RuneScape Forum Archive | Why do you RP?

Jun

2009

The HellLion

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Though I don't really rp much on RS, and switched over to GW2 for that anyway, I do sometimes come back to the Drama of RSRP to remind myself why I left.. and to remind myself that yes, I am actually a rather okay person who does not need OOC drama to have a fun rp session

In addition to this: Watching people get very salty and mad over pixels is the pinnacle of comedy. It's an interesting study for those interested in psychology about how power corrupts and the lengths people go to in order to retain their pixel power.

24-Apr-2016 17:10:12 - Last edited on 24-Apr-2016 17:15:55 by The HellLion

jagkilledme

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I'm too old to play pretend anywhere that isn't the bedroom. I am going to break your arm so that the bone juts out and then I will stab you to death with your own insides. I will win this chess game, is what I am saying.

26-Apr-2016 03:04:22 - Last edited on 26-Apr-2016 03:04:38 by jagkilledme

Kex

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I'm only here to ERP Zoe. I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

26-Apr-2016 03:51:41

Ptolemy Dean

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I like writing stories and experiencing others'. The interactive of it all makes me giddy. "Ptolemos, the friendly, informative Mahjarrat."
Member of the

Godless

and an advocate of
~~Moia~~

Zamorak

.
Role-player and proud owner of eleven Capes of Accomplishment.

26-Apr-2016 04:01:49

Neon Knights

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1: Dan
2: Dan
3: Dan
4: Dan
5: Dan

I feel I speak for everyone when I say this

26-Apr-2016 14:15:12

QueenArasene

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I don't always RP.
But when I do, I do it for the stories. My existence is debatable, but likely.

26-Apr-2016 14:22:52

Sand Traven

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The feels.

A few years before I discovered w42 in late 2009, I'd roleplay with a small group on w24. It was more like what we'd call themeplay today I suppose, with everyone only really being one character. We were loosely organised, usually stumbling on one-another by accident around the server rather than arranging anything. That said, I tended to hang around as an archer with a thief and a fairy. There was the Ice Prince and Ice Princess, the Saboteur, the Lord of the Fields and the Rock Warrior but the whole thing was very loosely organised, as I say.

The feelings of those days and an earlier experience - with a group called Gnomands beginning in the days of RSC - stuck with me and when I stumbled upon '42 it brought it all back so I stayed. So initially I suppose it was nostalgia.

But I've always sought to elicit feelings - more in myself than in others, I've never GM'd much - that I wouldn't get a chance to experience in real life. One I've strived for since the beginning is defeat. I've tasted it a few times, on and off, but never to an extent that has satisfied.

I suppose, then, I roleplay because I want to create - or more specifically, endure - the perfect tragedy. A climb to the top and a fall from it, or a glimmer of hope at the end of a tunnel snatched at the last moment, or something I've never imagined. It can't be planned and it can't be part of a pre-determined plot, so as time has changed world 42 it has become harder to achieve. But I'm still chasing this elusive dragon, seven years on. One man's trash is another's treasure, and one man's cash buys another's pleasure.
So I'll rob from the cradle, and I'll rob from the grave; it's just human traffic, and I'm just a slave.

26-Apr-2016 17:41:59 - Last edited on 26-Apr-2016 17:44:11 by Sand Traven

Jul

2010

CrocoNuts

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Because I like triggering people. Quickly learn how to Roleplay on RuneScape!

I am bad and that's good, I will never be good and that's not bad, there's no one I'd rather be than me.

01-May-2016 11:14:13

SaePls

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Wow, this blew up. I need to check the forums more...

I've gotta say, it's definitely the endlessness to what you can do that keeps me around. And the people. Definitely the people and amazing friends. It's like childhood all over again with infinite outcomes and paths at your feet. It think that's why I've never been a real stickler for the rules - so long as everyone's having fun.

I'm just glad you all are here. #lessthanthree

(D'aw mushy Sae moment.)

01-May-2016 11:57:19 - Last edited on 01-May-2016 11:57:41 by SaePls

Guillaume I

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Angry Adair said :
Eh

I guess the reason i rp now is because of the people i have met on 42, but originally it was a social thing, i had just been diagnosed with some form of depression and was having irl issues coping and this was a way to talk to people and actually have some human interaction even if it was behind a bunch of pixels.

Well I love you.

Malcolm III Chief of Clan MacFirthane | Fiona MacFirthane | Henry Percival Warcastle, Lord Warcastle

01-May-2016 17:20:09

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