Festival of Being Excellent to Each Other, 2016

Posted by Kim on December 3, 2016, 12:15pm

Playing games together brings people together. It creates friendships that last a lifetime, long after any specific RP or scene has ended. Sometimes, it creates romances, and even marriages. People travel from other countries to be together after seeing the expanses of each other's imaginations, and from feeling the kindness and understanding that resonates in their OOC chats together.

And should OOC frictions arise that prevent members of a RP group from enjoying each other's company, it becomes nearly inevitable that that RP group will dissolve and the IC stories be left unfinished unless the people involved are able to sit down, talk it out, resolve their differences and get back to being friends.

While we spend a lot of time focusing on and creating RP throughout the rest of the year, each year in December we pause to reflect on the OOC relationships that all those games have brought into our lives, and take the time to try and strengthen them. That's what the Festival of Being Excellent to Each Other is all about.

Let them know you care

In keeping with FOBETEO tradition, take the time to thank your RP partners of the past year of fun. Thank them for giving you the gift of their time, attention, creativity, talent, patience and understanding. If you prefer, you can do this via private message.

But if you'd like to recognize what makes your RP partners so special publicly, write a kudos! Tell them how much you appreciate their time, their brilliance, the effort that they put into creating story hooks and plot twists and special moments. Tell your friends how much you've seen them improve and that their hard work has not gone unnoticed. Tell those who were there when you were going through a hard time what a difference it made. It doesn't have to take a long time, but it's sure to mean a lot!

Every five kudos you write this week will earn you a special winter candle accolade to display proudly on your profile, available only during FOBETEO.

Remember, to be eligible, a kudos needs to contain a clear "why" explaining what makes your friend so special! Don't just say "He's awesome!", tell the world what makes your friend so awesome. Click here for the complete kudos guidelines.

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Comments

Kim

December 6, 2016
10:52pm

@Claine - You'll have until the 9th to give out your kudos!

Claine

December 5, 2016
12:58am

When does FOBETEO end? I want to make sure I get loads of Kudos in before time runs out? :>

InquisitorCat

December 4, 2016
5:34pm

@Featherhowl

I'm taking the time to give kudos to the artists of this site, and tell them how awesome their artwork is. I don't know em, but its a way to boost someones day, right?

Lexi

December 4, 2016
12:01am

@Featherhowl Same here, same here.

I haven't had much time to RP recently either, so I don't have anybody to write a kudos for being so awesome. u.u Ah well... Maybe I'll make it my new year's resolution to be more active on here. hehe. ^w^

Zelphyr

December 3, 2016
7:25pm

I've occasionally gotten kudos from folks I didn't really even know, just because I'd left an impression from what they'd seen. ^^;

I actually really liked those ones, because it let me know that I come across as decent even to folks who don't particularly know me.

So I'd so don't worry about not knowing many people, and give kudos to strangers just because they seem like cool people!