[quote=@silentmusician]
Can someone tell me why 1x1 is so prevalent on every rp site I've been to? What's the draw of it?
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I used to [i]hate[/i] 1x1, I thought it was boring roleplaying with just one person when you could roleplay with literally TENS of people. Why settle for one? 

Then I slowly got bored of large groups, started seeing the problems that are really fucking prevalent in group RP's like people ditching the RP, overburdening themselves, or just a general.. clique-y feeling where I often feel like I'm not a big enough part of the inner circle to really get anything [i]done.[/i] Pair this with me attempting to increase my writing skills (which RPG has helped a lot in at the start but has slowly stagnated in that helping process) and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the effort some people put into their posts...

I made the switch to 1x1 a while ago, it took me a while to find good partners. That is, in part, because I have an annoying personality trait where I'm a huge douche, so people naturally kinda annoy me. But it's also because 1x1 is riddled with writers that don't want anything more than one liners, and I don't think that's bad but it's not what I want.

Now I've found a good partner that writes the same amount if not more than me, and is relaxed when it comes to OOC chatter. We're both invested into the RP, too, which helps. You see that a lot sooner in 1x1 - that people become invested, and thus it increases my motivation to post. 

So, I think overall, 1x1 is just a better user experience for people like me that got fed up with group RP.