I've taken both approaches, though not strictly in a romance-focused sense.Â
Romance is almost never a major priority for any of my RP. If it happens, that's alright, but I tend to make characters with significant challenges or goals they need to overcome, and romance is the last thing on their minds. However, I have worked closely with friends and collaborators to establish a bond between RP characters before a campaign started. These were people I trusted and whose writing I enjoyed, so I wanted to try out working with them instead of having our characters be independent. It presents problems when people flaked out, but ultimately, just because of how compatible we were writing wise, creating a relationship beforehand just codified what would have likely already happened; our characters tended to, coincidentally, mesh well together as a rule. I've also had impromptu RP romantic relationships emerge too, but these didn't really always leave a lasting impression on me, and they were almost always initiated by the other player.
Usually when these character relationships were established, they were intimate, but not romantic. I've honestly always had more interest in writing about familial relationships, sworn siblings, close friends, rather than romance. In general I can't really wrap my head around it, especially marriage RP. It feels like a difficult restriction for me personally to write around, while providing little enjoyment to me for its own sake. Unless it involves conflict or tragedy in some way, in which case my innate maudlin streak takes hold. Why, I can't really say; I'm not in a huge hurry to get married IRL, maybe that has something to do with it? Or maybe it's because I don't feel I understand how to write a well-adjusted family. Take that as you will.Â
But I've definitely been in a lot of RP while, maybe there might not have been a full-on relationship developing, I've still been perfectly willing to play along with unplanned tension, and I could see something growing out of that if the campaigns lasted longer. On the other hand, I've been in campaigns where the GM tried to pair characters off forcibly, through the use of plot devices native to the setting or "destiny," and that turned out very poorly, but that had a lot to do with the innate incompatibility of our characters and the fact that we were strangers. The manner in which the romance is set up is pretty irrelevant, I think, but everyone already mentioned that. What mattered to me was that I was able to write about things I knew I could entertain others through, and working with people who shared the same desire. If I don't really understand my RP partner, how can I establish a relationship they'll enjoy writing about?
On another note, I personally think immersion is a buzzword, meant to describe a variety of factors that affect enjoyment rather than anything concrete, and too subjective to be a useful measure of quality. But that's a discussion for another time. Certainly, I don't think pre-planned RP in general has any less innate worth than spontaneous RP.
Romance is almost never a major priority for any of my RP. If it happens, that's alright, but I tend to make characters with significant challenges or goals they need to overcome, and romance is the last thing on their minds. However, I have worked closely with friends and collaborators to establish a bond between RP characters before a campaign started. These were people I trusted and whose writing I enjoyed, so I wanted to try out working with them instead of having our characters be independent. It presents problems when people flaked out, but ultimately, just because of how compatible we were writing wise, creating a relationship beforehand just codified what would have likely already happened; our characters tended to, coincidentally, mesh well together as a rule. I've also had impromptu RP romantic relationships emerge too, but these didn't really always leave a lasting impression on me, and they were almost always initiated by the other player.
Usually when these character relationships were established, they were intimate, but not romantic. I've honestly always had more interest in writing about familial relationships, sworn siblings, close friends, rather than romance. In general I can't really wrap my head around it, especially marriage RP. It feels like a difficult restriction for me personally to write around, while providing little enjoyment to me for its own sake. Unless it involves conflict or tragedy in some way, in which case my innate maudlin streak takes hold. Why, I can't really say; I'm not in a huge hurry to get married IRL, maybe that has something to do with it? Or maybe it's because I don't feel I understand how to write a well-adjusted family. Take that as you will.Â
But I've definitely been in a lot of RP while, maybe there might not have been a full-on relationship developing, I've still been perfectly willing to play along with unplanned tension, and I could see something growing out of that if the campaigns lasted longer. On the other hand, I've been in campaigns where the GM tried to pair characters off forcibly, through the use of plot devices native to the setting or "destiny," and that turned out very poorly, but that had a lot to do with the innate incompatibility of our characters and the fact that we were strangers. The manner in which the romance is set up is pretty irrelevant, I think, but everyone already mentioned that. What mattered to me was that I was able to write about things I knew I could entertain others through, and working with people who shared the same desire. If I don't really understand my RP partner, how can I establish a relationship they'll enjoy writing about?
On another note, I personally think immersion is a buzzword, meant to describe a variety of factors that affect enjoyment rather than anything concrete, and too subjective to be a useful measure of quality. But that's a discussion for another time. Certainly, I don't think pre-planned RP in general has any less innate worth than spontaneous RP.
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AV by Kura-Ou
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AV by Kura-Ou
Wiki (Last updated 01/16)
My Balmung profile.
