Has anyone actually completed an RP before?

[Lady Absinthia]

@Hostile Yes, had one recently here come to an end. Had others here that completed their first, second parts and were added on in new rps later on to continue a time line even though the story was completed. Had a few 1x1's complete here via pm. It isn't often here but it happens. On previous forums I've had others complete as well.

[shylarah]

First off, I'm not sure what you mean by completed. Finished a plotline? Reached a permanent conclusion? ...had everyuone die?

I've done several of the above, but you have to realize that many rps and tpers, even if they start with a particular plot, don't actually /have/ a definite endpoint. Even if the overarching plot is finished, people often want to keep going, and so the rp doesn't always ens. ThjThjis isn't a videogame with a set win condition and endpoint. Rp is most often a sandbox and maybe there's a big plot to complete, but you can still do all sorts of things in the world.

In terms of commitment issues, I see them all the time. In most cases I am very committed, and I get invested very quickly. There are people I've not heard from in years, but if they suddenly turned up again I'd continue an old rp or start a new one with them in an instant.

Sometimes taking a break can keep people interested, and sometimes it's just a prelude to final rp death.

I also happen to be a weird combination of patient, impatient, and a generally fast poster (with fast partners and sufficient inspiration). No, most people are not going to post daily, not on forums. Oddly enough I used to find people that'd post multiple times a day, but for the most part I don't really encounter people like that on this site. I think the constant pressure on people who like in depth lore to post super long things every time is a contributing factor, personally. I treasure the world builders who will let rapid action and dialogue exchanges drop below a paragraph at times, if there's really nothing to say. A willingness to move time forward also helps.

There's an issue wit people flaking or taking on more than they can chew, and you definitely need patience, but I've found dedicated partners and concluded several rps. The most often completed ate ones that are tabletop -- for some reason, following module seems to generate a definite endpoint. In a similar vein, having a definite goal and reading that goal, whatever it may be, creates a solid ending. Then, if you want more of those characters, you start a /new/ rp that is a sequel to the previous. Thread rps don't seem to have that sort of finish very often. I can only think of a couple, offhand.

I've had a few 1x1 rps progress through multiple years of the chars' lives, and we mutually decided to write a conclusion and let the chars go off on their own without author oversight. There's even been a couple thread rps with small groups that have reached a conclusion, and by mutual agreement been written to a similar end. In most casees for forum group rps, this just does not happen. It keeps going until it dies, even if it's for years -- anI I have o deed had some go for multiple years. I've had two sequential FATE campaigns set in fantastical ww1 era finish, and we're on our third, with the onset of the war. The DM for that is also one of the leads of a chat group that I've been in for like...seven, eight years now, and it's been around even longer. This group is unusual, especially now, for several reasons. Firstly, while we're down to 3x weekly what with jobs and all, we used to play real-time 7 days a week -- and back then, ooc time and IRL days lined up (they don't anymore, obviously). Secondly, we started with medium lore and now have deep lore, but the game itself is actually script style, partially to facilitate that rapid-fire flurry of posting. We do this in a chat room and I've seen upwards of ten posts in a minute, just to give a ballpark estimate. This group has had people join and leave over the years, but since I've joined we've concluded four different campaigns, and we're nearing the end of the fifth. Wait no, make that five done, almost six -- I forgot at one point we had two running parallel with different characters. Each of these campaigns had a bunch of different smaller arcs, with the campaign being more a matter of setting and characters.

In the end, you have to be committed, have the persistence to keep looking until you find the right people, and then just get lucky.

[ButtsnBalls]

Didn't take part in it, but here's one:

roleplayerguild.com/topics/14095-piece..

[JDolan]

Exactly one RP that I have participated in has ever truly "ended". And it was one here, from many years ago...I guess about 2008, 2009. Sadly, as it was long before the Guild changed servers, never mind the crash and the database wipes etc...I don't think there's a copy of it anywhere anymore. There MAY be one or two copies floating around, but I have no idea where they are anymore...certainly my copy of it that I used to have (all 109 pages of it, with 8 or 9 writers by my count) has probably been lost to the depths of my many hard drives. Further, looking up the people involved, most of htem have since moved on well beyond the Guild, so it's a thing lost to time.

[Crimson Flame]

Only once, on a different site.

But then the sequel RP died, so does it still count as completed at that point?

[Drache]

I have finished many RPs. In some cases it's because a character dies, but most of the time the two main characters in the RP simply part ways or we stop playing because the characters go on to "live happily ever after." Sometimes we will start new stories in that same universe but sometimes my RP partner and I decide to part ways.

Maybe I'm the odd one out here because my RPs here are more likely to "end" than on other forums I have been on.

[ArenaSnow]

Actually, I've had the most completed roleplays come out of Starcraft 2's Cortex Roleplay.

Which is odd, as especially in public matches, the attrition rate is even worse than this site (and the community far smaller). But the success does come from collecting a few decent people from them (or a miraculous actually good group) and then making something from there.

[Foster]

As in completed completed. End of story. The end. I haven't seen a lot of those.

@Hostile

Um... sort of?

I mean, we did one RP that lasted a year, the war was effectively over with peace-treaties signed and reconstruction efforts underway in the epilouge of the thread (a surprisingly happy ending, really). It was deemed just barely epic and noteworthy enough to get its own wiki-page afterwards.

But then that story got dug up and continued.

5 more times.

Techincally, that RP won't be dead until every character involved, and every character they've interacted with are dead. Or all the players involved decide to give-up roleplaying it.

Naturally, any of the still-active surviving original characters are several shades of crazy, as they'd have been RPed through a real-life decade of nuclear-conflict, brush-wars, and BS-espionoge.
(So it pretty much became a zombie-franchise like Metal Gear)

[Obscene Symphony]

I've only ever properly concluded one RP - also happening to be the only 1x1 I've ever had successfully. Man, that was a fun one. What sucks is that I can't find the site we wrote it on! (I used to make ProBoards sites for all my RPs, 'cause it was convenient and fun)

Me and a close group on another site ran one story for a long-ass time, but it was more of a "could have ended but we didn't want it to" things. It certainly didn't die early, so I consider it more or less complete.

Other than that, nada. Although I have been a part of a lot of reboots. Even hen they don't live long, it's still fun to re-live those old stories.

[tsukune]

Has happened to me a few times, on this site and other RP forums.

But on this site so far that only happens with @Mr Allen J. Because Gaybridge is so gay that it should end already.