I fixed up your quotes for your Magi. You were putting a "/" in the first one. It just needs to be [QUOTE ] and [/QUOTE ] minus the spaces of course. ^^

I can't believe I missed Ocean's post. I think part of the problem back when you were RPing and me was that I don't think we had a OoC forum. So a lot of people forewent the need for a OoC thread or must RP development. They would just a character bio posted at the first post along with their first post. After that people would join if interested and a story was just formed out of thin air as people posted. That sort of guideless RPing can be difficult to actually maintain unless the people involved are good about keeping things moving.

I actually enjoyed those sorts of RPs where there was nothing but the first post to go by. You dropped in randomly with the other person's character and were off. It was highly impromptu and a lot of the posts were cliffhanger types where they would leave openings for people to post.

I tend not to sort of see that type of posting anymore. The writing that leaves an opening for the next person. I know I'm guilty of it at times, though some of the people I play with we tend to have highly developed stories so an opening was not nearly as necessary. But providing an opening at the end of the post for the next person posting to latch on to with their character really helped to keep people going and fit in with each other. I don't know if that sort of thing would help any or not.

And you're right that you don't have to have played the games too much Magi to enjoy the RP. It tends to help though for interest sake a lot of times. It also helps with knowing the culture and setting without having to ask a lot of questions.