JPs are Joint Posts, it's an alternative way to privately collaborate on a story without needing to utilize an outside source like your email or google docs. You are welcome to use them whenever you would like, some people even use them for solo 'work in progress' types of pieces. Anything that you would like to have on the site for convenient editing, but that you would like to keep private until publishing.

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It means someone else i sediting the file right now. The lock will release when either an hour has passed or when the game file is updated and submitted. Please check back in when you see the move updated.

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You can locate the sandbox at this link.

This is a place for you to try out the method of game play at NextGen RPG.  It allows you to go into the Sandbox, make edits and additions and save the file.  This will allow you to get a feel for how game play and collaborative writing works at our site.  Feel free to ask questions while you're in there, and someone will answer them for you.  

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The control panel is your tool to control your participation at NextGen RPG.  First and foremost, it's where you can share a bit about yourself with the rest of the community, and control your account settings, the content that you see on the site and the content that you subscribe to. 

Our goal is to provide you with a customizable site that will allow you to turn on and off the blocks of data that you want to see.  To locate your Control Panel look in the left hand navigation column, it is located immediately under the My Tools section.  Clicking on the CP link will take you to the default view, which will show you what other members will see.  Other members will only see a link to your blog, a listing of how long you've been a member, and things that you provide in the About Me section.

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Each game is considered a campaign, and the pages that make up the game moves and eventually the game history are referred to as the Campaign's Story Book.

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NextGen RPG utilizes a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor.  We are striving for a gaming environment that is intuitive and that requires a minimal learning curve.  This section will explain the WYSIWYG Editor, any known issues with using it, and details on how to turn the editor off, for those that prefer to use straight html coding.

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Every user account comes equipped with a blog.  We encourage you to use this space for your character related game material.  You can be as creative as you like!  Some examples of blog entries are; side fiction pieces, joint posts, diary entries, newspaper articles, letters, and character blogs.  Blogs are very intuitive, but come equipped with a lot of options related to assigning them to books and subscriptions that might cause some confusion. 

Please make sure that your blog entries are contributions to the site and if applicable, to your game.  Does it tell a story or provide insight into your character?  If it's informational in nature, it is more suited for the Forum, most games will have a 'Getting to know the Cast' Thread.  If it is personal in nature, as in player related, it is more suited for the 'Real Life' section in the Forum.  If it's incomplete, please wait until the piece is completed to post it.  This will help ensure that the rest of the community have a chance to read your completed blog entry. 

There are always exceptions, but generally a quality blog entry will be at least one page long in a traditional word processor.  If your peice is long, over ten pages, it might be a good idea to separate it into two parts to allow for easy viewing.  There are no rules in place for this, but personally - I find that a blog entry over 10 pages should be broken into two parts.

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For every game, there is information that needs to be made available to the players.  Things like, how to create your characters, information about the game system and world, character profiles, and any other little thing that the GM may feel is important.  Our Guidebooks and Wikis contain this information.  These are optional resources, and if a GM prefers to host something off-site, that's fine, and we'll add links in it's place.

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Sometimes during game play, it becomes useful to have a place to make notes to yourself.  Things that you want to keep private, whether it's secrets that you've uncovered during game play, or lines that you want to use, or things that you don't want to forget, etc.  This is a place for you to create notes that will only be seen by you.  Some other uses might include, posting character sheets or stats, spell lists, power lists, catch phrases, verbiage of arcane spells (so that you don't have to get the Latin translation or equivalent each time), and clues.

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