What is your favorite thing about role-playing?

[Proletariat]

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Hello everybody! I thought it would be a nice positive post for this morning if a couple people would post here what they really love about role play. If you want you can also post some of your best experiences role-playing. I really love finding a writer who is better than me to role play with. Nothing gets me more excited waiting on that next post than someone who knows how to balance post length and utilize rhetoric devices better than I can. I always learn something from those sages of roleplay and really have enjoyed my roleplays with them the most out of all my time role-playing. If you are role-playing with someone who seems way out of your league, don't put yourself down because of it, learn from them and use it to make yourself better!


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[call me rae]

I just enjoy having fun with it mostly. I mean I like roleplaying with people that really put some thought and effort into their character's motivations and personality too. Nothing like a roleplay that makes you think to get you really excited to make those posts.


But for the absolute top tier thing that gets me to really dive in : just having a good time. It doesn't always have to make since nor be rapid fire. But if I find a roleplay where I'm joking around and having a grand time with the people behind the scenes than chances are that's a roleplay I'm gonna enjoy sticking with to the bitter end.

 

[Bone2pick]

Storytellers require an audience. Roleplaying provides the audience. So storytelling is my true love, while roleplaying is my preferred forum.

 

[Cheerio]

Having an platform to express my ideas and the many universes that exist in my head and and audience that is engaged and can build upon them and manifest something beautiful.

 

[dontrainn]

It allows me to put myself into a character's shoes and it helps me past time. c:

 

[SourDiesel]

To put it short and simple it's the fact that I get to become someone new. I like the thought that even as teenagers and adults some of us still like to play "pretend" just in a new way.

 

[lashton]

honestly, it helps me get feelings out. i make characters that are going through things that are similar to experiences i've been through, and it just helps me with a lot of things. plus, it's adorable to imagine something that would never happen but come to life through writing.


it's beautiful, in my opinion.
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[Delzmore]

The stories and feelings in a rp..

 

[haiku boy]

It's a sneaky way to collaborate on writing with awesome people

 

[SirJonithus]

Creativity is probably my favorite aspect of the RP. Seeing what sorts of fantastic world and people that some folks can dream up is quite remarkable, hence why my favorite themes are usually fantasy based. Of course I also like what sort of 'character' players can bring into the world and the sorts of relationships and struggles that come between player characters. Character development and growth are an important part of RP I think.

 

[Sunbather]

I just love it when I work hard on a roleplay and feel uncharacteristically (for me) enthusiastic and happy about it, and then I get either three replies like "im intrasted n thes rolaplay" OR it starts properly only for everyone to lose interest within three weeks tops. Gotta have that feeling of utter failure till you're burned out now and again, aye. Also self inserts are pretty cool, eh make me feel like I live a life that's actually nice and doesn't afra... Okay nevermind.


I dunno. Seeing unique characters and passionate writers is fun, I think. Seeing ideas being developed.

 

[TyrantKingKuma]

When I GM:


I love when a story comes together. When all the pieces I slowly showed to the players get inexorably together to form a single cohesive narrative and I blow their minds. I'm a guy who usually goes for the long game. Right now in another forum I've been building up a 3 year storyline with 10+ threads behind it to create a massive pay-off at the end.


When I play:


I love the rush of getting over an obstacle through effort, skill and creativity. I don't like easy victories, I want to work for my triumphant moments.

 

[Snickersnack]

To me, the best thing about roleplaying is being able to creatively collaborate with other people instead of writing a single story by myself - the latter ends with me not finishing it because of doing it individually, but with roleplaying it's different because you get nagged xD .

 

[Sunnerino]

For me, it's mainly just because I like creating good stories, and it's more fun when you're doing it with other people.