Just wanted to delve in here and add that I think this helps and encourages communication, action, and interaction between players. The more detailed your Lore is, the more players know where their character stands in that setting; And thus, they know better where their character stands in...
I will defintely agree that in real life, were I punching or being punched, my response would not be 'oh how dull', but in writing, reading the action of punching over and over again for 2 pages of RP gets a little repetitive.
Gaia introduced me to this thing called roleplay (back in the day, when there was a whole section for it, and I actually understood how the site worked) and from then on out I've been snorting it neat off of the internet. Made my friends at school do it by email. Hounded TopRPSites.com for...
Experience from reading, writing fiction, and roleplays:
The best battles are ones with short action sequences, but a lot of build up, high stakes with emotional investment that has been explored, one in which the fates of characters players/readers have came to know and love or hate and fear...
as a horny teen hip young thing I used to RP romance and only romance. Coming back to RPing as an adult, I naturally dove back in there and expected to get the same kick out of it. Instead... kind of found myself feeling flat, bored, and put off. Romance often seems to come at the cost of...
the feel when anxiety is just thrown in there to make their character 'adorable' and 'endearing' *eye twitches* ah yes. my favourite thing...
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^^^ Story of 80% of my roleplays.
related note: Whenever two characters meet, and someone else's instantly pours out seven volumes of Tragic Backstory TM in between the hellos and how do you dos. And then expects my character to just be like 'oh cool yeah sure'. Or not to think wow you have a...
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i have wiggle room on this, as in I like artwork for characters, but rarely super basic manga ones. Manga-influenced or slightly cartoonish sure, but anything where I can't imagine them as a real person and my brain goes kaput.