Reply With QuoteNo, and I think that's always been my greatest doubt about this style of RP. Reading is sometimes funny, sometimes interesting and entertaining, but never particularly exciting and definitely never scary.
Have you ever been genuinely nervous or scared during an RP? Never thought it could happen through such a relatively slow-paced, text based game, but I remember in one of my first RPs where we were in a huge storage room with massive wooden doors. We were in there for a while talking and learning aobut each other before the enemy began to bang on the doors, with the room shuddering, and I was honestly getting quite anxious whenever I was on the thread :O
You guys experienced such hightened emotions whilst RPing?
No, and I think that's always been my greatest doubt about this style of RP. Reading is sometimes funny, sometimes interesting and entertaining, but never particularly exciting and definitely never scary.
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The only time is if I am roleplaying something that has happened to me personally in real life and was a very negative experience. In those cases, the similarities between reality and fantasy can sometimes blur and definitely freak me out.
Fortunately those incidents aren't roleplayed very often by myself, so it is not a common occurrence.
I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
The biggest problem with this particular medium is that you only have about ten minutes of experience every time you get on. That ten minutes of real time can cover significantly more or less amount of time in-game, but it doesn't matter, because you're only reading for ten minutes before you go to write your response, and that's usually not enough time to really immerse yourself.
I've experienced that during chat based role plays. As in, a chat based rp where I can still write 2+ paragraphs per post but my rp partner and I can devote 2-3 hours of the day to replying to each other.
But in slower role plays like on forums? No I haven't. Or I should say I haven't yet. You never know what might happen in the future, after all!
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If what you're reading manages to hit you on a personal level, it can happen.Originally Posted by MelonHead
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Jus' sayin.
Alternately, when another RPer starts drilling for a nerve.
For me... it gets to be a rather extremely common occurance.
Another way to force-immerse players, aside from using OOC knowledge and RL experiance, is to just be straight-up graphic, trippy, confused, and downright disturbing.
And when all else fails, create a meme.
Last edited by Foster; 06-02-2012 at 07:35 PM.
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up [by shells]"
- General George Patton
"After several men of the company had been blown up by shells, I noticed that a spirit of uneasiness became dominant."-Major Leonard R. Boyd
-Page 361
Meh, once or twice I've been nervous when something big is about to happen to one of my characters, but most of the time I don't care what happens to them as long as I help tell a good story...
No, but I wouldn't know.
I'm almost always some form of villain and usually the Big Bad when there is one, so I'm the one doing the scaring, not the one being scared.
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This. This is why I go back and read a long way. Even over stuff that's in old posts. I'll read long enough to know that I'm good and settled in the cast's mindset. So I can really feel the write way. Just like when I write outside of RP'ing. I really recommend this.
Having a playlist for certain emotions can help this. Especially if you have a playlist for each emotion you want to invoke in each character. As in any media, you reap what you sow when you RP.
(Note: I prefer instrumental music for this. Lots of movie and video game scores. Classical helps too, more than you would think. Arvo Part is a good example of a "reflective" composer. Depending on what you want to get out of it, his music can provide a wide variety of emotion. Plus, he's
-not dead
-you can say you like a composer whose name isn't Johannes)
Not sure if pun or hilarious grammar mistake...
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