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  • Report on marksmanship events your chapter has undertaken (pictures and/or videos are very much encouraged), or discuss various board or online games that you've played through the marksmanship program, or even would like to be considered to be added into the program.
Report on marksmanship events your chapter has undertaken (pictures and/or videos are very much encouraged), or discuss various board or online games that you've played through the marksmanship program, or even would like to be considered to be added into the program.
 #30341  by Philip Culmer
 Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:49 am
The thought occurs to me that, with members role-playing an Honorverse persona, a useful aid to developing those personas might be a shared space - such as a shared document or wiki - where they could interact to develop legends for their characters.
The obvious issue with this is the extent to which such biographies might constitute fan fiction.
With the obvious proviso that this could not and would not occur on a TRMN.org site, does anybody know what the acceptability of this would be:
A) as a privately shared document, such as a Facebook file with limited access, or
B) as something like, for instance, a wiki on a ship's website?
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 #30342  by Peter Gold
 Wed Jul 03, 2019 2:47 pm
I'd also like to see how they do this in real life. If someone is role-playing the ship's navigation officer what are they doing in real life for their chapter or at cons to represent that?
Some are probably easier than others. Our dance instructor actually dances at cons and encourages others to do so. They also dance competitively outside of the SF community.
Stewards run con parties or suites.

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 #30345  by Jana Otahal
 Thu Jul 04, 2019 4:06 am
As you said, it'd take treading carefully, as these biographies could be easily seen as a fanfiction and definitelly shouldn't be done on these forums.

However, that said, roleplaying is, to my knowledge, encouraged - and in my most recent roleplaying venues, that I've done over distance - I find Google doc shared files as quite efficient for this purpose. You can share them easily, and anyone can easily make their own too.

If memory serves me right, there's also an official tabletop RPG based in Honorverse in production, so that could be a nice way to get these going, once it's released.
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 #30375  by Philip Culmer
 Sat Jul 06, 2019 8:04 am
Thank you, Commander.
 #30378  by Peter Gold
 Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:36 am
They had an announcement at MantiCon last night about this. They are setting up a special forum for role play.

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 #32065  by Michael Bonh
 Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:58 pm
was there ever any update on the forum that was being set up for RP?
 #32084  by David Melsome
 Sat Oct 05, 2019 9:18 am
Since day one of joining tRMN I have had a fleshed out RP background for my org persona, I have also been offering RP at Maelstromm Steading for a few years now (The uptake in all the levels of RP (Casual, Intermediate and Advanced) offered have unfortunately been low)

Flying Sword have a official RP using the Epic D6 system and are developing a version using D20, the work done so far is broad and impressive to say the least.

RP for me has always been a major thing in my life, a pastime I have enjoyed for 40 years (Come December 2019) and I am always sanguine that I can find ways to increase the Honorverse related RP available to people.

I will be watching this thread to see how things develop.
 #32130  by Jana Otahal
 Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:49 am
Michael Bonh wrote:
Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:58 pm
was there ever any update on the forum that was being set up for RP?
I'll try to ask higher up my chain - they may know something more. :)
 #32139  by AJ Olsen, DMotC
 Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:55 pm
BuComm has nothing in the works for this. If it's planned, we aren't involved.

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