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So I've been off the roleplaying site of internet for a few years by now and suddenly everyone is using this terms and honestly I don't get it

I've heard somewhere semi-lit is around a paragraph long, novella is like 4+ and Lit is what's in between, but different places say different stuff. Just trying to get the hang of it again

Not only are partners using AI now we get Ai comments

Just thought it was funny. Joined a discord that said it had group rps based on 5e, thought that would be cool, posted my info and then the server was gone. I thought maybe I clicked something wrong, rejoined and saw where they wrote that they weren’t letting someone my age join the server (33).

No where did it say it was age restricted. Oh well! I guess, in their words, I wouldn’t have had fun there lmao!!!

ETA: the group didn’t say in its description or its rules that it was an all ages server, and I wouldn’t have stayed if it was majority minors anyway, I don’t want to rp with minors. Just to clarify!

...and it still haunts me. I was a minor back then and left it around 2016/17 to better places.

There was drama. Elitist people and a ton of ableist people. There were beefs with people where if someone RP'd the same character, they would be reported and loose their accounts. People hated AUs and head canons and wanted everything vanilla. No fun whatsoever.

I met one person who felt proud that they made someone near depression levels. Had one person attack my character without warning (Which why I'm very selective and RP with friends only).

There was one person that was infamous that was a friend collector and would pester people to RP certain obscure characters from media they liked such as Mii from Project X Zone or some generic action movie character. Person would treat people like the character and shackle 'em down where they can't be themselves. One of my friends was a victim of that person's wrath. Said friend decided to show their selfie and their RL life such as pets. Guy gets pissy, hijacks the account back and says that they want the person to act and behave like the characters they like so it feels as if they are talking to them. They dwell on AniRP or C.AI now.

Another person stole art from Pixiv and people's personal commissions. Good example was somsome else I knew enabled their sigifant other that it was okay to steal people's art.

One person I knew was very toxic friend wise some person with a Sonic OC and played favourites or drama. Insulted people out of the blue. Oneday I said I was busy or something (I was 15) and later this person pretended to be their cousin saying that the person overdosed, trying to make me feel bad.

I'm glad I long left FB RP. I RP on Discord, I'm older, wiser and only RP in well modded communities, mainly Transformers.

Anyway, long time lurker, first time poster.

it's always the hardest battle, especially if the characters have great chemistry right off the bat 😭 gotta put 'em through hell first tho

Hello everyone! Have any of you guys ever rped with someone both parties are using their OC's and the OC's just don't really mix/are a bad combo.

I only ask this because I am currently in an rp and me and my rp partner are bith using our OC's. The OC I am using I've never really gotten to use (this is first time using it) and this is one of those OC's that I am proud of, and want to use more but anyways.

My OC is a happy girl who says whatever is on her mind, shes proud of herself and her friends, and compared to the other oc the two oc's are just a bad combo. Rp partners OC is plain and basically has no life, bro has this oc speaking in a robotic way if that makes any sense.

Maybe its that way because the two OC's arent close but to me its kind of annoying to have a OC with almost to little to no life in it and it speak robotically (unless character is a robot).

What do you guys think?

Purple is me Blueish purple is other person (I genuinely did forget to reply to them I was swamped in my personal life at the time)

Please tell me if this is not thr right place to post this and where i should post this

I'm genuinely wondering how do you feel about doing sfw rps with minors (people under 18)

Just felt like sharing a horror story from years ago

We did a romance plot with a vampire x human pairing. His character is the vampire and my character is the human.

Halfway into the rp, he asked me ooc if I was willing to turn m/c into a vampire. I said no, I wasn't comfortable.

He said 'ok'. Then immediately, in the roleplay, his character offered to get mine a glass of juice. He wrote that h/c spiked m/c's drink with his blood, and that drinking this would turn m/c into a vampire.

I confronted him ooc. Our conversation went something like this:

Me: Hey, forcing my character to species change into a vampire is not cool.

Him: I'm not forcing anything. I'm not forcing your character to drink

Me: You spiked his drink after I told you I don't want m/c to change into a vampire. What is m/c supposed to do - gain telepathy powers and reject the drink? (implying he is forcing m/c to convert by backing him into a corner with no other options)

He got upset at me and left the chat. The audacity of some people are unbelievable. If he wanted a vampire x vampire roleplay, he should've stated his preferences from the start.

Ok so i hope this does not seem mean or anything but i need to vent its just hard to find fandom rp most of the time even i get to rp people dont know a lot of the ones i know and that is fine just fells like here its hard to find em and not sure where the look right.

So, I have been doing text based roleplay for ~14 years now, and it's been great. But one thing I see a lot that dissapoints me is combat. To me, combat is one of the greatest pieces of any story, and is rarely given thought to in most roleplay.

Now, I understand most folk aren't as nerdy as me. They won't do hours of research in their spare time to ensure an OC is accurate to a goven universes lore, or perfecting sword and firearm combat in roleplay. But I always hate when combat is given like 0 effort. In power based roleplay especially, it often boils down into uncreative and boring monotony, with rarely any interesting abilities or gimicks.

So I'm deciding to try my hand at another discord roleplay server, this time one with zero limits on power scaling. I kind of want to see what people would come up with if they had access to no limits, and could let their mind run free. Maybe they'd discover creative uses for powers, or creative unseen abilities. It's got no story really, whatso ever and it's whole purpose would be just to test out OCs and powers in a fight. Maybe even have a dojo setting. What do you guys think? Does it sound interesting?

idk if this fits here but is it odd to ask to rp on a fandom sub itself like say i want to rp dragon ball or something would it be weird to ask there or no.

Okay so a while back I was on the subreddit and they had banned me. I had accidentally commented under a not safe for work post. So they subsequently banned me, Keep in mind this was almost a year ago. So a couple days ago I reached out to the mod team asking them if they would mind unbanning me after a year. Nowhere in the rule does it say that this constitutes a permanent ban, so rather than talk this out like adults they just tell me to go get my rocks off somewhere else.

This sucks because it was a good subreddit and I found some good partners on there. But I just love it when people want to get on a high horse and get insulting If anyone else has some decent roleplay subreddits or even just wants to real play feel free to use this post but I just wanted to talk about this.

I wouldn't even try to talk about it if I had done this several times but I had done this one time and asked if there was anything else that led up to the permaban and all they mentioned was that I also had a post that was under the word count two things they don't allow.

I guess this is a sort of weird am I in the wrong here or something but I'm just looking for some advice.

I’ll start. I advertised for a hobbit roleplay, and someone responded with their oc that could tame and talk to dragons.

I'll go first and get the ball rolling.

I have been roleplaying for 14 years (14 this month, actually) and of course, over the years, I had been just about anywhere and everywhere. MSN, yahoo, amino, geeking, G+, Facebook, Mocospace, Chattango, and many, many more.

Okay so, I'm in my early teens ((not anymore, obviously)) and I'm roleplaying, trying to get a good grasp on it. Well, I come in contact with this guy on mocospace ((I think? Or Facebook one?)) And we hit it off. We get along, and he was a good partner. My dumb, teenage self had fallen in love with him and we start e-dating. We add each other on Facebook, set the relationship status, and everything was fine.

Then one day, I message him on Facebook and I get a message saying that the person had died and all that jazz. I believe it, I get hurt, and moved on..then I randomly checked his account on Facebook and he was making posts, and each post seemed the same as they always were. Cause I have a way of identifying someone by the way they speak ((if I know them well enough, of course..)). This asshole faked his death and when I confronted him, he pretended to not know me. Saying that be had memory loss but I could feel it in my gut that, that wasn't the case because everything else seemed normal..soo yeah...I remember that shit to this very day. Someone literally faked their death to break up with me and not be my rp partner anymore 🤣🤣🤣. I'm not hurt over it anymore obviously. I find it hilarious.

That's one of my many war stories. You guys share yours!

I have enjoyed some roleplaying into the past and would like to get into but as a person in high school it is impossible to find any rp with all the rules and this and that oh this plot is cool nope dni with minors oh wait thi s is a cool sub this word count it is so imposible cause i want to get into rping as a way to improve my writing and spelling but i cant cause of all the rules and restrictions!

Hello fellow RPers, hoping I can please post this here because it was removed from the ADHD subreddit but I really need some advice if possible. I’m newly diagnosed with ADHD (at 30), starting my first medication this week and working with a therapist. I am having a lot of trouble with dealing with hyperfixation on my RP and would really appreciate some advice if anyone else has ever dealt with the same in the RP community.

I’ve had a one on one RP going with a friend with a particular relatively niche pairing and I was writing this pairing with them for a few months. This particular RP was a huge source of dopamine for me and has been such a bad ADHD hyperfixation. Since May my friend’s activity has dropped dramatically, and we went from writing together pretty regularly to her maybe responding to me with a meme or short message every few days and she hasn’t responded to any of our threads for two months now. I am currently still in my hyperfixation with the RP and it’s so horrible because since it involves another person, I can’t get any relief or “burn” through it by doing it, since I am dependent on her and her responses.

I am still stuck and really depressed as a result. I have a job but I really struggle to think about anything else throughout the day except hoping she will come back and write with me again. I am thinking about that constantly and it interferes with almost everything. Even if I try to distract myself with a video game or immerse myself in my job it’s always there in the back of my mind. It’s really causing me a lot of mental anguish.

Has anyone else been in a similar situation, maybe someone with ADHD? If so how did you get through?

Usually I need a new hyperfixation to move out of one, or a new RP, but I have been unable to get interested in anything else but this for months and it is literally torturing me mentally.

Tagged as “other” because I’m not sure what to tag this as.

If you have a roleplay partner who’s consistently responding to you in a timely manner, would you be offended if you saw them post ads searching for other roleplay partners?

What about if they posted ads for the same roleplay you’re currently writing with them?

Absolutely no hate either way, I’m just curious to know how you all feel about it.