RP Contests Ideas

Yeah, so yeah!

1.

Each contestant fills out a character sheet. The mod will then design a quick interview for said character. The contestant will answer, in character. Once this is done, the contestant is evaluated based on:

- The originality of the character. Judges will first have to agree on a list of cliches one can be penalized for. This will not be shown to the contestants, since they could then design a character to avoid cliche traits.

- The general creativity/quality of the character's bio. Contestants are awarded for inventive, fun to read bios. Though, it is important to keep in mind that there should be some logic to the bio. If someone's character has an extreme personality, there really aught to be something in their history to explain why they developed this way. Creative but random is an issue. There needs to be some realism. 

- The accurate reflection of the character's responses to their bio. See, sometimes someone writes a great bio, but they rp themsleves or change their character's personality to make a situation easier. In this contest, this could appear in someone writing what they think we want to hear and ignoring their character bio. Basically, we're just seeing if the contestants can consistently rp their character's personality without their own logic/opinions/wants getting in the way.

- The creativity of the responses. Basically, even if the contestant is rping accurately from their bio, their character might be boring. This is for giving props to the more entertaining/intriguing characters.

- Writing skills. Bad spelling? Bad grammar? Illogical thought process? Really dramatic and lame? Thesaurus much? Sounds like a 10 year old? Yuckers. I hope not.

And that's all I got.

2.

Make up a scenario for an rp and have people create characters like they're going to join and then judge the characters. There are two possible ways this could then proceed. The simple route, is people send character bios and you simply judge the bios. The longer route is to gather contestants and actually rp the scenario until everyone has posted at least... 10, 12, whatever times.

With the first method, the bios will be judged thusly (or... however we decide):

1. If the character fits the scenario. To be tricksy, the scenario the mods' design aught to have a little back story. Contestants will be evaluated on whether they integrated the back story, elaborated on it, ignored it, invented things unrelated or contrary to it, etc. Also, judge if their character makes sense in the setting. Did someone make a robot and the scenario is clearly fantasy? Furthermore, as the GM, would it be difficult to find a place in the plot for them? If the scenario is about two waring nations, and someone makes a baker, it's hard to find how they'll get involved in the action. I mean, I could go on an on with this. Hopefully the gist has been made.

2. The originality of the character... again. Same thing with cliches.

3. The general creativity/quality of the character's bio. Again, same.

And since it's all about the bio, the judging ends there.

Second way, you can have the above steps for the bio PLUS

4. Did they follow the rp rules? Since the scenario and the 10 posts are mimicking an rp, there would be rules, like no power playing and whatnot. If these rules are broken, well then damn.

5. The accurate reflection of the character's portrayal to their bio. Basically same thing as up there. Are they actually rping the character they described in the bio or are they doing their own thing now. The shortness of the rp would not allow time for character development, therefore, inaccurate personalities would have no excuse.

6. The character's personality. Yeah. Basically, were they interesting? Were they mysterious, funny, aggressive, anything? Would you like to read a story starring them or would it get dull fast?

7. Writing skills. DUH.

Ya know, this could even be split in two, like, two parts. Some people are eliminated at the bio stage, and the rest at the rp stage.

Have you noticed I say "basically" a lot?

3.

EVE type contest. Basically, contestants are on two teams. They are then paired off with a member of their own team and their characters are given some sort of conflict. Then they have a little rp. There will be a limit of how many days they rp or a word limit. Too lazy to read a book. Then, it's decided who did the best job at rping (even if their character lost the conflict), and they move on. In the end, the last remaining contestants of each team go head to head. They will be judged upon:

1. The originality of the character

2. Did they follow the rp rules?

3. The accurate reflection of the character's portrayal to their bio. They'd have to their character's profile, but it wont directly judged by itself, 'cept for originality.

4. The character's personality.

5. Writing skills

6. Whatever else. I'm probably not thinking up some very basic ones.

4.

Post one or two pictures from say devart or some wheres and have them be the base for a character. People then have to use this base to create a character bio. This idea's pretty lame. I am running thin. They will be judged on:

1. If their bio actually reflects the image. Say, we pick an image because it looks specifically sinister. If the person makes a nice bubbly person, wtf. Of course, everyone is free to interpret an image differently, but some interpretations may be a major stretch, while others may really capture its essence. Other people may intentional twist the predicted interpretation of the image in a clever awesome way. There's a lot of possible responses which'll make things interesting for judges.

2. The originality of the character

3. The general creativity/quality of the character's bio.

4. The end.

We can even have elftown artist post the images, though, I feel people would be more inspired by really hard core stuff. Not that there aren't great artists here... I just wouldn't describe many of 'em s hard core. *shurgs*


Aaaaaand I'm spent. I love the patron's challenge, though, and would love to help do that again.