[quote=@BrokenPromise]They treat them like a string of solo posts, so there's a lot of head hopping, repeating, and other unpleasantness. if I had to guess.


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Essentially. 

This is one of the main reasons why collab posts are [i]technically[/i] incorrect.

There is no consistent narrator in a collaboration post, so generally when one reads them devoid of their involvement they read like a badly written orchestration of ideas. You see awkward shifts often where people jump from past and present tense and others who simply lack narrative cohesion where there is no reliable narration. It ends up reading as a incoherent mesh of ideas and this is the median average of RPG collaborations. Some people do it right, but they are often the exception and not the rule.

This isn’t even bringing up the second issue, however, which is that people are often stuck relying on them. Especially in later casual and advanced circles. Instead of just role-playing and keeping pace, people are stuck waiting days, sometimes weeks for a simple addition of one line of dialogue. There was one case where I was waiting two months on one line of dialogue and a descriptive paragraph. While this isn't unique to collaborations, it just is amplified in them. They are project posts and people seem to forget that the best post in a sequence might be a series of short ones between parties rather than one giant collab that is both literally inept but purposely so.

It is for this and other reasons that people who rely on collabs are not good role-players. They might be solid writers (but often-times they are not), but they are not good role-players.