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Philistines: The inability to RP


Rainbow    Dash

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I took a break from roleplaying on the forums to focus on Skype rps and my art. So far, my efforts in the two endeavours are proving to be all for naught.

 

Whenever I role-play with someone on skype, I expect a certain amount of creativity or thought put into responses. Instead I get:

 

"*Flare grunts*" or "*Flare trots over there*"

 

As a novelist, screen-play writer, and educated dragon, I detest these responses. I feel like you should put more effort into an rp. Especially if its with someone you said you liked a lot. I understand most people can not pull together enough brain power to conjure up a proper response, but at least try to.

 

An RP is better if you can actually imagine it happening, or if its so well written that you can feel what the oc's feel. This might sound like investing a lot of time into something that you feel shouldnt matter, but you have to ask yourself: Do I want to be good, or be known as the member/user who does not comprehend grammar?

 

If you're gonna role-play, the least you can do is fine tune your responses. Add more words, describe how your oc is feeling or what they are doing in depth.

 

If we role-play on skype, and your response is:

/me follows OR /me yelps

 

Im gonna assume you are stupid, and lazy.

 

K THANKS

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It's sort of to be expected that Skype as a medium encourages shorter, faster responses inherently due to being an IM system. You should be sure to tell your RP partner you want paragraph responses. I'm the sort who always puts thought and my own narrative style into RP (which is why I don't do it anymore, it takes too much time to do it right), but I honestly don't expect others to do the same.

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encourages shorter, faster responses inherently due to being an IM system.

It does for some people who don't have the intellect to write out detailed responses.

I think of roleplaying as telling a story. When you tell a story, you want the reader to feel like they are there. If not that, then make it so the reader's imagination is tickled.

 
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