Let's Gush!

[Eklispe]

Isn't it nice when you post. And people post. And you post. yay.

[El Taco Taco]

The joy of plotting, building a new and awesome character, and the thread actually takes off! It's so satisfying. Also, finding someone you're super compatible and comfortable writing with. Yay!

[Shorticus]

One thing that I absolutely love is having the opportunity to actually coordinate with someone to cooperatively write a scene.

Look, I know this doesn't happen very often for some reason. The easiest way to RP via a forum is to just take turns writing your scenes out. This works great for certain kinds of roleplays - nation roleplays, for instance - but not so well for others. It's those others that seem to hurt from the nature of forum RP. Simple conversations can turn into long paragraphs of nothing happening; action scenes can become a sort of competition to see who can write the bestest and meanester. Etc.

But when you shoot PMs back and forth with someone to handle a conversation, or when you use a chatroom or Google document to write out and edit your work together, there's this awesome since of "Holy crap, this is looking like a scene from a BOOK!" Paragraphs of nothing turn into witty discourse, back-and-forth snapping and comedy gold. Action scenes actually get the speed they need to feel like action scenes: one character swings, the other parries, and then his foot is kicked out from underneath him, and on and on the fight goes. It flows so much better, reads so much better...

And in the short time I've had this account, I'd had the opportunity to collaborate on a neat dialogue scene with someone, I've discussed future collaborations with others, and I've had pleasant conversations with players whose characters were going to be at odds with mine... It's a good feeling. I don't know if I'll have a lot more collaborative works while I'm on this site, but I hope I do.

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Also, I just want to say that it's nice to be able to join roleplays that let me post at a pace that's... well, more my own. I'm a busy student, and I can't always post at the same rate as everyone else. In the past, I've lost friends over my busy schedule: people I played tabletop games with, people I roleplayed on WoW with... Some folks I played with just couldn't accept that my schedule was unpredictable, that I'd have to skip some game sessions, that I'd have to reschedule things to study more, or that, yeah, I sometimes forget I have an assignment due until the last minute and so have to stop whatever I'm doing and get that assignment done.

But thus far, I've had great experiences on the forum and great leniency concerning my timetable. Folks don't mind that I expect to only be able to post <X> times per week. I haven't been throttled for posting something a day after I said I'd have it done. There's a lot of understanding in general. I'm happy about that.

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Finally... Look, I'm not one for shoutouts normally, but I just want to specifically thank everyone in the Age of Dawn thread. The thread has a nice, varied cast, a great GM, folks who don't mind my posting frequency, and a unique way of telling a story. It manages to feel freeform yet directed and guided at once. I've seen players write up their own lore, and I've seen the GM work that lore into the story wonderfully. And did I mention that pretty much everyone in that thread makes me happy to be a part of that roleplay?

Yeah, long story short: I'm pretty happy I dropped into Roleplayer Guild. This is an experience I needed.

[tsukune]

One thing that I absolutely love is having the opportunity to actually coordinate with someone to cooperatively write a scene.

Look, I know this doesn't happen very often for some reason. The easiest way to RP via a forum is to just take turns writing your scenes out. This works great for certain kinds of roleplays - nation roleplays, for instance - but not so well for others. It's those others that seem to hurt from the nature of forum RP. Simple conversations can turn into long paragraphs of nothing happening; action scenes can become a sort of competition to see who can write the bestest and meanester. Etc.

But when you shoot PMs back and forth with someone to handle a conversation, or when you use a chatroom or Google document to write out and edit your work together, there's this awesome since of "Holy crap, this is looking like a scene from a BOOK!" Paragraphs of nothing turn into witty discourse, back-and-forth snapping and comedy gold. Action scenes actually get the speed they need to feel like action scenes: one character swings, the other parries, and then his foot is kicked out from underneath him, and on and on the fight goes. It flows so much better, reads so much better...

And in the short time I've had this account, I'd had the opportunity to collaborate on a neat dialogue scene with someone, I've discussed future collaborations with others, and I've had pleasant conversations with players whose characters were going to be at odds with mine... It's a good feeling. I don't know if I'll have a lot more collaborative works while I'm on this site, but I hope I do.

@Shorticus

When I first started out roleplaying, it was a bit difficult to adjust my usual writing style because I was used to writing on my own - since I have full control over plot and characters, I had no qualms of drafting up interaction-heavy scenes. However, in RP where most players frown upon the notion of 'godmodding', 'metagaming', etc., it was hard to keep the RP moving forward...even harder when the players don't often share the same idea of how to develop the plot further, and both sides do nothing to take the first step forward because no one dared to "offend" the other/to be seen as an arrogant snob.

Back then, I thought that RP was something like a restricted form of partnership storywriting.

...Until I met some wonderful players who are, thankfully, open to the idea of collaborative RPing instead of the traditional, linear back-and-forth style. It actually made RPing so much more exciting - just like you said: full of comedy gold, blood-pumping thrills and witty twists. More importantly, the overall flow really makes you feel that the RP is on the roll, not stuck stagnant in the middle of nowhere. It also helps to ease my writer's block - I mean, two or more heads are better than one, yeah.

Before long, I'm already deep in collab hell.

Also, I just want to say that it's nice to be able to join roleplays that let me post at a pace that's... well, more my own. I'm a busy student, and I can't always post at the same rate as everyone else. In the past, I've lost friends over my busy schedule: people I played tabletop games with, people I roleplayed on WoW with... Some folks I played with just couldn't accept that my schedule was unpredictable, that I'd have to skip some game sessions, that I'd have to reschedule things to study more, or that, yeah, I sometimes forget I have an assignment due until the last minute and so have to stop whatever I'm doing and get that assignment done.

But thus far, I've had great experiences on the forum and great leniency concerning my timetable. Folks don't mind that I expect to only be able to post <X> times per week. I haven't been throttled for posting something a day after I said I'd have it done. There's a lot of understanding in general. I'm happy about that.

@Shorticus

This.

While I'll be forever amazed at people who are able to dedicate so much time from their real life to cyberspace - for example, online gaming and forum roleplaying, it gets annoying when they are unable to understand that there are people who are unable to do the same, because ultimately we are all still physically living in the real world, not digital (no matter how much most of us dreamed to, ha). Like you I'm still a student, and I also have other RL commitments/issues to deal with - and please, don't give me craps like time management and whatnot. I tried to make timetables but realized the hard way that it's difficult to follow through (long story, but let's just say that my RL is often unpredictable and I'm on the move a lot).

...Oh wait, this is supposed to be a thread for gushing, not for complaining.

Which is what I'm going to talk about now: that I'm very very grateful to some of my 1x1 partners for being graciously patient with my snail-slow progress and episodes of temporary disappearance, for not bombarding me with rude demands that I must post at least some form of purple prose immediately, for having mutual understanding and respect that we all have a life to live outside of a shared interest/hobby.

[Billsomething]

A long time ago i had a hard time writing stories, just because i didn't have the drive for it. but one day i decided to try role playing and since then i have become more active in writing. so i kind of like to think that role-playing reignited my passion for writing. so yeah thanks to this site and it's many players i have regained a passion for something i had lost some time ago

[Rai]

I like how the people who join my roleplays are way more artful with theer words. Also they get the ideas im trying to get across. Not even my irl friends get my stories.

[Eklispe]

Got 70 bucks for birthday, getting new fire emblem games, booya. Also posted a lot today. Double booya. Also got candy. Pretty good day.

[Engel]

I got constructive comments on an idea I've had for a while today. It was in-depth, not just good or interesting after a glance. I feel like I can actually move forward, and improve it. It's nice to have found that one person that may be able to assist in the future too, hopefully.

[Camerch]

I love video games, but they all have set mechanics and methods that you have to use. You're restricted to the controls and abilities the game gives you.

The fact that RPs are creative enough to allow you to get away with saying "Let's use this glove of pickpocketing to scale a cliff" and "My character is a bear that pretends to speak English through bluffing" makes me so happy.

[ClocktowerEchos]

I love video games, but they all have set mechanics and methods that you have to use. You're restricted to the controls and abilities the game gives you.

The fact that RPs are creative enough to allow you to get away with saying "Let's use this glove of pickpocketing to scale a cliff" and "My character is a bear that pretends to speak English through bluffing" makes me so happy.

@Camerch

RPs can be pretty amazing like that. I know that some GMs accept other wise ridiculous things because they enjoy the audacity of it all

I know there are some who would accept giants painted a neon hot pink to be like stealthy ninjas because no one has ever seen a neon hot pink giant (get the word play? :P)

[SleepingSilence]

I didn't expect to meet as many awesome people on here as I did. I've had absolutely garbage luck on the internet, despite being incredibly social. (couldn't be that a high percentage of people on the internet of antisocial bitter assholes/I guess to be fair people in general its just on the internet were the extremists are even louder.) But it finally seems to have gotten me somewhere. Enjoying my time here, even if most of that has to do with people and not the activity I came to do...

Also took 7th on a popular twitch stream, poker tournament out of 46 people? It was a ton of fun that I didn't expect.

Having a good month overall really, despite many problems that carried over from month previous.

[AlteredTundra]

I just love that feeling of amazement when a partner you had started a rp 2 years ago that went silent just a year after starting it contacts you to see if you still want to continue it. And that wonderful feeling when that same chemistry that you two had when you first started never left, and it was as if things never stopped—just had a long waiting period.

#thebestfeelingintheworld

[Cyndyr]

Recently got back into contact with my one of my oldest best friends. He and I often wrote crossovers together and while I'm not the "gushy" type, I'm thrilled beyond words that we are talking again. Currently, we're trying to relaunch another crossover Roleplay and well, let's see where that goes.

[SleepingSilence]

Spent time with a friend I haven't seen in a long time, and had a really good time today, and my month (past 30 some days) has been quite enjoyable overall.

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[vancexentan]

I really enjoy making characters. They're for me one of the best parts of the roleplay. Nothing makes me more excited to roleplay than making an awesome character (only to have them be crushed because no one posts).

[AlteredTundra]

This is sort of RP-related, but it's mainly something for me and what coincidentally happened.

Okay, so like, a little more than six months, I've been kind of tinkering with an original idea for a Slice-of-Life-esque novel idea, right? Like, mostly what I have is the idea for the plot to revolves around the lives of 3-4 core families and the people in them(all ages). Well, the only thing I managed to get gathered was the name and some misc. info(consensus, geological profile, certain imports/exports and the like). The main aspect I was having a problem was the families. I wasn't sure what names I wanted to give them and what ethnicity I wanted them to be.

Now to what really amazed me recently.

Overthe past - oh I wanna say two months? - I've slowly been developing a few families for various RPs I've joined. It recently became aware to me that I unknowingly created those 3-4 families that I originally needed for my idea. It was something that really shocked me because I actually made serious headway in developing my novel idea.

Yeah, I don't know, I just wanted to share that with you guys. It was something that genuinely made my night/morning(it's currently 3:12am when I typed this) something special.

[Zorogami]

Going through some tough times, so I'm really thankful for the RPs here that keep me entertained and allow me to think about other stuff instead of focusing on everything that is going down the drain. There is one RP in particular which I'm loving, the GMs are doing a great job, the characters are fun, interesting and well-written...i could not ask for more :)

[El Taco Taco]

All of my partners for being ridiculously patient with my erratic posting schedule. I don't deserve such lovely writing buddies <3

[Gendarme]

I wonder if I'd be resurrecting a thread by posting, but...I don't believe there's another thread around for something like this. So I'll post here!

I'm very fond of the Advanced section so far. I mean, I've only dipped my toe in the water so far, but the welcome was much more than I was expecting. They don't appear afraid to give criticism either, and in my meager experience so far, said criticism tends to be useful and rarely done with malice. Granted, I've only received a bit over a PM. I thought that in the best case scenario I'd be ignored, and in the worst case scenario treated as a joke. Which seems very silly in hindsight. For the longest time I thought the Advanced section was filled with rude and snobbish people. That was a generalization I had which was unfounded. If I had browsed the Advanced section more before, maybe my opinion would have changed sooner.

So to those who've given me a good welcome in the Advanced section, all I have to say is "Thank you." While I'm sure there are a few bad apples in the Advanced section, if the civil and kind attitude I've been subjected to is any indication, there are a lot less than I thought.

(I just kind of rambled on here. In summary what I'm trying to say is thanks to those who've offered me a polite welcome in the Advanced section.)