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As a roleplayer, I'm always sticking my head into the roleplays I'm a part of, drinking in all of the details and concocting a post of my own to continue the story. This can eat up all of the time I want to spend in any roleplaying section and once I'm done, I leave the section to return another day, often times only back into the roleplay I'm participating in.

What about all of the other Roleplays? They have creators that, like me, take into account ever single detail to create the most interesting story. Because of what I said, most of the time I don't have any drive to read anything afterward. I found out that one of the reasons for this is that there are so many interesting Roleplays that are all contained in a long list. This can be discouraging, and unless someone point a specific roleplay out, I'll shoot right past all of them.

This is where this award comes in.

In an attempt to equally share the chance of credit and mention, all while encouraging long and detailed roleplays and posts, a specific mod will select a Roleplay that is interesting (meaning detailed posts), active, and can be held as a role model for the community to gave this award.

The award consists of one of four image awards*, one unique image for each of the Mods, to be posted within the main post of the roleplay, a mention here of this topic for two weeks, and the Roleplay itself will be changed to a sticky for two weeks.

*The image award has yet to be created. Roleplays that have won the award while the image is under construction will be given the image award when it is completed. They're to come soon!

Once the two weeks period runs out, roleplay will be moved to a running list of past awards on this topic and unstickied.
Then, the next round of awards will be presented by a different mod.

The award periods change every two weeks on Friday.
We have implemented a new mod-to-RP system. Every shift, every mod will pick an award from a dedicated RP section. Then the next time the mods will switch to the next section. All possible combination are posted below as well as the current upcoming dates:


June 12:
-Balto: Rusty the Fox
-Lion King: Swords of the Wolves
-Tail Spin: Dr. Rex
-Other: Lux - Bankitty

June 26:
-Balto: Lux - Bankitty
-Lion King: Rusty the Fox
-Tail Spin: Swords of the Wolves
-Other: Dr. Rex

July 10:
-Balto: Dr. Rex
-Lion King: Lux - Bankitty
-Tail Spin: Rusty the Fox
-Other: Swords of the Wolves

July 24:
-Balto: Swords of the Wolves
-Lion King: Dr. Rex
-Tail Spin: Lux - Bankitty
-Other: Rusty the Fox


Rules:
+ Every mod, no matter what section they may have for the round, must have the other mods agree to their choice before the award is given.

+ The four private roleplaying sections are not eligible for the award.

+ Mods are not allowed to pick Roleplays they are a part of. However, Mods can pick Roleplays that other Mods are participating in.

+ Repeated awards are not allowed by the same Mod.

+ Members are not allow to try and persuade Mods into picking a specific Roleplay.

+ If the awarded RP starts lagging behind from ideal stature in the middle of a display period, it may be subject to be unstickied and labeled with an [X] in the RP Honor Award topic. The award itself still belongs the RP, however.

This is a great idea. I've felt for awhile the Roleplay section was being over looked, as there is no 'roleplay of the week' section on the main site. There are many users who have posted roleplays I feel deserve praise. A lot of the plots I've seen here would make excellant fanfiction or even books. Rusty, this is a brilant idea, and I praise you greatly for doing this.

P.S. would you take nominations from users on the site? I mean naturally not their own roleplays cause that would be vain.

Unfortunately, no. We decided that the most fair way would be having the RP moderators and mods who are actively RolePlaying (and, potentially, members who we deem to be exemplary RolePlayers, but that's not for certain just yet) decide on it, and of course, they can't select their own. We decided against nominations from the small amount of nominations that we received for the Animation Source Awards.

Its alright, I'll keep an eye on this though because its a brillant idea.

The first award for the Other RP section has been posted!

This is a brilliant idea. You should make a seperate award topic for private rps, because there are some serioulsy amazing private rps on this forum.

It has been considered. It may not look like it but regular RPs and Private RPs tend to function differently. Private RPs tend to be less random as far as who are the people participating in a specific RP. Because of this, if we were to have an award for the Private RPs it would have to be on a different structure. That is my opinion anyways.

I will further talk to the Mods about it. But I think we want to wait and see how the RP Honor Awards are received before we add any more.

Time for new award!

For the next period, Jaiko's Legend of the Luna Wolf 2: New Begginings RP will take the spotlight. A sequel to Legend of the Luna Wolf.

A new rule has been added.

New Award posted!

Why to go Rose! Congrates!

Hey Mods, mind if I ask what are the critera you use to judge which roleplay gets the award? Knowing may help me develope better roleplay plots because as you said, the ones that win the award are considered role models for RPs.

I can't go into specific details, but I will say that at the very minimum, they must comply with the "Four lines minimum" rule. As to the plots, well, a lot of it is personal opinion on the mods' part. We generally look for original and/or very intricate plotlines, ones that grab our attention and make us want to read into it more.

That's all I can really say, though.

I see, well anyway, I love this idea and can't wait to see the visual award you guys are whipping up!

your right, lovely idea..........but........

(now i don mean ta sound like im all that, cuz i know im not, yet still..) what if noone wants to be in a certain rp but the athor happens ta think it wood have great potential if only someone wood give it a chance? then how is it fair if that rp was never acknowlaged? (ps sorr im a bad typer)

I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble fully understanding what you mean.

As far as I'm concerned, every normal RP that is posted has a chance to be awarded with the RP Honor Award as long as they follow the rules. But that's not the only key. Originality, teamwork, grammatical accuracy are some of the other aspects that play into the decision. My decision anyways.

The novelty I see in the award, and something that help with the fact that all RPs have a chance, is that there isn't a set way that RPs are chosen because it's up to the term's mod. We do have a common guidelines, but each mod has his of her way of picking.

hmm...i mean like take my rp my own kind for examp, no one realy joined so how can it get a chance? i think itd be great, but thats jus me, still i don see why its not thought of......