Advice/Help A little new to this whole text-based roleplaying thing! How do y'all come up with plots?

[AstralAcademyStarla]

This might seem like a totally silly message. My bad if it does~! But, I feel totally lost when it comes to all this!

For some context, my roleplaying background is exclusively from tabletop games (like D&D but, not that system specifically!) where the heavy lifting of 'plot making' is done mostly by the game system, and the conflict of the roleplay is driven by say, a GM, or the dice rolls. Soooo, when it comes to something that isn't that...

Do people tend to come up with vague ideas like pairings then plot out a story to play through? Or is it more like improv? And how much of a story do people usually like from posts asking for roleplay? (so I don't sound totally unprepared when people are hoping for a full idea!)

Thanks in advance for any replies~!

 

[spookie ayumi]

This might seem like a totally silly message. My bad if it does~! But, I feel totally lost when it comes to all this!

For some context, my roleplaying background is exclusively from tabletop games (like D&D but, not that system specifically!) where the heavy lifting of 'plot making' is done mostly by the game system, and the conflict of the roleplay is driven by say, a GM, or the dice rolls. Soooo, when it comes to something that isn't that...

Do people tend to come up with vague ideas like pairings then plot out a story to play through? Or is it more like improv? And how much of a story do people usually like from posts asking for roleplay? (so I don't sound totally unprepared when people are hoping for a full idea!)

Thanks in advance for any replies~!

well usually most people will give a starting scene or you and ur rp partner while think of a nice starting scene after talking about what characters and or OCS you'll be using for sid story then usually from the starting plot its improv. and sometimes you can ask like in parentheses (like this when your talking out of character in an rp) about any ideas you would like to happen or you think would be cool for the plot.

 

[spookie ayumi]

or sometime2 separate chats will be made one to talk about the rp and one for the rp and any thing you think would be cool you send in the chat that talks about the rp while the chat for the rp is strictly the rp so no confusion happens

 

[spookie ayumi]

also if you wanna get more practice I don't mind doing a short rp with ya just to get ya started!

 

[Charismeur]

Welcome to text-based Roleplaying!

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None of your questions are "silly", so I hope that can put your mind at ease. I've spent many years in text-based Roleplaying, so I can't imagine how Tabletop works. Kudos to you for branching out! To answer your actual questions, the simple answer is that it varies. I've seen some folks on here just list fandoms or pairings (usually in 1x1 ads) while others have fully fleshed plots (usually group ads from what I've seen, but there are some in 1x1 too!) with lore and all. I truly don't think there is a "wrong way" to go about it, but maybe taking some looking at Interest Checks here could help give you a better idea of what you wanna aim for?