I worry that I'm not a good enough writer to some people, or that my OOC behaviour puts people off from wanting anything to do with my character.
When I started RPing 10 years ago it had ups and downs, it was a learning curve. Started in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, then SWTOR, then GW2, WoW, then finally FFXIV where I actually felt at home for the first few years. Without seeking or planning, my character got in a romantic relationship which also lead to an OOC one, so this game is kinda special to me for that. Sadly a year ago we put trust in a DM to help us with a story, but it ended up dragging on for a few months and made our characters locked in our own house. After that "arc" finally ended, we took a break from RPing.
Now that I've come back to the RP scene (or trying to), I'm bumping into a lot of RPers who claim to not want to RP with me because they have better writing skills. Now I don't think I'm bad. I'm simple. My character talks more than he actually emotes through paragraphs, and I use the ingame emotes to compensate. I'm not very descriptive when it comes to writing body language and a ton of other information and maybe even a single word in a paragraph. If I'm RPing with someone and they mostly talked and used ingame emotes, very minimum /em stuff, I'm completely fine with that. I've been told "that's bad RP" or "that's bad writing", and you know, it's definitely not either of them. It's just a simplistic form I prefer to do, as long as my character gets the point across.
It could even just be the fact that I like to treat my character as if he was an NPC you can interact with in the game and bring along for your RP plots.
TLDR: I get put off RPing with people who think I'm not good enough to RP with them, and that puts me back in my hidey hole.
When I started RPing 10 years ago it had ups and downs, it was a learning curve. Started in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, then SWTOR, then GW2, WoW, then finally FFXIV where I actually felt at home for the first few years. Without seeking or planning, my character got in a romantic relationship which also lead to an OOC one, so this game is kinda special to me for that. Sadly a year ago we put trust in a DM to help us with a story, but it ended up dragging on for a few months and made our characters locked in our own house. After that "arc" finally ended, we took a break from RPing.
Now that I've come back to the RP scene (or trying to), I'm bumping into a lot of RPers who claim to not want to RP with me because they have better writing skills. Now I don't think I'm bad. I'm simple. My character talks more than he actually emotes through paragraphs, and I use the ingame emotes to compensate. I'm not very descriptive when it comes to writing body language and a ton of other information and maybe even a single word in a paragraph. If I'm RPing with someone and they mostly talked and used ingame emotes, very minimum /em stuff, I'm completely fine with that. I've been told "that's bad RP" or "that's bad writing", and you know, it's definitely not either of them. It's just a simplistic form I prefer to do, as long as my character gets the point across.
It could even just be the fact that I like to treat my character as if he was an NPC you can interact with in the game and bring along for your RP plots.
TLDR: I get put off RPing with people who think I'm not good enough to RP with them, and that puts me back in my hidey hole.
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