or wanted, and more pages for notes. I don't know how successful she's been but I think she was on the money with the concept.
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Date: 2007-03-31 04:25 pm (UTC)And a sense of building up personal relationships with PCs and important others, not just single scenes.
I think these are why people preferred RPing with features than with GM controlled NPCs -- the people playing the features were just more immersed than a GM who hadn't been playing the NPC 5 hours a day for the last 3 months and were able to actually have longterm personal relationships with longterm personal interactions. (ie. spotlight)
I think you are right about the character detail book. Something interesting I saw was a girl who was selling Warcraft character books. You could pick one of several pictures for the front (which covered every race and class) and there were spaces to write down what quests you had been doing, who their IC friends were and how they'd met, notes on gear you either got or wanted, and more pages for notes. I don't know how successful she's been but I think she was on the money with the concept.