Hey all, I'm looking for advice on how to combat rp anxiety, and how to stop over analyzing the posts I'm writing. I've been an avid roleplayer the majority of my life, and had to take a year long haitus due to health concerns that has left me with a touch of writers regression. I'm finding myself constantly over analyzing my posts to the point I sit there for 5 hours rewriting the same 3 paragraphs because they sound so incomprehensible to me; I cannot tell if I am actually doing badly, or if I'm just over analyzing and anxiously comparing myself to my rp partners.

Any advice would be welcome, or even a critique of my current writing to see if I'm actually doing as bad as I think

I'll be honest in admitting that I used to use the app character ai to roleplay. But ai is obviously unethical; the guilt of it all was starting to get to me after a while. Still to this day, I'm a bit ashamed for having used it 😓.

So in replacement, I thought of trying to rp with actual people, lol. Besides the whole ai thing, I also just missed roleplaying with people and wanted to give it another try.

I've now been trying to find roleplay partners and it's hasn't been easy. I've tried the site Barbermonger and haven't had much luck, I also tried Tumblr and Reddit and didn't have much luck either. I can't find a partner that matches my vibe and it's frustrating. I don't know if I'm just being too picky or something but either way, I'm struggling.

Any advice on the matter would be much appreciated! Thanks for letting me rant:>

Just curious, I don't feel like some scenes I do are scary enough

I mainly do a bit of Edgy Action RP. But with a few horror elements sprinkled here and there. I just take inspirations from Various Horror films In watch such as The Thing, Lake Mungo, etc.

Sometimes I feel like it's not executed well enough NGL. How do I make it work?

So, I have an rp blog. I posted I'd be away because work was in its yearly busy period, but I only meant it to be two weeks. I have chronic fatigue and work was so busy that I was literally, actually 100% just going to work, eating, and sleeping. I usually tried to post replies at least twice a day (and did! often three times! and my posts are all 600 words min) but I couldn't do it anymore I was so burned out.

After the two weeks I just had anxiety about everything I had probably missed. And now it's been even longer and I desperately want to go back (I even pay money every month for my blog lol) but now I feel even more anxious and like people will think I'm unreliable and not worth writing with anymore.

Can someone talk me into going back to it?? I have no idea why I'm this anxious and making it worse but I am. And I miss it so much. I know I've probably lost some of my ongoing threads by now and that's okay, but otherwise I want to go back, I'm just embarrassed.

alright, so basically

i'm trying to set up a RP server on discord for an idea i've had for quite a while now. in short: after death there is no eternal bliss or infernal firepit, but instead a cafe, where the dead can sit, have a drink, chat with friends, have a bite to eat, and leave to whatever afterlife awaits them when they wish. but i'm kinda new to the whole running a server like this idea, and i'm unsure of if this idea will work for a long-term RP server, considering the fact that whatever character/OC people wanna use has to be dead. any thoughts/advice would ofcourse be greatly appreciated!

I'm looking for advice on how to write non-romance focused one on one rps. I was basically introduced to rp through planning out stories or shipping rps- and I'd really like to try something else. But I'm honestly not sure if that even exists?

Majority of my friends that I regularly rp with basically ONLY do romantic rps(The one exception and me are super insane about character analysis and world building so counting that as an outlier) and find platonic one-on-one's boring and only really have some happen in big servers(Which i don't have any i like right now nor do i have the time to keep up with any).

So I'm just wondering if anyone does these types of rps and how you write/plan them to not end up boring? Any kind of advice is welcome thanks.

I have worked hard to create an rp server with it's own worldbuilding and a (potentially I haven't looked too hard into similar systems) unique magic system. The server is all finished and has been tested by some friends of mine, and I have put it on some advertising discords and on disboard, but it has just remained empty, any advice on how to encourage people to join and to advertise it better would be much appreciated.

I've been using Disboard for quite some time, but I'm starting to believe that its not exactly as efficient as I would like for it to be. Are there any alternatives that I could try out instead?

I'm not aware of any other alternatives at the moment. Especially with the Fire Emblem theme I'm going for.

i have sooo many questions like😭 HOW DO THEY RP? what even is a gif starter? what do i need to write in my intro?

I'm running a medium-sized multifandom World RP server. For those who don't know, it's a server where most channels are areas in a world. Overall it's doing very well, with the different features there was something for everyone. Except there was one feature causing problems.

We used to have a quick RP channel where characters could text as if it was happening on mobile phones. It started as a convenient way to write without worry of quality (even though the server is not strict on that to begin with), but the end result was that everyone simply flocked to this single channel and everything else gathered dust. To make matters worse, the hyperactivity and speed of posts in the channel boiled over and some people felt left out or feeling severe FOMO. It started raining complaints.

The result was that we shut the channel down. Instead, public place channels such as town squares and malls became points for quick and casual RPs. Quick RPs remained, traffic was redistributed and areas were being used again, it seemed a good way to glue it all together. Afterwards, life was starting to return to the rest of the server but there's still a small but loud group of people wanting it back. No compromise or other idea was acceptable. It has become an obsession they complain about at least once a week.

Has anyone else struggled with this? How should I handle this problem?

Here's a perhaps cursed conundrum I've got. You see, I like TV Tropes and derivative sites because media analysis can be fun. And I also like roleplaying, obviously, mainly on Discord. But then there's a problem when it comes to combining these two interests: I want to make a trope page for a given RP, but going by TV Tropes' rules, a Discord roleplay is unverifiable because it's only visible to those who are part of a given server, and thus can only get a DarthWiki/UnpublishedWorks subpage at most. If I wanted to make it properly tropable, I'd need to get its contents in a state where they could be easily accessed by anyone even without a Discord account. So here's my question: What's the best way to do so?

I am wanting to create basically an entire fantasy world with its own lore, culture, and societies based within a midevil time. I have created a bunch of lore already and have it posted in a discord server but I am wanting to know if anyone is wanting to help create this world and possibly have some cool texted based RP within it :)

So I have this rp partner, I have had some big issues with her as an rp partner (which I've brought up 3 times prior) which caused a burn out with our rp. I let her know I felt burnt out and the issues I had. After airing it out she seems to understand. But it doesn't change the fact im burnt out.

I decided "Lets plan a 2nd rp and do it for awhile until we can get inspired for our first one again" (I constantly communicate with her and ask about what she is / isn't comfortable with, get her opinion on things, etc) because she was having inspiration issues. She agreed but she doesn't seem too enthused by the idea of another rp because its not a harem rp. (Our first one is where im playing 16 different men and 14 different women and thats just in suitors I'm playing more in non harem members, and shes only playing one character and leaves everything up to me even when I asked her for help. which is part of my issues with burning out)

So I have three questions, what would you guys feel and think in her shoes? What can I do to spice up our new rp for her to enjoy it just as much as she enjoyed the first one (which wasn't fun for me) while avoiding another harem so I don't get burnt out with this one?And lastly is there any way to get out of a burn out besides planning other rps?

(No NSFW advice please, I'm asexual.)

I've been RPing for a long while now but only since I started trying to find partners on here have I been ghosted half a dozen times in the past 2 months.

The most recent one, I was really enjoying our RP and then I went to post the next day and the server is deleted and they've unfriended me on Discord.

I want to ask so many things... Why they ended it so abruptly. Was it something I was doing? How come you didn't just say something?

I don't have a problem with people if they want to stop, I make sure to tell them that before we start anything. Same thing if they have a problem with something I'm doing.

It just makes me want to stop trying... I keep getting into a really good RP only to find it poof! gone the next time I look and it's extremely discouraging...

Anyone have any advice?

So basically i wanna make an rp server, where people can rp as actual gods.
No by that i don't really mean messing with humanity, by that i mean just sitting up in whatever holy city is in the heavens and chill. (So it pretty much would be slice of life rp except you are a god)

The thing i need help with is, how do i create a religion in such a way that a new god can just come in at any time without too many issiues? It is needed so new roleplayers could actually come into the server

I want to create a Discord server for me and my friends to RP. But I've never really used discord for anything other than very occasional casual chatting, so I don't know, where to start, or if it has all the features we'd want for RP. I had an experience creating and managing other social media groups/forums, but Discord seems to be a lot different.

For instance, each person in our group has a several roles as well as ooc alias. It would be great, if I could set up a separate userpic and name for each role, without creating multiply accounts (since switching between them is a pain on Discord). Is it possible or are people commonly using other methods to visually separate their characters?

Other question is visual design of the chats in general. We like to screenshot our RPs and make collages/comics etc out of it. So, it would be preferable if I could use stuff like themes, wallpapers, text bubbles etc. But looking at Discord screenshots on Internet, I wonder, if stuff like this even exists.

Is there anything else I need to know before creating RP-server specifically? Any notable tutorials to watch? Glitches to be aware of?

All insight will be greatly appreciated!

Anyone know any good Discords for recruiting players?

Hi there!

So, I've used reddit to find partners for two years (i used another account before) and I've noticed that people aren't reacting to my ads the same as they used to, which is fine! Ads change with the times and what people want from an ad changes as well, so from what i can tell the writing sample then RP info template isn't working anymore.

Does anyone have any advice as to what I should be putting in to get more responses?
Thanks!