BangoSkank

My life's on fire, might as well RP

'Twas in the Twelfth Age, during the time of Rumplepug the Flatulent, that the Great Pilgrimage of the Bottomless Chalice began. From all the burgs and burrows the wee folk did come, in multitudes both great and diminutive. A sea of small fat bodies and ugly haircuts.

Twere the best of times, twere the worst of times.

My life's on fire, might as well RP

Bolo casts Holy Shin Bash, it's Super Effective

My life's on fire, might as well RP

Did we just become best friends?

I did a Monk Halfling in a Discord DND RP once.
Dropkicked a Kobold out the window of a giant wagon house thing.

Usually mine are either cooks or monks, or drunkards, or drunkard monk cooks

My life's on fire, might as well RP

I call dibs on the Halfling character.

Probably drunk. Probably sneaky.

Nice to meet you.

Fantasy is a pretty common setting here. If you want to try out harder fantasy/sci fi id recommend JB's RPs. He tends to do Warhammer 40k/Fantasy ones.

Who are your writing influences?

Stephen King
Brandon Sanderson
Orson Scott Card

Stephen King had the biggest impact on my style of writing because I voraciously read through most of his work from about 11 on. Distinctly remember sitting in a laundromat, kicking my feet, reading the Richard Bachman book "Desperation"

His weird narrative stuff and tendency to address the reader stuck pretty well. He sometimes uses a sort of third person omniscient perspective to tell the reader stuff that the character wouldn't know or that didn't occur during the timespan of the story. Hell he sometimes even directly addresses the reader for a bit with lines like "and that, dear reader, was the last time that Will Light would ever play fetch with his dear best friend Blue."

Sanderson and Card I think influenced me in that they address their subjects with a gravity and realness not often seen elsewhere. The Enders Game series and the Stormlight Archives series. Man. Go read the Stormlight Archives series. The way it builds is incredible, I can't wait until the next one releases.

Need Some Creative Direction For RP

You might ask yourself what you want to do with that character too.

Then ask yourself is this always what the character wanted to do or is it a new thing? Maybe it's a British soldier who came to America and instead of soldiering now wants to document the birth of a new nation. Maybe your soldier wants to make a fortune off the gold rush. Maybe your character met French fur traders and wants to claim a chunk of that business for Ye Olden Queen Mum.

Is there clearly something wrong with my RP ideas?

I would suggest trying to find existing RPs that are close to what you enjoy and join one of them to get started.

As others have said starting an RP is a lot harder than joining one, especially when you're new. Join one. Find some writers you like. Get to know them. Learn a bit about formatting (this place is weird as hell that way, I still have to pull up the little helper thing more often than not) on this site so your Interest Checks can be easier to interact with.

Starting an RP of your own means you are competing with everyone who already has one open or is about to open one. As a brand new user you are at an inherent disadvantage in that since no one knows you, you don't know anyone, and you have relatively niche interests.

Plus as Gravity said things can move slowly. Sometimes the community is in a slump or there are enough big RPs active that no one really has time for a small one. I can't tell you how many RPs I've been in that died before they got past like three pages of posts.

Bear in mind too that as many users as we have here and on the Discord more than half of them don't actually RP, rarely RP, or divide their RPing between this site, other sites, Discord, and PMs.

Patience is required. Even the best GMs and RPers here have a hard time sometimes.

Good morning :)

Heyooo

and Merry Christmas!

Heya Y’all

Lots of anime fans here, a good few artists, a ton of League players and dozens of writers. You should get along just fine.

I hate to say it...

The site is in decline, yes, but so is the hobby in general.

Part of it is the Official Discord with its innumerable issues and the general movement of RPing toward Discord rather than forums. Part of it is the season. Part of it is an aging base. Part of it is just the hobby itself aging. This is still, for my money, the best site for the hobby.

With that in mind here's my cheap plug for a guide I wrote. Well, a guide I compiled with advice from a ton of users here, including BrokenPromise, Kuro, Ammokkx and ERode

Cheap Plug - particularly the "Can't Find a Partner" section
roleplayerguild.com/topics/184596-rpi…

In short though my advice would be to join one or two of the group RPs. You may not be a huge fan of group RPs but just because you are in a group RP doesn't mean you have to split your interactions equally between every participant. It would be wise to try to a little bit at least to sort of flex or stretch your writing muscles, but it's pretty normal for people and characters to form little cliques.

Writing with a group, and writing in general, gives you a chance to interact with others and see whose writing style you like and whose writing style you don't like, as well as further develop your own writing style and display it for others. Essentially building a reputation as a writer with certain strengths and certain weaknesses.

There are enough writers here with enough talent that with a little work you can likely find your niche.