Title: To Stereotypical?
Crayola - February 14, 2007 09:51 PM (GMT)
If theres one thing I can't stand, it's stereotypical roleplays. I hate the same cookie-cutter plots, used up 'bitchy cheerleader' persona, the same worn out 'best friends love triangles', all that stuff. I'm trying to make an r.p site, but I'm afraid it's to stereotypical. The plot goes like this:
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Oak Falls Academy, indeed, a prestigious school. Started in 1902 by Victor & Victoria Parkington as a girl’s boarding school so they’re daughter Tabitha (along with other well-to-do girls) could get a refined education. During the thirties, it was expanded to accept boys as well. Most of the children being sent there were from very rich families. It was an unwritten role at Oak Falls: Anyone below upper-middle class isn’t allowed to even be considered. They’d find some sort of minuscule flaw in the application. And if there wasn’t they’d make one up. If they passed though there, they slapped them with a hefty tuition. So it was a very rare occurrence anyone who wasn’t relying on daddies’ money got in.
Spencer Jordan got in on a stroke of luck; his poor parents had literally signed their lives away in loans to get their son into Oak Falls. It was just the boost the gifted child needed; he graduated with honors, and went on to be a successful businessman. When he passed away in June of last year, it was instructed that two million dollars be given to the school. On one condition: it is used as scholarship money, given to gifted teenagers who can’t afford to attend Oak Falls on their own.
So welcome to the new school year. Along with the normal ‘trust-funds’ rich kids, you’ve got your ‘inter-cities’ mixed in; kids who are to poor to attend on their own. The ‘inter-cities’ have banded together against the ridicule they’re forced to endure from the haughty ‘trust-funds, who want the mangy poor kids out of their precious school. And even those two kids are split into cliques. The whole place is just filled with backstabbing, sex, lies, cheating, and all that other fun stuff.
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but I'm afraid the idea's been used over and over again. Is there any way I could make it more unique? And does anyone have and advice for anyone who wants to make their rp more...uniquer?
Everlasting Melody - February 14, 2007 11:10 PM (GMT)
It does kind of sound like something I have seen before on some sites. What kind of things are learned at the school? That can make it unique. Is it just a typical school or is there some kind of twist to it? Like being built on a burial ground or something. Not saying to do that but that is different and adds twists to what can be roleplayed.
Maybe make Spencer more unique. Maybe he left behind some clues that have to be found. Maybe an event happens and it turns out that the clues he left are keys to stopping it or uncovering what is happening. Gives members even more things to do and hunt for. If you did something to that effect then every two weeks or a month a new event could pop up with a clue attached.
What kind of place is Oak Falls Academy set up in? Is it a typical city or is it set up in some place very different. The year is also important too. Many different twists can occur due to the year.
I always spend usually about a week or more coming up with the plot and sub-plots. Being different and unique is really important to me lol. I dislike the same old thing used over and over. What I do is think of something, write it down and then think up at least three other options that are all different. I then combine them together and see what comes up. Its also helpful to look at other sites and see what really has been done to death. That way you make sure not to do it.
Hope I helped a little. My brains dead from mid-term studying but yeah there it is lol :D
Darth Makar - February 15, 2007 12:16 AM (GMT)
Sounds stereotypical to me. (unhappy)
Stereotype 1. Rich school which only rich kids using their dad's money can enter.
Stereotype 2. Rich school invaded by poor kids.
Stereotype 3. Animosity between the rich and the poor; poor kids ban together and rich kids ban together.
I give you credit for not having it based upon three characters, but expanding it for everyone. (smile)
(Also, the second sentence is only a sentence fragment.)
Jane Alens - February 15, 2007 05:22 PM (GMT)
Maybe Spencer was killed and it really made the battle between the rich and poor. The rich may think that it is a good thing the damn poor kid was done with and the poor think it was a rich plot to end poor people to the school.
Maybe there should be another reason that poor kids came (a once-poor-turned-rich Dean) that wants poorer kids to join and so Spencer was the first and then a bunch more came. This way the poor and rich would already be there by Spencer's death.
Crayola - February 16, 2007 12:27 AM (GMT)
Thank you! I've changed the plot (almost) completely and I think it's much better now. Thank you!!! :happy:
summerdanez - February 16, 2007 04:31 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Darth Makar @ Feb 15 2007, 12:16 AM) |
Sounds stereotypical to me. (unhappy)
Stereotype 1. Rich school which only rich kids using their dad's money can enter.
Stereotype 2. Rich school invaded by poor kids.
Stereotype 3. Animosity between the rich and the poor; poor kids ban together and rich kids ban together.
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I agree. No offense but it sounds like the regular boarding school/hs rpg to me. I wouldn't join, honest opinion, because of that reason. The whole rich vrs poor is seriously overdone.