Long or Short? Application Process!

Juniper

@Kestrel Omg, there’s so much pain in these stories.

catzilla

@Juniper said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

If I have to apply, I’m already gone.

What is an ‘application’ to you?

I probably should have clarified or something my original message.

At least to me, an application is just ‘here is my character’. It could be as simple as a picture (or description) with a 1-3 sentence concept/history. Or as ‘complicated’ as having 20+ stats to keep track of with detailed descriptions of them.

junipersky

I don’t like having to make stats. I like writing a bit of backstrory.

Descriptions can kiss my ass.

Babs

@junipersky said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Descriptions can kiss my ass.

Just reuse the same description. Chances are no one will notice. I’ve even done it with multiple characters on the same game.

Unsurprisingly, I prefer a shorter application process. Bullet points are my friend. I function best when I can exit chargen with a skeleton of a character that fits the game and spent time playing them to actually flesh them out.

Trashcan

@Babs said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Just reuse the same description. ~~Chances are no one will notice.~~

Chances are no one will say anything to you.

bear_necessities

Anymore, I like games that offer the quickest avenue to RPing out on the grid. Whether that’s allowing a bullet point background, or offering roster characters that you don’t have to write applications for, or whatever that is - I think it’s important to get people out there and playing vs locked up in chargen for days on end while they are busy working on their 3 paragraph note to try and justify having 3 dots in sportsball that isn’t even going to really come up or offer any sort of mechanical benefit anyway.

I don’t think that application processes stop the worst offenders from coming onto your games. You’ll weed out the trolls (probably) and the characters that don’t fit your game (likely) but the true creeps will look good on paper and not show themselves until they’ve already infiltrated the community.

For roster games, I don’t know how valuable it is to have people write several paragraphs about why they want to take the character and what they want to do with them. Sometimes people don’t really know until they’ve played the character a few times. Sometimes they are BRAND NEW to the game and really, really don’t know whatsoever, they just thought this specific roster looked cool and want to give it a go. The only time I think it’s valuable to apply to a character is if the character could be in high demand and it wouldn’t be fair to give it to someone on a first come, first serve basis, but even then, I think there should be multiple characters like that so there’s enough to go around, I guess.

Pavel

@Trashcan said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

@Babs said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Just reuse the same description. ~~Chances are no one will notice.~~

Chances are no one will say anything to you.

If there’s a wiki or a place to stick a character image, chances are nobody will even read your description. (yes, yes, sans several very loud exceptions)

MisterBoring

@Babs said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Chances are no one will notice.

This is the exact phrase that lead my best friend to copy pasta a chili recipe into his US History final essay and still somehow get a B on the assignment.

Trashcan

@Pavel said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

If there’s a wiki or a place to stick a character image, chances are nobody will even read your description. (yes, yes, sans several very loud exceptions)

Yes, let us simply discount and ignore any experience that doesn’t fit within our own.

somasatori

@MisterBoring said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

@Babs said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Chances are no one will notice.

This is the exact phrase that lead my best friend to copy pasta a chili recipe into his US History final essay and still somehow get a B on the assignment.

To be fair: the inverse - copying and pasting a us history essay into a chili recipe - would match most online chili recipes.