There’s lots of people on here who ask for roleplay, some who critique others abilities at it. I’ve even seen a few people ask ‘how to roleplay better?’
But I think we need to ask, WHY do you roleplay? Do you enjoy making little romantic stories with friends? Going on fantastical adventures with your party of dastardly knights and mages? Having a brawl between you and a person you have beef with? There’s tons of reasons, but I’m curious on what brings you guys to roleplay as a whole!
For me, it would largely be about the exploration of emotionally twisty situations. Whether it’s passionate lust, or dangerous, unwise predicaments my serpents get themselves into, what drives me to roleplay is clashing their personalities against different folks. I enjoy seeing what comes out of pushing IC boundaries.
I have a few reasons! Roleplay is a social activity and a way to spend time with people who I already know and like. It’s also a creative exercise; it’s fun to put myself in another person’s head and think about how they might react to certain situations, or what they might think or feel. It’s also a means of expressing myself and my own desires. I guess also there’s roleplay for the sake of horny, but that’s practically a given around here.
Semi-retired player from this platform here!
I role play to escape reality. I am a rather boring human with a rather boring existence, therefore, I need something to do, no? And there is anything better than role play, where I can become a knight in shining armour, a dragon with fiery breath, a fox who is a mercenary and well, if it has a lore and you can think it, there is a chance I may play it.
So yes, I like to write stories and RP is, to me, a fun way to write a book with someone else. There is some satisfaction and fun to see two completely different character develop together…are they enemies to lovers? Are they lovers to anemies? Are they family? friends? How is their relationship? How will it develop?
Role play is often so difficult to predict that gives me a special excitement: you never know what is going to happen unless, of course, you WANT something specific to happen.
All this to say rp is neat.
My primary RP driver is to fulfill social and creative needs. I enjoy interacting with the assortment of wonderful characters on the platform, enacting cozy slice-of-life scenes, indulging in silly or whimsical play, flirting, fucking, friendship. I like the act of writing, though my prose is nothing special, and I feel like I can express myself better with my text than with my voice. I have other characters that are more creative exercises, exploring another’s perspective, different character interactions, different thoughts and emotions, though truthfully I don’t play those characters as often.
For me the reason changes a lot lately. Two years ago I’d say it’s all just about sex and horniness. Nowadays it still is very often but I learned to enjoy building a story around a character or even multiple and not just focus on smut scenarios. I like to think about, what is their backstory? Their family? Religion, if any, and so on. Well, but why RP then? You could just write a story then. Well, if you have an other person, you get input that you cannot (entirely) control. It’s like a mix of story writing and impro theatre. If that makes any sense since I actually hate both but love the combination.
Besides that it gives you the possibility to “play out” stories that are not possible in real life and also let you escape and forget your own life for a moment.
Hope you get what I’m trying to say with it as I’m not sure how to explain it.
As for “roleplaying better”. It’s always good if you want to improve to make it more enjoyable for yourself or the others but not on the cost of your own enjoyment. It makes not sense if you start hating roleplaying because you force it. I already met people that require writing a roman with every reply. I understand that some level of detail is important to have something you can reply to.
EDIT: Oh, “December” was December of last year not this year. Well dang.
I ask myself that a lot, especially if I end up on a real cruddy MUD.
The basic reason is that I have hundreds of very rough character concepts sitting around and when I put 'em in a MUD or a MUCK it forces me to actually develop them to a functional level. Might even inspire me to draw but let’s not get too hasty -_-zz
I never play myself as a character, I find that’s a great way to take the game too seriously and get into fights.
Despite my always being isolated, and awkwardness to interact with people oftentimes. I am a sucker for a good collaborative story. Even though I haven’t been able to indulge in that for quite a while due to reasons.
Lewd and stuff is all well and good, but nothing tickles that sweet spot like a good story. Be at advancing your own characters personal plot or side plot or helping somebody else advance theirs, or even advancing a overarching plot that you and multiple characters might be a part of, or all the above! Even just in general mundane life roleplay can be quite enjoyable with others, those are just as important as a ‘plot’.
I have seen some of the poses that people make on hearing budry does it make me feel intimidated as all get out. Well it is intimidating it does make me wish I could string sentences together that don’t sound fragmented as all get out. Every so often I can pull one out of the ass, but often times it’s hard. And that runs into its own negative feedback loop when the anxiety kicks in that I feel like I’m doing crappy when someone’s able to put out something of awesome quality.
I also have various character ideas in the head and not enough profile slots for them, so I have a notebook for I just bullet point various details about each character I have rolling around in the ol brain case. One of those ‘Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks,’ moments. That way lies burnout for me.