Seems good and simple Soren, but just because they fail one part, should it really make them unelligible? I would make it if they fail 2 parts, since not everyone is good at all the skills

I, for example, am not good on writing backstories for my RPs and such, it's hard for me to think up enough details

But Whim, what if they're absolutely horrible in one subject, but are great in all others. They could pass. Wouldn't that make things unbalanced?

I dunno, It really depends on what parts your testing

well lets be a little more reasonable here, sure if they wanna join RPB they should be getting great in every category, and be graded rather toughly. But for the normal RPG section; the bar should be lowered a little than that. it isn't asking much, as half of the current rpers in that section would fail even a dampened version :/. i personally think it should be a basic grammar test along with how well they can manage a char sheet and rping in general. a simple 3 category's for the normal section. the first 2 are easily found out by them submitting a char sheet for inspection, the third can be a short private session. wouldn't need paragraph posts, wordyness, epic battle skills, etc.

But would need competence, sentence structure, and a standard degree of creativity. in simple terms, they need to have the education above or meeting middle school standards


EDIT: Also, we need our own private thread that can only be seen by other pro rpers and mods. for special event planning/group deliberations

Whimmy likes this idea

Well, it's not like we're shoving them through Hell when going through the tests. The percentage requirement doesn't have to be an unreasonably large number. It's adjustable to fit any group we'd want it to fit. And I think grammar should be something we look for in all of the tests. I mean, what would a grammar test even consist of? How would you check that?

Simple punctuation, sentence structure, and capitalization. Nothing big.

But direct testing of such a subject is hard to do. What I think we should do for the spelling and grammar issues is that we monitor it as they type along on the tests, then grade it accumulatively at the end of all tests with all judges' scores being equal. We should catch them in their natural state of mind, instead of them running to the dictionary and using spell check once they know they're being quizzed on their grammar and such.

I second this.

Oi, i third it

OK, I think we should get started soon on talking about who the judges will be and what the subjects we will test on are, so is it possible to get a private discussion board for us?

You'd need to wait on Hakker for that one.

It'd be very nice to get one. we can better plan RP events that way too

So you've asked him already?

No, but he'll see the topic....