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Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

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Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

You can expect 100% commitment my dude but you are never going to get it.

We are strangers. This is a hobby. No matter how good an RP may be it is going to come in Second or Third or Fourth or Twentieth to a good number of more real more substantive life issues. If you want 100% commitment, if you expect 100% commitment, you should state as such in your Interest Checks but I guarantee you if you do you will get 0 takers.

You can hate being ghosted with all your being, that is not going to eliminate it. It's something we all experience, it's something we all do much as we try to avoid it. It is a reality of the hobby and something you need to come to terms with if you are going to continue in the hobby.

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Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

I think you should at the very least try to do less of it. I've advised you this way before and you haven't listened but try joining RPs instead of GMing. It's a lot easier. If you still want to GM that's fine. Pick a story you want to GM and develop it. Not for a few hours. Not for a day or two. For weeks or months. Write iterations of it. Post it up in General Interest and see how folks respond. Remember this is collaborative so you're not just writing for yourself and your interests you're writing to bring others in. You need hooks. You need formatting and presentation, maybe not for you if you just really don't care but for others. They do care. You might be able to overcome poor formatting and presentation with some absolutely divine writing, but the presentation really isn't that hard.

Google some images for settings you like. Google Medieval Paintings or Fantasy Scenes or SciFi paintings or book covers. You could get more specific and Google Star Trek/Star Wars/Warhammer/Jurassic Park/Game of Thrones art. Get some images.

If you develop a setting with several different factions or world views or whatever that others can slot themselves into, or a setting with enough grounding to encourage people to want to come up with their own factions, while you are building rapport with users by posting in their stories then by the time those stories die out or finish or whatever you will have made some writing partner buddies and have a single well developed Interest Check and RP Starter.

This is much more likely to produce good results than typing out 50-100 Interest Checks a year.

These are ways to make the process easier. If that still is too much than just fuck the whole GMing thing. You don't need it to RP. I barely ever GM. Like maybe once or twice here. Just join RPs, or if that's too stressful too or you get too bummed out by being ghosted just read them. There's plenty to read and more every day.

Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

Feel that way if you want man, but realize saying that over and over makes you look really bad. This shit is social which means its based around relationships. There are plenty of folks here I don't get along with outside of the forum but I don't bring that shit to the forum because I might still want to RP with them. It's social shit.

If you go around saying "Man I sure hate getting ghosted all the time, they're honor bound to keep posting with me" it's not quite the same but comes across similarly to me going on a date or hanging out with friends and saying "Man I sure hate my friends not including me in everything" or "Man I sure hate women not going on a second date with me or etc etc etc." It makes folks wonder why people ghost you and if perhaps they have made a mistake by starting this with you. The luck stuff doesn't help either.

Best foot forward means presenting yourself as, which ultimately means BEING, someone that folks would and do want to hang out with. If you're telling them how no one ever sticks around to RP with you, particularly if you are complaining about that and saying people should be punished for ghosting, they are not going to want to RP with you. It is a self fulfilling prophesy.

Someone said it earlier but its the same as the Nice Guy phenomenon.
If I meet a woman and things are going good and I say "I hope you go on another date with me, women never want to go on a second date with me, they never answer when I call, I hate it when they do that, they shouldnt be able to just ghost me, I'm a nice guy" it's not going to go over well. It's not the same thing as RP Ghosting, but you can see the similarities and even if you specifically can't most folks can.

Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

There are several examples of Good or Decent formatting in the OP. Here is an example of great formatting and presentation and all that. I remember her work even though I've never done an RP with her because it's that fucking purty.

OOC OP
roleplayerguild.com/topics/183907-ros…

Character Page
roleplayerguild.com/topics/183907-ros…

Every character has their own color, making it easier to know which character you are reading if you lose track.

OOC OP has a great format.

Title (centered)
Little Divider Line Things
Blurb about the RP and Setting
More Divider Line Things
Personal Introduction from the OP
Rules
Character Info/Guidelines
Deadline and Discord Link

Next Post is a list of all the Characters

Fucking aces.

Then you go to the Characters Sheet.

Fucking Aces.

All of them have plenty of information and stylish face claim things that usually tell you a little more about the character just from the images used. Half of these Character Sheets have more effort put into them than 90% of my Interest Checks. Aces goddamit.

One day I'm joining one of these as the asshole alcoholic groundskeeper/janitor and I'm gonna have a blast.

Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

When it comes to using aesthetics or the topic of them, I'm not a fan of aesthetics at all really. I'm one never to have the need of things like that as I'm more about detail and fundamentals in terms of choice and orientation of things in an IC. I don't think adding color would make that big of a difference.

@rebornfan320

To many that is a fundamental.

You want others to join you. They want aesthetics. If you want them to join you you need to put in more effort. You says you're going 100% but you also admit to not bothering with aesthetics.

Your posts may not need color, though it sure helps, but your OP and Interest Check do.

Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

Lore

Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

Here's a relatively simple Character Sheet I started but never finished for an RP. It's just font sizes, colors, alignments, and that's about it.

Jonah Hex (No Where Near Finished)

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

J O N A H H E X

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J O N A H H E X ♦ B O U N T Y H U N T E R ♦ T H E W E S T ♦ F R O N T I E R J U S T I C E

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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"You don't bury him the way he ought to be buried, Smithy, then you better get all your personal business fixed right --
-- cause you'll be stuffin' one of your own boxes."

November 1st, 1838 - North Western Missouri
Jonah Hex is born and grows up a regular victim of physical abuse at the hands of Woodson Hex, an embittered alcoholic father, and a regular witness to his mother's own brutal beatings at the hands of the same man. Some small relief that Old Man Woodson found his son made a better punching bag than his wife.

Summer, 1851 - Heading West
Thirteen year old Jonah Hex is growing wild and Woodson takes him off West to turn him in to a proper man. Teach him roping, hunting, riding, all manner of manly pursuits. Sumbitch sells him in to slavery, his idea, to the Mescalero Apache in exchange for safe passage through New Mexico. Apache work him constant until he proved his worth by saving the Chieftain from a wily puma ambush. Jonah is made a full-fledged member of the tribe and adopted by Chieftain but sure enough the Chieftain's blood son, Noh-Tante, grows resentful of his new brother. Both men had their eye on a young woman in the tribe, White Fawn, and it all came to a head during their manhood rite.

Spring, 1854 - New Mexico
Sixteen years old and undergoing the manhood ritual with Noh-Tante that would allow each to take a wife, he is betrayed by his brother while they rustle horses from an enemy tribe, the Kiowa, and is left for dead. Dead he would have been if a Cavalry patrol hadn't happened along. Though the Cavalry mistook him for one of their own they ended up shooting him in the gut and leaving him for dead, once again, when he tried to stop their slaughter of the entire Kiowa tribe. By the time he had been rescued by an old trapper and returned to his tribe's camp they were long gone and he was alone once more.

This is where you outline your vision for the character including any notable changes or differences from the regularly accepted canon. This should be a short summary that provides insight into where the character is in terms of their overall progress and development.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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Why do you want to play this character, what is the driving motivation behind both this desire and the character themselves. What do you hope to accomplish and where do you want the character's story/stories to go?

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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Any additional notes you want to put either for yourself, the GM's or other players to help clarify your vision or continuity.

S A M P L E P O S T:

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A sample post that can be used in the IC if you so desire upon acceptance. This post should provide an example of your vision for the desired character. This sample post should meet all standards outline in the rules and additionally include dialogue, mannerisms and other actions representative of your intended portrayal.

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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A list linking to your IC posts as they're created. This can be used for a reference guide to your character or to summarize completed arcs and stories.

Used some Westerny Colors and made an outline for the sheet. Not a tremendous amount of work. Hardest part was finding Hex Values for the colors but that's as simple as a Google search.

Edit : Congrats on the contract work Pooper.

Why Is No One Joining My RP (General Advice Thread)

He's older and I think they're either self published or E published. Not to take away from the point. One mans success is not your failure. If there is room in the world for erotic novels about having sex with Bigfoot, the Coronavirus and a pack of velociraptors then there is room for whatever shit you want to write about.

You just need to settle on one thing to write about.

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