Hello! Yep, I have finished an RP before. It worked pretty well too. I think one of the biggest things is hoping that everyone involved sees it as a suitable place to end the story lol But yeah, I actually find it really enjoyable to come to a conclusion and say "This story is complete" Cool topic!

unfortunately, ever since i got here, there has been one RP that didn't get finished, mostly because it died down (There was one i left on purpose though due to lack of motivation.)

I have been in many, both group RPs and 1x1's. I have found that the key is to have an open ending that is easily adaptable in mind and when you feel interest flagging and momentum slowing you move towards that end. It has worked so far, better in some cases than in others. I also tend to plan small as far as time passing IC. My IC time tends to be measured in days while the OOC time that passes is months.

If you count individual threads on forums dedicated wholly to one roleplay, then yeah, I've finished a bunch of threads. Same with journal/IM roleplays. Rps on forums such as this? I think once or twice.

Only one or two, as best as I can recall, but those were privately held 1x1s in different placed So far, zero here - every one I've started has either been abandoned (often without warning via my partner simply vanishing off the face of the earth, or with warning but no definite 'yes we're done'), put on a hiatus (that may as well be permanent), or moved to another forum during the last round of crashiness/debugging. Of all the roleplays I've begun here, a whopping two are still active (and one is slow and possibly heading for another abandonment as my partner is busy looking for work and hasn't replied in some time). But, before I come off as all doom and gloom, let me add that the one that's still active and is going well is actually going great. Really and truly - my partner and I work great together, are friendly in OOC and handle planning well, and are both very satisfied with the story's progression, and I met them here, so. I guess the best way to think of it is you've got to pan a whooooole lot of sand to find that gold, but believe me, it's well worth it when you do! So for those of you who are still struggling to find a good partner here, have faith - you may have to start with and be abandoned by many other players here, but when you do find a few who are committed to you and your story, it's extremely satisfying and enjoyable. I don't begrudge the ones who've jumped ship, either, it just makes me more grateful for the ones that've stayed.

Hm, sadly I never have. Although I did join an active RP on another site that had been going for some time and was approaching an ending. Many of the older members of the RP had slowly left for whatever reasons, and the guy who started the whole thing decided to recruit some fresh blood. That was his biggest mistake, I think. Bearing in mind this was an advanced RP that had set a standard of having very long, in-depth posts... one of the newbies began posting one-liners, another began writing his own separate storyline, and another vanished.

I've been in two from memory, although both were prior to my arrival here. Both were also in the same series. I've been trying to make it work again here with the sequel but it has been slow going. The first had a pretty open ended conclusion. We had an idea for a ending arc involving a really strong human army coming and ruining our day, but in the end we didn't do that. Instead, in the conclusion of an epic 5-army battle between two teams of our demi-god evil overlords, one of us self-destructed, essentially nuking the battlefield and killing all of us. But that was still a satisfying end, for it was undoubtedly an end. The sequel to that also reached its conclusion. The gist of it was this: our 'Keepers' found these strange runes. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse then went around trying to acquire as many of those runes as possible. Turned out they were necessary to power an artefact which would drain the power from the imprisoned form of the granddaddy of all Keepers and start the Apocalypse. A bit of skirmishing here and there, a few characters succumbed to their own plot arcs, then when the time was right we time-skipped to the final battle, with everyone present. It was another sort of two-team thing, one trying to start the Apocalypse and one trying to prevent it, with a few free agents sowing chaos. Ultimately, after an absolutely epic battle, where a whole bunch of characters died, the Apocalypse was caused, just, spelling the destruction of that world. The survivors hopped through a makeshift portal to take them to whatever sequels they would go to. It's nice to finish something. Glorious victory, or glorious defeat as the case was for my participating character. I've been trying to get the sequel to work, through numerous remakes. None have made it far yet. It has been a powerful yet sometimes discouraging learning experience doing that. I think the key is player interaction, preferably right from the start, and getting that to happen in an open world RP can be tricky. > snip > > I guess the best way to think of it is you've got to pan a whooooole lot of sand to find that gold, but believe me, it's well worth it when you do! I also agree with this. Perhaps the most important factor in the longevity of an RP is a good, dedicated player base of appropriate size. Finding players like that is indeed gold. With the Dungeon Keepers, because we've been through so much, we've managed to form a nice dedicated core group. Although perhaps a few more people might help it pass critical mass. The other RP I'm in, it hasn't finished, but it is carrying on at a nice pace, thanks to a good set of players. The OOC culture is quite friendly, and we do frequent collaborative posts (using external collaborative document writers), which means we are all on friendly terms and we are all involved in the action, and that is good for the health of the RP.

Ehem, I'm pretty sure half of you will be disinclined to believe me, but . . . the best and longest RP that I've had the pleasure of finishing satisfactorily lasted a grand total of *drum-roll please~!* **10 GODDAMN YEARS!** There, I said it.