Seriously. I do want one but why do they exist and do you get invited onto one or what. I do want to join one so please tell me how it works.

Erklings25 said
Seriously. I do want one but why do they exist and do you get invited onto one or what. I do want to join one so please tell me how it works.

Please clarify what you mean by families. Tightly knit groups?

I guess

It's a thing that some RP groups think up because they're silly and it amuses them. There's no official rhyme or reason to the them, no standard way to join one. It's essentially a way for people to broadcast "hey look at all these friends I have" by listing their friends as their 'family' in their signature.

If you want to join one, the simplest way to do so is probably to find one that exists and become friends with some/all of the members of the group. That or you could do it the other way around, make friends through roleplaying and having fun and create your own silly little forum family with them. Either way it just comes down to making friends, so go do that.

Cheers

Erklings25 said
Seriously. I do want one but why do they exist and do you get invited onto one or what. I do want to join one so please tell me how it works.

If you're aiming for a 'roleplay family' in the sense of a following or common group, I'd definitely just develop a back-and-forth with other players. You like how someone writes? Tell them that, let them know you hope y'all can continue to work together, and just have some conversation. If you have similar interests you'll probably meet up again, or can intentionally choose to follow one another to games you find particularly impressive. These groups can grow really beautifully. As someone who GMs now an then, having that 'family' is a nice promise of some support when you open something new. That said, it also can be intimidating or downright unwelcoming to new players.

I want to emphasize what I just said there. Personally, I feel very unwelcome some roleplays because of these 'roleplay families'. While they can be amazing for players in the fold, one disagreement can spread like ink in water. Opinions can bloat more than they ever would normally, and without direct interaction, you can find yourself generally disliked and treated roughly by people you never even knew existed. So, if you find one of these families or help make one, please remember to treat others kindly.

RP families are really just a for fun thing that friends do basically as fun nicknames for one another.

I was never in one myself, but I used to be in enough RP's (20k posts worth) that I saw a lot of them and got to see somewhat how they worked.
I would not worry about getting into one at all, it's just a fun game people do with their group of friends. It's not any kind of status, rank or anything that makes you higher up or more valuable.

It's almost the exact same as say two people in spam pretending to marry through a marriage thread. There's nothing actually important you're missing, it's just a thing people do for fun and kicks among people they already know.

I want to be Grandpa.

ActRaiserTheReturned said
I want to be Grandpa.

I think you'll have to be satisfied with being that one creepy uncle everybody knows.

Brovo said
I think you'll have to be satisfied with being that one creepy uncle everybody knows.

Now I want to be the creepy uncle that is the brother of the father's mother's grandson's father.

I liken myself the the homeless Vietnam vet that your aunt dated for a while but still shows up to family gatherings despite breaking up with her 7 years ago. Only to steal booze and yell at people about secret government testing facilities.

I want to be the guy who married a woman with a full grown daughter so I get a step-daughter, but then my step-daughter marries my dad, so now my dad is my son in law and my step-daughter is now my mother. My wife being the mother's mother becomes my grandma, making me my wife's grandchild and if I'm the husband of my grandma then I'm my own grandpa.

It's just an amusing way for Spammers to pass the time and also form bonds a bit; I dunno how to explain it properly, except that in a sense, it's something folks around here do to express affection or otherwise reinforce bonds within the community. It's also really informal.

HeySeuss said
It's just an amusing way for Spammers to pass the time and also form bonds a bit; I dunno how to explain it properly, except that in a sense, it's something folks around here do to express affection or otherwise reinforce bonds within the community. It's also really informal.

It's not really a Spam thing though. Far more common in the Member Lounge and Free Roleplay areas, from what I've seen.

Magic Magnum said
I want to be the guy who married a woman with a full grown daughter so I get a step-daughter, but then my step-daughter marries my dad, so now my dad is my son in law and my step-daughter is now my mother. My wife being the mother's mother becomes my grandma, making me my wife's grandchild and if I'm the husband of my grandma then I'm my own grandpa.

This would also present an infinite-loop, making you married to your smoking-hot great-great-grandma.

Now, if you had a TARDIS...

HeySeuss said
It's just an amusing way for Spammers to pass the time and also form bonds a bit; I dunno how to explain it properly, except that in a sense, it's something folks around here do to express affection or otherwise reinforce bonds within the community. It's also really informal.

I find the same as Jorick honestly, this practice is far more common in member lounge groups and roleplayer's than in spam.

Spam tends to function as one big happy family (and then some outsiders they decided they hate/dislike for one reason or other), but not often do they go into specifics as to relations. You get the occasional marriage or adoption, but not at the same rate as the other places listed.

Foster said
This would also present an infinite-loop, making you married to your smoking-hot great-great-grandma.Now, if you had a TARDIS...

Oh boy! We'll cause an infinite looping family relations paradox with the Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey stuff!!!

Jorick said
It's a thing that some RP groups think up because they're silly and it amuses them. There's no official rhyme or reason to the them, no standard way to join one. It's essentially a way for people to broadcast "hey look at all these friends I have" by listing their friends as their 'family' in their signature.If you want to join one, the simplest way to do so is probably to find one that exists and become friends with some/all of the members of the group. That or you could do it the other way around, make friends through roleplaying and having fun and create your own silly little forum family with them. Either way it just comes down to making friends, so go do that.

It took until this post to figure out what the OP was talking about. Maybe I should turn sigs back on to see why people are so riled up, but my experience on RPG has been almost blissful since I turned them off.