The invincible, mysterious, loner, Casanova badass with a TRAGIC PAST.
At some point in the past we have all roleplayed with that guy.
(Or maybe played that guy LOL).
Please comment if you had to work with someone who played that fella, or if were that fella.
Hey, everyone! I just wanted to share a little something about my writing journey. I used to have a 200-word limit per reply, and I’ve always tried to be honest about my writing because I don’t want to set expectations too high.
I remember reading a post here once where someone was criticizing a writer for writing around 200 words per reply, and it stuck with me. I just wanted to say that not everyone who has that limit is the same kind of writer or has the same reasons for it.
When I was less experienced, I said that if someone wanted to write more, they were welcome to. I wasn’t trying to present myself as someone who could write novella-length replies, but I also didn’t want to limit how much my writing partners could write if that was what they enjoyed.
Thankfully, no one I’ve roleplayed with so far has complained about my writing, and no one has left a roleplay with me either. In fact, I write more than 200 words always. I actually feel much more confident writing in my native language, so writing in English is still a learning process for me.
I have no idea what else to call this post, but essentially: I wrote on a forum on-and-off for nearly a decade, and today I've finally decided to leave this particular group of writers and that chapter behind and it hurts and I'm not sure where else to speak on this.
A huge part of me feels nasty for leaving silently, but in a lot of ways it feels like I'm saying goodbye to a graveyard that I refused to admit only housed the dead: a dead discord, a dead site, writers who either are no longer interested in forum roleplaying as a hobby or are just too afraid to abandon a space of the internet they've known for years. And those who were active have long since jumped ship for a new site, and I think this is my confusion:
Has anyone ever felt your favourite partner had moved on to something else, and now you're left to sit on a shelf? I would pay to meet someone and write with them successfully for years, or join a new forum that's active - but I highkey feel like this is unrealistic for 2026 roleplay or I'm just not fit for yet another social activity 🥲
I'm in a game and we've been going at it for a while and it's overall pretty enjoyable. I know that they use AI for the images and frankly it doesn't bother me. I've been trying to use real art, but occasionally I would as well, so whatever. But a little while ago I realized that their posts started feeling different. Same length, but just with that AI vibe. I thought maybe I was overthinking it, cause after all, AI is trained on human works. But they just made a post that still has the response in the beginning of the text that they forgot to cut out. And it's just frustrating because I've been working to make sure that I stretch myself to make multiparagraph, detailed posts to keep up. Especially because in the beginning of the game they asked me for more and said that it was discouraging to put all that effort into multiparagraphs to get a few sentences from me. And I was always worried it wasn't enough and now they're not even writing their own posts. Idk, if that's your thing fine by me but it's frustrating to encounter.
I've been doing Rp for a few years now, and I always tried to bring more developed ideas that I had a genuine interest in. But as time went on, I felt that people were more interested in quick and simple scenario ideas, which is fine, than in ideas that allowed us to envision something long-term, without being stuck at a certain point.
I've also felt that, little by little, I've been writing fewer interesting ideas, and when I did have some, I had to post them cheaply to get attention, and with some luck, develop the idea when my Rp partner was interested.
I've felt that I'm having fewer and fewer interesting ideas that I myself want to pursue, constantly deleting posts I make just minutes after posting them. I don't know if I'm tired or if I'm suddenly looking for partners in the wrong place. Of course, sometimes I still find a good partner or two, but they end up being the exception, and a good story has to have an ending, instead of trying to stretch it out unnecessarily. Which I think is good, because these people often end up becoming my friends, which is funny.
In short, I think it's fair to say that instead of cooking at home, I'm just consuming fast food.
Bro I had lesbian fantasy adventure and smut rps lol
Hello! It's me again. I was on here asking for advice on how to be a good roleplay partner, considering this was my first time attempting to join this community. Update so far for my journey, it's difficult. The amount of creeps I've encountered(don't get me started on the feet pics) is astronomical, because I discovered roleplay can mean a completely different thing then what I want.
I'm primarily a creative writer and love tonworld build. I decided that if I couldn't find the roleplay I want, I might as well make it myself. I had this idea I was planning on turning into a fan fiction(me and my friend were planning on rewriting harry Potter and it went into us creating our own in universe slightly non cannon village). She'd told me she used the setting in a roleplay before and that gave me the idea. I can us it also in a roleplay setting but flesh it out a bit. Which lead me to making a whole language (I'm not a Tolkien so I'm not even sure if what I made is accurate) a history book, Callander for in cannon dates, beastary, magical plants(with names both in Latin an my cannon language 'EIRAVEL') wand cores, spells and potions. Because the foundation was already made, I just fleshed thing out. The list includes tradition, government, clothing an textile, magical inventions and domestic inventions,whole law and governance. This isn't everything, but I'm a huge world builder an love to create world that feel like they might actually exist. I even compared it to real world history(for flavoring purposes,as it is anAU) and so on.
I'm not sure if this is too much for a first roleplay server or If it would be to much reading for the current climate of roleplay. It's going to be adults(a I am an adult) with verification and literacy verification. You get one character at the beginning, with four character slots but you must complete a full roleplay scene with your first character before applying for a new one and so on(like if you have two character, you must submit a new scene to get a third character) because I thought it would foster more activities. There's going to be special roles that can be auditioned for at the beginning of each in game year, and ways to add stuff to the cannon lore through applying and me or whateva mods I have making sure it makes sense.
It's the beginning and I'm not sure if I'm doing thing properly. If anyone has made a discord server or has been a mod for one, any advice would be helpful!
Apologies for any spelling,formatting, or Grammer errors. I'm on my phone on my lunch break and english isn't my first language (Grammerly isn't on right now). For the AI: THIS POST ISN'T ASKING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS OR ASKING FOR HELP TO FIND PARTNERS BUT FOR GENUINE FEEDBACK FROM OTHER USERS. THANK YOU.
So I’ve been role playing for more than a few years now. Most of my time has been spent finding partners on instagram but I decided to try out Reddit.
I post a couple ads yesterday, just trying to find partners. I knew that it might be hard, I’m looking for a royal plot and for some reason I’ve found it’s super hard to find people who want to do a royal plot. So I scroll through to see what other interesting plots I can find while waiting. Find this person who likes to do open world roleplay with very minimal plot and likes to start with our characters being children.
I’m thinking ‘cool, childhood friends or rivals or something.’ I’ve never started a roleplay all the way at the beginning like that but it seems interesting and I’m willing to try it out. Plus I’ve never not really plotted a decent amount, maybe it’ll be something fun.
I message them and ask if they’re still looking and introduce myself. They’re like ‘did you read all of the post?’ And I said I did. Then they replied with I don’t think so. I think you’re missing something. At this point I’m scratching my head, confused as hell. So I ask them what I could’ve missed, I thought the post was pretty straight forward.
They go ‘I’m talking about the pervert part.’ At this point I go back to the post alarmed, thinking I missed something. There’s no mention of being a pervert, just that they get attached to their partners which is whatever to me. So I ask for confirmation on what they mean. They just reply with that they’re a pervert. So at this point I’m like, oh my god. They’re into little kids. What I thought was like a cool childhood friendship thing where we could write a little about it and fast forward through it, they meant they like to play as little kids for a reason.
I feel so stupid, I should’ve read in between the lines. I literally just want a fun royal plot with some supernatural and fantasy elements added in. 😭
This is merely for shits and giggles since I ran into it too often, so don't take it to heart. 🫶
This is for humor and will surely be taken gracefully.
But genuinely, it feels like there is such an uneven amount of effort required when replying to some F4M roleplay requests. It feels far less like coordinating a hobby and far more like wooing a girl on a dating app or applying for a job.
That, and the amount of RP'ers in this category who seem to believe guys just do not care who their OC is, and assume we're fine just filling a role for their convenience is a bit frustrating.
I am completely okay with someone going offline.
However, if it's your turn when you come online after 3 hours, I likely won't be here. And when I am back, I'd prefer to see them just continue the play, instead of seeing three messages like 'Hey, sorry, back now.' 'Are you online?' 'When will you be back!'
Just put the fries in the bag take your turn with the story, bro.
The reason why I think so: If you writing a story progression depends on me waiting for it in real-time, I am gonna assume you are here to jerk off and nothing more.
True story!
Why are there thirst and hunger and sanity and sleep stats if they aren't going to come into play? Why use dice rolls when logic-based combat is more fair in sandboxes? Why do we have to list out an inventory if we aren't going to be going on missions to find things? Why were you asking for NPCs? Why is your only response just "it's copying the tt infection AUs" when those ALSO take the stats into play???
it irritated me so bad that I went and made my own rpg server because god was that an odd experience. After I had invested a bunch into my character sheets and advertising the server too...
Ah yes, I'm the high-strung one because you ignored EVERYTHING I wrote in my post.
Makes totally sense.
I just had a partner unadd me because my bios were “edgy” and “unhinged” it was for a Viking role play. I don’t know if they were expecting them to be whimsical and picking flowers 💀
Anyways that’s my little rant. A little annoyed because I spent two days working on 16 of them just for it to be a waste.