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School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

Posted by LightShadowDragon
LightShadowDragon
member, 18 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 04:12
  • msg #1

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

Hey, all!
Wondering something.
I was sifting around the site and had realized there was no SGE roleplays, so i made one.
No visits so far, sadly.
Anyone have an idea why? its a good book series, and ive seen people super interensted in plarticipating in these kinds of thing elsewhere, but seriously, none have actually joined...
Advice, anyone?
(i also posted an ad for my game on the wanted-players thread. no response.)
Xeriph
member, 63 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 05:03
  • msg #2

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

I have never heard of the system maybe a little more description in your request?
LightShadowDragon
member, 20 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 05:43
  • msg #3

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

so it would be just a roleplay.
theres no system for School for Good and Evil.
its a book series by Soman Chainani.
OutlawJT
member, 322 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 05:49
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School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

Also, a movie on one of the streaming services. I think Netflix, but I'm not sure.
tibiotarsus
member, 311 posts
Hopepunk with a shovel
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 06:37
  • msg #5

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

Doesn't sound like my thing, but if you want to run a freeform for a very specific fandom it's usually best to do a check here first to see if the fandom actually exists on this website. Probably very few people here have heard of these books and think you're just running a weird school freeform where some random people are condemned to be typecast into a draconian black and white morality from childhood rather than a comedy spoof on the concept or whatever the series is, and there aren't enough people who do know about the books who also want to roleplay them.

At any rate, far more description and some kind of link to an article about the series, or assurance you'll do all the work to catch casually-interested non-readers up might help you. In short, however, interest checks are your friend for niche stuff if you don't already have a group of RPoL buddies that trust your GMing and will show up to try most things.
LightShadowDragon
member, 21 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 06:37
  • msg #6

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

yeah, saw the movie not too long ago... very innacurate to the books ToT
it said that Lady Lesso was a READER.
there was no Professor Sader.
and they added Blood magic...
LightShadowDragon
member, 22 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 06:38
  • msg #7

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

i dont really know anyone here irl... im lonely... and i live in one of the most unsafe cities in washington...
tibiotarsus
member, 312 posts
Hopepunk with a shovel
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 07:49
  • msg #8

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

You don't have to know anyone here in real life (indeed, I recommend you don't, the advantage of online forums is not having to play with a set of local people you might fall out with), you just play in/run games here until people here know you're fun to play with and then you have an instant player pool that might show up for niche games. That doesn't exist for newcomers, so you have to temper your expectations for very specific games.

If you were running something generically popular like D&D, for example, you'd probably get 10 people joining in a day, maybe 5 of which would stick around and 1-2 become an online friend who'd invite you to other games you'd like, where you'd meet other players you liked, etc. Running something obscure as a newcomer, you'd need to be very lucky to get 3 players in two weeks, having high requirements (being in the fandom, wanting to RP in the fandom, being willing to take a chance on someone), so it's not realistic to get discouraged after one. Make your ad accessible, put in some encouraging language and keep putting it up until you get the player base you want or have determined that there's just not that many people here that tick the boxes you need.

I find it helps to put in things a game is similar to, to give people an idea of the feel, e.g. "You may like this game if you like Into The Spiderverse, The Last Unicorn and Transformers" - you can picture that game would have a modernised version of an old-timey badly-animated moralistic cartoon feel, brightly coloured (except bad guys coded in dark colours) and sometimes mildly scary but uplifting, right?

The more people are assured of what they're getting into, the more likely they are to try something they've not tasted before, including the work of a new GM.
Siran
member, 206 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2024
at 08:53
  • msg #9

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

I looked at the game actually.  My problem with it was that there was no description of it. I did actually go and look up the books. I am considering buying them because they look interesting, and I read a sample that was OK.

As well as no description I don't know the game style. It reads very much as though it would be PVP. That's not attractive to me which is why I didn't apply.

I think if you did a little work on the threads you would get more people applying. Things I think you want to do are:
  • Talk a little about the world
  • Say what kind of things would happen in the game
  • Give some examples of character options.


You also need to consider how people are in the classes. If you remember I haven't read anything other than a sample, but in that sample there was 'one good and one evil' kidnapped every 4 years by the schoolmaster. In a game you probably want to have support for more people. The same idea can apply of course

I feel it does help to have a system. 5e is totally inappropriate for this system (this isn't a medieval high fantasy game) but there are game systems that would work easily with it. It's not totally necessary: freeform is possible. But if you do decide freeform then every fight I've ever seen in freeform is the same: 'I get hurt a little in an unimportant way, but succeed' which is a bit of a turn off for me. Other people have different views of freeform of course, that's just my personal experience.

And the previous person's reply was very good. I concur with most of what they said. If you just want to GM something to chat, then nothing wrong with 'running a module' in pathfinder or D20. The pathfinder modules in particular are remarkably easy to run and quite good. I'm having a lot of fun 'tweaking' a really old module (White Plume Mountain) and having the module takes away a lot of effort without preventing me adding my own twist to it.
Gaffer
member, 1815 posts
Ocoee FL
50 yrs of RPGs
Fri 9 Aug 2024
at 01:53
  • msg #10

School for Good & Evil Roleplay?

I looked up your ad and agree with the comments of tibiotarsus and Siran.

I wanted to make some suggestions about your RTJ (called RRP for some reason) in particular.
Not familiar with the source, I have zero idea what Reader/Descendant implies. Thus, I cannot complete my request.
Likewise, although I know the meaning of Good/Evil and ever/never, I’ve no idea what that means for my character. Again, I don’t have information necessary.
Also, I can’t begin to guess what my backstory might look like. Is the game set in Medieval or Victorian or Modern time? And who am I descended from? I dunno. Queen Victoria? Roland? Elon Musk?
What’s my talent? What are my option?

So, as written, this ad seems limited to people who know the source, which looks like a pretty small pool hereabouts.

And a tip. Setting up your separate Good/Evil OoC threads, you can assign them to different groups, say G and E. Then assign the suitable players to those groups.
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