Preference for RP?

Forums all the way; I've tried other formats but they just don't work. I like the community feeling a forum has, the organization, and the ability to create aesthetics (I'm a graphic designer lol). I get confused elsewhere.

 

Forums! I like being able to think about a post / no pressure like chat rp.

 

These days I RP strictly on forums. I used to do 1x1 stuff over chat back in the day, but I vastly prefer being a part of an actual community with a specific setting and lore, other folks to play with, and so on.

 

I prefer forums, though I'm not opposed to using other methods.

 

I prefer forums for right now. As I have a lot of personal life stuff (don't we all?) school and work.

 

I have yet to experience tabletop rp, unless you count writing it on a piece of paper and passing it to a friend and she passing it back with her reply, furtively, in the middle of class...?

 

Wow, you did that to? ^_^

 

Yes! Thankfully never got caught haha! That'd've been hard to explain...

 

*blushes* I got caught, 3 times I think Lol

 

Forum, that way there's records of what has been said and done by my characters as I am notoriously forgetful.

 

I see a lot of people still doing RP on Facebook. I also notice there that they rarely last more than a few months

 

For nearly 19 years, I've been roleplaying in a real-time, text-based MUSH environment (which has grown increasingly underpopulated with time). I'm now an evangelist for Slack-based RP, which offers a hybrid of real-time and forum possibilities.

 

Could you explain that? I'm not familiar with either of those terms.

 

Which ones? I'm guessing "MUSH" and "Slack?"

MUSH: Multi-user Shared Hallucination. Basically, just a roleplay-focused derivative of old-school MUDS - text-based multiplayer games you can play online in real-time.

Slack: Web-based chat program (and smartphone app) that got started as a corporate communication/productivity tool, but some RP-focused games like mine are adopting for our own evil ends.

 

Ah, right. ^_^ I guess forum based RPG's are a bit of both really aren't they?

 

I'm old school and prefer email-based RPs :) I don't mind forums, I love graphics and such, but email was what I started in.

 

I can't work out how that even exists today. I know my Mum started out in a similar way (by fax), but my concept of RPing is that they are stories we write that can be read by the public...and enjoyed by them to. ^_^

 

Of the options listed, I voted 'forum,' though I also enjoy Tabletop as well - when we all have the time to meet up. I just get bored with other types of RPs. I guess I like feeling like there's an actual 'world' in which my characters can exist. Email and chat-based RP have never done that for me. Tumblr has a similar problem. It feels too transitory and not 'real' enough... idk how exactly to explain it.

 

I like forum and chat equally but for different reasons. I'd never do a chat e-fed because I need time to consider my promos, but I really like chat for original settings and characters especially if there is a lot of action/combat

 

for pure RP, forum.
For socialising and RP, meat-space.