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Wait, what? I never mentioned anything about being able to catch up, where'd you get that? I was talking about "matching", aka, matching others' post length. And if anything, your example is exactly the kind of mentality I was talking about. Which I still don't get, btw. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think it's easy to see who has put effort into a post and who hasn't, length be damned. I'd rather have a shorter post that makes sense as a response to what I write, than a long one that's long only because it's been padded to reach whatever length the poster thinks is the norm. I've been in rps where people did that, and reading through posts where the author describes a mailbox for three paragraphs to be able to write posts as long as everyone else was painful. (And yes, that's an actual example.) And yeah, I'm not talking about replying to 1000 word posts with one-liners without any response hooks here, obviously.I've also done shorter roleplays with < 500 words, sometimes even < 200 words on messengers and stuff though and, eh, that's never been a problem either. Although I _have _sometimes purposefully cut posts shorter if they go on for too long and others post shorter ones - precisely to avoid people crying over "not being able to match". Which is a stupid concept anyway; you write for as long as you feel like you have something to say and then stop. Done. Easy.It isn't so much about not being able to catch up. It's just if (for example) everyone else is writing 1000 or more words regularly, and I'm only doing the bare minimum regularly, it makes it look like I'm not putting in as much effort as everyone else. >_> Even though that may not be true, and I just don't feel the need to restate everything everyone else before me has already said.
Add me to the "possibly interested" list.
My interest. You has it.
> I think I'll wait a little bit more before deciding on a character I'd like to use. I'd like to see who would be best to interact with the rest of the group.
Also, this. Having a wide range of personalities is interesting, so I'll likely go for an archetype that's not already in use.
I've noticed the same thing on these forums; longer intro posts (and sometimes even activity checks or 1x1 advertisement posts) tend to get less replies than shorter ones. Dunno why, but I guess it's a combination of people being lazy readers to feeling pressured, like you mentioned? I've no idea, because short or long posts don't really bother me and I haven't seen that kind of thing happen elsewhere. I mean, I originally come from forums where what's considered "long" here is average over there (I'm talking 1500+ word posts, which sometimes might go up all the way to 4000. Yeah.) and I've never felt pressured to match other posters' length or whatever.
I've also done shorter roleplays with < 500 words, sometimes even < 200 words on messengers and stuff though and, eh, that's never been a problem either. Although I _have _sometimes purposefully cut posts shorter if they go on for too long and others post shorter ones - precisely to avoid people crying over "not being able to match". Which is a stupid concept anyway; you write for as long as you feel like you have something to say and then stop. Done. Easy.
tl;dr: I've noticed the same and don't really get it, because length really doesn't matter to me. Long as there's something of substance to reply to - preferably with at least some character thoughts mixed in, because those are always fun to read - I'm golden.
... Also, yeah, I usually ramble like this, anyway.
Interested! Can't offer to be a Co-GM due to time constraints from my end as well, but would love to play as a part of this.
If you count individual threads on forums dedicated wholly to one roleplay, then yeah, I've finished a bunch of threads. Same with journal/IM roleplays. Rps on forums such as this? I think once or twice.
I play on multiple Pokémon forums already, which is the reason I wouldn't necessarily create/join one here. But that's just me, I don't know others' reasons.
I miss those good old "so and so many people end up having to spend time here and *gasp* one of them is the murderer/there's a murderer among the NPCs so people die one by one" rps. We used to have a bunch of similar concepts but they died pretty fast, and now I haven't seen any. Granted, I kinda get why; they're probably a bit difficult to run, considering that the murderer has to hide their identity in IC posts without making their character's thought too OOC, and people's characters dying and them thus having to leave the rp can cause problems, especially when the cast becomes smaller and some people might go inactive (worse yet, the actual murdered does - which is why NPC murdered might work better).
But eh, I still miss 'em.
Don't see any reason to hide it or be ashamed of it. If the topic warrants me mentioning it, I will. If not, I don't randomly shout it as passersby, either. Most of my friends know, and I even found out that some of my friends who I thought didn't even know what it was actually played as well when I mentioned it in passing.
Like above though, I usually just say that I write stories collaboratively on a forum if I'm not sure the person in question understands what roleplaying means. That's because most of the time when I mention roleplaying, people take it to mean either tabletop roleplays or RPG-genre games (which I also play, but yeah), so it's easier to avoid confusion.
You can come up with any amount of theories or excuses, but at the end of the day I'd say it's simply because dwarves aren't conventionally attractive and people tend to be shallow in their pretendy funtimes - it's fantasy and wish-fullfillment, after all. It's not just dwarves that get this treatment, either; if there's a bunch of races offered and one of them is decidedly "uglier" than the others without something really awesome to make up for it (ugly, demonic characters seem to get a pass more often than not, for example) they're most often the least picked. One example off the top of my head would be the Goron race in LoZ. People opt to go for Hylians, Twili, Zora and Sheikahs far more often than the Gorons.
You can also see this when it comes to people picking pictures for their characters. Really, how often can you claim to have seen an "ugly" PB?
I also agree with the point above; if you're playing a trope-defying dwarf (which is fun) it's because you already wanted to play a dwarf to some extent. You wouldn't even bother otherwise.
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