Ever role-played?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I'm NOT talking about playing an RPG, but about setting up a character sheet, get on OOC (Out-Of-Character) discussions, and posting as that character on active role-playing threads around a forum or site.

I was never into it myself, but a sizable portion of my communities were avid players and were frequently starting and finishing these (the most recent one still going at the time of posting), as well as "dueling" as their characters.

It was pretty fascinating to see (and even kinda beautiful), since most of them had been at it for years, so you can actually see the evolution of their personalities, writing styles, and even intelligence through years upon years of those adventures -- there was some wild passion and creativity shinning through what were, essentially, large text walls shoved on the corner of some forums, and they even got ME to follow their whacky and suspenseful campaigns for a while, which isn't easily done.

They were also surprisingly effective tools that helped me choose moderators, since they often showcased people's abilities to manage discussions, avoid conflicts, and enforce their own rules in public, which gave me a lot of insight on what they could do for the community if given the chance -- two of my most trusted "cops" came right from the RP ranks.

Ever did this yourself?

 

[What's His Face]

Well, yeah, I mean I role play all the time - just list night in fact with my...oh...OH! Wait, you mean the other kinda role play with the funny dice.

Yep, nope, never role played before at all.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

I used to back in the day with my real life friends we’re in this forum and that’s kinda how it started they said that it’s a jungle out there and you better arm yourself so I kinda developed this persona which is more brash and unhinged version of myself.
Don’t worry that alter ego of mine is long retired and he won’t be coming here anytime soon.

 

[diapered]

Wait, you mean the other kinda role play with the funny dice.

I miss having friends to play D&D with

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Yep one time in forum where we role play as a suspect who is the killer where we roll the dice of on player fate and find out what happened to teammates

(But I tell you who is the killer)

Spoiler: The Real Killer

It was me and I also won because no one suspect me

 

[DunkeyKong]

 

[Isegrim]

I was the DM for my brother and sister in Dungeons and Dragons. Unfortunately, playing with close relatives can be a pain since you're so familiar with each other, they'll try to haggle and re-haggle you for rerolls. The other problem was getting them both available for a session and coinciding with all of you in the mood for D&D.

We only managed to play a few sessions all in all and managed to finish a whole module at least and half of a new one.

And I had this lovely campaign planned where this demon prince in the guise of my sister's character's godfather was going to trick them into killing the latter. Many years later, I spilled the beans to my sister and she said she would have burst into tears if I succeeded. Figures.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

I plead the fifth

 

[RageBurner]

Yeah, a few times. Sadly mostly suffering through less than ideal Dungeon Masters.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I've got an ongoing ttrpg session that fills this void, but when I was a bit younger I was into some of the role-playing forums.

I remember having a total blast running through RPs based on some of my favourite shows and games. I did have one or two weird experiences that made me dip tho.

I distinctly remember having someone DM cus they wanted to do a 1 on 1 RP of Mirai Nikki (which i hadn't read before) so I went to check it out and discovered it was mostly the Yandare relationship they wanted to RP

The only other funny incident was when I started a Hellboy RP and someone who signed up didn't post and when I asked them why they had a full-blown rant about how the RP wasn't like the original Hellboy and we'd filled it with "anime bullshit"

As an avid Hellboy fan, he deffo had a point lmao but I think most of the other players were fans kf the movie, not the comics. It was bound to happen with a more general crowd and loose rules on what constituted a hellboy character.

We should get an RP section in "Forum Games & Chatter" might be interesting to see what RGT does with it lmao

 

[Trillid Tetraoxide]

Yes, quite a lot. With girls. Anime-themed, around 2011-2015

 

[Coon]

Actually, no. But I do remember doing something like that when I was at school. But it was a long time ago.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I have!
I have vivid memories of making characters to roleplay in multiple Gaia Online RP and storytelling threads way back when. I was still a derivative teen at the time however, so a lot of my characters were just heavily based on things I liked at the time. I mean stuff like "Virgil from DMC but with the Sharingan". Pretty silly in hindsight, but I had loads of fun with it back then.

 

[Rocket2049]

i WISH i could FINISH a tabletop Roleplaying game, twice i had friends who were doing a D&D campaign and i made my character and everything and after day 1 the players just quit showing up and the DM was like nvm lol...
I did a 3 person D&D run in my university that was like 3 sessions and then the DM got busy.
the closest i got to actualling doing a D&D campaign was Baldurs gate 3, despite being a game its practically tabletop D&D... but i also had no friends to play through with.
hell it can't be hard to get a "AI" to play tabletop right?.... i feel sad lol

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

I used to in FFXIV. But I stopped.

 

[Kamako]

I tried to in Cyberpunk 2077, but the game was super buggy on release, so when I was trying to get into the "streetkid" mindset, I was somewhat distracted by all the other NPC's T-posing.

 

[JustLooking123]

I haven't experienced it online, but i wrote some stories and in them, i should roleplay as all sort of characters that are present in them.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Not too much, for a DnD campaign... but I was not too of good. the GM was a friend of mine and tried to make me role play better while I talk but I just couldnt.

Funny thing is, I have run some RP campaigns on C.AI and so far I dont have that much of an issue roleplaying there.

Maybe I should give DnD another try.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

Not too much, for a DnD campaign... but I was not too of good. the GM was a friend of mine and tried to make me role play better while I talk but I just couldnt.

Funny thing is, I have run some RP campaigns on C.AI and so far I dont have that much of an issue roleplaying there.

Maybe I should give DnD another try.

Tbh the amount of RP depends heavily on the game, the campaign and the group.

I've had games with full RP but people aren't matt mercer. Trying out accents isn't always a good plan.

In most cases when I run a game I get people to talk for their characters, but I don't get them to do voices. Just speak as themselves but decide what their character is saying and have discussions out of character. Maybe try and find a group with a lighter stance on RPing?

 

[Sleepstate]

Yes I engage in Nation Role Play where folks make fake countries and role play how they would interact

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

I've played Pathfinder 1e, D&D 5e, and Monster of the Week. All very fun!

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Tbh the amount of RP depends heavily on the game, the campaign and the group.

I've had games with full RP but people aren't matt mercer. Trying out accents isn't always a good plan.

In most cases when I run a game I get people to talk for their characters, but I don't get them to do voices. Just speak as themselves but decide what their character is saying and have discussions out of character. Maybe try and find a group with a lighter stance on RPing?

Thats cool, I personally was kind of encourage to do so, my GM did all the voices and sounds because he liked it. And it was really nice.

Once opportunity I had to make an speech to encourage soldiers and my friend told me: "Now speak like you are the character". Idk, my mind fried lol, I was just "So then I encourage them..." before.

 

[ciro64]

Hmmmm, I shall dine on turtle soup tonight

 

[Opapete]

I gotta say, I never did any of the structured stuff with character sheets and such, but you can thank a singular platform for that in my childhood:
Roblox.

Dear god. I have spent too many hours on roleplay games on there, which always varied in quality more than looking through the bargain bin for games. The OOC arguments were actually crazy though, there was an art to it which I would like to coin a genuine insanity, because the arguments were almost always the most insane things ever.

Just as a quick example of the types of stuff I ended up in, straight up OCs with original universes and all, Super Mario, about 15 different zombie apocalpsyses, future Los Angeles (including the blade runner influences) and probably some other stuff I forgot.

Also did some Ace Attorney stuff I guess, but those memories are more foggy than the town of Silent Hill.

 

[bjork]

I think the closest I would've gotten is when we played around outside as kids and we would play shows. Like someone would go "let's play GI Joe" and everybody picked who they were going to be, but then... there were never any missions or anything? We kinda still played the same but if you picked Destro, you had to do Destro's voice as well as you could? It was the 80s and we were lame little kids, idk