your favorite roleplay moments/scenes/characters

[zomboid]

I was thinking really hard about which board to post this in so I hope this is an accurate enough one??? I spend the majority of my time in video game roleplay and I have a lot of beloved moments and memories and I'm sure that any and every roleplayer feels the same :)

to no one's surprise as of late i love roleplaying in project zomboid... i just really particularly love games where gameplay and roleplay hold hands and feed back into each other. where roleplay is compelled by a gameplay Necessity or where a gameplay necessity facilitates more engaging roleplay

it's really fun to me to roleplay as a zomboid survivor and to get in their head and think about what they personally would prioritize. i can be a minmaxer and i Want to immediately get everything set up to coast through the apocalypse but roleplaying helps force me to slow down and play differently ! instead of running to instantly find a generator and start grinding carpentry at all, for example, i just restarted a server on build 41 and im roleplaying as jaime .... he is not a very smart man and his priorities are notttt really focused on survival. his first and only goal was to Get as Much alcohol as possible, because hey, if everyone's dead there's a limited supply, right??

so that kind of mindset forces me to circumvent my minmaxer nature ! and it's a lot of fun :D

in a total 360, a couple of years ago i was playing on another pz roleplay server... it was a lot of fun, my character was named taylor, and she ended up living in a lighthouse on the island we were playing on :) but eventually the island became irradiated :( so all of the survivors had to hole up into a bunker so they wouldnt get irradiated... but i still have screenshots of when taylor went back to visit the lighthouse and say goodbye because she had spent two Years living there... sometimes it feels a little corny but hey... i spent real life months working on it and taylor spent in-game years of her life!! it meant a lot and it was really sweet to go back and revisit everything i had built and for taylor to say goodbye..

what characters or scenes have you all had that you still think about and reminisce over? any characters that you still remember fondly even if you dont use them nowdays?

[fairyrune]

oh! oh! i can answer this one.

i used to roleplay a ton in the past on forums. for a while in my later teens and young adulthood i didn't really roleplay at all. but about... four years ago, i got into a canon character roleplay for final fantasy on discord (i know, i know, but it is what it is). this has been my home for all these years and i've made so many memories here, both in in-character threads and out-of-character discussions! (i also met my girlfriend here, but that's an aside.)

i really like pushing characters out of their comfort zones. i think some of my most beloved threads have been like that; a more recent one is a character of mine confronting her "god", who... happens to be a normal woman. long story short, that lady transformed into a god eons ago to protect the world, and as my character has extremely complicated feelings about religion and the power given to her by that god, she was not happy to see her. they have... a tense relationship right now, but i think that over time, maybe they'll see eye to eye. they're a lot alike.

i've also had a lot of fun with silly moments; being a multi-game roleplay, there's characters who come from a more medieval-esque background, and ones who basically live in the modern world. with that comes some misunderstandings... i can't possibly count the amount of good threads i've had!

now, i've also done in-game roleplay - exactly once, in fact, in final fantasy xiv. my character there is a rather naive and fanciful young painter whose greatest wish is to travel the world, paint, and bring home her work so that others can see how beautiful the world really is. she went to a noble's party once... and was hit on by a married older woman, with her wife standing right there. it was so scandalous, i was almost stunned! but i loved it, and it's stuck out to me ever since, even if i felt a bit "thrown in the deep end".

i started roleplaying on forums again recently, but i've since left the forum for its transphobic moderation... i still had such a good time there, though, and i'm really pleased that the people i respected the most will be moving on to another forum with me. they all have such memorable characters. one of them is a sister of my character's (adopted, though), and she's all smiles and cheer and mischief, where my character is anxious, careful, and sometimes seems older than she really is (though she's really just as naive as her sister, if not more). they have such a lovely dynamic; they both have misleading first impressions, and they balance each other out so well.

this post got a bit long, but i like rambling about roleplay. i also play final fantasy xi, and there's a pretty small roleplay scene, from what i know. i'd like to get into that, but resources and references for lore are unfortunately pretty poor! i know some members of my xi community would love to work on bettering that, though.

[fablefound]

oh my gosh this is the thread i was MADE for.

like @fairyrune i spent a lot of my youth roleplaying on old forums. specifically, i was really big on the moshi monsters forums, which for some reason was home to a VERY vibrant and lively roleplaying community. i miss it. pretty much all of my roleplaying memories are born from there, or somehow linked to it. case in point, when i was going through a sort of "roleplaying highlight reel" in my head...

i got my start in warrior cats fan roleplays, which. you know. of course i did. i ended up taking over the roleplay after its original founder left, and i was very proud of myself for managing to get my oc, hawkpath, to become hawkstar, leader of wildflowerclan. i also founded a second clan, gmeclan, which went on to have lots of inter-clan drama and interaction with wildflower clan. in hindsight the wole thing was just me and like, two or three other kids running amok giving our cats crazy powers, but that was the fun of it!

also on moshi monsters, i took my first few shots at writing what i guess would be called campaigns? the one i remember most fondly was known as the "island of king," and it was about a mad scientist who summoned a bunch of people to an out-of-control artificial island because he wanted one of them to care for it in his stead. there were lots of plot twists and crazy mutant monsters, and at thirteen i thought i was very cool for writing all of it.

at the start of covid, me, someone else from moshi monsters, and a couple other internet friends did a virtual d&d campaign. when it was active, i genuinely thought about our characters every day and i remember it all very fondly. it had a bittersweet ending that i get a litte emotional thinking too hard about... we tried to do a sequel campaign, but life caught up with us. i don't really talk to any of them anymore, but i like their posts when i see them on socials and so on. i think we all just got pulled in very different directions. my clearest memories are how nice everyone was because i was very rusty at roleplaying and had never done real-time, voiceover improv... and how it ended with one of our PCs basically being sent to hell and how one by one, all of our characters stopped talking to him... we had charmed monocles that allowed our characters to see each other across the realms, and one by one, all of those gathered dust. even the guy's will-they/won't-they partner in crime. oh, the doomed yaoi of it all...

i really would love to find a nice roleplay community again. my girlfriend uses deviantart, but all their roleplays are about wolves... and i am not very into wolves... they're also super drawing-intensive and i don't draw much...
i've seen other forums but they all seem pretty, like, intense? lots of rules and systems and so on. and it's hard to jump in with folks you don't know--especially when you're, like me, very weird, very autistic, and very queer.
someday my roleplay renaissance will come... but not yet...

[monsterrobotics]

I have been nursing an urge to get back into roleplaying. I've roleplayed since the moment I had the knowledge it existed and people to do it with.

Long, long ago I used to roleplay on ROBLOX, back when it was still a site full of games for children and not trying to be a weird hyper-capitalistic "metaverse" nightmare-whatever-it-is-now. (In an effort to avoid sounding like the out-of-touch adult I am regarding it, I played over a decade ago and it was unrecognizable. As far as I remember, they don't even have tickets anymore?)

I loved to play on those servers for RP where you had little buttons you could step on to transform into "paper dolls", or, what was essentially a 2d png image of a character. I loved to RP Sonic the Hedgehog stuff. We were all kids and we had a good fun time. There was also a server with more traditional roblox transformations where it just changed your clothes to fit a setting, and I'd love to do these really well made apocalyptic servers. I'm a fallout lover at the heart of it all, haha.

I technically also love zomboid, but I've been too much of a recluse with no close friends who are into it to have a roleplay server or multiplayer in general.

Other than that, I'd just roleplay a lot on websites. Back in the heyday I loved doing stuff on tumblr, but I've never gone back to my full stride since I lost a friend who was my best friend and partner in crime in RP. Who could? But, I have been longing to again. I'm just so particular now, I feel. I love giant crossovers and silly things, and with everything on discord servers (that might be soon in jeopardy) I have no idea where to find a good fitting place. I've tried, haha!

[zomboid]

@fairyrune -

final fantasy 14 roleplay is a lot of fun!!! i was pretty into it a couple of years ago, i had, i guess a fanon Ishgardian... his name was soren de haillenarte and he was a bastard half-blood auri/elezen ... final fantasy roleplay is so much fun i love when people embrace you doing whatever the hell you want ... lore is fun but also it's so much more fun to go "but what if i did something CRAZY"

i used to be part of a roleplay server that had a similar shtick, too!! i tried to engage but they were friends of a friend, so i kinda fell victim to the #socialanxiety and didnt really follow through... i think in general i do better with single-verse roleplays rather than full-on mashups or crossovers unless there's really explicit reasoning for all these universes to be mixed together !

it really sucks about the moderation on that forum :( i hope you and your friends find greener and not-transphobic pastures to frolick in! 

@fablefound

OMG SAME  i started roleplaying in the warrior cats general RP board on dragon cave  as a 12 year old my roleplay posts were not very Good, mostly 1-2 sentences about cats mostly just messing around rather than any real conflict because i had no idea what to really do... i did also used to do a LOT of wolf-life-rp on roblox when i was a kid GFDGDFJ

i totally get what you mean about hyper-intense roleplay scenes... like i have admiration and respect for full-lit multi-paragraph rpers but im kinda Casual you feel me... i really enjoy semi-lit & script-style roleplays! the faster pace feels a bit more engaging to me personally :) maybe i should try to get back into forum rp...

@monsterrobotics

YESSS OLD ROBLOX MORPHS... just the other day i was talking with someone about those old sphere-mesh-based wolf morphs on the aforementioned wolf life roleplay games i used to play!! i do remember floating through some of those fandom-oriented roleplay games but they were never quite my thing like the wolf ones were...
and you're right, they did get rid of tix! :( everything has been going crazy downhill with roblox recently... i tried to visit some animal roleplay style games a few years ago and 1. they looked freakishly polished 2. it didnt seem like many people were roleplaying 3. they seemed very cliquey, so all in all it was kind of a bummer...

ohhhgh fallout mention... making me realize how fun it would be to have actual fallout roleplay... top 10 things to rotate in my head...

also.....  you are always welcome to come play zomboid with me... i love making friends and i love surviving together ! the antics that survivors get up to are unmatched in my opinion.

i finally got a day off today and to no one's  surprise i spent like 8 hours straight roleplaying in zomboid <3 i missed jaime and dennis so much... they're both stupid annoying assholes to each other and it's so deeply entertaining. when you might be the last 2 people on earth and all you do is consistently piss each other off. we've had a couple different zomboid verses and even rp'ed these two in baldur's gate 3 and they're ALWAYS like this.

[fablefound]

OMG SAME  i started roleplaying in the warrior cats general RP board on dragon cave  as a 12 year old my roleplay posts were not very Good, mostly 1-2 sentences about cats mostly just messing around rather than any real conflict because i had no idea what to really do... i did also used to do a LOT of wolf-life-rp on roblox when i was a kid GFDGDFJ

i totally get what you mean about hyper-intense roleplay scenes... like i have admiration and respect for full-lit multi-paragraph rpers but im kinda Casual you feel me... i really enjoy semi-lit & script-style roleplays! the faster pace feels a bit more engaging to me personally :) maybe i should try to get back into forum rp...

omg dragoncave... that takes me back too... i never interacted with the forums but i played that game obsessively as a kid, right around my moshi monsters era. i was really into the adoptables sites back in the day--i think when we mentioned the topic on this very forum i got quite nostalgic lol, all the memories came rushing back. i was on dragoncave, ponyvalley, bellasara, meerapets... a BUNCH of stuff.

and yeah literally!! i think i could do multi-paragraph responses and such, ad i think the style of just pinging prose back and forth is called "play by post" or something...?
but yeah, some people are REAL intense with it. my girlfriend's roleplay groups have, like, "point systems" where for every post you make, you get "points" you can spend on perks for your characters, like pets or superpowers or something? all very intricate and impressive. but i genuinely just yearn to have a little forum where it feels like i'm passing a sheet of paper back and forth and watching a story unfurl 

[zomboid]

omg dragoncave... that takes me back too... i never interacted with the forums but i played that game obsessively as a kid, right around my moshi monsters era. i was really into the adoptables sites back in the day--i think when we mentioned the topic on this very forum i got quite nostalgic lol

but i genuinely just yearn to have a little forum where it feels like i'm passing a sheet of paper back and forth and watching a story unfurl 

thanks for reminding me about the clicksite thread ! LOL

now that you mention it im almost incentivized to start a generalized rp forum where people can request boards or subthreads for certain games or genres... the chatter is making me yearn for forum rp...