Experiences Prompts You're Too Afraid to Advertise

[bloohued]

Do any of you have a idea or a prompt that you'd like to do, but are too afraid to say? It could be something completely innocuous, but be extremely specific, obscure, or contain a mix of tropes or subject matters that make for a weird combination. I know I've experienced that, but what about the people of this forum?

 

[chaotic cat cutie]

Oh this is a really good question and im curious to see. There is nothing im affraid to advertise but ive never role played a western

 

[Bacon is fluffy]

I have no fear. Only failed and ignored interest checks. To which I pick myself back up and go back to the drawing board.(but yes I'd love to do a creepypasta rp based on my cabin getaway or lilymadwhip), but alas we just have to accept when some ideas aren't interesting and move on.

 

[bloohued]

Oh this is a really good question and im curious to see. There is nothing im affraid to advertise but ive never role played a western

Dare I speak about my own strange prompt?

 

[chaotic cat cutie]

Dare I speak about my own strange prompt?

Yes!

 

[nerdy tangents]

Don’t know as I’m afraid of it so much as I have accepted it’s not something that will gain interest - a platonic matchmaking roleplay.

So the playable characters are best friends setting each other up on dates with NPCs.

 

[bloohued]

Yes!

In short, a couple of people fall asleep during an episode of Bluey and wake up inside the show as dogs.

 

[chaotic cat cutie]

In short, a couple of people fall asleep during an episode of Bluey and wake up inside the show as dogs.

Oh my gosh that sounds amazing!

 

[bloohued]

Oh my gosh that sounds amazing!

Unfortunately, most of the people I talked to that will rp Bluey found it too weird.

 

[Cogwork]

I have an idea for a roleplay I've worked on and off on for about a year and I'd be lying if I say I wasn't a bit scared to actually get it started because I'd worry that I have wasted all the time I spent working on it if nobody is interested in it.

 

[DawnsEarlyLight]

I was once considering a Civil War era fantasy RP, but since said war involved a certain highly sensitive historical subject, I quickly decided against it.

 

[Idea]

Don’t know as I’m afraid of it so much as I have accepted it’s not something that will gain interest - a platonic matchmaking roleplay.

So the playable characters are best friends setting each other up on dates with NPCs.

I’m going to be honest that actually sounds really interesting.

 

[Mollisol]

A Persona/SMT 1x1 RP set in the US with an OC cast. I've never posted it, because:

1) the modern Personas are all about Japanese current issues and Japan-specific cultural critique. Even though issues like "a culture of face-saving and conformity causes minority stress" are not necessarily specific to one nation, the games heavily reference real-life scandals and cultural problems from Japan. It feels ludicrously insensitive to use that franchise's psycho-dungeons without the themes that filled them.

2) I would like to deal with US-based cultural issues in the nice Psychological RPG Adventures format Persona games have ready-made, but that requires both me and the other partner wanting to dip our toes into the same issues. If we do, it's very possible that we will flagrantly disagree on the "right" approaches to these issues and we'll come into conflict over it. Any RP that uses heavy cultural issues is bound to have conflicts that I'll need to address diplomatically, and if I pick the wrong partner, those conversations are going to be minefields. I don't want to spend the energy on that right now.

3) My general preferences for RP are already pretty restrictive, even without such a niche RP prompt. I like large casts with 2-4 mains per person, I strongly prefer platonic relationships, and only RP with adults. This walls out most of the userbase on this site, though thankfully not all of it.