About worlds and sharing them

[dray]

Does anyone here have their own world (or worlds) that they enjoy building up, and are interested in having other players import characters (or create new ones, specific to the world) to run around in? It's a very common thing for group roleplays -- it's almost a necessity, really!

But... I never see this sort of thing in one-on-one ads. That could be because I'm looking in the wrong places (most ads include people speaking about what fandoms they play and what characters they seek/are willing to write for, and that's so very not my cup of tea!) but I so very rarely find anyone who has a world that they're building and is exuberant about it and wants to share it as a setting and a possibly massive plot bunny to work with. Or if they do have one, they're very hesitant to speak about it at all. What's with that?

Comments

[syntheid]

Personally, I really like coming up with ideas/characters/worlds, but I tend to do so on an "as needed" basis. So the worlds I have in development are primarily for my personal projects and I'd feel a little uncomfortable having people running around in them before I really get my own story/ies written out? Afterwards it'd be fair game, and there are a few that would probably be fun to play in.

But I'd certainly be open to coming up with worlds specifically for RP, too. I actually did so before, but the game didn't really go anywhere. I probably have a half dozen half-created worlds like that that I could and would expand on if it made sense to, but otherwise I tend to put my focus elsewhere.