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Hello to you all. This is my first post as I am quite new in the forums and I wanted to say hello to everybody and present myself. You can, of course, get my name by reading what says on the side of this post so I think is a waste of time to go on that area. Most of the time, I like getting straight to the point, without meaning I have no manners or that I am a mean person (thought many persons think I AM).

You see, I am an overly frustrated game master and roleplayer. I have been wandering from forum to forum, site to site, etc, etc, in the hopes of finding an RP place where people do not reduce the true Role Playing experience to labels like "literate", "advanced literate" and "semi literate". I am sick of it, tired of it. Does it means that if I do not post a paragraph per post in novel fashion I am not a good roleplayer or gamemaster? I do not consider that getting up from a chair deserves an entire post, nor that a Roleplay is necesary a novel like thing. As far as I know from my RP sessions in real life, roleplay is anything but a novel, specially because the outcomes are far from being on the past tense.

I am a dedicated writer, an amateur illustrator, and a very creative game master. I can promise you deep stories in almost every genre and characters that, while being fantastical, can feel as real as any taken from a contemporary fiction. I give you the freedom of roleplaying in whatever way you want as long as you respect the basic rules of "gamemaster - player". I have my own system for posting, but you are free to use yours if it doesn't appeals to you. I simply will not use others than mine mainly because of my own roleplay style, both as player and GM. And, even if you don't want to roleplay, say, you want a writing partner or someone to spice up a roleplay you are already doing, I am a vault of ideas, so don't hesitate in trying me. My creativity is at your disposition.

With this said... I hope I have luck this time. Thanks for reading, and thank you for letting me in.

Welcome, I've not been here long, but feel free to PM me if you want to ask something.

Welcome to the site. Although the roleplays around here can vary a lot, most of the GMs here are pretty flexible even if they expect literacy so I hope that this you can enjoy yourself here.

My problem is not the "literacy" factor. I mean, as you can tell, I AM able to decently redact a paragraph, thus, I consider I fall under the "category" of "literate", since being "literate" means being able to write properly. The problem is most people believe a Roleplay is something akin to writing a novel of sorts, where the roleplay ends reduced to some sort of "Continue The Story - Challenge", in which both places take turns in continuing the story which is awesome, but that is not exactly roleplaying in my opinion. I mean, if both roleplayers (meaning players and GM) become both the main narrators and the main characters, where the hell is the game supposed to be aimed to? Let's say, for example, that I create a setting where I am hoping to surprize your character with something. This actually happened me once with a girl: as the GM, I had for her the surprize of she being on a city in the middle of the clouds, so the surprize would come when she requested information regarding her surroundings upon gazing through the window of her room. HOWEVER, instead of doing that and truely roleplaying in my opinion, she blatantly assumed something quite different and even described herself something that didn't had anything to do with the story, thus making an absolute incongruence. Do you get my point now?

Other point that gets in my nerves, as I mentioned, is the fact these self-claimed "literates" measures the quality and ability of people in direct proportion to the amount of paragraphs they can type, like that would actually measure creativity, and that really makes my liver to squeeze out bile. So, in other words, I can have the characters and the deepness the person is seeking, yet just because I do not roleplay in paragraphs, I am left out almost like rubbish and categorized as "one-liner scum". This is what really pisses me off.

PD: Sorry for all the bile, these days haven't been the best for me... and having these kind of people around really makes it worse for someone as creative as I am. Frustrating with capital F.

Hello seemos,
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Welcome to RPG, I suppose that you do have a concern. I agree that many role-players do not quite grasp the collaborative writing concept, which is something we, as a staff and as a site, do encourage.

There are many writers here who are wonderful role-players and do indeed write wonderfully as their character, looking forward to the world of development and wonder that opens up when role-playing becomes a partnership between the participants.

I know it seems a daunting task, but you will find those few gems among the rough, do not give up. And thank you for giving us an chance to change your mind about role-players.

IF you have any questions please feel free to ask me or any moderator as we will be delighted to assist you.

Skallagrim

Hi person! Welcome to RPG! I sympathize with your definition of literacy, yet I don't think you'll find quite the players you're looking for unless you specifically weed out the forum for a... Tabletop-esque kinda group. See, here GM and players are on about the same level, with the GM guiding the players without imposing anything so directly as to have them request a description on their surroundings; it allows them to delve deeper into their character by presenting its opinion without being separated by the GM's description. Describe what's vital in an OOC thread as to avoid running into errors like those in character.

The boring part of the welcoming speech involves directing you to the rules and a manual in the Main Lobby, however I'm a tad busy so if you could just hit the tab that reads 'Our Rules' on the upper right corner, and just make way to the Main Lobby for the guide... Yeah. Hope you find said group of players, Seemos.

If I could describe a hand gesture right now, I would do it because that would make it clear my opinion on this regard: you said exactly what I was both meaning and fearing to hear, Safisan. You are right in every bit of what you said: I am looking for "table-topesque" players because, in my experience, roleplaying on it's essence can truely be felt that way, giving absolute freedom of character to the player by truely allowing him or her do anything she wants, without it meaning he or she also becomes a god. This, in my humble opinion, is the part where the "collaborative-writting" style has it's mayor flaw (once again, as I mentioned, on my humble point of view) given you might have a very clear idea of what you want to show your characters as the maker of the story with a very defined flavor for it and very detailed vision of the world and how it works. When allowing the player to have the "right" to change the world on it's own whim, is evident the player will not only change it to adjust to his/her needs to make things far more easier, but will, most of the time, completely change the flavor or even the theme of the entire setting, thus bringing several inconsistencies and turning everything into a sort of stealthy and subtle god-modding, SPECIALLY on a system where the player himself defines the outcome of it's actions. I mean, as a player, I would feel ultimately bored if I knew I am always going to win or that I am always going to solve the mistery because I am entitled to modify everything to my own tastes (thus perhaps throwing to the dump can a delicate plot my GM might have engineered to me or, worst even, forcing him/her to TELL IT TO ME FROM THE VERY BEGINNING in order for me to not "spoil it", thus reducing roleplay to some sort of theater play rather than an actual roleplay).

So yes, Safisan, you are right: I will have it hard. I ALWAYS have it hard. I am accostumed to it, I have grown accostumed to it through the years, but perhaps I am stubborn to death for a good reason. Who knows?