now more and more interent is more centralised and i want to expand my horizons

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    The text-based play-by-post rpg sphere is still a fairly big niche if you're looking to get in the habit of writing, so long as you can find a fairly mellow group.

    • spez [any]
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      4 years ago

      Wait what? That sounds awesome. Can you link to an example?

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        4 years ago

        I don't want to link mine at the risk of doxxing myself lol, so I haven't vetted any of the listed ones for quality but there's a lot of different directories of various rpgs: https://www.toprpsites.com/ https://rpginitiative.com/directory/ http://rplovers.gotop100.com/

        A lot of them are just on forums (proboards or jcink generally) and will have varying levels of activity, but usually it looks like you create a character (or several) and then you write posts as that character in whatever situation, and someone else responds and you go back and forth for awhile. I've had better luck with RPGs where the join requirements/restrictions/etc are super lax, and some fandom-related ones are a good jumping off point since there's already established lore.

        ETA: If you've done tabletop things before, it's a lot like that if it were the roleplay-only bits (or the mainly-roleplay bits) except there isn't always a set campaign and isn't generally a DM