Welcome to the sorting thread 5.0!

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How do I create a character?

To create your character, please comment below with a few sentences about the type of character you'd like to play along with a name from this canon list! For a list of unclaimed houses, check here. If you would like to claim an NPC, a character who has already been created but is not controlled by any specific player, please check out our NPC thread. (If an established NPC has not had a significant impact on the story, people who take them over may alter the NPC to their taste).

Once you have made your request, a mod will respond promptly and guide you in the creation of your character. After you have received mod approval, you may make a bio post on this subreddit with your name and backstory, following an example that a mod will provide.

2. How many characters can I create?

A player may only have a total of five characters at any given time. These characters are limited to:

• 3 'anything' characters

• 1 brother of the Night's Watch

• 1 smallfolk

This means that every player can have 3 characters, a black brother, and a member of the smallfolk at any one time. However, a player cannot create their second or third characters until their first has been established.

3. What restrictions are there when taking on an additional character?

When creating a second, third, fourth, or fifth character, you should:

• Avoid playing in the same kingdom, or under circumstances in which your two characters would likely interact or meet with each other (use NPCs when possible).

• Diversify your characters' roles so that we can fill in gaps in the story. Take on a creative challenge!

• Think long and hard before creating your alt so that we don't have abandoned characters clogging up the lore and the wiki. Diversifying your characters should help prevent boredom, but make sure you're ready to be committed to role-playing your alt before establishing it.

4. What is an NPC and how do I use them?

NPCs are minor characters that you are able to control and interact with via your main character, such as squires, servants, advisers, etc. You do not have to create a new character in order to have an NPC, they are simply the background characters who populate your small corner of the world.

Along with servants, squires, advisers, and the like, you are also free to create other members of your family to control and role-play with under the same account, such as siblings and children who will go under the umbrella of your main character. If you choose to, you can place these created family members on the NPC list so that they can be available for someone else looking to join the role-play.

5. Where can I find more information on the role-play's history and characters?

Please check out our wiki which includes the story of our realm so far and the current state of the realm!

For our role-play in a narrative format, feel free to check out Blood and Whispers, a "fanfic" which follows the main events of our subreddit.

6. Welcome to GoTRP!

We hope this has answered any questions you may have and we hope to see you role-playing in the future! If you're still unsure of where you can fit in the role-play, please jump on our chatroom where our players will be happy to help find you a role.

"Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.” ― George R.R. Martin

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Hello, fabulous community!

It’s been brought to our attention recently that the moderator team from /r/WesterosRP has been stalking our Sorting Thread, spamming PMs to all new joining users soliciting them to join their subreddit. We believe the recent brigading and serial downvoting to be from this sub as well and have reported this issue to the reddit admins.

As many of our veteran players know, the creator of /r/WesterosRP was banned from our sub for harassment and making serious, disturbing threats of violence against community members.

While we understand that mental illness can affect otherwise lovely people in negative ways, our priority is the safety and wellbeing of the members of our own community. For this reason, we ask that you please report any messages of spam to the reddit admins using the “report” button that appears at the bottom of any PM.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our players new and old, please know that we’re doing everything we can to limit this toxic sub’s impact on our own.

Thank you so much for being as wonderful as you all are!

-The GoTRP Mod Team

Welcome to the sorting thread 7.0!

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How do I create a character?

To create your character, please comment below with a few sentences about the type of character you'd like to play along with a name from this canon list! For a list of unclaimed houses, check here. If you would like to claim an NPC, a character who has already been created but is not controlled by any specific player, please check out our NPC thread. (If an established NPC has not had a significant impact on the story, people who take them over may alter the NPC to their taste).

Once you have made your request, a mod will respond promptly and guide you in the creation of your character. After you have received mod approval, you may make a bio post on this subreddit with your name and backstory, following an example that a mod will provide.

2. How many characters can I create?

A player may only have a total of five characters at any given time. These characters are limited to:

• 3 'anything' characters

• 1 brother of the Night's Watch or Wildling

• 1 smallfolk

This means that every player can have 3 characters, a black brother or wildling, and a member of the smallfolk at any one time. However, a player cannot create their second or third characters until their first has been established.

3. What restrictions are there when taking on an additional character?

When creating a second, third, fourth, or fifth character, you should:

• Avoid playing in the same kingdom, or under circumstances in which your two characters would likely interact or meet with each other (use NPCs when possible).

• Diversify your characters' roles so that we can fill in gaps in the story. Take on a creative challenge!

• Think long and hard before creating your alt so that we don't have abandoned characters clogging up the lore and the wiki. Diversifying your characters should help prevent boredom, but make sure you're ready to be committed to role-playing your alt before establishing it.

4. What is an NPC and how do I use them?

NPCs are minor characters that you are able to control and interact with via your main character, such as squires, servants, advisers, etc. You do not have to create a new character in order to have an NPC, they are simply the background characters who populate your small corner of the world.

Along with servants, squires, advisers, and the like, you are also free to create other members of your family to control and role-play with under the same account, such as siblings and children who will go under the umbrella of your main character. If you choose to, you can place these created family members on the NPC list so that they can be available for someone else looking to join the role-play.

5. Where can I find more information on the role-play's history and characters?

Please check out our wiki which includes the story of our realm so far and the current state of the realm!

For our role-play in a narrative format, feel free to check out Blood and Whispers, a "fanfic" which follows the main events of our subreddit.

6. Welcome to GoTRP!

We hope this has answered any questions you may have and we hope to see you role-playing in the future! If you're still unsure of where you can fit in the role-play, please jump on our chatroom where our players will be happy to help find you a role.

"Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.” ― George R.R. Martin

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So I got some good news today, and being a little overwhelmed by it I felt the need to I don't know thank you guys. Being a part of this sub means a lot to me, and chatting and writing with you guys is a great part of my day (regardless of the horrid comments about my mother). Its made dealing with whats going on a lot easier and now that it's over. No matter how unaware you may be, it helped a lot.

I think of you all as my friends and am pretty glad I stumbled upon this great sub.

Cheers- E

The 6th installment of Blood and Whispers is finished. B&W is the story of our RP told in a friendlier, narrative format.

As mentioned in the first post, the best way to look at this document is as a fanfic inspired by the events of our roleplay. A lot of it is the same, a lot of it is very different. Think of it as the "Game of Thrones" to the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.

The story will be released in installments, one chapter at a time. Without further ado, below is the sixth chapter of Blood and Whispers!

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Thanks for reading!

If you'd like to contribute to B&W, please message /u/pearls13 or /u/lannaport!

I get asked often about the Neck, so I thought it would be more efficient for me to respond to all the CrannogFAQs in one convenient location.

The questions I get are usually to the effect of "Why is the Neck so dang amazing and how do I get in on this shit?" So lemme just outline why it is the best and why you should come.

• Amazing flora and fauna

• Most peaceful realm

• The lord of the region is well-adjusted, has thrown 0 chairs at 0 people

• you would literally never have to worry about invasions

• we are all short, so our pants cost less

• freedom to make up your own sigils and castles and shit

• Lyra Reed provides free palm readings

• did i mention the blood of the Firstmen and the Children of the Forest run through our mossy veins?

• SomeBODY once told me

• You get to be best friends with me

• Shrek, shrek, swamp, shrek

• Ok have the rest of the mods stopped reading yet?

• Good

• I think we're safe

• No one reads the Neck stuff so we can do whatever the fuck we want and no one will ever know

• King in da swamp

• see u there, bois

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

After some long and hard soul-searching, the mod team has come to the unfortunate realization that /r/GameofThronesRP is in a serious need of a change. In order to give ourselves that fresh sense of relevancy that we so desperately need, we’ve decided to innovate with the best of them and adopt a new system through which to roleplay.

Join us in introducing /u/GoTRP_roll_bot!

The newest in AI technology promises to make GoTRP a fair and even-handed way to experience the Game of Thrones! No longer will you have to strain yourself to think of the interpersonal reasons behind conflict! Why toil in tedium creating a well-crafted story when a simple numerical value will do? No longer will you debate who’s the best swordsman in Westeros - It’s simple, the dice can’t lie!

With that out of the way, we hope you’ll enjoy our much improved revamp!

Feel free to type !!rollme!! in the comments below to commence your roleplaying!

Unfortunately, due to an internal system error, /u/gotrp_roll_bot will now and forever be out of commission. As sad as it may be, you'll all have to return to the hum-drum of normal role-playing. Sorry guys!

If you want to see all the role-play options, follow this link!

Today we’ve passed an amazing benchmark, 1,000 subscribers! (Only half being secret Targaryens...)

From the mod team, we’d like to extend a thousandfold thank you to all you writers and readers who make this role-play what it is. Without you, we could never have hoped to achieve half the things we’ve accomplished over the past two years.

Pops champagne cork

Recent events on the sub’s IRC channel have prompted the sub mods and chat mods to add a line to rule number 1 of our sub, which currently states

Respect your fellow RPers

The rule will be revised to say

Respect your fellow RPers. Use sub appropriate channels for addressing grievances.

This is to say that if one player has an issue with another, they are to resolve it in one of four ways:

1. PM the player directly

2. Send a modmail

3. Send a direct PM to a moderator

4. Use the Death, Warfare, and Lore thread

Flaming of any type on the community sub or the IRC will not be tolerated and will result in a warning, followed by a chat and sub ban on the second offense. This means that unproductive griping, complaining, or bashing will not be permitted. It isn’t fair to complain about the actions of another community member without that person present to defend her/himself, it certainly isn’t productive, and it creates a toxic environment in our chat and in our community as a whole. If a player has an issue with another, they are to address that issue with that player, and not involve non-moderating parties.

This isn’t necessarily a new rule, as our DWL thread has always stated that players should

please attempt to resolve the issue directly with the player involved over PM

but it warrants restating, and a more visible spot on the sub’s sidebar.

Thank you as always to our amazing, quirky community. This has, by and large, not been a huge problem on our sub, which with nearly 700 subscribers is quite the feat. The fact that we’ve gone over a year without having this come up speaks volumes about the players here and the atmosphere we’ve all worked hard to create.

Let’s keep that up, send positive vibes every which way, and continue making GoTRP the best RP sub on reddit.

-S, D, J, L, V

After a lot of thought and reflection, I have decided to step down as a submod. The pressures of what is going in my real life, the world around us, and my duties as a submod have become overwhelming. I will also be taking time away from the Discord server. I need time to reset myself and will be back once I feel ready. Feel free to DM me on Discord at angrychicken#4028 or on Reddit at /u/littlestghoust

Thank you to everyone in the GOTRP community for your support and friendships.

I love everyone on here for being part of this community and contributing to such amazing stories written on a wonderful sub and being fantastic friends and people. ❤️

Thanks for subscribing to Rhae’s wholesome messages offer. Expect another wholesome message whenever I feel like expressing myself and sharing my love for you guys.

P.S: Also can you english people create another word for “platonic affection” instead of using love for both romantic and platonic affections ? it feels like I am declaring my romantic love for all of you, which is weird.

Love ya all!

Welcome to the sorting thread 11!

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How do I create a character?

To create your character, please comment below with a few short sentences about the type of character you'd like to play along with a name from this canon list! For a list of unclaimed houses, check here. If you would like to claim an NPC, a character who has already been created but is not controlled by any specific player, please check out our NPC thread. (If an established NPC has not had a significant impact on the story, people who take them over may alter the NPC to their taste).

Once you have made your request, a mod will respond promptly and guide you in the creation of your character. After you have received mod approval, you may make a bio post on this subreddit with your name and backstory, following an example that a mod will provide.

Please keep character requests brief and to the point! No more than a short sentence or two of essential details (name, rank/status, and house, if applicable). This will help expedite the process and make it easier for us to review your request. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to expand further and show off all of the neat ideas you have once you get to the bio stage, but for now, keep it short and sweet!

2. How many characters can I create?

A player may only have a total of seven characters at any given time. These characters are limited to:

• 5 'anything' characters

• 1 brother of the Night's Watch or Wildling

• 1 smallfolk

This means that every player can have 5 characters, a black brother or wildling, and a member of the smallfolk at any one time. However, a player cannot create additional characters until their previous has been established.

3. What restrictions are there when taking on an additional character?

When creating a second or further character, you should:

• Avoid playing in the same kingdom, or under circumstances in which your two characters would likely interact or meet with each other (use NPCs when possible).

• Diversify your characters' roles so that we can fill in gaps in the story. Take on a creative challenge!

• Think long and hard before creating your alt so that we don't have abandoned characters clogging up the lore and the wiki. Diversifying your characters should help prevent boredom, but make sure you're ready to be committed to role-playing your alt before establishing it.

4. What is an NPC and how do I use them?

NPCs are minor characters that you are able to control and interact with via your main character, such as squires, servants, advisers, etc. You do not have to create a new character in order to have an NPC, they are simply the background characters who populate your small corner of the world.

Along with servants, squires, advisers, and the like, you are also free to create other members of your family to control and role-play with under the same account, such as siblings and children who will go under the umbrella of your main character. If you choose to, you can place these created family members on the NPC list so that they can be available for someone else looking to join the role-play.

5. Where can I find more information on the role-play's history and characters?

Please check out our wiki which includes the story of our realm so far and the current state of the realm!

For our role-play in a narrative format, feel free to check out Blood and Whispers, a "fanfic" which follows the main events of our subreddit.

6. Welcome to GoTRP!

We hope this has answered any questions you may have and we hope to see you role-playing in the future! If you're still unsure of where you can fit in the role-play, please jump on our chatroom where our players will be happy to help find you a role.

"Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.” ― George R.R. Martin

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Welcome to the sorting thread 6.0!

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How do I create a character?

To create your character, please comment below with a few sentences about the type of character you'd like to play along with a name from this canon list! For a list of unclaimed houses, check here. If you would like to claim an NPC, a character who has already been created but is not controlled by any specific player, please check out our NPC thread. (If an established NPC has not had a significant impact on the story, people who take them over may alter the NPC to their taste).

Once you have made your request, a mod will respond promptly and guide you in the creation of your character. After you have received mod approval, you may make a bio post on this subreddit with your name and backstory, following an example that a mod will provide.

2. How many characters can I create?

A player may only have a total of five characters at any given time. These characters are limited to:

• 3 'anything' characters

• 1 brother of the Night's Watch

• 1 smallfolk

This means that every player can have 3 characters, a black brother, and a member of the smallfolk at any one time. However, a player cannot create their second or third characters until their first has been established.

3. What restrictions are there when taking on an additional character?

When creating a second, third, fourth, or fifth character, you should:

• Avoid playing in the same kingdom, or under circumstances in which your two characters would likely interact or meet with each other (use NPCs when possible).

• Diversify your characters' roles so that we can fill in gaps in the story. Take on a creative challenge!

• Think long and hard before creating your alt so that we don't have abandoned characters clogging up the lore and the wiki. Diversifying your characters should help prevent boredom, but make sure you're ready to be committed to role-playing your alt before establishing it.

4. What is an NPC and how do I use them?

NPCs are minor characters that you are able to control and interact with via your main character, such as squires, servants, advisers, etc. You do not have to create a new character in order to have an NPC, they are simply the background characters who populate your small corner of the world.

Along with servants, squires, advisers, and the like, you are also free to create other members of your family to control and role-play with under the same account, such as siblings and children who will go under the umbrella of your main character. If you choose to, you can place these created family members on the NPC list so that they can be available for someone else looking to join the role-play.

5. Where can I find more information on the role-play's history and characters?

Please check out our wiki which includes the story of our realm so far and the current state of the realm!

For our role-play in a narrative format, feel free to check out Blood and Whispers, a "fanfic" which follows the main events of our subreddit.

6. Welcome to GoTRP!

We hope this has answered any questions you may have and we hope to see you role-playing in the future! If you're still unsure of where you can fit in the role-play, please jump on our chatroom where our players will be happy to help find you a role.

"Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.” ― George R.R. Martin

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Today's a special day for our sub as we've been selected for /r/Subredditoftheday!

A huge thanks to Gareth for nominating our sub. Who would've thought an Umber would be able to accomplish such a task! ;)

Check out the Subredditoftheday post for r/Gameofthronesrp!

P.s. at the end of December we'll be celebrating our 3 year mark!

Below is a list of tips designed to help role players avoid some of the common issues we’ve seen crop up on our sub over the last three years. While created with newcomers in mind, veteran players will also find a wealth of resources for fine tuning their storytelling. You’ll see tips for designing a good character, creating a believable fantasy world, formatting your prose for Reddit, and coauthoring with others, as well as general writing advice.

At the bottom of the thread you’ll find some of our favorite posts to serve as examples of what we feel emulate the high standards for writing and storytelling that distinguish GoTRP from other RolePlays you’ll find on reddit.

Feel free to explore!

Writing a Believable Character: Tips and Resources for Avoiding Common Pitfalls in an ASOIAF RP

1. The swaggering, swashbuckling, foul-mouthed, back-talking… noblewoman?

The world of ASOIAF is complex and filled with rigid social structures that can determine everything from a character’s speech to who they are allowed to interact with. A gently bred nobleman or woman is not going to have the mouth of a sailor, and an uneducated peasant won’t be able to read or write, yet alone properly address a King or Queen.

Check out this crash course on feudalism for help figuring out what your station means for you!

2. Take off all your clothes.

Sex has a large role in the ASOIAF series, which makes sense since they’re books about human beings. But how do you keep your writing about sex from becoming the dreaded, gratuitous smut?

Here are some tips for writing the NSFW stuff so that it furthers your plot or develops your character!

3. Have I mentioned that I’m hot? And clever? And the greatest swordsman to ever live?

We all want to be rich, and powerful, and smart, and talented- but very few people want to read a story about someone like that. Yawn. Characters need flaws, and they need real flaws, not flaws that can also be an advantage in the right situation, and they need to breathe. If you want your story to be read, make your character someone that people can relate to. In other words, be real, not “cool,” which is often just a synonym for OP. Avoid the trap of an author’s darling, or worse - a Mary/Gary Sue.

4. I know there’s no canon precedent, but I’m special, and exceptions should be made for me!

The rules apply to everyone, no exceptions. When you make a fantastical character and create lore that doesn’t mesh with the existing universe, you cheapen the stories of other players who keep it real. You know what’s more interesting than a beautiful dragon-riding warg waterdancer from the Riverlands who worships the many faced gods? A believable character. Remember, your strength and your character rely on everyone else more than yourself. If nobody is willing to perceive your character the same way you are trying to imagine them, then your character will never be as smart or as strong or as brave as you want them to be. You can proclaim yourself king of the world, but unless people believe it, nobody is going to pay you taxes.

4a. Yeah but have you seen my writing? If anyone can pull off the northern-born red priest faceless man who finds the dragon horn and-

No.

5. So you wanna be a girl…

Awesome! Women are half of all human beings, right? So you wanna represent us accurately, right? And you realize that we’re more than sexual objects, right? Great! Then you probably don’t even need this article on writing female protagonists who do not suck, but might we suggest you take a peek all the same? A woman character is not the same as a woman’s character!

Writing a Believable World: Keepin’ it Canon

1. Let me take you to my keep, Doug.

The names of your NPCs should also come from the canon list from which you took your characters. Try to avoid using the names of other players for your NPCs. Of course there’s no way for you to know everyone’s name and their NPCs’ names, too… So ask, if you’re not sure. The IRC is a great way to ask a quick question and get a quick answer.

2. “Don’t fret, Ser Petyr! There’s a Best Western just around the corner!”

When it comes to naming inns, brothels, and towns, try to pick monikers that match the established canon for the world of ASOIAF. Here is a name generator that we recommend. Remember that things like house words, house seat, etc, require special mod approval in the death, warfare, and lore thread. Here’s a great article on building fantasy worlds.

3. “Batten down the hatches! Secure the gunwhale! And pass me that electronic sonar detector!”

Some words (and some tools) are jarringly non-canon, and will break the fourth wall of storytelling if you use them in a post. If you’re uncertain about whether a word you want to use is something people in Planetos would have said, a search of ice and fire is a great tool for googling the series to see if it fits with the world.

Interacting with Others

1. Mind your manners.

If you present yourself as friendly and polite, more people are likely to want to write with you! Where can you find these people? One of the best places is the IRC. You could also check out the wanted ads for specific roles others are looking to fill.

2. How do we collab?

Different players have different preferences, but most people seem to like using Google Docs to cowrite posts, or even plan out comments to a post. This works great for conversations, because there may be times when your character would reasonably interrupt another, but you can’t do that when you’re typing whole comments, posting them, and then waiting for a response.

3. Keep it consistent.

Posts generally flow best when written from a singular POV. Often when cowriting, the authors will choose one character to be the POV, and the rest of the characters are written as this character perceives them. The only thoughts we see are the chosen character’s.

4. Remember the rules.

Never, ever, ever write the actions, reactions, or speech of another character. Unless this is something you agreed to ahead of time and they have read over and approved your draft, this is a violation of sub rules, and plain old bad RP etiquette.

Writing in General: The Nitty Gritty

1. Working with Reddit, not against it

Reddit can be funky. Check out this helpful resource for formatting your posts!

2. It’s a process

Writing, like any skill, is learned and honed over time. Here is a collection of articles on improving your story telling and writing mechanics, brought to you by the fantastic Limyaael. You can find one for almost any topic!

Our Hall of Fame Posts

People often ask for examples of what’s considered a good introductory post, or a good length for a thread, or just good writing that will give them a feel for the sub and its story. Below is an evolving collection of some of GoTRP’s best work. Only a matter of time until your post is featured here, too!

A first post/introductory post for a character

Writing a thread with 3+ players

A multi-player thread written from a single POV

Inserting history and backstory into a post

Using sex to further a plot or a character’s development

Creating setting

The Month of April is finally over, which means it’s time to vote! April gave us tons of great posts from our wonderful writers, as well as great contributions from a bevy of new contributors. We also had some characters make big moves, and revealed turmoil both in Westeros and Essos.

Without further adieu, here are the categories for the Month of April!

April Fools Award:

What better way to kick off the voting thread than with an April fool’s themed question. This Award goes to the post, thread, or comment that most made you laugh out loud this month.

Surprise Award:

As any diligent April fools day prankster knows, the best endings are the ones that are least expected. This award goes to the character surprised you most with his or her actions this month.

New Mover Award:

As you all know, we had an abundance of new characters this month, both from first time posters and people adding new characters. This Award goes to the best intro post from a new character.

Big Player Award:

We all know him. That guy that routinely pulls the biggest pranks on April Fool’s, whether they be funny or otherwise. This award goes to the character who made the biggest power play this month.

Unwitting Contributor Award:

For every master planner who orchestrates the perfect prank, there’s the innocent bystander who unknowingly helps land the joke. This award goes to the character whose decision making made or will make the biggest impact on the sub in the near future.

The Target Award:

Ah yes. The poor individual who had the bad luck to fall victim to a prank. This award goes to the character with the worst luck on the sub this month.

Evil Doer Award:

This guy that performs the prank that is nowhere near funny, just mean. This award goes to the character who made the meanest decision regarding his vassals or family this month.

Revenge Plotter Award:

This is the poor soul who fell for the mean prank. But they won’t take this embarrassment for long. This award goes to the character who is most likely to make those that insulted or hurt them pay for the deed.

Karma’s a Bitch Award:

This person did something that seriously pissed someone else off. This award goes to the character who is most likely to get what’s coming to them.

April Shower’s Award:

April doesn't just bring jokes, it also brings those lovely spring rains. Those days you spend inside reading and rereading your favorite GOTRP threads. This Award goes to the best post or thread of the Month.

As always, have fun and remember please don't vote for your own characters.

GoTRP-

We’re going to make a long story short. Of late, the mod team has really dropped the ball. We’re aware of it, and we’ve had a very long discussion about the direction we want to take the sub going forward. Primarily, we need some fresh blood on our team because we’ve gotten stagnant. It’s not the fault of any one individual, but rather the collective failing of our group.

That being said, we have something exciting to announce.

Eustace, Ronnel, and Rhaenys will be joining our mod team. Our goal is to be more active, encourage our community (the sunday writing hours are a phenomenal idea that we hope to see continue), and also take a more direct hand in the sub regarding issues like in game passage of time, as well as being much timelier to hit bios and character requests.

We asked for your continued patience in this transitional period. We batted a lot of names around for the role of moderator and are confident in the three individuals that we’ve asked to step up and help the remaining members of the team manage this place that is deeply important to all of us.

With love,

GoTRP Mods~

Hey all, your one and only Tyrell here.

So I’m assuming you all may have noticed, but the last 2 months I’ve been fairly afk and unavailable… I’ve not been writing as much, stepped down as a chat mod, and really haven’t been on discord as much as I use to... I just wanted to apologize for all that, and go on to say that while I fear I’ll still be afk for just a bit longer, I will be coming back and in full force soon enough.

Real life has been presenting some significant challenges the last few months… not gonna lie. A culmination of events and stresses that I’m trying to work through but don’t really have an interest in fleshing out for the whole internet to see heh.. And despite me not wanting it to, it’s affected my writing drive. I’m trying to get everything back in order with irl now, but yea.. it’s a process.

I’m so sorry for the players who I’ve impacted with my sudden lack of writing though- specifically the Valemen and Reachmen… Like really y’all… I’m SO sorry. The thought of leaving you hanging or disappointed has been eating away at me and I just want you all to know that I miss you and am still around.

I am really trying to work through this dry spout regardless, and hope to have a post (or 2) out for y’all soon. I know I’ve said that often the past few weeks to people in pm’s, but I promise you’ll have at least one this week.

I hope you all can understand and again I apologize for the lack of activity. This is such a wonderful community and a home of sorts for many of us, including myself. I just want to say thanks for creating that and I’ll see you all soon.

Oly~~~

Kind of long overdue, but just to make it official: It is now 512AC!

511AC began in August of 2017, alongside winter and the eighth era, and since then we've had a bunch of great new storylines and characters, as well as a few mod changes and a move to discord, which I think has helped us all a bunch.

Hopefully, you guys haven't felt too restricted as far as in-universe time goes since then, though. OOC it has been a very long year, and we'll try to be more consistent with the year changes from here on out.

So we've already hired a dog onto the mod team- what's the harm in adding a literal corpse of a man?

Hey, don't look at me. One of the mods just reeaally wanted this pretty dead guy around.

Anyway, as you may have noticed, Loren Lannister is sadly no longer a mod due to no longer having the time (he'll still be around, just not as a mod), but we got the next best thing to a dead Lannister father: His dead Lannister son! Thad is an OG here on GoTRP and we don't doubt that he'll be a valued member of the team!

Hey all,

Going through the wiki, I've noticed a disturbing trend in a few pages. On this particular RP, it's generally considered good form to establish things about your house in the RP, and add it to the wiki after unless there's a canon source that already exists.

Now, I am not a mod, therefore I can't actually do anything about the pages, but it's my suggestion to each and every one of you that we all write for the RP, not for the wiki. Everyone loves an exciting story, but in the past we've had people complain that they got bored, when they wrote this great idea for a story in the wiki. Make your story more exciting than your bio/wiki. I promise you, and the sub at large, will benefit from it.

If you have twenty some-odd minutes to spare, check out this TED talk on storytelling by Andrew Stanton of Pixar. It's a fantastic look into writing both stories and characters. Here are some of the pointers below:

1. The theory of 2+2:

The audience wants to work to understand the story, they want to figure it out for themselves. They may not even realise that they do, but it's why people are so quick to finish other people's...

...well, you know.

Don't give them 4, give them 2+2 and let them have the sense of self-satisfaction when they figure the rest out on their own.

2. All characters have a spine

Every character has some sort of inner motivation around which everything else they say or do revolves. They have a goal that they're striving for, an itch that they can't scratch. "Doing good," "being loved," "earning recognition." These goals don't necessarily lead to the best decisions, they're just the driving forces behind those decisions.

It's important to recognize your character's motivation. Think about your character and try to find it. What force drives every one of their decisions?

3. Change is fundamental

We're always in a flux in our lives, and without change, stories stagnate. If your character isn't growing or changing on some level, there's a problem with your story.

4. Create tension

In this section, Stanton talks about the Pixar film Finding Nemo in which there are these two locations of tension in the story: There's the local tension of "Will Dory forget whatever is being said to her at any given moment?" as well as a global tension of "Will they ever find Nemo in this great big ocean?"

Honest and believable tensions, failures, and situations drive stories. The reader needs a sense of doubt about the outcome because that doubt will draw them in to read more.

5. Capture a truth

Use things you know, something from your own life that you know to be true. It doesn't have to be your personal experience on a medieval sailing ship in the middle of a gale (although I'm sure that would help), but instead draw on a time you were scared, or worried, or cold, or wet. Find the truth in those moments and they will make your writing solid, they'll make it believable.

Anyways, just a really interesting TED talk that I thought might help! Don't take it as scripture, but maybe consider it.

GoTRP turns 2 today! Since this sub was created in 2013,

• Approximately 1,900,000 words have been written. Meaning we've written the equivalent of A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance of Dragons, AND 130,000 words of The Winds of Winter! (Let's see if we can beat George)

• We've gained ~850 subscribers

• Six chapters of our subreddit's story, Blood and Whispers, have been completed (with another one slotted for release soon, along with a special treat...), along with five prologue chapters set during the Second Greyjoy Rebellion!

• Our wiki now boasts over 700 pages of characters, history, and events

As we enter our third year, let's take a moment to pat ourselves on the back. We're the longest running RP for the asoiaf universe on reddit! Here's to many more!

Hey, lovely community!

In response to a lot of feedback we’ve been getting from you guys over the modmail, the mod team will be rolling out a few minor tweaks and changes to the sub, in order to ensure that things continue to run smoothly and make sure that everyone is getting the most out of their time here on GoTRP.

In order to improve the overall quality of our sub/posts/community, we are instituting a new set of rules to replace our current ones, and a revamped sorting thread. Please read below, and if you have any questions, as always, please don’t hesitate to shoot us a modmail.

The New Rules and You!

Please read below, and note that these are retroactive (no grandfather exceptions - all noncompliant posts must be deleted or edited to adhere to these new standards):

1. All non-dialogue must be italicized (this includes but is not limited to: nods, sighs, smiles)

2. All travel must be done via your nearest teleportation machine (usually a city or town with a population over 500)

3. Threads must be 50 words or less

4. Each comment should contain at least one gif (or, alternatively, 2 still images) to replace description of character movements or clothing

5. Wednesdays are Hump Days

6. No using slurs - please read this list of examples

New sorting thread!

As stated above, we will be replacing our current sorting thread. Just like the rules, this is retroactive and there will be no grandfathering allowed. All players must comment below to be resorted. Any posts not in line with your new sorting must be deleted or edited to comply. In order to be sorted, please answer the following questions:

1. What is your favorite animal?

2. What is your favorite Westerosi house sigil?

3. What do you want to be when you grow up?

A mod will reply to your comment with your character’s new name, house, and important traits. The traits will be chosen from this master list after your request is run through an algorithim in eviews. All players are required to read the list in full and write a six page essay on elegance and impressively strong drinks in fiction before being permitted to play. Please send via snail mail to GoTRP Headquarters, 4 Privet Drive, London.

Thanks!

We look forward to the improvements these changes will bring to the sub!

PS - just as an aside, Damon will now be the one and only mod of all GoTRP affiliated IRC chatrooms