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A Place for Wanted Characters

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I was thinking it would help our roleplayers if we had a single place they could visit (which could be a wiki page or a thread) where all "open positions" and "wanted characters" were posted. This would save players that were thinking about making a new character from the slog of going through 21+ plot pages/crew rosters to find out who needs a medic character, etc. Maybe the page could be divided by factions.

What do you guys think?
 
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Not a bad idea, though I think dividing it by factions, but keeping it all on one page, would be absolutely necessary.
 
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Alright, I'm think I'm going to go with this.
  • GMs: Put a link on your plot page that says something like "For a list of openings see [[guide:Wanted Characters]]."
  • GMs and thread OPs: List your wanted characters on the page.
  • You can list wanted characters by job OR give a description of the character you'd like someone to play.
  • Adoptable characters can potentially be wanted characters.
 
While I support the concept of this Wanted Characters page. I also see no problem with posting on the plot page. After all, if a person takes the time to check out the plot page. Why send them somewhere else to get the information.
 
Nashoba said:
While I support the concept of this Wanted Characters page. I also see no problem with posting on the plot page. After all, if a person takes the time to check out the plot page. Why send them somewhere else to get the information.
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While that's true, sometimes it feels like an uphill battle to get GMs to update their information in one place, let alone two.
 
Every time I read the name of this thread and the associated page, my brain automatically assumes that it is about criminal characters, rather than a listing of characters that are wanted in a plot.

As such it might be worth considering changing the name to "Desired Characters" or "Plot Openings" or "Plot Slots" or something. (That last is intended as a joke.)

This might just be my mental bias though, so feel free to disregard this suggestion.
 
Actually Eistheid, when I first saw the thread title. That was my thought too. That it was to be a place where criminals or bounties would be posted.

I understand Wes. But since I don't have an issue with updating it more than one. I will keep it on both.
 
I was just trying to go with a common term among forum RPers. I see that some terms that are also highly used are "Character Wanted Ads" and "Want Ads."

Maybe it would look less like a "Wanted: Dead or alive!" if I reversed the order to "Characters Wanted."

Update: I went ahead and moved the page to https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=guide:characters_wanted
 
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