I just wanted to get it off my own chest about how people are constantly ragging on the way RPR is lately. I've been rping for a very long time. In a few years, it'll have been 20 years since I started roleplaying. I did not start here on RPR and, on top of that, I have gone through many platforms, which means having to alter how I roleplay and the format of roleplays. When I first got to RPR, I loved it specifically because I could see as well as create my own roleplay and create/participate in a world without it being too difficult to understand the rules and makeup and so on. It took some learning, of course, but I eventually got the hang of descriptions and all which had to be formatted differently here compared to other platforms/sites that I've used.
Over the years, a lot of those that I used to rp with have had to go for one reason or another because reality just did its thing. Whether it be family life or school life or so on, something got in the way. Some of them I think just outgrew it. Those that I've seen still around do still hold that strong storyteller urge deep within them but, much like them, I've grown weary of trying to keep up with rps that more so drain than help fuel my creativity. The abundance of matchmaking rps and things of that nature didn't seem to help. When I started roleplaying back in my young teen years, we roleplayed OCs all the time. It wasn't until around college that I discovered different muses and such, sort of like an actor filling a role is how I see it. My thing is that in watching this site, I've seen the storytelling decrease and the need to just write overwhelm everything else. People just wanting to rp hard, fast and aggressive as long as they can get it out of their system. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy grown and y rps. The ability to just be more adult with more mature themes and all BUT the emphasis on story has faded.
Something else that I don't think has helped is the incredible need and desire I've seen so many people have for things to just be active. I understand that an active rp can make it more fun but there really should be an emphasis more on quality than quantity and I say that to mean that there should be more weight on what is being written rather than how often. Always trying to fit an activity schedule is like trying to fit a deadline. People think it's easy, I guess, but I just can't. Activity should be more on just interacting with others than whether or not you've just posted something to say "I'm here."
I have to leave work now so I'm dipping out for now but I just kind of wanted to get that off my chest.
Take care, loves.
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