Personal Ongrid PRPs

About Personal Ongrid PRPs

A Personal Ongrid PRP (POP) is similar to a regular PRP, except a POP happens over time within ongrid rooms and is usually centered around your PC--though this may not always be the case.

Awards

XP and gold for 2 encounters, awarded at your level similar to a Standard PRP 4 RPP Your writeup about your POP is posted to +bbread 13 (optional) Awards for a single POP submission are earnable 3 times a month per player that submits for POP rewards. Unlike a typical combat/noncombat PRP or Meetup, each player must submit for POP rewards (like submitting for RPP).

Finding a Personal Ongrid PRP Premise

A premise is just an idea of what the story is about. These can evolve naturally as part of RP or as something you draw from another scene. It can be anything you want to RP about. It can be epic or mundane, silly or serious, formal or informal, a significant point of character development or slices of a character's life... basically anything that may come up in roleplay. For example, maybe your character... ... has made some money and now wants to buy some magic items, but there's something in their way. ... is looking for an apartment to rent, but there's an obstacle. ... is joining an ____. ... has just leveled up and is learning new spells, and is having difficulty acquiring the books. ... has discovered a plague of rats in their apartment and wants to eliminate them. ... is getting the broken stove at the orphanage repaired. ... is being harassed by a drunken bard all day, who follows them around and insists on reciting poetry. ... has discovered their ____ and is exploring what it can do. Many PCs focus their POPs on things like Aspects, Ancestral Weapons, and so on, but this does not need to be the case.

Running a POP

A POP is more informal than other types of PRPs in that it takes place over time, "at the pace of roleplay." The first thing to do is decide upon a story premise. This could be one involving your PC, or an idea that helps someone else's. You can be involved in others' POPs as well as your own. Once you have a story goal in mind, just begin roleplay and draw others in. Along the way, you should speak with others and draw them in. You MUST be clear to other players whether elements you bring into your roleplay relate to your POP, or are part of something else. This is so that staff knows what legwork jobs are going and who should be listed on the legwork jobs. As an aside, you are welcome to "mix" POPs with GMed Scenes, Meetups, and other types of PRPs. This means that you can include a standard (non)combat PRP, or a meetup that you run into your POP submission. However, the POP itself still requires at least three ongrid roleplays of its own. POPs are also not eligible for the First PRP bonus. Running a Group POP While most POPs focus around a PC, sometimes you want to tell a story as a group. While these POPs aren't run much differently than normal POPs, it means that the focus of your story isn't necessarily an individual PC. Instead, it is a goal or premise that a group would be interested in. A POP is the result of organic roleplay and character development; staff will reject submissions for POPs that are the result of malicious cliques that purposefully exclude other players. (The distinction between character and player is important here.)

Encounters and Challenges

Unlike standard PRPs, POPs take place over multiple roleplayed scenes and tend to not involve formal challenges and dice. There is not necessarily a central GM like a standard PRP. Their tone is less going after the beast and slaying it than uncovering a developing Aspect (see RPPs). Perhaps it's dealing with some epic psychological aftermath of a plot. Any general challenges you face along the way, however, should be in line with PRP policy. Since we operate on a system of trust, there's actually a lot of leeway given to develop your Small Story and a number of tools available to you. While older players tend to handwave these things, new players might not be aware of them. Here are just a few: Invent any "inbetween" details: Tenebrae's theme is crafted in broad, sweeping strokes. We deliberately left the small details open so our community could fill them in. If you need a particular farmer's village to exist, invent one. If you need an acolyte or minor priest who works at the Daeusite temple, invent one. While major NPCs and landmarks are set, local details often aren't. Control NPCs: Anyone may enact general and minor NPCs to enrich a storyline. Pose combat: You can include diceless combat, just as you would in everyday roleplay. Pose having a group of drunken NPC’s rushing a bar fight. Include dice if you really want to. PCs can react and pose throwing them out, or getting trounced. For general storytelling, there's no need to involve a GM, or even make a full PRP. You don't even need a timestop. Dice rolls and dice combat: You can include dice rolls, such as skill checks and combat, like in a noncombat/combat PRP. However, a scene that you GM that includes your own character in dice combat cannot be submitted as a combat PRP. Travel to non-Alexandria locales: Traverse the plains of the Dranei and beyond! Involve others: Roleplay with others, even solicit ideas. ...and so on. As long as you are not: Rewriting theme... Running a POP specifically that makes other characters involved in your story into the backseat 'audience' (they should be participants in the POP story as well)... Granting your characters lucrative noble titles, lavish riches, and egregious power... Giving your character character sheet abilities or sheet-like abilities that are not already listed on your +sheet... ... Then your POP concept is likely okay. Run it by a staffer if you have any questions or concerns.

Examples

You can see examples of submitted Small Stories on +bbread 13, ingame. These were the previous versions of POPs, and we've since streamlined submission guidelines due to feedback.

How to Submit a Personal Ongrid PRP

Submitting a POP is simple:

1. Roleplay out your story ongrid.
2. Send a +request/prp to staff.

Be sure and include:

• 5-10 sentences describing the POP
• Include 3 logs
• May we share your POP on +bbread 13?

POPs FAQ

Q: How serious/epic/etc. do POPs need to be?
A: POPs can be as serious or as lighthearted as you like.

Q: Can a group of people get together and put forward an idea for a POP, then RP it?
A: Absolutely! They'll just need to submit their own perspectives/requests from their PC.

Q: Can I submit a POP based around random and nonconnected scenes?
A: No.

Q: Can I submit a POP based around a GM'd scene or PRP?
A: POPs should involve primarily ongrid roleplay, but they can include details from a GMed scene and/or a PRP. POPs submissions should contain at least 3 ongrid scenes, including more as desired. Special: Be clear what information and rumors are related to your POP versus an GM's arc, and so on. This prevents GMs from getting legwork queues that they can't answer. If you're riffing off a GM's arc too, please check in with them as a courtesy.

Q: How many ongrid scenes do I need?
A: We ask you to have at least 3. You can include more than 3 scenes in your submission.

Q: How many scenes am I limited to per submission?
A: There is no current maximum limit, but if you have, for example, 6 scenes, you could submit for two POPs! However, there is a limit of 3 submissions a month per player (not per character), so keep this in mind when you submit your POP.

Q: Can I use +events to help get people together who are involved? Or just invite others to participate?
A: Yes, but using +events is not required.

Q: Can I still collect RPPs?
A: You can collect RPPs during ongrid roleplay as normal along the way.

Q: Where do I send POP submissions?
A: Please use +request/prp.

Q: How often can I earn POP rewards?
A: POPs are rewarded up to 3/month per player, not per character.

Q: Can POPs be ongoing, or in parts?
A: If it's interesting to you, keep going. We'll reward you every month the story continues upon submission.

Q: Do I need logs?
A: You'll need at least three.

Q: Can the award for a POP be given to a different alt?
A: Yes. Just mention this in your +request.

Q: What constitutes as ongrid?
A: Ongrid means any room in the IC setting, as well as the staffer rooms (if a staffer is running an event in them) and the PRP rooms.

Q: Are POPs eligible for the First PRP bonus?
A: No, but meetups and noncombat/combat PRPs are.