Is good storyline rp even a thing anymore?

[Harmony-S-S]

Yeah! I'm good, don't worry!

[miashuni]

good much good

[LordSeriphus]

I mean... I used to do this with a girl for two years, and when she left my life it crushed me, and I feel like my creations lost a piece of their creator. I'd love to do it, but I remember the pain of not finishing so many stories... I'm going to finish them anyway of course.

Guess I'd be down. But I don't know if I could offer as much time as I offered to her right now. But I do miss it, and it was so helpful for creating more characters for my big-ass world. xD

The pain of telling my creations that their mother left was so shitty... But I learned so much about them through my loss and the grieving process - things I couldn't have given to them with her around. So with the Cat lost in Bereechveil forever, I, Seriphus, bow to my creations and finish their lives with one less creator of their world. She was only a goddess, anyway, not Lord. And so a King bows to his children.

But of you do fantasy, I'm down af to give it a go! (Just lemme finish crying about what left me two years ago first. xD)

Throw me an email, if you wanna rp, dude! Hella down! (LordSeriphus@gmail.com)

[LordSeriphus]

EXACTLY!!! This is the shit, dude! So hard to explain an attachment to your own characters to non-writers/creators! Anyone else get weird-ass looks for saying your characters have free will, even though you made them and you're writing their stories? xD Freakin' true, though.

[miashuni]

swigety gigety and you need a hugiety

[miashuni]

ikkkkkkkkkkkkkkr like this chick was like you need to tone your c down a bit and im like i cant she do what she gonna do so ye

[Im_moron]

To me, storyline RP is too hard to set up, unless both people are in on it. Otherwise, it's at most, character interaction.

[Tyler_P_Kinney]

I never did a storyline rp until I met my current creative partner on these forums. We blasted through a silly rp just for fun, but then it kinda developed into this serious story several hundred pages long, so we went back and refined it all, and now its our current collab comic (plus we're now roommates lol).

[A-weird-girler]

No. Now it all consists of "Hewwo UwU" and "let's huggle! ^w^"

[Jenny-Toons]

Even worse, you might end up with someone who only wants to RP THEIR character. Like, I remember a while back, I was trying to RP with someone -- I had to carry the WHOLE thing. I was every character PLUS mine, and this person didn't want to do shit. So I just dropped them, plain and simple XD

I have no problem doing more than one character. But my partner has to be willing to carry that weight too. Hell, I don't mind if they play my character and me theirs. Just...I can't feel like I'm talking to a brick wall.

[A-weird-girler]

Or even worse worse, they could end up wanting to do "those" roleplays. One guy told me to pretend to be Crystal so he could hold her down and well, y'all know. I swear I hate people like that and that just ended my rp days in general.

[Jenny-Toons]

Uuuugh, those are creepy as all hell. Like, c'mon now -- the biggest RP rule is consent. If your partner ain't cool with something and explicitly tells you, you don't do it.

It's why I only stick to close friends for RP-ing.

[revisionstudios]

It's totally still a thing, but like others have said it's difficult finding someone who's on the same page as you and wants to actually like... make something out of it.

My comic Midwinter is based from a narrative rp and it's been going for 5 years. My partner and I each had about half the characters and we would decide together what scenes should come next. We'd rp with a purpose, but it still had that level of flexibility because I controlled the main character and she controlled the antagonist/central plot.

We did the entire first draft in 9 months? (very long story--like Fullmetal Alchemist long) and ever since then, we've been editing, rewriting, drawing, editing, rewriting--you get the gist. It never ends! Cut the thing in half, too. It's changed a lot since it started.

I'm really glad I found my partner, though. We jive really well. I've had partners before her that had some of the same problems above (totally romance focused or no motivation to do anything with our writing), so I know your guys' pain.

[kip]

Ohh man I remember RPing... I only ever had one serious partner, we’d do it over email and it would be like full on short chapters each time with us dipping into eachother’s roles haha
it was great though. i think i’d be too socially nervous to really pick it back up but i truly wish i could.

that said, i’ve definitly run into a lot of RP groups around, even some people looking for 1on1s, though its arguably not as popular as it used to be, it’s still very much alive.
maybe make a new thread specifically looking for RP partners, or even make a discord group?

[A-weird-girler]

EXACTLY! He kept begging me until I blocked him. Like, dude, I do NOT want to see that type of character experience. He then made a pissy post in which he called me a bad, manipulative person.

[Jenny-Toons]

But little did he know, it was the other way around. >.>
It's a good thing you blocked him, though. Guy sounded like a real creeper.
It's people like that that make me have very, specific rules on what I will and will not RP.

[A-weird-girler]

Exactly! I mean, I told him no several times. It's not real life but he needs to understand that in roleplay too.

[Jenny-Toons]

And honestly?
I feel like that plays a big reason on why RP-ing might not be that big anymore. Like, back in the days of earlier RP-ing for me (and I've been on Omegle, Chatzy, Gaia and Tumblr during the late 2000s, early 2010s, my dudes!), people always had a set of rules -- what they would RP, what they wouldn't RP, when they could RP, and who they'd RP with.

Hell, entire pages on RP Tumblr Blogs were dedicated to these rules. And people were serious about it.

I forgot what my specific rules were, but I know that my partner had to be around my age, and that we'd have to both agree on the storyline together. We could make things up as we went along, but the premise had to be more or less the same. And under no circumstances did I RP explicit violence (physical, sexual, you name it).

For me, with these rules and with the rules other people had, there was a level of communication and understanding. When you agreed to RP with someone, you demonstrated that you could follow those rules and that they could follow your rules and communicate with someone if any of those rules felt broken. Like sure, it's all make-believe and what not, but the idea was that you were able to understand when someone couldn't write a certain topic or that you had your own limits on what you could write and couldn't write and just...respect that.

I dunno when people stopped caring about this unspoken understanding, but it just happened. And you get more rambos like this guy or anyone else who hear you, but they don't hear you. And you're left with no choice but to block them.

Not saying RP-ing isn't popular anymore or that there weren't these rambos in the earlier times when it was big on the internet. But like...nowadays, it just doesn't feel the same. Maybe it's time to try and dive back into it again, but that's gonna be a long wait from this veteran. XD

Kinda ok with the people (who turned into friends) I have now

[A-weird-girler]

Yeah. It's gotten to the point where they only consider me as my characters and not for who I am. They think ties with them lead to me personally. They don't respect my wishes anymore because it's "only a cartoon/ drawing." It really pisses me off.

[laiscnogueira]

what they would RP, what they wouldn't RP, when they could RP, and who they'd RP with.

I forgot what my specific rules were, but I know that my partner had to be around my age, and that we'd have to both agree on the storyline together. We could make things up as we went along, but the premise had to be more or less the same. And under no circumstances did I RP explicit violence (physical, sexual, you name it).

I never RP-ed with someone else (once I did the "create a story as the other person decides things" thing, but that was all), which is a shame, but I think those rules above are pretty much the general outline anyone should follow (perhaps just adapt the non-violence clause if both people agreed on it and wanted a more "mature" story or I dunno, like a horror story with some gore is not bad and help setting a mood IMO).
I know I would like to RP like that. And I'm sure more people on the forum would be up to it.
Also, perhaps it would help to set a few tags in which the story can and can't belong. Like, yes for comedy, no for sci-fi.