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storytellersHi, I'm Dray (or Terry, or any mix of those) and while I don't RP nearly as much as I used to, I still itch for it once in a while.
I started roleplaying when I was seventeen or eighteen, back in the days when tables and HTML were still the big thing, and making scripts for posting characters (along with all of these other newfangled things like 'PB's) were still glimmers in the eyes of future teens and preteens.
I found my first RP group at ezboards, a fantasy-based forum game where I could make all the typical newbie mistakes and get a feel for how RP worked. From there, I hopped through several message-board style forums (The Furry Dragons of Korknack, 'Agony Cometh', and other games where big furry dragon-creatures were the main characters, and everything was overpowered up the wazoo!)... I went through the usual angsty-characters phase, learned more RP etiquette, and eventually petered out as the forums ground to a halt.
For a long time I looked for other places to RP, but never really settled. Eventually I hopped over to instant messengers, still focusing largely on fantasy-based games, though the characters focused less on dragons and monsters and more on people. I'm still doing that today, though I largely only RP with my girlfriend, as we're both in the same house and can tell when the other is busy -- with college nearly done, we're both really short on time, and I hate to leave people I barely know hanging.
I loathe games where characters have to meet for the first time. I have played these kinds of threads dozens and dozens of times. :c It's so boring and awkward, I love storied characters, ones where plots are ongoing and characters are familiar enough with one another that the players can get to doing 'fun' scenes. I suppose that's why I've dropped so many games... XD A large amount of them wind up being 'Character A meets Character B' and they never interact again. Blegh!
I admit that the meme's advertised were what drew me here. I've got a soft-spot for filling them out, so I'm curious to see where that goes. Maybe once college is finally over with, I'll have a touch more time to actually roleplay, make friends, and create new plots and interesting happenings... but you know how growing up eats your time like delicious muffins. XD *crosses fingers*
Anyways! *waves* Hello!
I started roleplaying when I was seventeen or eighteen, back in the days when tables and HTML were still the big thing, and making scripts for posting characters (along with all of these other newfangled things like 'PB's) were still glimmers in the eyes of future teens and preteens.
I found my first RP group at ezboards, a fantasy-based forum game where I could make all the typical newbie mistakes and get a feel for how RP worked. From there, I hopped through several message-board style forums (The Furry Dragons of Korknack, 'Agony Cometh', and other games where big furry dragon-creatures were the main characters, and everything was overpowered up the wazoo!)... I went through the usual angsty-characters phase, learned more RP etiquette, and eventually petered out as the forums ground to a halt.
For a long time I looked for other places to RP, but never really settled. Eventually I hopped over to instant messengers, still focusing largely on fantasy-based games, though the characters focused less on dragons and monsters and more on people. I'm still doing that today, though I largely only RP with my girlfriend, as we're both in the same house and can tell when the other is busy -- with college nearly done, we're both really short on time, and I hate to leave people I barely know hanging.
I loathe games where characters have to meet for the first time. I have played these kinds of threads dozens and dozens of times. :c It's so boring and awkward, I love storied characters, ones where plots are ongoing and characters are familiar enough with one another that the players can get to doing 'fun' scenes. I suppose that's why I've dropped so many games... XD A large amount of them wind up being 'Character A meets Character B' and they never interact again. Blegh!
I admit that the meme's advertised were what drew me here. I've got a soft-spot for filling them out, so I'm curious to see where that goes. Maybe once college is finally over with, I'll have a touch more time to actually roleplay, make friends, and create new plots and interesting happenings... but you know how growing up eats your time like delicious muffins. XD *crosses fingers*
Anyways! *waves* Hello!
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Date: 2009-10-15 03:20 am (UTC)"Personally I'd love to have a place where I won't turn around and see Batman. XD"
This cracked me up! XD
One thing that you might like (I was poking around on LJ for similar ideas in communities) is out_lines, where there are a million and one character questions. (Check the memories, I think!) I only just found it, but it seems like it could be fun. X3 If it were still alive, anyways!
If you do make an LJ community based on this, please let me know? I will definitely pimp it out to my f-list!
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Date: 2009-10-15 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-17 09:45 pm (UTC)I made a few random fandom characters that were original, and had a lot of fun with it and had some interesting rp. Just make it clear that this is a roleplaying for characters community and that if you wanna do fandom rp that the focus should be on character and how they are and how they might change over the course of the story.
But yes I think we should set some ground rules also for our rp comunity, I like being as open as possible but somtimes you just have to spell things out for people or they just wont get it. for example I think we should keep this community as pg-13 as possible, I do not mind reading some gory bits here and there and swear words do not really bother me, but when people start going into detail about how much gore it is kinda grosses me out, unless it really fits the situation and you have been trying to work it in taistfully.
now I did not originaly think this comment would turn into this but meh oh well :3
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Date: 2009-10-18 02:03 am (UTC)I like the idea of allowing fandom characters in based on characters, not on being true to the story that they came from. Emphasizing that players should be thinking of how characters change over time seems like a more eloquent way to open things up than to pimp original-characters-in-fandom-setting sorts of things. I've seen that fandom-centric RPers tend to look down on original characters in fandom settings because the likelihood of a mary sue popping up just goes through the roof. XD
Never the less, if this place should be about original writing, then shout that from the rooftops! It may just need some stronger, bolder delineation of what it is and what it isn't in order to draw more members in!