EllyGloom
Junior Member
Okay, so I saw a post in another thread about people saying backstory and personality are left empty to be "learned during roleplay."
I ALWAYS do this, but I'm far from a lazy RPer. I type tons of stuff and put a lot of effort into my stories. I mean, maybe a little bit of it is laziness, but a majority is being indecisive and having a different writing style due to running tabletop games for such a long time. When a player decides to do something insane and explode a building, sometimes you need to pull something out of your hat.
I prefer to keep people guessing. I incorporate the unknown into my stories and roleplays. Deception, amnesia, psychological illness. If you know everything about a person, what's there to talk about in roleplay? Most of the RP I do in online games is getting to know each other stuff. An emotionally charged backstory reveal just doesn't have any feeling to it if the other RPer already knows what happened.
Plus I do my best work while improvising. I ran a VtM game for almost two years, and at the end I told them I never prewrote anything and everything, including the characters were made up off the top of my head in the moment. They were quite surprised.
I don't wanna write paragraphs of details including well thought out biology of my character (should they be an original species) and get denied to join an RP because I don't want to play a character with no secrets where her every intention and detail is known.
Anyway, I'd like to discuss methods where I wouldn't be shunned by the elite RPers of the world, but I can maintain my writing style and keep the level of immersion that I love so very much.
I ALWAYS do this, but I'm far from a lazy RPer. I type tons of stuff and put a lot of effort into my stories. I mean, maybe a little bit of it is laziness, but a majority is being indecisive and having a different writing style due to running tabletop games for such a long time. When a player decides to do something insane and explode a building, sometimes you need to pull something out of your hat.
I prefer to keep people guessing. I incorporate the unknown into my stories and roleplays. Deception, amnesia, psychological illness. If you know everything about a person, what's there to talk about in roleplay? Most of the RP I do in online games is getting to know each other stuff. An emotionally charged backstory reveal just doesn't have any feeling to it if the other RPer already knows what happened.
Plus I do my best work while improvising. I ran a VtM game for almost two years, and at the end I told them I never prewrote anything and everything, including the characters were made up off the top of my head in the moment. They were quite surprised.
I don't wanna write paragraphs of details including well thought out biology of my character (should they be an original species) and get denied to join an RP because I don't want to play a character with no secrets where her every intention and detail is known.
Anyway, I'd like to discuss methods where I wouldn't be shunned by the elite RPers of the world, but I can maintain my writing style and keep the level of immersion that I love so very much.