<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=216135.msg10644389#msg10644389">Quote from: Dariusfallenstar on 31-10-2014, 13:10:14</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Sure thing, though I doubt I will do so for a while.<br/><br/>I just don't yet have the skill to pull them off properly. I had this really neat vision for Dracula - with a modern interaction in a cool setting, with intrigue and rich character development all around (with some nice smut). Given numerous factors, what we ended with was people being bored and without direction. I'm just not sure how to balance injecting plot/NPCs with giving people the freedom to post more frequently (and thus avoiding taking forever to do anything). Until I have a better, more universally appealing idea, with more buy-in from the community, I think I'm done with group stuff.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I had to hit the sack last night. Much too late for me to get into a discussion.<br/><br/>Now that I'm a bit more rested and clear-headed, I want to make a point.<br/><br/>The role play would have been fine if we had been able to get more people to join. Its premise was designed to have more than one faction. It definitely did lead much more away from Dracula Untold than what it originally promised too. I think when people who have seen Dracula Untold see a role play that mentions using parts of it, they expected much more of those elements. I didn't care one way or the other if it followed the Dracula Untold element or not because I haven't even seen it. So, to sum it up, your idea would have been fine if more people had been willing to join.<br/><br/>As someone who has created several role plays, I can tell you that the forum role play community is a fickle beast. It can be very hard to predict what people will want. I even had a neo-punk vampire versus werewolves story that attracted quite a bit of attention. I had issues with people posting on a regular basis, so I had to axe it. You just never know with these forums.<br/><br/>I think the vampire thing has been done to death - pardon the pun. So<em>when</em>you do a vampire role play and you want to appeal to more than three people, you have to present it on a different, shiny platter. It was originally potentially shiny because the Dracula Untold thing is new and you talked about it. But then you did move far away from that.<br/><br/>Now, here's the deal, you can create a new role play, for just the handful of us, which means it is focused more on smaller platform and doesn't clearly require several people to make it work.<br/><br/>OR, you can create a role play to try and bait more people, in which case you need to have a more distinctive plotline, not just a setting and you need to dress it up. And even then it can still be a gamble because you never know what these people want.