PRP Resources

Our PRP policies are listed in our Policies! The policy page is great to explain what and how to get started, but the following content is advice and help once you've gotten a PRP account to help you out.

Storytelling Style

You can storytell in whatever way you see fit, but since we are out to create an accessible game for casuals as well as power users we want you to be willing to do the following things:

Please do not map IC deadlines to an OOC date. IC deadlines should never be OOC Deadlines! If you have a time-sensitive deadline IC, that's fine, but any +request or @mail stating a character's IC actions to be completed by that deadline are valid so long as the request is sent in before the day of the IC deadline. You can read more about this outlook in our Mission Statement. If a PRP runner maps an IC deadline to an OOC date and this causes an issue for a player who couldn't complete the IC task due to OOC reasons, then staff reserves the right to change the IC continuity accordingly.

Please do not set forth any expectation that players should wait on a timestop. We do have a command to issue timestops in order to dog-ear a scene and mark it down as a cliffhanger. However, Timestops on Modern Nights are not intended to put anybody in an RP lock (it all goes back to valuing the time of casuals and a trust-first model to our players as in our mission statement).

Remember that 0 HP does not need to mean dead! The WOD health level mechanics aren't necessarily a shining model of balanced or believable behavior. We're here to tell a story for our engagement and enjoyment. Short of some significant mitigating narrative factor, you are strongly encouraged to treat 0 health levels as critical condition (and impending death if they don't get medical attention), not actually dead.

Leverage the Karma system! Is your player stuck? Offer advice for a karma. Did they come unprepared? Offer the right tools for a karma. Once you're done, you can report that somebody spent their Karma in a +job (hopefully the same job you give 'em XP for!)

Storytelling Resources

As a PRP runner, you can manage and access notes which can be hierarchically sorted! Players can also benefit from and maintain hierarchically sorted notes, but you have slightly elevated access.

Tracking Plots With Requests

Do you want your players to be able to coordinate with you over time?

You can have players assign jobs to you with the +job/assign <#> = <person> command, so at the end of your scenes, you can encourage people to send in +requests and assign them to you.

When a +job is assigned to you, you can use the same +job/add and +job/cc commands that you use as a player, but you additionally can resolve jobs once you're done with +job/close <#>=<closing comments>.

You also can use +job/approve <#>=<blah> and +job/deny <#>=<blah>. They're all pretty much the same command.

Tracking Plots With Notes

Your personal organizational tools are whatever works for you, but it doesn't hurt to provide you a tool that helps us stay in the loop alongside you!

Accessing Notes

You can use the +notes command to view any other player's (published) +notes by typing "+notes <their name>" and you can also do this with rooms (try "+notes clarion alley") from anywhere. You also can use "+notes here" to see notes for the room you're standing in.

"Published" notes are +notes that have been marked for others to access if they're not staff.

If a note is just straight up published, anybody can see it (+note clarion alley/camp murals is one such note). This means that if a player sets a note on themselves and marks it as published, you can read it.

However, you can publish notes for specific audiences (by following up with +note/lock) and filter note access, including making it so a note is only visible by PRP runners (and staff). If you type "+notes mage resources" on a PRP account, you should see at least one note. If you type it on your player account, you should see 'no visible notes' reported back to you.