As most of you know, (Mostly because you’ve RP’d here, otherwise why the fuck are you on an RP site?) it’s rare for a Roleplay on this site to live to completion, most of them sputtering out within the first month of conception. I have little knowledge on whether or not this is the same across the whole practice, as I’ve only RP’d on one other site, but it’s rather discouraging to Roleplay if the looming thought that you’d be wasting your time down the road sits in the back of your mind. I feel that dividing Roleplayers based on writing standards contributes to this.
Now, I’m going to take you back to three years ago when I RP’d on the Saints Row forums, where I had my first RP, which was also my first finished one. It being a website not based around Roleplaying, there was very little constraint in what you could do or how you could write. The base rules were there, but I think the most important thing was that Roleplay was treated as a game rather than some novel that we were writing. People put out one-liners when the situation called for it, and then wrote paragraphs upon paragraphs to make something epic. With the way things go here, it almost feels like a chore to squeeze out the minimum requirement for a post, and when this feels more like work rather than a pastime, that’s when people lose interest.
You may be asking, “Oh, well why don’t you just go to free then?” Well, there’s a problem with that. It seems to me that free is treated like babby’s first Roleplay. Some people consider themselves too good to go there, and it feels like everyone there only writes one liners. I feel like if we had Roleplays separated by genre rather than standards, we’d see more finished. Or maybe it’d be better for GM’s to be more lax on the rules?
Or maybe I’m just spewing shit out of my ass and free’s a great place to Roleplay. But what about you guys and your experience with Roleplay? Do you agree? Do you disagree?
Now, I’m going to take you back to three years ago when I RP’d on the Saints Row forums, where I had my first RP, which was also my first finished one. It being a website not based around Roleplaying, there was very little constraint in what you could do or how you could write. The base rules were there, but I think the most important thing was that Roleplay was treated as a game rather than some novel that we were writing. People put out one-liners when the situation called for it, and then wrote paragraphs upon paragraphs to make something epic. With the way things go here, it almost feels like a chore to squeeze out the minimum requirement for a post, and when this feels more like work rather than a pastime, that’s when people lose interest.
You may be asking, “Oh, well why don’t you just go to free then?” Well, there’s a problem with that. It seems to me that free is treated like babby’s first Roleplay. Some people consider themselves too good to go there, and it feels like everyone there only writes one liners. I feel like if we had Roleplays separated by genre rather than standards, we’d see more finished. Or maybe it’d be better for GM’s to be more lax on the rules?
Or maybe I’m just spewing shit out of my ass and free’s a great place to Roleplay. But what about you guys and your experience with Roleplay? Do you agree? Do you disagree?
