I loooooove to roleplay, but there hasn't been anything that interested me lately. I've created a few RPs before, but I tend to only do so when things are active, as I'm impatient and if things are unactive, the RP eventually dies with no ending and so I don't want to risk putting my best ideas forth only for them to crash and burn violently.
Dragonfire wrote:
Well, I believe that before the Great Reset of 2004, the RP boards were really active. I think what also happened was that most of the people who RPed left.
Both of your assumptions are correct, but the first is only half so. It wasn't the crash in '04 that killed the board, it was really the timewarp in August of '03- the forum went down and when it was back up, all the posts from the past week were deleted, aside from one exception- the RP board. The ENTIRE RP board was wiped clean- all RP threads deleted. And trust me, that was A LOT. A WHOLE GIANT GREAT HUGE GINORMOUS AMOUNT OF LOT. There was even a 350+ page RP that was deleted (though I think it was over by then, thankfully for the RPers in it).
It was horrible.
We had been super active before that, but after, while it was active... Not as much. And then the crash (not a reset- the entire forum was deleted and had to be made from scratch again) in '04 was a death sentence- it was fairly active for a little while after that, but in the past year the activity has slowly dwindled down- I remember last July (of '05) I was in a pretty active RP that even finished, but I don't think I've been in any since then- there just hasn't really been anything that interested me.
It's mostly due to many of the active RPers leaving or stopping. I miss so many people that I RPed with and learned to RP with (if anyone even mentions my very first RP post, I'm going to rip them to shreds- it's SO HUMILIATING to think about D= ). I have many fond memories of the RP board, but that's pretty much it.
Oh, great. I've gone and rambled on and on and now I'm depressed about it.
Doozer wrote:
I love to RP, but as for here on PPT, I haven't come across anything that has caught my eye as of yet.
I should try and kick off my own.....
Oooh, please do! =)
kiay wrote:
Because I really suck at it, It takes me forever to come up with something to say and my writting skills are horrible. It also takes a lot of time and I just don't like to spent so much time on something.
Don't worry- EVERYONE starts out bad. Everyone, unless they're some sort of prodigy, in which case I hate them and thus deny their very existence. You're probably not as bad as you think. We are our own harshest critics, after all.
RPing helps to develop writing skills, because all that you're really doing is practising over and over again- and it's fun! As long as you follow a plot, develop your character and don't break any really essential rules (no godmodding and no mary sues (or I break every bone in your body =D )), no one cares what quality your writing is.
It doesn't take up THAT much time- it just tends to seem like it. The greatest thing about RPing is that you don't have to really do much aside from help a plot along- the creator makes up the basic plot and story and ends it, while you and other RPers just toss ideas around and go with what you want.
Try it! It's fun.
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