Personally, I sort of like that It keeps everyone busy and makes the RP fun, rather than making it deteriorate into pointless posts.

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Well said, both of you! I agree... Sometimes it get really pointless, especially when everyone else is totally lost.

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I'm a major action freak too, LDM. I absolutely hate everyone just posting random stuff and waiting for someone else to decide what they're doing. In the PotC RPG that Pip and I are in, we've done excessive planning for what's going to happen. I mean, we still have plenty of flexibility in individual posts, and we still make random last-minute changes, but we know more or less where this RPG will be going for at least the next month. That's the kind of RPG I prefer; I actually feel more free to be creative with my individual posts if I'm not contstantly wondering where I'm actually going with it.

Hmm. I am the other way 'round. I post with whatever I am given, and I ussally I go to the person who has created the RPG for plot questions.

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Well, this RPG is different, as its creator has long since abandonned it. Everyone basically threw it at us and said "fix it," so we did.
I think part of it for me, though, is that I'm a writer, so I'm accustomed to having a plot. I like having structure to my RPGs.
Even on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the most famous improv TV show, they're given a basic idea of what they're doing. Drew never just tells them, "Okay, Ryan, you're a fairy, and Wayne, you're a fireman. And...go!" It's always something like, "Collin and Ryan are two superheroes trying to dig through the snow. They have 30 seconds. Go!" Even though there's lots of room for improvisation and individual creativity, they also have some clue as to what they're trying to act out.

I've never seen the show, but I get it.

SO! Has anyone ever been part of a pointless RPG and enjoyed it due to young age at the time?

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I totally agree!!! If theres no actions, RPG's tend to die!

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That's similar but contrasting at the same time with me. I like knowing what I'm doing, but with me it's absolutely spontaneous. Instead of excessively planning it out, whenever I figure I need some action I look at what we've done so far and try to piece something together - usually with no foreplanning of what'll happen AFTER I introduce the new conflict. In short, I tend to make it up as I go.

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that's smart...somethings i just make things up quickly or i will just make someone pop out of the shadows...doens't always work...

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Oh goodness, yes. Just about anything I did on Neopets (which is where I first got into RPGs) was pointless. I think that site's actually the main reason I'm so completely opposed to spur-of-the-moment RPGs now; everything was so chaotic and unorganized that we never had any clue what we were doing. It was all done in real-time, too, so you never had time to think about your post. It was just write it as fast as possible and no looking back. I didn't have any experience writing at the time, either, so I know I was horrible as far as style. I guess I just hate the way I RPed at that time so much that I don't like any kind of reminder of it.

^NEOPETS! I OWE EVERYTHING TO NEOPETS!

seriously, back in the days when I had no life (these days I have 1/4 of a life... that has to count for something), I lived on Neopets. Neopets taught me html, taught me how to roleplay, heck it taught me how to work a computer.

I used to own a guild called Lair of the Wolves and we'd do absolutely pointless rpgs on there.

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lol...i used to go on neopets....haven't been on in forever though...

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Aye, it did teach me a lot, but you couldn't pay me to go back there now *shudder*
It was a good place for me to get started on RPGs, but I'd never roleplay there now.

I used to be absolutely obsessed with Neopets, but now I find it sort of silly and pointless. I never went on chat or anything there, though - I started RPing on MSN groups when I was twelve. Actually, my parents said I couldn't, but I did it for about 8 months without their knowledge or permission and got in such huge trouble. It was so idiotic of me, I can't believe I went behind their backs like that. I still feel ashamed thinking of it, and that was three years ago. ANYWAY, I might enjoy Neopets for a day or two now but I get sick of it really quickly, and I can only imagine how silly RPs would be

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I can relate to everything here about Neopets, especially the starting and stupidity of RPGs there. Though not the learning html/ how to run a computer part, as my dad works on computers for a living, I was playing games, using the maze of network connections and internet by age 6. ANYway... I feel somewhat ashamed to say that I started one of those stupid RPGs, but after a couple of years (I went there for a looong time, until it gave our comp. a virus) I decided that they were rediculous. DUH! Wake UP Star! *shoves other self out of room* Quiet, you! As I was saying, *glares at other self, who is sticking toungue out* I then continued to RP, very MSish stuff, I must say, over PM. *cough* excuse me, 'Neomail'.

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I know this is completely off-topic, LDM, but I love your banner!

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