Roleplay Success Poll [For Content Development]

Why do you lose interest in the roleplays you're in/What makes a roleplay die?

  • Plot - Slow or Boring

  • Plot - Unclear or Confusing

  • Plot - Hung up on one character

  • Plot - Too Stereotypical

  • Plot - Not What I Expected

  • GM - Kind of an Ass Hole

  • GM - Too Restricting

  • GM - Disorganized

  • GM - Poor Communication

  • GM - Ignored RP

  • Players - Too Much Smut/Language/Gore/Etc

  • Players - No Collaborations (Private RPing separate from the IC)

  • Players - Too Many Collaborations (Private RPing separate from the IC)

  • Players - Inconsistent Posts/Constant Hiatus

  • Players - I Lost Interest

  • Players - Poor Writing Skills

  • Players - Drama in the OOC

  • Plot - Other (Specify in Comments)

  • GM - Other (Specify in Comments)

  • Players - Other (Specify in Comments)

  • I am a cat.

  • Other (Please Specify!)

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Shindo said:
No, I expect people to try and reach an agreement with either their partners or the GM to work together with whatever is applicable to make it interesting for them again instead of simply disappearing on people and never giving any reply or explanation.
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In an ideal world, this would work. We, however, don't live in an ideal world. People can and will leave without explanation, and there isn't a damn thing that can be done about it. Sometimes people aren't able to explain why they lost interest in an RP, because people are fickle and their interests change over time.
 
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Opal said:
Wait - do you expect people to keep playing in an RP they don't have interest in or enjoy...? I feel like that just wouldn't be fun for anyone involved.
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+1

I've had some players with completely different interests and styles and perspectives in my games. Which can be frustrating, yes. Fuck, I wrote a character breaking her fucking legs because their player had them jump off a two story building because they assumed anime physics... And then I wrote a threat to their character's survival which they handled so ineffectively I couldn't do anything but kill the character off. However it's frustrating like that for both parties. Sure, for me it was like "Ugh, learn2read/logic." For them I imagine it must have been amongst the lines of "Ugh, I can't read your mind you asshole GM, wtf did you kill my girl?"

Not everyone agrees on what is good or fun in roleplaying and rather than trying to make something somewhat work because you said yes to an interest check, it's sometimes better to move on and that's okay. What is important is that we communicate about this like adults. Well, properly functioning adults. Adult adults. You know what I'm saying. I hope.
 
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I can't check any of the boxes :|

Biggest reason I drop RPs? I psyche myself out. I don't have a lot of confidence in my writing because other than the last two months, I haven't written a damn thing in five years. Granted, I haven't dropped one yet, but that's mostly because I've finally gotten passed whatever was going on in my brain to block out even starting.
 
Partners dropping rps on me and not telling me why they haven't replied and never replying to my questions
 
The biggest reason for me to drop a roleplay is posting speed. I'm a busy guy and when I roleplay I like to run one because I can, but sometimes I join one. Then a group of 4-7 people post like 4 times a day and expect me to keep up. I help run an eatery, I'm part of a raid group in an MMO I play (scheduled times, easy to plan around) and I also have a girlfriend I like to spend time with. Sometimes I go 2 entire days without even seeing my desk, let alone sitting at my computer to remove distractions and think. Then I come back and see that 3 days have passed and my character is still sitting at the local tavern drinking while the crew is halfway across the country. Then I also find I have posts on my profile and spammed in my inbox with please post now or we move on without you that was sent to me only 4 hours before they actually moved on. My work shifts are usually 7 hours, so if I was within the first 4 hours of work when I get this message, by the time I shower and clean up and fix a quick meal, I'm already left behind.

This has happened way too many times. I understand that I cannot post as frequently as many would prefer but I do have my profile saying "A few posts a week/one post a week" because that is, indeed, how frequently I post. If this is a problem, bring it to my attention and spare me the trouble of making a character I really want to play as just to find that there's no way I can post often enough to actually play as him/her. Though I guess not everyone checks that anyway...
 
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Squee said:
The biggest reason for me to drop a roleplay is posting speed.
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This is pretty much my deal. Once upon a time I could make multiple posts per day, alas that is no longer. Just seeing so many posts to read through and answer would stress me out to the point where I apologise and drop out.

Nowadays I simply ask what the posting speed is so I know whether to join or not. I rp for fun and have enough tension in my life. Don't want to add anymore by not being able to post in time.
 
Greenie said:
Nowadays I simply ask what the posting speed is so I know whether to join or not.
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^ Yeah, this is basically what I do. I know that I'm not a fast poster, so I don't join RP's where the posting speed will be faster than I can handle. Saves me a lot of trouble.

I agree that it's rude of people to say "post now or we're moving on without you", and then moving on when you obviously didn't even have time to read the message -- but, as soon as I realize that I've joined an RP full of fast-posters, I'm just like, nope, lolbye, have fun without me.

How has that even happened to you so often @Squee? Did the IC's always go up while you were offline, and then blast off after that? If I ever saw an IC thread go up, followed by posts happening at lightening speeds before I could even plan my first post -- I would've just left right then and there. o_o" Did the posting speeds only take off after you got your first couple posts in? Sorry to sound rude, I'm just legitimately confused as to how you could've run into this problem so many times.
 
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As for myself, I usually shove off (not really quit) posting if there's rampant private development.

You don't join a group RP to turn it into a group of 1x1s, for fuck's sake. Collaboration is fine, and private development is fine in moderation, but it honestly sucks as a player if major events are played out or developed like this. Don't plan everything out in private then act surprised if I'm barely involved, because private planning means I was basically uninvolved from the start.

This leads into something else; so-called master plans. This is private planning to the extreme in my honest opinion. I don't give a shit about your master plan, just involve me / let me involve myself so I can play goddamn it.
 
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Nebulon Ranger said:
As for myself, I usually shove off (not really quit) posting if there's rampant private development.

You don't join a group RP to turn it into a group of 1x1s, for fuck's sake. Collaboration is fine, and private development is fine in moderation, but it honestly sucks as a player if major events are played out or developed like this. Don't plan everything out in private then act surprised if I'm barely involved, because private planning means I was basically uninvolved from the start.

This leads into something else; so-called master plans. This is private planning to the extreme in my honest opinion. I don't give a shit about your master plan, just involve me / let me involve myself so I can play goddamn it.
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PREACH BROTHER.

Defeats the purpose of a Group RP if cliques form and plan most of the plot among themselves. Please don't do this.
 
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Kagayours said:
How has that even happened to you so often @Squee? Did the IC's always go up while you were offline, and then blast off after that? If I ever saw an IC thread go up, followed by posts happening at lightening speeds before I could even plan my first post -- I would've just left right then and there. o_o" Did the posting speeds only take off after you got your first couple posts in? Sorry to sound rude, I'm just legitimately confused as to how you could've run into this problem so many times.
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Typically the roleplay starts on a pre-decided date, then I post as one of the early people to make an introduction to my character. The first couple days are everyone figuring out who they want to interact with, I of course get involved here, and then we get a group. The next time both of the other people I'm in interaction with are on at similar times they post rapidly, my character fades into the distance and since I haven't put my characters foot in the door like the others, things start to move forward while I'm trying to catch up on some usually decent sized posts since I tend to not join a roleplay that keeps their posts short. The reading tends to fill my free time if the roleplay is large enough.
 
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Red Revolver said:
Defeats the purpose of a Group RP if cliques form and plan most of the plot among themselves. Please don't do this.
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Word. Especially when the group is small, it really makes others feel unwanted.
 
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Greenie said:
Word. Especially when the group is small, it really makes others feel unwanted.
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This is from experience. A great way to handle a Group RP is to leave it open enough for /everyone/ to be able to contribute to the plot in a meaningful way. This does not include planning all major events among a limited few and then looking at the rest of the group and giving them breadcrumbs, or just the power to contribute their presence in THEIR events rather than help build it significantly.
 
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well it was asked to be honest and brutal then i shall be so.

Here is a problem that many RPers suffer from in my experience and i know even myself to fall into this trap.
And that is.
A self stroking egoistical power trip. AKA the Rambo Syndrome.
I mean i understand that many joins Rp's to relax after a long day and do something fun. But Rping is more a hobby then getting home and grabbing a cold one and a cigarette.

9 out of 10 RP's that focuses on action that i am in suffers from this and in some way tends to die from it because it quickly drains the roleplay from it's energy/substance because people are so easily killing of and moving on trough the plot. So sooo few people can humbly step back and give their characters a chance to acctually work for success and glory rather then just force feed them it.
And many times i notice that neither the Players nor the GM's are experienced enough or knows how to deal with it and "smoothly" move the plot forward from there because there is little incentive for them to make this move in the story. :/
And lets not the get started on the passive aggressive no one knows anyone in the OOC meetup that leads to no debate on how to work on the story and connect characters better part...I mean i know i my self suck at it but i rarely meet people who try to get this started.

And that is what i could gather so far from my 10 or so years of RPing O_O
 
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