(08-11-2015, 08:49 AM)Sylentmana Wrote: I think this largely has to do with one's preferred method of RP. There are many who need a certain level of context and are really only in character when doing a scene. If this is your way of RPing, then you may need to get in contact with the other players ahead of time to discuss possible scenarios in which your characters could interact in a manner that makes sense.Â
Agreeing with this.
Also:
I'm one of those people that is practically almost always in character, but that is just my personal preference and I don't expect everyone to be the same. Â If I know someone who wants to RP but needs a setup or something, I suggest we meet up at a specific place at a certain time, but I leave details fairly vague. Â I think of it like when you make plans to go hang out with a friend, but have no immediate plans other than "hang out with friend" and just let it build from there. Â
If it is someone I don't know IC, I'll similarly offer a few vague suggestions if they need a reason to start interaction. Â For instance, I might suggest "I'll be at (location) at around (time), maybe you could say you saw him drop something and have been trying to catch up to return it?". Â I don't like to pre-plan the whole thing too often (I prefer the spontaneity of on-the-spot freeform RP), so I leave a lot of it open to interpretation for them to go at their own pace. Â Â
Otherwise, I just let it happen when it happens. Â I've had plenty of great RP friends over the years that I only had the chance to RP with sporadically for one reason or another (such as both of us having some involvement in heavy RP groups that didn't exactly interact), but every so often we found a way to make it work. Â One of those friends and I even went so far as to become RP "pen pals" of sorts and would send in-character messages in the form of letters to each other during the stretches where we just couldn't get together to RP.
