Valeria

Community Challenge #2

Your colours are really nice on those link-through pictures, Insanity. Like super vibrant and lovely, especially the motifs of the skulls and peacock feathers. *-* What materials were they might I ask? (Pastels maybe?)

Community Challenge #2

I guess I'm first! =) It's a pretty basic drawing in my normal style; as I said it's been lying around in my drawer and all I did was scan and colour it... but I feel like I've managed to get the image I was going for in my head. The girl is actually one of my rp-ing characters here on this site - your typical psychokinetic high-school girl with an Irish blackdog living in her shadow. So yeah... the image is more literal than anything, not really a metaphor for the 'beast within' or anything like that.

Community Challenge #2

Oh yay, another one of these =D I know I kind of disappeared after the last time around, but I'm glad I checked back in time to see this. And thanks Capn Crunch and Rax for your comments on the last thread.

I'm currently somewhat (very?) behind on uni work, so I likely won't be doing a new picture from scratch... However I have an older drawing lying around that I'm going to just colour and motivate myself to finish... I hope that's not against the rules.

Community Challenge # 1

Couldn't choose between ideas so I did two pen-ink drawings - a broken statue and an old horse. I think they could have turned out better, but at least this motivated me to draw. =) It was fun.

When did you start roleplaying? Share your RP story here!

Oh, haha ^^ My origin was in horse and wolf-pack rp's too. It was during the golden years of Neopets.com when the site was actually enjoyable and when its roleplaying forum was thriving. The first-ever few threads I started happened to be immensely popular so that was encouraging. I also discovered what trolls and flame-wars were.

An Idea

(You have another participant btw, I'm totally going to do this =) )

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Is it too late to join the conversation? My complaint isn't about the logistics of RP so much as the tone and content in general. Compared to tabletop, I feel that forum rpg's are shifted towards 'edgy', super-serious content generally lacking in much self-reflexive humour (correct me if I'm living under a rock and have just missed all the humour-centric RP's on this site).

It feels weird to complain about an rp being 'too serious', but sometimes it's just hard to buy into all the dystopian post-apocalyptic angst when there's TOO MUCH of it. Honestly, I've tried starting rp's on this site and elsewhere stipulating a different tone and approach but no one seems to really get it, or if they get it they don't embrace the idea... everyone just ends up ignoring the starting conditions and doing their own thing, making tragic backstories for their characters and being really *serious* in general.

It's not that I don't like drama roleplays anyway, so maybe it's a minor gripe. I think the word I would use is that all the drama and tragedy is just getting a little 'tiresome'.

Hey, New Guy Here

A very warm welcome to you. =) + Modern fantasy is indeed the best genre.

Have you ever hated on your own roleplay?

LowKey123 said
Yeah, this is kinda me.

Me too. What's worse is that I've dropped out of RP's for selfish reasons, like at times I really disliked how MY character was turning out as opposed to other people's. In a way I feel that's a worse frustration than if everyone else in the RP were to be disappointing, not being able to find your feet with a new character/regretting a characterisation choice in hindsight.

It's a lot more difficult to explain anyhow, like "my own character and posts aren't good enough for me, so I don't wanna roleplay with you guys anymore!"

How To Click With Your 1x1

I've had big problems with rp's dying too!! And I must admit I've been the cause of the dead silence once or twice, and it's always when I've been too timid to go up to partners and just tell them everything I don't like about how their concept's turning out, or lack thereof. As I get older, I don't do that anymore -- I just muster up the willpower to tell people why I'm not liking an RP and then try to end it politely, and even then I don't know if that's the right thing to do, because it's not like your partner has asked for your criticism at that stage, even if it might not be personal criticism =/ (thoughts?) Anyway, my point is, maybe it's worthwhile to lay out beforehand (maybe in your search bulletins) whether or not you mind a bit of constructive criticism and whether your partner should be able to tolerate criticism: then you can have a proper conversation about the rp without having to worry about coming across as elitist and mean.

That said, I don't think 'people ending rp's' is always a result of some flaw or deficiency on anyone's part. Like, even a really hardcore rp-er doesn't RP 100% of the time cos answering messages on the internet is usually the least of someone's priorities when they're stressed out or in a crisis... so you might click wonderfully with someone, and have the rp still end for no reason. =(