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PWEEP
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03-04-2011, 12:01 AM
I didn't think this would go in the RP forum, since it's not an actual roleplay. But I don't know where else it would go :gonk:
I've been roleplaying for several years now, since I was about thirteen (eighteen now). I've progressively gotten better. I started off roleplaying in Yahoo! chatrooms, then moved to Gaia online. There, I found privately owned roleplaying forums (hosted on invisionfree/proboards, a free hosting service). I've been there for several years, and I currently run two of my own.
I love roleplaying. I love how it helps my imagination, and I like playing out different characters in fantasy settings. I don't like real-life roleplays, I prefer fantasy ones. I help run a vampire/human roleplay, and a fan-made site on a TV show I like.
I don't like roleplaying on Menewsha. It's a little too relaxed for me. I can post anywhere between 500-1,000 words a post, and I prefer having an entire website to my roleplaying. Makes it prettier, and easier. I also like to establish my characters, and fill them out quite a bit. I do not like just making up new ones for every roleplay, with little information on them. I have six characters, with extremely detailed profiles, as of right now.
So, what about you? Spoons: (REMEMBER TO QUOTE THEM!)
1. Do you roleplay? If yes, why? If not, why not?
2. How did you get started, and how long ago was it?
3. Where do you roleplay now?
4. What's your favorite settings?
5. How many different characters do you have?
6. Do you prefer joining roleplays, or making your own?
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Sir D . L O Van Lobsters
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03-04-2011, 12:09 AM
I'm not really knowledgeable on the role playing thing. How does one "get better" at role playing? Like learning more strategies?
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PWEEP
Shadow Panda
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03-04-2011, 12:14 AM
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I'm not really knowledgeable on the role playing thing. How does one "get better" at role playing? Like learning more strategies?
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To me, getting "better" is more or less, getting better at writing. Instead of saying something like:
Elena walked inside the strange house.
Getting "better" would be writing it better, sort of like:
Elena paused as she placed her hand on the cold knob of the door, cautiously turning it. The eerie creak from the old entrance was enough to send shivers down her spine. As the door opened, the smell of rotten and molding wood assaulted her nostrils, and she stepped back from the horrid odor (...)
Using all the senses, bringing in the reader, making the post interesting. Makes sense?
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Amethyst Lavenlight
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03-04-2011, 12:15 AM
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I'm not really knowledgeable on the role playing thing. How does one "get better" at role playing? Like learning more strategies?
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Like what Pweep said, working on your writing and description skills. "Getting better" could also include adding clever "twists" to a roleplay, making memorable characters with unique personalities, and stuff like that.
All right, on to the spoons...
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I do. I find it entertaining and it helps me build up my writing skills.
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Erm...Years ago. xD Back when I was ten, my friend introduced me to GaiaOnline and taught me how to roleplay. Then I went on a hiatus lasting about three years...And now I'm back into it. P:
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Right now, I'm sticking to private threads here on Mene. I don't have the time to keep up with everyone else on a group thread. :c
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Settings...like genres? xD I prefer anything horror, supernatural, realistic, and fantasy (mostly a combination of 'em).
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I make a new character for each roleplay. At the moment, I have...3? o: But I prefer not to reuse characters because they're each made for a specific roleplay.
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Making my own, right now. Once I get settled with my homework, I'll try joining a few. I really want to. D:
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03-04-2011, 12:36 AM
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Most definitely. I find lots of the plots interesting and it brings up my writing level.
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I got started on Gaia, 3 or 2 years ago.
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Now I roleplay here (You can find me in a bunch of RPs) and at Roleplay Online with RolePlayGateway
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My favorite settings are on a deserted island, or school.
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I make new characters with every RP I join, because I like being different types of people, and they're made for a certain roleplay. I'd say I have 30-50 characters now, and I'm using 4 or 5 of them.
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I prefer joining roleplays because I don't have to go through the trouble of keeping track and making sure everyone's obeying rules, making the PHP codes (it's hell) and plot. xD
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Teive
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03-04-2011, 01:03 AM
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Yeah I do, I like roleplaying because it's like writing a story with others. You don't know how it's going to turn out because others can make the next move. Though in a story based roleplay it's going to end at the creator's whim. But the journey there is still fun.
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I'm not really sure when I started "RPing" I just know that one day my friend dragged me into his thread and was like "Pretend with me." Sooo I did and I liked it.
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I only roleplay on two sites at the moment, this one and another ava site, though I just recently got back into Menewsha so I guess technically only one site? x.x
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I like relaxed themes, schools, vampire mansions, modern worlds. I'm not a big fan of fighter RP. I don't think I write fight scenes very well. Maybe if I had more time to perfect it I'd enjoy it more.
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I've never used the same character twice. Only once have I done so and it's because she fit into the story that was going on.
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I made my own RP a long time ago and it was a huge hit, but I haven't made my own for a while. I think it's best to join others for now, though Mene seems to have a huge lack of rp's that aren't scripted.
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03-04-2011, 01:10 AM
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Sometimes I roleplay, mostly just because its an escape from reality, and I can pretty much let myself run wild with the storry of whatever is happening. Usually to some nefarious plot that Ive decided to hatch.
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I got started by playing a little(one session) of D&D with a few friends at the drop-in center we went to every friday. Evevn though it didnt last long, Ive always loved the concept of just escaping. And as for how long ago, it was back in grade 10 or 11...so about 7 or 8 years ago?
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Right now, I dont roleplay. Though I probably could if I really wanted to, its just a matter of finding somewhere that I can...that people actually stay interested in(The Bloodbar on Facebook was an awsome roleplay, but people got bored/forgot about it and it died just as I was about to put the finishing touches on a long entry for it)
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My favorite setting would have to be medieval/fantasy. Kinda a mix of both, since 99% of the characters I make are swordsmen/knights/paladins/what-have-you-nots.
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I think at the height of the Bloodbar roleplay, I had about 8 characters going. Some were ghosts from my main characters past, some I had to kill off(being driven out of the homeland, waging war to reclaim, loosing comrades), and other, well, they just kinda were a random traveler on the road that the mains met(yeah, ended up with 4 mains that I used there: a dragon named Avatre, King/Paladin named Draciolus, Second in Command/Kings Best Friend(who died actually) Entreri, and cant remember the third one, but I think she might have been killed too).
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Depends on my mood, if I feel up to it, I will create it, but not without creating a huge backstory(last one was a 30-page Word document that noone wanted to read), and practically thinking of any type of description I would need in order to actually get it to be something people might be interested.
And if anyone is wondering, yes I am Draciolus' mule, and yes, Im too lazy to switch over to my main since I just finished organizing my Mule-vintory(...I like the sound of that, I might copyright it :P).
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Mystic
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03-04-2011, 04:46 AM
I used to RP all the time when Yahoo used to have chat rooms for it. I had a few characters. One I still RP from time to time with her brother and sometimes her sister will join. Other than that I don't really RP too often. I kind of miss it but I have no one really to RP with and I always hated starting a new group and having to re-explain my character.
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PaintTheSkyRed
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03-04-2011, 04:52 AM
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Yes, I have always been creative and I love writing so it was perfect solution for me.
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I started roleplaying at age tweleve on TeenChat.com. And I will be twenty April so do the math. xD A long time.
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Here on Mene.
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I have too many. I like original settings that I create, or fantasy ones.
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Currently I think I have 6? o.O I don't know.
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Either. If I make it then I have more control but I enjoy both.
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Taviren
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03-04-2011, 04:57 AM
I don't roleplay. I used to. And I kind of would like to again. But I don't really have a lot of time, so I'd want something very casual.
Taviren actually is a character I originally created for roleplay. I'd love to actually roleplay with him sometime. I just... need to find a good place to do it.
Edit: Oh yes, it would have to be a fantasy setting, or at least one that allowed a mix of fantasy, otherwise Taviren just wouldn't fit in.
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Glitter Golgotha
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03-04-2011, 07:53 AM
I like to RP; I first started doing RPs in notebooks between classes at school, in around 7th grade, I think. I've always preferred having some sort of fantasy or sci-fi element in an RP; strictly "real life" things tend to get boring (not that they can't be nice if done well), though I especially like putting the fantasy element into a more realistic setting. I tend to do my RPing on sites like this, since it's fun and easy and the best way for me to get site currency. I have never liked sites that were solely RP-based. I also never liked using the same characters for a bunch of different stories; I prefer creating characters to work within the setting/plot that I'm using.
When I first met my best friend, we started drawing back and forth (sort of RP in pictures, I guess) and that has developed over the years into its own world with a lot of specific characters who all have their own unique backgrounds and such. When we can't get together and write/draw about them in notebooks, we do RP about them here or on other sites, and sometimes we will do RPs based on those characters' backgrounds before they came into the world we have in the notebooks... There are dozens of characters there and we keep adding more, so I'm not really sure how many right now. I tend not to use those characters in RPs with other people, though, because they have specific stories that have to go along with what's been written about them.
As far as joining/making RPs, I never join an RP that's already been planned/started without my input on the plot. I just can't get into it. I have to have a hand in creating it in order to be interested in being a part of it.
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Explodey
rock is dead.long live scissors!
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03-04-2011, 07:54 AM
I used to like roleplay chats, but most of those are gone now. I don't really like roleplaying on a BB, because it's too much of a hassle to scroll back sometimes.
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Sun
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03-04-2011, 08:01 AM
I've written for as long as i can remember, so when i discovered Gaia at 13, i went bananas for it. I still like to dabble with RP's now, but i seldom get the time to dedicate to them due to my uni work. I'm hoping summer will see a rise in my partaking of them.
As for settings and suchlike, i like to try a bit of all sorts, just to see how well i can write in that scene/character/etc. Characters change with each RP, unlike my normal writing which will feature the same or recurring characters mostly.
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Missus Catastrophe
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03-04-2011, 03:43 PM
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Yes, I do role-play. I role-play just about any chance I get and I absolutely love doing it. I've backed off a lot from how much I used to do it, but it's still quite a lot.
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I first got interested in role-playing when I watched my brother doing it. I would sit at his side for hours while he wrote out his medieval fantasy role-plays and I would be just so amazed at the people in them. I was about eight at the time. I got into doing it myself when I was about nine, and I started on Neopets (where my brother had role-played) and I was in the wrong section. I was just chatting in the Newbie section when some guy came up and started off a teen camp role-play. And tah-dah! I was interested.
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I go to a lot of different sites to role-play now. I still go on Neopets on occasion, but I also role-play a bit on my own site, Roliana, GaiaOnline, and up here. I can also find some role-plays by suggestion through some role-playing buddies of mine.
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I'm assuming this means genres, and for that my absolute favorites are fantasy and real life odd pairings. I adore real life role-plays that have interesting plots or fantasy with a good plot. They always bring out the side of me that has loved fantasy and oddities.
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I don't have a set amount of characters. I tend to create my characters as I go. I do have a few that are pretty set and laid out, but other than those few, I make them up as I go along. I don't want to be boring and use only one person for everything, or just a certain group. I want everyone to have something individual, just for them.
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I've goten out of group role-plays, so if I do get into one, I'm usually joining it. I prefer one on one role-plays because it's more personal and not so confusing. It's just two people and we can talk it out what we want.
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Disco~
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03-04-2011, 06:36 PM
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I do RP, yes. I like writing and it lets my imagination flow and run wild, but as I very rarely have the time to write full stories and knowing all the twists and turns of the plots can be rather boring, I think that roleplaying with someone else who is on the same literary level as myself is the best way to go about it.
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I got started when a few of my friends were starting. It looked interesting and I had eased myself into it by doing a Harry Potter fanfiction, but with original characters. That was fun, and one of the only fanfictions that I would ever consider RPing/RPing more than once. It was not long after I turned 13 that I started, so three years I've been going. I like to think I've improved since my days when I constantly spelled "grammar" wrong xD
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At the moment I only RP on Mene. I'm no longer on the site I started out on and I haven't gone to any sites that are dedicated to RPing. I've been meaning to check them out. I've done a few mature RPs over IM though, and that was pretty fun.
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I love playing in post-apocalyptic settings. For some reason I see them as one of the most entertaining settings to play in. I've really been craving a good apocalyptic RP as of late.
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I have loads of characters as it's very rare I recycle characters, if I do use them again they'll be remodeled so it's more fun to play. I prefer playing the really out there characters with brash personalities. I seem to have the most fun with them, it opens up a lot more opportunities, that's for sure.
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It's very rare that I will go into a group RP, very rare indeed. If on the off chance I do crave one, I prefer to start it myself. Though I find 1x1s much easier to keep up with and they tend to last a lot longer than groups too in my experience.
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Laila Izuka
Culinary Arts Ninja~
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03-04-2011, 07:28 PM
1). I absolutely love the Roleplay, it's so much fun :3
2). I believe that I've been RPing since about 2005 or so when I met some friends at my old high school who liked to RP. And I've been RPing ever since I started ^-^
3). I mainly RP on Gaiaonline since there are a LOT of different RP's there, and guilds where you can set up an RP dedicated to one story line, or just a bunch of smaller RP's. My friends and I set up a new RP months ago that is an original storyline. But was inspired by Cowboy Bebop, and a few other series *o* (it's a futuristic sci-fi guild. But we have RP'd out all sorts of different kinds of drama. You name it, we've probably done it at some point).
4). Well I don't prefer different kinds of settings, but I prefer different kinds of genre. What usually sucks me into an RP is if it's a horror/ action/ romance/ original story that I can really get into owo.
5). I've had SEVERAL characters in the past, but as of right now I have five different characters for one story. Those characters would be; Laila Izuka, Albert Schneider, Elaine, Sabrina, Akira Izuka. But I'm going to be playing a kemo god character real soon. And I've done a bunch of minor characters as well -3-
6). I prefer both actually :3. But usually I like to start up a story with my friends so we can all start from the very beginning and work our way into the story.
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PWEEP
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03-04-2011, 08:05 PM
I'm glad to see there are a lot of roleplayers on the site :yes: It's really popular on most forum communities.
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Disco~
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03-04-2011, 08:15 PM
Roleplaying is my favourite way to earn currency xD
It's a shame all the promising recruitment threads I responded to have died /threadkiller ):
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03-05-2011, 10:18 PM
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1. Do you roleplay? If yes, why? If not, why not?
2. How did you get started, and how long ago was it?
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I just started role playing this year. It's something I've been interested in for a while and just felt too nervous to actually try. A great bunch of people helped me along with my first role play (which is still going on) on an invisionfree site. (x It's quite fun so I've continued.
Right now I'm playing here (sort of... getting there) and on that invisionfree site. I considered Gaia... but didn't find much I liked. I probably just didn't look hard enough. xP
I have a preference for either Harry Potter type stuff (I haven't tried gifted... but maybe that as well) and apocalyptic/horror role plays. Not so much romance focused... but I'm alright with it in general. Literate to advanced seems to sit well with me. The whole semi-lit thing doesn't... work well. I don't know. I just don't enjoy reading it? Um, but as for site, menewsha seems pretty good but I am rather fond of invisionfree/proboards simply because that's where I've started and am most familiar with.
I find it easier if someone else starts it as I have pretty much zip experience with starting my own; but if my role play partner(s) are patient enough with working with me to start one, all the better. I've never actually made my own but there is a first for everything, yeah?
Right now I have three different characters. I do have one with a profile of him younger (around 15) and of him older (around 30) though. I still have to develop them a bit more but they're coming along. I plan to use them consistently as opposed to creating new characters all the time. I'd just have to adjust them a bit for different plots. Yeah...
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03-06-2011, 12:35 AM
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Yes I do, cuz I enjoy it, I find it fun.
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about 2 years ago, I started rping with a friend and then learned more about it so on and so forth
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On avi sites like this, and texting with some friends I know better.
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in the woods or on the beach
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5 at the moment,
Sekhmet, Sarabellea, Sumire, Serena, and Setsuna.
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doesnt matter, but I perfure to use my own charaters
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03-06-2011, 01:44 AM
I don't roleplay, I never have. I'd like to, but I don't know how or where to get started. :(
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03-06-2011, 12:38 PM
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I don't roleplay, I never have. I'd like to, but I don't know how or where to get started. :(
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In the RP forum on Menewsha you can either create a request thread to get some RP partners, or you could join a ready existing RP in the main forum. All the users in that forum are very nice and I'm sure they'd be happy to explain things to you and get you started (:
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03-07-2011, 05:36 PM
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In the RP forum on Menewsha you can either create a request thread to get some RP partners, or you could join a ready existing RP in the main forum. All the users in that forum are very nice and I'm sure they'd be happy to explain things to you and get you started (:
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Thank you. :) I signed up for an already existing group roleplay, and I'm currently doing a one-on-one with my boyfriend. It's a ton of fun! I like it so far. ^^
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03-07-2011, 09:12 PM
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I like to RP; I first started doing RPs in notebooks between classes at school, in around 7th grade, I think. I've always preferred having some sort of fantasy or sci-fi element in an RP; strictly "real life" things tend to get boring (not that they can't be nice if done well), though I especially like putting the fantasy element into a more realistic setting. I tend to do my RPing on sites like this, since it's fun and easy and the best way for me to get site currency. I have never liked sites that were solely RP-based. I also never liked using the same characters for a bunch of different stories; I prefer creating characters to work within the setting/plot that I'm using.
When I first met my best friend, we started drawing back and forth (sort of RP in pictures, I guess) and that has developed over the years into its own world with a lot of specific characters who all have their own unique backgrounds and such. When we can't get together and write/draw about them in notebooks, we do RP about them here or on other sites, and sometimes we will do RPs based on those characters' backgrounds before they came into the world we have in the notebooks... There are dozens of characters there and we keep adding more, so I'm not really sure how many right now. I tend not to use those characters in RPs with other people, though, because they have specific stories that have to go along with what's been written about them.
As far as joining/making RPs, I never join an RP that's already been planned/started without my input on the plot. I just can't get into it. I have to have a hand in creating it in order to be interested in being a part of it.
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Glitter Golgotha is my best friend and my first RP type experience was through our notebooks.
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03-19-2011, 06:09 PM
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1. Do you roleplay? If yes, why? If not, why not?
2. How did you get started, and how long ago was it?
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1) Yes, I do RolePlay. I do it because I want to expand on the different genres I already dabble in and I wish to experiment in others.
2) How did I get started? I'm not sure really. I started about... 5 years ago I believe, mainly from writing collaborations with others.
3) Where do I RolePlay now... hm.... hard to say really. I mainly do it with my friends over messenger programs. It's been VERY hard to find an RP that I'd want to join on Menewsha (as well as GaiaOnline) so I tried starting one. >-> Haven't had much luck with that one yet.
4) Ooooh.. settings.... Fantasy mainly; prefer a modern fantasy over medieval fantasy. Just recently added Sci-Fi to the list of settings I like. But if you want specific SETTINGS, as in locations, that always varies depending on the other participating.
5) O_O I've dreaded this question....... As of RIGHT NOW I have just about 200 characters. It is a pain to come up with new names. Though, I only RP with about 10 characters (One human, two demons, two dragons, one werewolf and four animal anthros).
6) Like I said in the 4th question's answer, it all depends on if there's a topic I like/an open RP. I do create topics, but they tend to be ignored sadly. T-T
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