[seimeisenpai]

I roleplay because I love writing and it's a nice break from the real world. How about you ^w^?

[darth vader]

bc i hate myself

[beekeeper]

bc my rl is unfullfilling

[SIFR]

It is a tradition in my family. My children will roleplay. My grandchildren will roleplay. All will join together in communal storytelling.

I'm not kidding, btw.

[CAMI]

Because I have too much free time and there's never anything good on TV when I turn it on.

[Egao, Egao Everywhere]

Jun 5, 2014 19:16:13 GMT -8 SIFR said:

It is a tradition in my family. My children will roleplay. My grandchildren will roleplay. All will join together in communal storytelling.

I'm not kidding, btw.

I expect your bloodline to be able to execute the perfect family plot.

[Smiles: a rather stupid walrus]

Because I like killing cboxes.

[MASQUE]

I reolplay because it's one of the few things that I can express full passion in, and that I was encouraged to find passion and enjoyment it. It's also one of the very few things in which I can most of the time feel like I can be myself, instead of a shy, reticient girl that's been so badly hurt her entire life that she can't even form normal social bonds. Roleplay makes me feel normal, and helps me actually get all of these weird feelings out with the words, the characters, and everything I create.

It's one of the only reasons I made it through my life relatively sane, and it's also one of my only passions that I can consistently muster any will for, one of the very few constants in my life that's always been about inconsistency and uncertainty. It's really something that I cannot get rid of no matter how hard I try, as I was roleplaying even as a child. It's.. just something that I really and utterly enjoy doing.

If only I could get paid for it lol. /end heavy

[pascaline]

I roleplay because I love it. And I happen to be very good at it if I do say so myself.

But what I love most about role playing is meeting interesting and inspiring people who make me want to write stories with them. I've met, befriended, and rped with competitive horse sport champions to actual published authors, the heir to a hospital in Vietnam, to a mayor (he wasn't mayor when we met, but he ran for office a few years back and won). I've also been lucky to make friends from all over the world. Some of my best friends, those I consider close as family, I have yet to meet in person. But no matter who I meet, no matter what kind of life they lead, all have an interesting story to tell just as much as their characters do.

Role playing is amazing and it brings people together. I practically grew up in the community and I don't see myself leaving ever. I used to rp with an 80 year old woman and I'm sure I'll be the same at her age.

[Pool Boy]

pascaline

we r all gonna grow old 2gether

One of u better publish sumthing so i can say i knew u

[Hero]

so senpai can notice me

[SIFR]

Jun 7, 2014 12:06:18 GMT -8 Hero said:

so senpai can notice me

/thread

[Elena]

I have written all my life, since first grade, long before having any ideas that RPGs exist. I am writing because I have a story to tell - the stories are alive inside me, wanting to get out. The story is there, in my brain, it is turning its wheels and writing itself, bits and pieces, while waiting in the station or riding a bus/ subway to or from work, or in bed before going to sleep. Bits and pieces scribbled on a paper while in a boring meeting or waiting at the doctor’s.

I couldn’t live without writing. OK, maybe one month or two, at the maximum, and even then, usually my brain is busy cooking new stories (or pieces of them, because yes, often my imagination functions in bits and pieces which need bridged later.). I was playing with toys too as a schoolchild, but I was also playing with words, writing – because it got to a much wider playground than the toys could give me.

When I am sad or angry, writing is another way to channel or soothe my feelings – be it a fighting scene or, by contrary, a comic one. When I am happy, my excess of energy is also channeled in writing.

When I was in love (because yes, I know enough young people who, once they are in love, they spend all the time with the lover and stop writing), I used my feelings for writing more enticing love scenes too. Still now, at almost 12 years of wedded bliss and 20 years together (well… still in love, but in a different way than the first butterflies), some of my male characters get certain reactions inspired from my husband or I ask for his opinion directly. But I kept writing all the time – only that he received more love letters too – 2 full folders! (And before my husband, when I had an unrequited crush on someone who never knew, it was also materialized in filling notebooks with stories and verses, and inspiring somehow from him a character in a story).

So, yes, writing is my hobby (albeit not my only one, but my main one) and I would always make time for it. Especially when writing with others and knowing that there are people waiting for my contribution.

Given that I am writing mostly historical fiction, by researching and re-creating that environment, I also get to live it for a while, in my imagination, through the various characters, but returning, at the end, to my hot bath directly from the tap and full fridge. (Yes, each character has his own distinct personality, so I am not them, therefore I am not living vicariously through them. They do horrible things I wouldn’t do sometimes.) I also get to explore with my imagination situations and mindsets which I wouldn’t like to be confronted to in real life. (Or which aren’t suitable anymore for our modern life).

Jun 6, 2014 17:17:09 GMT -8 pascaline said:

I roleplay because I love it. And I happen to be very good at it if I do say so myself.

But what I love most about role playing is meeting interesting and inspiring people who make me want to write stories with them. I've met, befriended, and rped with competitive horse sport champions to actual published authors, the heir to a hospital in Vietnam, to a mayor (he wasn't mayor when we met, but he ran for office a few years back and won). I've also been lucky to make friends from all over the world. Some of my best friends, those I consider close as family, I have yet to meet in person. But no matter who I meet, no matter what kind of life they lead, all have an interesting story to tell just as much as their characters do.

Role playing is amazing and it brings people together. I practically grew up in the community and I don't see myself leaving ever. I used to rp with an 80 year old woman and I'm sure I'll be the same at her age.

I fully agree with you. I have written with people from 14 to 75 years old, from all corners of the world. I have made good friends of all ages and backgrounds, I have learnt lots of interesting things and they have learnt some at their turn too. From housewives to published writers, Army people who got a break to go to Afghanistan and came back to write with us, students, librarians, TV people, actors, engineers and lawyers...

And having the story already published on the net for many more readers it's a bonus too!

Yes, this is the appeal of RPGs vs writing alone. Besides, pooling the ideas each of us has into a more awesome plot, having likeminded people to discuss about plots and characters, count a lot... As a lone writer, after a while, I really got lonely, there were no more people to read my stories how they used when in highschool or uni.

[SIFR]

Elena, I'm not sure I've ever said it, but I hope I'm half as cool as you are when I get older. You're so eloquent and lovely.

I'm not trying to suck up, I'm just being honest.

[THE LEVIATHAN]

Role playing is just a big hobby of mine. I've always enjoyed writing as a kid and one day, I discovered role playing on Gaia. Everything I do online is just a hobby and it stops me from being super bored with university work. It's just supposed to be a fun thing you can do with your friends, no stress or problems. And as a designer I also like bringing those role play ideas to life by making the skin, graphics, etc.