Quote Originally Posted by OutlawTorn View Post
#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.