(01-05-2018, 03:21 PM)Zen Ares Wrote: It's really going to depend on perspectives on the importance of this topic. I've been RPing over 20 years and my roots are purist, in that I find it most enjoyable to use roleplay to find roleplay. Around 5-6 years ago, more communities moved into using OOC communication via forums, while the new generation of RPers at that time desired to know someone OOC before they RPd with them. This nearly killed my enjoyment of RP. I enjoy winding up a few characters, tossing them on a stage (so to speak) and see what happens when they start interacting with others. That's my joy and too much OOC kills RP, IMO.
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"That's my joy and too much OOC kills RP, IMO."
This.... 1000x this....
Yeah, I've been around probably a bit longer, and I agree, I don't like doing RP on forums and the like. I do think forums are great for coordination, OOC lore discussions, getting the word out about events and as as public IC message board. (even 30 years ago [hell, I feel old now] we had a BBS / mailing list for those purposes for the two LARPs I was dealing with).
I really can't do the pre-planned RP, I feel so lost and theirs this little voice in my head yelling at me for metagaming the characters. I could get on a soapbox about the death of the virtual world concept and our move towards the fixed vignette style of RP but that really begs another topic all together. Â
Us living world folks are still out there. Don't despair too much. My last rant on it elsewhere brightened a few others to the concept, maybe... just maybe... our open world RP will blossom again. (I'm a hopeless optimistic)
