pronounsany
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rp is supposed to be fun, remember
See, I almost feel like it's harder to have an Original RP over like a Fandom based RP. Y'all can come at me for it if you want but compared to like 10 years ago, it's harder to find original sites. People just seem less interested in them. I wonder why. It isn't saying that they're not out there, it just... seems harder to me compared to back in the day. Sometimes I wonder if it has to do with like.... the amount of reading that people would have to do? Fandom RP, if you like the fandom, you kind of already know a good chunk of the lore and base concepts. Original RP, you gotta read everything in order to know what's going on. And no tea no shade, but for such a literary pastime, when I ran an Original RP, I had so many people complain about how much they had to read (which, imo, wasn't even that much). To me, this isn't "having to read a lot" but just "how relevant is this information to me?" Like, if a site has a lot of lore that I would use during my posts, I'll gladly go over them to have a better understanding. If it is short but doesn't give me direction or any clues as to how it affects me or my characters, it will feel like a chore. Sometimes it's not the quantity of it.
I do feel like a lot of Original RPs do fall into the latter when it comes to info. Sometimes, since it's all their own creative world, they end up rehauling and doing that quite often too. Like changing systems, informations, plot hooks, location descriptions etc and doing it repeatedly feels like playing catch-up too. It's a tough balance at times.
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