In my experience as a browser of many RPs I never join, it probably means they had something *similar* in mind but not quite on the money -- for instance, people who like historical RPs may browse all historical RPs, even though what they're actually looking for may be as specific as 'only set...
Both.
"No Main Characters" is about not making your character clearly superior to other chars -- not making everyone around you feel like they shouldn't have shown up, not making your char The Chosen One and everyone else Their Sidekicks or Their Romaenc Paertner. It's essential to TTRPG as...
Right now my pet peeve is when you're in a group RP, someone requests RP, you agree to RP with them --
and like 12 rounds later they STILL are making you chase their char all around to interact, making you jump through hoops of 'well i guess he could follow her because of X reason and y...
I've never been big on vampires. But my favourite vampires are Dragonlands vampires. They're Pretty Different from most, but share some key similarities:
- They need to drink blood to survive.
- They can't go out in the sun. *At all*. Being exposed to the sun is instant death, due to the...
- Playing characters with SECRETS. It's a goddamn addiction at this point. I don't see myself stopping, either. Even my simplest chars have SECRETS.
- [[placing OOC in doublebrackets]]. It's a weird habit, I guess. In my formative RP years, when I was 9 or 10, I RPed with a partner who required...
Oh wow, I have a few really good ones!
- Historical accuracy. Like actual, genuine historical accuracy that thought has gone into, not just parroting cliches about 'the olden times'. Oh my god, this is such a marvelous thing for me. I play mostly medieval low fantasy -- which means the emphasis...
So what I'm going to say is a doozy because it applies to almost every search thread:
When it's apparent they only want romance RP, and all char pairings are romantic pairings. ... Which is the default.
It's hard finding RP when you don't really like romance RP! :deadopenmouth:
So this one time I had an RP where my current main (a street rat) met a runaway princess, was unaware that she was a princess (but had a pretty good idea something was kinda weird and that she was too posh, he figured maybe some sort of abusive family), took her under his wing -- so far, very...
Well, yes. It just started to bug me that every time we RPed, we agreed on no required romance, and no sexual RP. And every time it was required, sexual romance.
Something like 15 or 16 years for me so... I didn't start on omegle. Started on a Neopets forum, where people did para/multi-para RP, but nothing crazy long. RPed there for a while, then started Furcadia. The vast majority of my RP experience has been on Furcadia, and it's really coloured my...
So I'm lookin for RP one time on my main OC. This girl comes along and says she's interested. Cool beans I say. Just FYI, I say, I'm not interested in required romance.
NP, she says, if it develops, it develops. So we start RPing. And it's ALMOST going okay, except she starts putting less and...
NGL. I never intended to build an empire. I was building a character.
Which turned into building the characters in his backstory.
Which turned into building their backstories... and in some cases, the chars in those backstories...
And when some of these chars were royals...
... well. I...
A few of my recurring NOPE scenarios:
1. "Coding/celeb ref/gifs required." If they supply the required coding and allow non-celeb images I'll CONSIDER it. But I'm not here for your celeb-on-celeb fantasies, and as a Gaia refugee... fuck coding requirements. Never got the point.
2. Characters...
I'm not a combat-heavy player. My main char favours a bow because I decided it would be a fun playstyle for me as I personally enjoy stealth and ranged combat to melee. I have a postapocalyptic larp char who wields a massive length of rusted pipe, which requires both hands to use, because I...