TOP 5 RP Misconceptions!

[OutlawTorn]

#4 refers to assumptions, as clearly stated and followed by an example.

I hate RPing with people who do their own thing. It's extremely bad form IMO, because I only do complex, high concept stories it's almost impossible to phone in nowadays. I gave up freeform long ago when I began to take storytelling seriously.

[Rowan]

#4 refers to assumptions, as clearly stated and followed by an example.

I hate RPing with people who do their own thing. It's extremely bad form IMO, because I only do complex, high concept stories it's almost impossible to phone in nowadays. I gave up freeform long ago when I began to take storytelling seriously.

No wonder you love the bible!

[OutlawTorn]

No wonder you love the bible!

See, Ro. What you couldn't have guessed by making an assumption is that I don't believe in any god, or any heaven. Had you just asked like a normal human being, I would have told you I enjoyed the Bible as a work of historic fiction... Nothing more.

Dirty little things, assumptions.


I don't like assumptions in ANY form of story, Andromeda... You can't know what I'm thinking or have planned without asking via OOC, VM, or PM. So instead of jumping ahead of yourself, I prefer you touch base. It has nothing to do with 'ground rules' although hey should exist to some degree, depending on the nature of the story.


I like a bit a mystery and suspense in my character arcs, regardless of the genre or story. It's proven veey hard for me to do this when I'm surrounded by writers who constantly want to assume and get in on what's going on. I've changed more plans and weakened more characters arcs as a result, that I quit free form all together because of it. I could do free form, but I don't like it.


EDIT: Have you ever been in a story so good and juicy people couldn't do and say whatever the **** they wanted, but rather worked together the entire time to create and tell the story TOGETHER rather than as independant entities imposing their will?

You just assumed the secret my character has been hanging on to and referencing is that HE killed Bob in the first chapter! Because several times I said some things that raised serious suspicion. But you had no idea Bob was never dead, even though you just posted your character finding his body, collecting evidence to pin it on poor Stan.

Piss poor form, 101.

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[Andromeda]

#4 refers to assumptions, as clearly stated and followed by an example.

I hate RPing with people who do their own thing. It's extremely bad form IMO, because I only do complex, high concept stories it's almost impossible to phone in nowadays. I gave up freeform long ago when I began to take storytelling seriously.

Doing any form of RPing that is longer than a sentence sounds pretty rough and undesirable on a phone.

But you can do serious storytelling in freeform RPs. It takes talented RPers, but it is totally doable.

But it sounds like something like what you preferring doing just requires laying down some ground rules when opening it up to people.

If we're going broad and just saying Assumptions then it's going to be up to the style of RP you doing. The reason why I asked is because your example lack the context of the type of RP it was. Because typically the sort of example you used is one a form of RP where you make no sign-up thread. And if you make no sign-up thread then you're working on the whim of the creator and have to follow what they've done. And since your character didn't exist when they made the thread there's no assumptions that can be made. If the opposite is true of your example and there was a sign-up thread. Then the creator was just showing bad form and being a bad writer, not paying attention to all of the characters that were created by people.

That's why I asked. Because your example read differently in the way I was interpreting it verses how you were explaining things before.