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| What makes you role play?; How do you get in the game? | |
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| Topic Started: August 5 2008, 09:29 PM (229 Views) | |
| Vexar | August 5 2008, 09:29 PM Post #1 |
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From simple day dreams to all out passion to escape reality... What brings you to the realm of role playing? Let us know in detail, we would love to see what makes you tick, especially when it comes to role playing. For me, it's power. Power that no one really gets when in life, power over an entire world or worlds... It's amazing what the mind can create. |
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| Jadeling Hawkins | August 7 2008, 02:51 PM Post #2 |
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I agree, power that is achieved during a game can be quite fantastic. But I honestly, truly role play simply for the creative outlet. I love how a good role play can challenge the mind and act as a catalyst for true development within yourself. Obviously, there are many different benefits to role playing...but if a game becomes stale and it begins to feel like a chore, continuing the same old same old crap (example: most high school games) then I lose my enjoyment of the process. I might not bail on the game, but I am often tempted to >< |
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| Vexar | August 7 2008, 03:12 PM Post #3 |
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Rock on. Too many people often follow the same protocol for their role plays, and are afraid or unwilling to expand their genre. That often acts as a problem when it comes to role playing in the same old role plays... Because no new ideas will spring to life within the game. |
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| Shiori | August 11 2008, 08:58 AM Post #4 |
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I vote for creativity. If you had asked me anywhere between 5 and 10 years ago, I'd have said escape. When I started RPing in 1999. I was obsessed with it, nixing everything else in life to do it because of family issues. I'm kind of glad that I kept away from it for about 3 years during college, because it helped me value the growth I'd gotten from RPing, and the love that I had deep down for doing it. When I started back last year, I was a whole new RPer with a whole new outlook on the art I was creating. |
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| Vexar | August 11 2008, 06:49 PM Post #5 |
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With that, you aren't just a new role player. You literally are a new person when it comes to role playing. Everything about the world around you is different as well. The role playing you were used to is a thing of the past. So you're in the game of catching up again and learning even more. That's why I'm glad to have taken such a long break from forum role playing as well. |
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| Keeley | August 12 2008, 06:09 PM Post #6 |
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It draws me away from the real world, no worries and no need to fuss about problems happening around me. Also creativity, it gets my mind racing, thinking about all the possibilities of what will happen through out the next few posts. |
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| Vexar | August 12 2008, 07:33 PM Post #7 |
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What really gets me about the next few posts, is how my character has impacted what has happened. Sometimes it's as if everything went according to plan. |
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| fighter_rose_003 | October 9 2008, 12:50 PM Post #8 |
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I chose escape because I'm insane and if I don't work on my stories or rps, I get a creative build up and go even more insane. That and its an escape from the restlessness that I get when I'm in the real world. |
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| Colton C | October 9 2008, 05:28 PM Post #9 |
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We are all restricted by the limitation of the society that we live in. I RP for creativity. I want to experience worlds unlike the one we live in, without actually having to make some of the sacrifices and live through the pain that characters in RP will often feel. |
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| Nick | October 11 2008, 05:51 PM Post #10 |
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I RP as a creative outlet. I am writer at heart and am currently writing a novella/novel. Because of that, a lot of raw creative energy has not been taking form. As soon as something gets written, everything that follows it is limited to that world. I still enjoy writing that story but I also need to let out my sewer exploring half crazed characters (See The End is Nigh). RPing is a fantastic way to flex my creative muscles, its literally exercise for my serious writing. |
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| ShoopDaWhoop | June 20 2009, 08:05 PM Post #11 |
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I roleplay because, well, it's something you can't describe. It's like a movie, only you control every detail of it. If you describe something to your best ability, there's still some left for the creative mind. It's more than just typing what your character does, it's becoming your character, and the world in which it resides. As if your energy were merging with that of the earths. Not to mention that I'm addicted to it. Like a drug addict. It makes them happy, gives them something to do. If I go too long without roleplaying, I just get extremely bored. I'm naturally creative. More than the people around me, so I have to find some way to get all of that out. Also I'm kind of a loner where I live. Not much to do out here.. and satellite internet stops me from playing FPS and RTS games over the internet. (Damn ping timeouts..) ((...I realize my post was over six months from the last one. I saw the poll on the front page and just considered it alive...?)) Edited by ShoopDaWhoop, June 20 2009, 08:07 PM.
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| Vexar | June 21 2009, 10:04 AM Post #12 |
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Meh, it's still alive <<; albiet the site isn't really moving along (I'm not advertising for it yet. I haven't had a WHOLE lot of time to work on it.) |
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