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plamzi · 01-11-2011, 02:17 PM

Here's another perspective:

I've mudded on and off for 15 years now and I've never been interested in RPI. One would think that, as a writer, I'd be naturally attracted to the idea. But what prevents me from even trying it out is that the few RP logs I've read don't seem like great fun to me. I see a lot of dancing around the obvious artificiality of the medium, various degrees of show-offishness, and an overall verbosity, all of which I associate with a boring graduate seminar more than with a game.

I'm sure there are moments and places in time where RPI can be fun to even the likes of me, but honestly I'm quite happy with action-focused, RP-light to no-RP mudding, which doesn't beat around the bush. Can an RPI world be action-focused as well? Probably, but I suspect you'd have to be very lucky to find the right kind of people for your kind of mindset, and the kind of world that makes it all come together. It seems that the chances for that are about as high as finding true love.

01-11-2011, 02:17 PM	#77
plamzi Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Home MUD: bedlam.mudportal.com:9000 Home MUD: www.mudportal.com Posts: 292	Re: What turns people from RP? Here's another perspective: I've mudded on and off for 15 years now and I've never been interested in RPI. One would think that, as a writer, I'd be naturally attracted to the idea. But what prevents me from even trying it out is that the few RP logs I've read don't seem like great fun to me. I see a lot of dancing around the obvious artificiality of the medium, various degrees of show-offishness, and an overall verbosity, all of which I associate with a boring graduate seminar more than with a game. I'm sure there are moments and places in time where RPI can be fun to even the likes of me, but honestly I'm quite happy with action-focused, RP-light to no-RP mudding, which doesn't beat around the bush. Can an RPI world be action-focused as well? Probably, but I suspect you'd have to be very lucky to find the right kind of people for your kind of mindset, and the kind of world that makes it all come together. It seems that the chances for that are about as high as finding true love.