Experiences God save the fantasy section.

Bacon is fluffy said:

High schools are also places with regulation, rules and schedules. If a social hub was the only reason, then a theme park or a super mall or the first space ship launch to mars could serve as the meeting place.

Schools are only interesting if you intend on using them to teach people the logic behind something. If it's just a hollow place to serve as the place to meet someone, then why don't people actually use creativity?

Every other thread, even those without academy in the name, are school rps lol.

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geeking out said:

Shalalong

Edited this as I was updating my personal details. Here are the three prefixes,

Simple - Simple Roleplays are games for people who just want to roleplay and for people that are not interested in meeting post requirements. That means within simple roleplays, players are not expected to meet a post length requirement (posts can be varying lengths) and players can expect an easy process of joining the game in terms of character creation and understanding the setting/plot.

Casual - Causal Roleplays are games for people who are interested in improving their roleplaying abilities. Casual Roleplays expect posts that are about a paragraph (1+) long minimally. Players joining a Casual Roleplay are also expected to be interested in developing the roleplay’s plot, add details to their characters and possibly even add to the setting of the roleplay.

Detailed - Detailed Roleplays are games for people who are interested in improving both their roleplaying abilities and their writing abilities. These games expect posts that are at least three plus (3+) paragraphs long. Players within a detailed roleplay are expected to develop the roleplay’s plot, add details to their character and the setting regularly throughout their posts, as well as pay close attention to their own individual writing/grammar in their posts.


Not sure if you can put them up as prefixes anymore but the labels exist and you can certainly tag your roleplay with one of them

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Shalalong said:

I can't seem to see any prefixes or create my own thread with a prefix in one of the interest check sections of the forums where one such distinction would be important to filter out roleplays that don't fit your taste. Either it's a limitation with new accounts or there simply is no prefix for casual or detailed in the interest check section. Which is why I was specifically talking about that part of the forum. I imagine that in other parts of the forum such a function does exist? But why not in the Interest Checks?

Edit: I guess you can tag them, but have to click the thread first or use the SuFu. Oh well, that's certainly possible, just not as good for overview purposes.

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Shalalong said:

It's actually a combination of a social hub and as a part of wish fulfillment in a power fantasy, for example, you can have your characters be in a special environment and get praise for their actions. Something that those people are probably unable to achieve in real life, due to laziness and inability to put forth the required effort. It's quite apparent, that creativity really is not the problem because the threads of these school rps have a very low word count combined with no real sections and vague ideas of how powers, the world, and plot will actually work out in the role play.

Though, the power fantasy could be lived anywhere. It seems more appealing to do it in a scenario that you yourself have real-life experience in and a desire to relive that part of your life in a different way without the same constraints of such a world.

That said, my earlier argument still stands:

"As with practically any role play setting, there is more than enough breathing room to create an engaging role play with a unique spin put on it, assuming that the GM puts forth enough creativity and effort to actually think through everything relevant. "

The real "problem" is that these rps are used in this certain way by a certain demographic of people. In the end, this is very disheartening to see for someone who would like to see more effort being forward, but different people are allowed to enjoy the different content. Even if that content is low effort and low quality for a part of the community.

What really would need to happen is for interest checks to require a tagging system that shows the desired quality of roleplay, for example: casual for low effort posts and detailed for high effort posts. In some sections, there are deleted threads for "Prefixes", so I assume this was part of the website at one point or another?

Cheers, Shalalong.

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Sunstone said:

This pie chart explains the title. The fantasy section is 101%
https://www.meta-chart.com/share/untitled-11572

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Sunstone said:

I mean... I've got a fantasy roleplay up that's part of the one percent. It's dystopian.
There's two characters.

What we learned from this: if your roleplay is an original piece of work in the fantasy section. Fuck you. Just make another school/academy roleplay and everyone will love you!

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