Maybe the reason he's struggling is because he didn't bother with higher education, and so now nobody will book him for anything better than creating background noise in a piano bar
There are plenty of people with skill and talent out there, but if your goal is to fill a concert hall with people paying good money to hear you play, there needs to be something in the program's bio about how awesome you are, and what you've accomplished already. And if your character is such a phenomenal prodigy that they've already done all that before even graduating high school, I think that raises a bunch of flags about Mary Sue-ism.
On October 23 2077 the world was destroyed by nuclear fire in a war that lasted only 2 hours. Some people were lucky and managed to reach the safety of a vault like yours. You live in Vault 54, in what was once the Gulf commonwealth. As part of an experiment it was decided that the vault would have a low population and after 20 years the vault would be opened and its GECK used to make a new stable environment for its residents to live in. The vault is home to 200 people. The date is October 23 2097. It is time for the vault to open its great blast door. The overseer has decided to send out a small group to explore the surrounding area before all of the dwellers emerge. Everyone between the ages of 16 and 55 was put in a draw to decide who is part of the group. You are one of the dwellers who has been chosen. Life in the vault is about to change.
That is the story part of the OP sorted out. I don't want to explain the (fictional) town and its factions much here. I would rather you all wait until it happens in the RP.
So we have come to solve every squabble in the village personally? The last thing you never see
I made up a bio last year for a program. Here it is:
Steve was born at a very young age, and from that age he knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: a cowboy fireman rock star astronaut. Discovering in college that there were no horses or fires in space, he resigned himself to becoming a musician. He traveled far and wide taking in the musical traditions of countries like Houston, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and finally the Rio Grande Valley and incorporating them into his own music. Along the way he discovered a passion not just for music, but for all the arts, and began writing and directing plays for church. His mom said they were the best, so he decided to continue branching out and become an actor. Steve approached the Legendary Urbinas and asked if they were going to be putting on any plays. After many nights of begging and bribing, the Legendary Urbinas decided to let Steve be in their latest production, Dead to the Last Drop.
Uhh... I've decided I can only handle DMing 2 RPs at once. I already have Mephala's Web two running, and I was considering starting the 'rp of normalness,' as mattie said.
However, I have two other RPs I have been thinking of starting, and I wanted everyone's opinion on which one they would like to play.
I was thinking of restarting a retooled Way of the Voice, a semi-freeform TES RP.
Or, a story-based TES RP featuring the Falmer and Dwemer in a rather interesting way, set in the fourth era.
And I really believed I could do some good stuff with my Niir. Even though she had that penchant for falling asleep and getting tangled with people crushing on her.
Because there's no fun to be found in being normal.
How do you people come up with such brilliant ideas all the time? I would love to DM a roleplay one day (far into the future, after I get a lot of practice with roleplaying in general)...but I am hardly creative enough to think of one.
Huzzah!
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Timestrider is based off an idea for a novel I've been working on for a long time. I usually just get ideas at inopportune moments, and then work on them till I get a new idea.
Because there's no fun to be found in being normal.
I'm not one to talk, as all my RPs tend to end prematurely because I don't put enough work into them, but whatever. I just get ideas. Creativity isn't something that happens deliberately, methinks.
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Mars wrote:I'm not one to talk, as all my RPs tend to end prematurely because I don't put enough work into them, but whatever. I just get ideas. Creativity isn't something that happens deliberately, methinks.
TA's anniversary party will be in a few months. BS.
Well... I guess, my ideas are all derived from daydreams and the things I am reading and the movies I am watching and the places I am visiting. I have had dozens of ideas I decided weren't good enough and scrapped.
And then there's TA, which goes into a coma all the time, but stubbornly refuses to die.