"ok but how does dw rp work again??"

[daddykong]

Crash Course in the Basics of DWRPing

Okay, so doing RP on Dreamwidth is very similar to RP on LiveJournal, if you were around that corner of the internet back then. If not, I got you fam. Heads-up, I use the terms "journal" and "account" interchangeably- they mean the same thing.

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[daddykong]

Threads can also involve more than two people, that's totally fine. Whereas threads with two participants tend to alternate, threads with three tend to cycle, so Character 1, Character 2, Character 3, then Character 1 again. That ordering can be shaken up if the players are cool with it.

And sometimes, a third (or more!) character can drop in out of nowhere and interrupt the flow of a thread. This is called threadjacking, and must be done carefully so you don't step on toes. There are instances where you can pull off that sort of thing without advance warning but it really depends on the temperaments of the players and characters in the thread.

Since we all have lives and sometimes RP threads can take a bit to make happen, there's backtagging, which is a player's tolerance for threads taking longer, and how willing they are to keep a thread going after its prompt has gotten a little older. Some people will backtag an introduction thread for months, and some will stop after a few days or weeks, whatever's their comfort level.

Either way, you shouldn't feel awkward asking the person you're threading with what the end state is. (That's not a real term I've seen people use but I'm using it now, so!!!) Sometimes all parties are winging it and seeing what happens or things reach a natural conclusion, which is fine! But sometimes the players both start to run out of steam or inspiration, so it's easier to say "when do we wanna wrap this one up and how?"

These topics and many others can be figured out through a Permissions Post which I outline further down.