Hey all, Winter here.
So how many of you have come up with different ideas for rp, with different characters, and have not been able to finish them? On top of that, you are on an up and down roller coaster on the motivation for said projects.
I'll use one of mine as an example.
Recently I've decided to re-do an rp family of mine, don't ask why re-do it's a long story I'm not wanting to revisit.
Anyways. The first character I'm re-doing originally was going to fit in roughly 3-4 different types of rps. One was the Western, another was at the time of the Three Musketeers, one would have dealt with blood magic, and the final one would have been the main backstory etc.
Needless to say, since I couldn't come up with 4 different types of backstories for my character, I decided to go with just the main backstory and call it good.
I have a few other characters that will fit into this family, who I want to be able to portray on here. My thing is trying to find interest and motivation to get it done. Among all my other random projects I try to do but don't finish.
Anyone else have this issue of unfinished projects? What do you do?
So how many of you have come up with different ideas for rp, with different characters, and have not been able to finish them? On top of that, you are on an up and down roller coaster on the motivation for said projects.
I'll use one of mine as an example.
Recently I've decided to re-do an rp family of mine, don't ask why re-do it's a long story I'm not wanting to revisit.
Anyways. The first character I'm re-doing originally was going to fit in roughly 3-4 different types of rps. One was the Western, another was at the time of the Three Musketeers, one would have dealt with blood magic, and the final one would have been the main backstory etc.
Needless to say, since I couldn't come up with 4 different types of backstories for my character, I decided to go with just the main backstory and call it good.
I have a few other characters that will fit into this family, who I want to be able to portray on here. My thing is trying to find interest and motivation to get it done. Among all my other random projects I try to do but don't finish.
Anyone else have this issue of unfinished projects? What do you do?
In my case these weren't a forum text type RPs, but IRL ones. And there were so many, too many to count.
It started with 2-3 players tossing around ideas, then they made a proposition to me. I planned out the started, created NPCs, helped the players create the characters to their specification. We play 1 to 3 sessions and... It all ends. No reasons given, when asked they say it was "all good" and they are perfectly willing to proceed, but in the end it just gets forgotten. It happened so often that I became jaded. I just cannot care anymore, and the last game that liven longer than usual still ended the same way...
I no longer do anything about it, because it wasn't me who dropped them. Right now I keep on working on what is left from my last campaign, feeling it up with content, just for my own amusement, I'd say.
Hopefully my rant wasn't far off-topic. Thank you for taking your time, dear readers.
It started with 2-3 players tossing around ideas, then they made a proposition to me. I planned out the started, created NPCs, helped the players create the characters to their specification. We play 1 to 3 sessions and... It all ends. No reasons given, when asked they say it was "all good" and they are perfectly willing to proceed, but in the end it just gets forgotten. It happened so often that I became jaded. I just cannot care anymore, and the last game that liven longer than usual still ended the same way...
I no longer do anything about it, because it wasn't me who dropped them. Right now I keep on working on what is left from my last campaign, feeling it up with content, just for my own amusement, I'd say.
Hopefully my rant wasn't far off-topic. Thank you for taking your time, dear readers.
Eli_Broady wrote:
In my case these weren't a forum text type RPs, but IRL ones. And there were so many, too many to count.
It started with 2-3 players tossing around ideas, then they made a proposition to me. I planned out the started, created NPCs, helped the players create the characters to their specification. We play 1 to 3 sessions and... It all ends. No reasons given, when asked they say it was "all good" and they are perfectly willing to proceed, but in the end it just gets forgotten. It happened so often that I became jaded. I just cannot care anymore, and the last game that liven longer than usual still ended the same way...
I no longer do anything about it, because it wasn't me who dropped them. Right now I keep on working on what is left from my last campaign, feeling it up with content, just for my own amusement, I'd say.
Hopefully my rant wasn't far off-topic. Thank you for taking your time, dear readers.
It started with 2-3 players tossing around ideas, then they made a proposition to me. I planned out the started, created NPCs, helped the players create the characters to their specification. We play 1 to 3 sessions and... It all ends. No reasons given, when asked they say it was "all good" and they are perfectly willing to proceed, but in the end it just gets forgotten. It happened so often that I became jaded. I just cannot care anymore, and the last game that liven longer than usual still ended the same way...
I no longer do anything about it, because it wasn't me who dropped them. Right now I keep on working on what is left from my last campaign, feeling it up with content, just for my own amusement, I'd say.
Hopefully my rant wasn't far off-topic. Thank you for taking your time, dear readers.
It always sucks when an effort like that is put forth into something like that, and then it's just dropped without warning. I mean if they'd have given a reason, even if it was simply they got bored of it, least you would know. And hey, least you keep going to keep yourself busy.
Heck yeah, so many ideas, so many characters, yet I seldom get a chance to actually flesh them out because either I can't find anyone who wants to rp that specific genre or thing, or it falters and doesn't go on long enough for any real flesh to form.
It's disappointing because there's a lot i'd like to do, but I just.. can't do it alone! and being unable to find anywhere to ram some of these characters makes me reluctant to work on them more, they're like... random misfits.
I would suggest though, with relation to "one character, ALL the genres" that it's usually better and indeed more satisfying to create a new character for a vastly different setting. Like, a modern fantasy character can fit into modern no fantasy pretty easy if you strip out their magic, most of the time, but it's harder to ram a sci fi character into a spaghetti western without them feeling like a whole different person.
You know what I mean?
I am glad that right now I have a very long term sci fi rp going on, which is allowing me omg SO MUCH growth for some characters I haven't had a chance to do anything with in a decade. Oo it feels gooooooood to finally flesh these ideas out, and it sparked some new ones too.
But it does remind me that I have all these other neglected characters and as I don't really write outside of rp, they just sit all neglected, doing nothing and I feel bad about it!
Like, I really want to dust them off and play them, but some of them I just can't figure out where to place them, or the idea was more fun to create than it is to play and arghh.. I just don't know what to do with them.
I have a couple created for a specific rp that either folded or never got off the ground. And because of that I created them and then never did anything more. Boo.
Man, maybe we should just make an rp for orphan concepts? Like, a big crossover, shove random characters into a setting and see what happens?
I was in an rp like that a while back over on neopets (lol i'm so old) but it was so slow and the filters were so awkward that it kinda fell apart after a while. Which was a shame because the concept was quite fun. Get a bunch of characters from all different genres, stick em in one place, drama.
It's disappointing because there's a lot i'd like to do, but I just.. can't do it alone! and being unable to find anywhere to ram some of these characters makes me reluctant to work on them more, they're like... random misfits.
I would suggest though, with relation to "one character, ALL the genres" that it's usually better and indeed more satisfying to create a new character for a vastly different setting. Like, a modern fantasy character can fit into modern no fantasy pretty easy if you strip out their magic, most of the time, but it's harder to ram a sci fi character into a spaghetti western without them feeling like a whole different person.
You know what I mean?
I am glad that right now I have a very long term sci fi rp going on, which is allowing me omg SO MUCH growth for some characters I haven't had a chance to do anything with in a decade. Oo it feels gooooooood to finally flesh these ideas out, and it sparked some new ones too.
But it does remind me that I have all these other neglected characters and as I don't really write outside of rp, they just sit all neglected, doing nothing and I feel bad about it!
Like, I really want to dust them off and play them, but some of them I just can't figure out where to place them, or the idea was more fun to create than it is to play and arghh.. I just don't know what to do with them.
I have a couple created for a specific rp that either folded or never got off the ground. And because of that I created them and then never did anything more. Boo.
Man, maybe we should just make an rp for orphan concepts? Like, a big crossover, shove random characters into a setting and see what happens?
I was in an rp like that a while back over on neopets (lol i'm so old) but it was so slow and the filters were so awkward that it kinda fell apart after a while. Which was a shame because the concept was quite fun. Get a bunch of characters from all different genres, stick em in one place, drama.
Purple_monkfish wrote:
Heck yeah, so many ideas, so many characters, yet I seldom get a chance to actually flesh them out because either I can't find anyone who wants to rp that specific genre or thing, or it falters and doesn't go on long enough for any real flesh to form.
It's disappointing because there's a lot i'd like to do, but I just.. can't do it alone! and being unable to find anywhere to ram some of these characters makes me reluctant to work on them more, they're like... random misfits.
I would suggest though, with relation to "one character, ALL the genres" that it's usually better and indeed more satisfying to create a new character for a vastly different setting. Like, a modern fantasy character can fit into modern no fantasy pretty easy if you strip out their magic, most of the time, but it's harder to ram a sci fi character into a spaghetti western without them feeling like a whole different person.
You know what I mean?
I am glad that right now I have a very long term sci fi rp going on, which is allowing me omg SO MUCH growth for some characters I haven't had a chance to do anything with in a decade. Oo it feels gooooooood to finally flesh these ideas out, and it sparked some new ones too.
But it does remind me that I have all these other neglected characters and as I don't really write outside of rp, they just sit all neglected, doing nothing and I feel bad about it!
Like, I really want to dust them off and play them, but some of them I just can't figure out where to place them, or the idea was more fun to create than it is to play and arghh.. I just don't know what to do with them.
I have a couple created for a specific rp that either folded or never got off the ground. And because of that I created them and then never did anything more. Boo.
Man, maybe we should just make an rp for orphan concepts? Like, a big crossover, shove random characters into a setting and see what happens?
I was in an rp like that a while back over on neopets (lol i'm so old) but it was so slow and the filters were so awkward that it kinda fell apart after a while. Which was a shame because the concept was quite fun. Get a bunch of characters from all different genres, stick em in one place, drama.
It's disappointing because there's a lot i'd like to do, but I just.. can't do it alone! and being unable to find anywhere to ram some of these characters makes me reluctant to work on them more, they're like... random misfits.
I would suggest though, with relation to "one character, ALL the genres" that it's usually better and indeed more satisfying to create a new character for a vastly different setting. Like, a modern fantasy character can fit into modern no fantasy pretty easy if you strip out their magic, most of the time, but it's harder to ram a sci fi character into a spaghetti western without them feeling like a whole different person.
You know what I mean?
I am glad that right now I have a very long term sci fi rp going on, which is allowing me omg SO MUCH growth for some characters I haven't had a chance to do anything with in a decade. Oo it feels gooooooood to finally flesh these ideas out, and it sparked some new ones too.
But it does remind me that I have all these other neglected characters and as I don't really write outside of rp, they just sit all neglected, doing nothing and I feel bad about it!
Like, I really want to dust them off and play them, but some of them I just can't figure out where to place them, or the idea was more fun to create than it is to play and arghh.. I just don't know what to do with them.
I have a couple created for a specific rp that either folded or never got off the ground. And because of that I created them and then never did anything more. Boo.
Man, maybe we should just make an rp for orphan concepts? Like, a big crossover, shove random characters into a setting and see what happens?
I was in an rp like that a while back over on neopets (lol i'm so old) but it was so slow and the filters were so awkward that it kinda fell apart after a while. Which was a shame because the concept was quite fun. Get a bunch of characters from all different genres, stick em in one place, drama.
I'm not so sure how that concept would work. Especially since most OC's are designed to be violent, if not evil, and may not do well with others.
Like an OC I'm trying to work on, but haven't gotten far with yet...he tends to be very aggressive, mostly when fighting but still. It could cause some issues more than what a person would like. Thus a lot of discussions and rules would have to be done first.
Purple_monkfish wrote:
Heck yeah, so many ideas, so many characters, yet I seldom get a chance to actually flesh them out because either I can't find anyone who wants to rp that specific genre or thing, or it falters and doesn't go on long enough for any real flesh to form.
It's disappointing because there's a lot i'd like to do, but I just.. can't do it alone! and being unable to find anywhere to ram some of these characters makes me reluctant to work on them more, they're like... random misfits.
I would suggest though, with relation to "one character, ALL the genres" that it's usually better and indeed more satisfying to create a new character for a vastly different setting. Like, a modern fantasy character can fit into modern no fantasy pretty easy if you strip out their magic, most of the time, but it's harder to ram a sci fi character into a spaghetti western without them feeling like a whole different person.
You know what I mean?
I am glad that right now I have a very long term sci fi rp going on, which is allowing me omg SO MUCH growth for some characters I haven't had a chance to do anything with in a decade. Oo it feels gooooooood to finally flesh these ideas out, and it sparked some new ones too.
But it does remind me that I have all these other neglected characters and as I don't really write outside of rp, they just sit all neglected, doing nothing and I feel bad about it!
Like, I really want to dust them off and play them, but some of them I just can't figure out where to place them, or the idea was more fun to create than it is to play and arghh.. I just don't know what to do with them.
I have a couple created for a specific rp that either folded or never got off the ground. And because of that I created them and then never did anything more. Boo.
Man, maybe we should just make an rp for orphan concepts? Like, a big crossover, shove random characters into a setting and see what happens?
I was in an rp like that a while back over on neopets (lol i'm so old) but it was so slow and the filters were so awkward that it kinda fell apart after a while. Which was a shame because the concept was quite fun. Get a bunch of characters from all different genres, stick em in one place, drama.
It's disappointing because there's a lot i'd like to do, but I just.. can't do it alone! and being unable to find anywhere to ram some of these characters makes me reluctant to work on them more, they're like... random misfits.
I would suggest though, with relation to "one character, ALL the genres" that it's usually better and indeed more satisfying to create a new character for a vastly different setting. Like, a modern fantasy character can fit into modern no fantasy pretty easy if you strip out their magic, most of the time, but it's harder to ram a sci fi character into a spaghetti western without them feeling like a whole different person.
You know what I mean?
I am glad that right now I have a very long term sci fi rp going on, which is allowing me omg SO MUCH growth for some characters I haven't had a chance to do anything with in a decade. Oo it feels gooooooood to finally flesh these ideas out, and it sparked some new ones too.
But it does remind me that I have all these other neglected characters and as I don't really write outside of rp, they just sit all neglected, doing nothing and I feel bad about it!
Like, I really want to dust them off and play them, but some of them I just can't figure out where to place them, or the idea was more fun to create than it is to play and arghh.. I just don't know what to do with them.
I have a couple created for a specific rp that either folded or never got off the ground. And because of that I created them and then never did anything more. Boo.
Man, maybe we should just make an rp for orphan concepts? Like, a big crossover, shove random characters into a setting and see what happens?
I was in an rp like that a while back over on neopets (lol i'm so old) but it was so slow and the filters were so awkward that it kinda fell apart after a while. Which was a shame because the concept was quite fun. Get a bunch of characters from all different genres, stick em in one place, drama.
I understand you well - I myself have quite a number of characters which I can't use because I can't find a fitting type of RP. It saddens me greatly.
Yeah! I'm constantly creating new characters and themes. Here's the latest. Steampunk! Now to find a spot to write him..
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