There's another reason I don't play in advanced. RPG is not a medium I use to improve my writing, nor it is somewhere that I put a grandiose amount of effort into my writing. It's my escape from more demanding work, a place where I can just write without thinking too much about it.

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[@Dread] The best one that lived for years that I was apart of was more communal than having 1 GM. While the GM held the mysteries and shit, the plot, world and characters were developed by everyone so everyone had "a say" in the RP. Funny thing is, it was only 3 of us because the original had like 15 players then boiled down and in the end there was the trio. Great fun. So maybe the size is a factor in the life of the RP. The only reason it died was because I left/stopped coming to RPG. Now that I'm back, the other two seem to have been gone for some time. I don't know if we'll ever bring it back to life. 
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	This is the kind of environment I try to create with all of my roleplays. Unfortunately, it's hard to find people that are willing to put that kind of effort into anything. People care more about themselves and their characters than they do about the story or the world, usually.

	This goes back to what I'd mentioned about role playing being the main focus of role playing. People want to [i]play their roles[/i] first and foremost. That's the most entertaining part about role playing, and it's likely why writing suffers in a lot of cases. Sure, a lot of role plays [i]die[/i] because of it, but with the right people, this mentality works splendidly.