Role Plays

[Yugi]

they should make a Role Play Portal somewhere in this place.

[pyan]

You mean the whole place isn't one? Damn.......

[The Ace]

Originally Posted by pyanfaruk

You mean the whole place isn't one? Damn.......

I always thought it was.

[nixie]

Isn't that we mostly do in lounge

[Frontierzone]

Yeah, but for us newbies, it's a bit confusing. How does one start a new thread, and what can we play? (aside from the obvious, this being a Science fiction/Fantasy Forum.)

[Aes]

A section for role playing? Great, I'll get my leather mask, steel cuffs, and...oh wait, the other kind? Bummer.

[Culhwch]

Why is everyone so determined to run away from reality?

[Weasel Soup]

Culhwch, it is indeed the Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums......

Well that and Blair and Bush have become soo tedious.

[Culhwch]

Originally Posted by Weasel Soup

Culhwch, it is indeed the Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums......

True enough. I guess I just prefer to discuss literary dragons, druids and dwarfs, rather than pretend to be one. Each to their own.

[chrispenycate]

Each to his own. (or, if you must be PC, his. her or its own)
And what better way to explore the tastes, strengths and shortcomings of a character that living in its head, and reacting to other fictional creations, to whom you can compare the solidity and stability incorporated in yours?

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Yugi

they should make a Role Play Portal somewhere in this place.

Yugi... what, precisely, are you looking for? An online role-playing game? That's something you'd have to approach one of the mods in the Games section about, I'd think, rather than the Lounge.

Or did you have something else in mind? A little clarification, and we may be able to point you in the right direction....

[Culhwch]

Originally Posted by chrispenycate

Each to his own (or, if you must be PC, his, her or its own).
And what better way to explore the tastes, strengths and shortcomings of a character than living in its head, and reacting to other fictional creations, to whom you can compare the solidity and stability incorporated in yours?

Or, more succinctly, I prefer 'their'.

I should preface this by saying that I mean no one offence, but it's one thing to inhabit a created character - that is, a literary creation of someone else's imagination - and another to adopt a fantastical mantle of your own whims and fancies. You mistake the former for the latter, I feel.

But I'm genuinely curious. Besides being reticent about sharing my name (a lot of magic there, if I'm to believe what I read...) I present myself here as I am in the real world. Flights of fantasy do not appeal to me outside of a literary scope. So what is the attraction for those amongst us who do adopt an out of this world alter ego and go gallivanting through Basements and Hell and other such virtual unrealities?

[j. d. worthington]

For my part... it's like an old story-telling session around a campfire, combined with a game. Rather than each person telling a single story, it's a group effort, calling on everyone's imagination and, as each person adds their spin on things, the challenge of meeting that, making adjustments, yet still having an enjoyable and reasonably consistent storyline emerge. It becomes a group creative effort, if you will.

[Joel007]

That works much better if you give each person a random word or term that they have to fit into their section. It becomes more fun if they don't know what the word means

[Frontierzone]

I've been RPGing for nearly a quarter of a century, mostly as a GM. I'm with j.d. on this. 1. It'd be better suited to the Games area. 2. Role-playing games are precisely that, good old fashioned storytelling, but with a little theater thrown in. It's somewhat reminiscent of old time radio. Theater of the mind, so to speak. j.d., you're a moderator, maybe you can take the idea up with I, Brian? Just a thought.