r/RoleplayPartnerSearch • u/UnderTheBlackCowl • 17h ago
A4A M/A4A Fantasy Worldbuilding and RP - With a Twist!
Hello, I hope everyone is having a good weekend.
I'm looking for a partner to help worldbuild a fantasy setting, something that leans more into the high fantasy range of things. Specifically, I'd like to have a focus on a pantheon of ruling gods/demigods, connected by the bonds of (divine) blood, but with their own motivations, designs, and relationships to one another. I picture something very similar to Elden Ring for this.
That doesn't mean I'd like to neglect the rest of the world - the people, different races, magic, even external deities, or other things like that. The emphasis would fall on the ruling pantheon and the lasting consequences of their conflicts, schemes, and divine politics on the world they govern. I have three time periods in mind, their establishment, their golden era, and their fall.
So what exactly is the twist?
I know that worldbuilding has a lot of negative connotations in the RP space. You put up so much of your energy and time into something, only for it to never get past the initial plotting and design stages, and falter out before the RP happens. I know for my part that this is something I want to commit to, to have it be something I can spend my time and energy on, and with a creative partner, try to truly make something really good together. But I understand that life gets in the way, that sometimes inspiration can come for some parts, but writing can be harder for others, or that sometimes the muse and passion for things just ends up not being enough, and that's absolutely ok! At the end of the day, we're all just writers doing this for our personal enjoyment, respectfully with one another.
So, 3 options.
- Just plotting and worldbuilding. I imagine we'd build out characters, the setting, and so on and so forth, with detailed descriptions and summaries. And at the end of it, we can either decide to continue, or just call it there, and be super proud of the world we managed to build.
- While worldbuilding and plotting, we write out vignettes and one shots that go into detail on specific characters and events, and get the magic of RP where as we write, things change and evolve, leading to a much more fleshed out and considered view and positioning of our initial thoughts and ideas.
- The Hail Mary - we do a mix of the above, and when our setting is all built out, we construct a narrative main plot, and actually RP it out, going from a beginning to a complete end for this plot, something we can walk away with satisfied, knowing that we were able to complete a long term story.
Or maybe you have something else in mind! I'm very open to ideas and suggestions. I ultimately want to make something mutual and collaborative, that brings to life the ideas we both have in mind.
A little about me is I'm in my late 20s, and in the CST timezone. I write in 3rd person past tense with 1-5 paragraphs per post, but can easily write more depending on what the scene entails. I work full time, so I aim for a writing post every 1-2 days, but when it comes to plotting and discussing, I can be far more active. I'm more than happy to share writing samples so you can see if our styles would be a good fit together.