XD To be honest? I was drawn into RP because of Pern when I was a teenager, stuck around for super-powered dragons, hung on for character interactions that shifted from dragons into human stuff (though there were still fantasy elements, I admit) and then petered out once school started and I began to have deadlines like crazy.
I linger around the outskirts because I like to see what other people do, and occasionally join in, but what I think I enjoyed the most was planning the world we were playing in (or conversely, reading what other people had put into it!) and the epic storylines that would occasionally crop up out of that. Didn't happen as often as I'd have liked, but I still have nostalgia over it.
These days I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate RP elements into an ARG (alternate reality game) because while it's bad to blur the IC/OOC divide, I like the thought of being able to take part in a game where the players can speak directly to characters to advance the plot. Sort of bending the 4th wall a little, I guess. (That, and it's new! I'm a fan of new and shiny things.)
I love mixing in myth/folklore into fiction as well. XD Usually taking from bits here and there and twisting them is my favorite.
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Date: 2010-02-01 09:11 pm (UTC)I linger around the outskirts because I like to see what other people do, and occasionally join in, but what I think I enjoyed the most was planning the world we were playing in (or conversely, reading what other people had put into it!) and the epic storylines that would occasionally crop up out of that. Didn't happen as often as I'd have liked, but I still have nostalgia over it.
These days I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate RP elements into an ARG (alternate reality game) because while it's bad to blur the IC/OOC divide, I like the thought of being able to take part in a game where the players can speak directly to characters to advance the plot. Sort of bending the 4th wall a little, I guess. (That, and it's new! I'm a fan of new and shiny things.)
I love mixing in myth/folklore into fiction as well. XD Usually taking from bits here and there and twisting them is my favorite.