/erp/ - Erotic Roleplay

i am the reason Shangrila closed their open chargen. you're welcome

Kill jester.

>>179508

Go on. I've never been to Shang but from what I've heard its shit.

>>179508

How did you do that? And what does it mean for open chargen to be closed? You can't make characters anymore?

>>179508

Let's hear the story, Anon.

Is there a MUSH like Shangrila except it's not solely focused on adult RP? One that's just general RP but ERP is a possibility instead of a foregone conclusion?

Shangrila was fucking awful when I went there. Tons of people who loved to brag about the length of their poses, but it was always just so fucking full of inane, worthless, sentences made to pad length. Not to mention blatantly reusing sentences and shit. I wouldn't bother doing anything on Shangrila unless you're bringing your own partner in from outside.

I like Penultimate.

Mainly because a lot of people I know roleplay there.

I'm, 'Hestia' there. I keep myself lowkey and only approach people on my own time. Sometimes I just idle there to socialize and not write. Aside from that, it seems to have decent writers. Of course, not all of them are actually good, sadly.

>>179823

It's been years since I've been into MU*s, but there was a wealth of games that focused on non-adult roleplay. And kept the "adult" roleplay completely in private if there was any. I spent the vast majority of my time on games based on comic books (Marvel, DC, sometimes crossover of those and more) or Dungeons & Dragons. It should not be that hard to look at a MUD list and pick out games that look promising.

>>180358

PenDes is pretty great. I started my MUSHing career on Naughty Muffin which due to its origins is really lesbian centric. It was a nice change of pace coming to PenDes and having a wealth of boys to stick my dick in like the gaybo I am. I actually have one riding my cock in the client

>>179691

You need to literally dox yourself to make a Shang account. This combined with the lolicaust and the mods being shit (surprise there, huh) is why Shang is dying a slow, agonizing death to PenDes.

>>183084

Holy shit you have to give them your real name. That's so fucked

>>179482

An>>183196

Anyone have success with trying a fake identity for Shang registration? I tried but was rejected for using two Gmail accounts.

>>183217

There's no point in going through that much trouble when you can just use PenDes

I'm trying out PenDes and it seems to be exactly the same as Shangrila which is both reassuring and disappointing

I basically began on SPR. The MUCK is still around but it's largely deserted and mostly filled with perma-idlers. Its glory days are over.

Same for Tapestries. Used to be extremely active but most of the user base has moved on. What remains is shitposting in the Plaza. Everywhere else is quiet.

Shang, honestly, was never good. From day 1, the two OOC rooms were more populated than the entire IC grid put together. Touhou was the subject of conversation nearly everywhere, so God help you if you never played it, because you'd understand sweet fuck-all of what everyone was saying. It was home to the flakiest, most fickle, senseless players I've seen in my life. Poofing wasn't an exception here; it was the national sport, a pride and joy. Which was doubly shitty since there were several very sexy, very memorable characters on there - but when sexytimes happened, the whole house of cards just fell apart and you were left with disappointment and blue balls.

FutaMUX was pretty nice, I'm just sad it never really took off. There were a few great characters on there, and the place was honest with itself, it didn't make a giant deserted IC grid. It stayed small, almost minimalist, and that was good enough for the userbase. Shame it never took traction. Eventually I left because I could often spend days on there, completely alone, with nobody else logging in.

NaughtyMuffin was basically Shang Version 2.0. Perma-idling in the OOC room, with the occasional shitposting. Sex was few and far in-between and it was some of the strangest shit I've ever seen: people would whip out really dark, really fucked up kinks out of the blue with no prior warning, in the middle of the scene. Infestations, insects, diseases, and pedophilia were common springtraps over there. I didn't stick around for long.

Then F-List happened and pretty much blew every MUCK out of the water by having a gigantic user base and a somewhat organized kinks list. I no longer see the interest of installing an often buggy or discontinued MUSH client just to go on a deserted grid when I can accomplish the same and much more by typing a URL and clicking three times.

>>183542

MUSHs still appeal to me even now that F-List exists because they have that sense of persistence and space from the grid

yfw u think a mush thread is about HiAmMushee

>>183655

God please no.

>>183646

I'm the same way. I started in hellmoo, which isn't really desgined for rp, but ever since I've been a dork for making the most of a game's world and trying to avoid just chatting.

>>183542

>and it was some of the strangest shit I've ever seen: people would whip out really dark, really fucked up kinks out of the blue with no prior warning, in the middle of the scene. Infestations, insects, diseases, and pedophilia were common springtraps over there.

I actively used Naughty Muffin for several years and only had that happen to me once

>just shootin the shit on the public channel

>someone asks me like "Which is better x or horse anthro" (Forgot what the actual question was)

>respond "Horse anthro I guess"

>suddenly they send me a +summon request

>go ahead with it

>suddenly starts asking me ideas for a scene

>whatever I got nothing better to do

>eventually land on them being my female bodygaurd (My character was a celeb IC) and having them do lewd stuff while laying low

>they pose

>somehow the forest is now filled with futa plant girls

>okay whatever I'm flexible

>they immediately jumps into doing lewd stuff with them

>alright whatever go along with it

>they start talking about how great their dicks taste when grilled

>just kinda laugh that comment off IC

>they suddenly DC on me

boy howdy that was a weird experiance

>>183501

Well, it's a lot friendlier than Shang ever was, though. Less arbitrary rules, no people complaining at you if you talk on any chat channels for more than five seconds, no blind opposition to sandbox play even though that's what most of the people are there for.

Shangrila really went down the tubes, it's true. Played on it for maybe 5-6 years? It probably wasn't much good to begin with, but the 2 or 3 people I liked playing with disappeared over time and the lack of open chargen means it's just no fun now. Probably gonna nuke very soon.

I've always preferred MUDs/MUSHes over F-List, less dipshits, less focus on furries and casual IC flirting etc feels much more natural.

I'm habitually on Penultimate now. It seems to be taking off, though the lack of blues is annoying. Too many shotas. The fertility system is fun if that's your bag (it certainly is mine).

I'm kind of at a loss for what characters I want to play lately though. I'm sure I'll come up with someone if I have a nice blue or two to +finger 5 times in a row.

>>183760

>you can roll a fairy

I am IN.

>>186072

>The fertility system

👀

Tell me more. How does it work?

>>268408

Actually, I bothered to log on as a guest and look it up. Here's the description from the help command: https://pastebin.com/pdZfXAMV

In short, it looks like hyperpreg is possible with this system.

Fuck. I might have to sign up and let someone breed me really full.

I definitely spent some time on /tg/mud playing a dancer that basically fucked anything in her path. It was pretty fun!

>>183760

How big is the herm/shemale palyerbase that doesnt mind playing with female characters?

I am interested. A couple people mentioned playing on MUDs, who's still active? Is the RP any good? Do people actually play on the grid or just hole up in their gay little private rooms and never leave? As for me, I've tried a few.

>Edge of Midnight

This thing is terrible. Navigating the grid is a nightmare. Finding the command to do what you want is terrible, no matter what it is. Grinding on mobs is simplistic, if you can even find one appropriate for your level, and that's with a command that tells you what areas might have relevant mobs (but not how to get to them). Most of the players type like retarded 13-year-olds from the early 2000s or have massively inflated egos from having max-level characters for years on an old dead MUD. Descriptions and even built-in emotes are filled with "wacky" random humor and if you put a tilde into anything it breaks. There are a few people who aren't too terrible and most of the dumbasses are inoffensive at worst, though. Biggest draw is that you can play a faerie, but I can't recommend it (especially since your character will be nuked for inactivity, and you have to grind a fair bit to push the grace period out to any reasonable amount of time).

>Yuriba

Used to be called Shoujo-Ai. Guess what it's about. (Hint: not dicks.) Dead at almost all hours of the day. Tons of people online but idling, and most in private rooms that they never leave. A few people are idle for weeks or months at a time. I've only met a few on-grid RPers, and only one of them was a trash-tier one-liner, with a few fairly decent ones, so there's that. Wouldn't recommend it for the absurd difficulty of finding anyone at all and what appears to be an abundance of very small but insular cliques and friend groups (although the MUD as a whole is welcoming).

Does anyone have some good experiences to share? Penultimate and The Gathering were mentioned.

>penultimate destination

The worst thing about this mush is that there are people there playing literal kids. Not anime lolis, but sexualized children. It's fucking worse than furries (which aren't that many) but can be ignored, I don't go anywhere near it.

>>279031

Think of the imaginary children!!

This may be a fishing attempt to identify you because MU*s these days have like <1 players online on average

>>279034

It's sad, I hate seeing the streets so empty.

>>279034

>identify you

<identify someone

<on an imageboard

>What MUD/MUSHs do you play on

FurryMUCK, Tapestries, and a few other quiet ones.

Both those two MUCKs are alright. They're popular. They're active. But they both have their own problems, especially in that the admins and staff don't care, and things are beginning to feel stagnant and near-buggy.

>What characters do you play

My fursona.

>do you perfer sandbox or on-grid shit

I sadly don't know what the difference between those two is. I can guess the former means RP with spoofed locations, items, and characters. In that case, I prefer on-grid, since I prefer my roleplay to be public, to be group roleplay, to be roleplay where everyone remembers the consequences. Roleplay in the present that affects the future. The collaborative creation of a long story.

>share stories

I am the reason why the Libertyville Nude Beach on FurryMUCK has a sign saying it's okay to roleplay there. It happened after someone got pissed off that my character was giving someone else's character a handjob, despite the description of the area explicitly mentioning sexual acts.

>>183084

>You need to literally dox yourself to make a Shang account.

How so? You can't just pass with a fake realname? You should always have an email account that sounds like a normalfag's work account, to do stuff like this with.

>This combined with the lolicaust and the mods being shit (surprise there, huh) is why Shang is dying a slow, agonizing death to PenDes.

Does PenDes stand for a longer name? Can you link to its website, if it has one?

<In hindsight, reading later through the thread, I have the answer:

Penultimate Destination

telnet://penultimatemush.com:9500

There seems to be a horrible high number of idlers online. I've found that MUCKs which ban or discourage idling generally have healthier RP scenes.

>>179937

>Tons of people who loved to brag about the length of their poses, but it was always just so fucking full of inane, worthless, sentences made to pad length

Interesting. I see that sort of horrible bragging on F-List than MUCKs. I've genuinely found that it's easier to find good roleplayers on MUCKs than on F-List, despite MUCKs having lower populations.

>>183542

>Same for Tapestries. Used to be extremely active but most of the user base has moved on. What remains is shitposting in the Plaza. Everywhere else is quiet.

You should try actually going to places that aren't the Plaza, though I'll admit things can be frustrating. Seriously, keep fighting for activity in the Golden Lash or something.

The Plaza really is shit.

>I no longer see the interest of installing an often buggy or discontinued MUSH client

What OS are you on? There are so many good, up-to-date clients.

>>183646

>MUSHs still appeal to me even now that F-List exists because they have that sense of persistence and space from the grid

Agreed.

>>186072

>casual IC flirting etc feels much more natural

Agreed. Flirting into a scene is way more natural than the hours of planning some people on F-List want.

>>277995

>Tons of people online but idling, and most in private rooms that they never leave. A few people are idle for weeks or months at a time.

That sucks. Tapestries, and to a lesser extent, FurryMUCK, are a lot like that nowadays.

>>279043

I'm definitely identifiable by my post here.

So sad, though. I want to try a MUSH some day, as I've only been on MUCKs, and hearing Shangrila ain't great is disheartening.

Does anyone know how Flexible Survival (multiplayer) is doing these days?

And in the end, despite some of the negative things I've said about some MUCKs above, it's really worth trying. The good people you can find are absolutely spectacular, when you do find them. And if you know a few, group roleplay is so easy to set up. And you can have both vanilla cuddling and hardcore kink.

MUCKs are mostly furry, by historical accident, but all of the ones I know of allow humans and other non-furry characters these days, and both furries and non-furries are willing to play with human characters.

>>179823

I hear that SpinDizzy MUCK and Hope Island MUCK have lots of story-based roleplay.

>>179823

I would suggest checking out Sindome if you enjoy cyberpunk.

>You play online in real-time with other people. You'll develop a unique character with a past, thoughts, dreams, and secrets. Because roleplaying is required, there is an expectation that your character will have reasons for their actions.

I haven't played but I have heard good things. I have a feeling it's more of a "fade to black" kind of community though.

Playing Penultimate Destination due to seeing it on this board. Was interested because of the impregnation mechanic, which I find novel. Sadly, there's a severe lack of straight women on that MUSH (so please add to the hat).

I'm Warren on there, by the way (sdesc is Well dressed Vampire). I need to get a better name.

>>279068

Most MUCKs I've been on have a gay male bias, yeah.

>>279032

If you're fantasizing about fucking kids you're screwed up in the head, simple as that.

>>279048

>Sindome

I just looked it up and what's with the backstory you have to write and get approved and what looks like a literal resume you have to write up as well?

I like MU*s, but mostly due sandbox (for reasons I'll get into when I talk about Shangrila, mostly). The thing that's nice compared to F-List is people are less fixated on "you must have pictures or else no play". Setting up a client, working with commands and such also acts as a filter to keep out the most retarded of retards, though you still get shitty people of course.

> Penultimate Destination

Probably the most likely option out of all of them for you to find something good, but they are kind of heavy on the weebness if that's an issue to you. Expect a lot of shitty FC accounts based on whatever the latest gatcha game fad is (Genshin Impact now, before that it was Arknights, Girls Frontline, Fate GO, Kancolle, etc.) These are generally alts of the same few people too.

The public channel system is a complete shitfest outside of channels that have a specific OOC purpose, General chat is pretty much full of people RPing on channel even though they're not supposed to according to the rules, and most of them are just like the shitposters who hang out on channels on F-List and never actually do scenes. Moderation is sporadic and usually sparks drama when it happens. If you want good play, you want to look at the OOC nexus or (occasionally) the board posts/+LFRP statuses.

It's rather lesbian/dickgirl biased, but what RP place isn't these days. Hetero play's certainly not impossible, Warren has a hard time getting any because he's a shitstain of a human being.

Staff's mostly okay, but have some issues with favoritism when it comes to not punishing certain toxic people as harshly as they deserve due to being friends with the staff. Said toxicity is mostly on the channel system which you should avoid anyway, though.

There's no minimum character age, so if that's a big deal to you one way or another, keep it in mind.

> Shangrila

Okay, the last time I was on Shang was in 2016 so some of what I say here could be outdated. The chargen lockdown was mentioned but I think that ended now.

Shangrila players tend to be old, and old-fashioned. Heck, some of them were even still into the Gorean thing last I checked, and Gor pretty much lost all relevance as soon as it was replaced by 50 Shades of Grey as the BDSM community's "cool to hate" book. So if you hate newer trends in RP it might be worth checking out, be ready for them to be salty old fuckers though. The game also advertises itself as explicitly BDSM and the game theme has a lot of background references to slavery and sadism which tends to attract a certain sort of crowd.

Staff may be a bit assholish, but I've seen a lot worse. Their biggest problems are an indifference towards dealing with problem players (this may have changed, since last I heard some of the worst players are now gone), and Sloth abusing the "staff message to all players" command to bitch about the playerbase and/or broadcast inane shit that's on his mind.

Staff did a poor job of PR management when they changed the ageplay rules, but despite the massive saltiness you'll hear, it's really not much worse than how F-List staff are currently fucking up PR with the gender system changes (which they seem to have now swept under the rug and hope people forget about it). My biggest problem with it is HOW they changed the rule though, they could have positioned themselves as the hard-line "no ageplay" server, which there's clearly a demand for, but instead they made a shitty compromise of minimum age being 16 which pretty much pleases no one because that's still too low for most of the anti-ageplay people.

Grid play is terrible, the government system pretty much encourages the most self-aggrandizing players to set up shop and treat their Grand Pooh-bah titles as if it makes them the greatest thing since sliced bread, while not actually offering to facilitate play (if you want to arrange grid events, you'll contact one of these Grand Pooh-bahs and ask about it, and most likely be told "come up with something yourself". Great. So what does your Grand Pooh-bah title again?) There was also the guy who played a Gungan slave with his dick hanging out (yes, Gungan as in Jar-Jar Binks' race from Star Wars) and would go to occupied public rooms and post passive-aggressively about how no one was interacting with him. Since they were public rooms where anyone could RP and he wasn't targeting his posts towards any particular person he wasn't really doing anything "wrong" rules-wise but was an active contributor to making public play shit.

Back when I was there, things like the +kinks code were kind of clunky compared to the other two, that may have changed but I doubt it.

(continued)

> Naughty Muffin

Small these days, but if you're basing your ideas of it on years ago, it might be worth another look to see if you think it's changed for the better. It changed hands to new staff a couple years ago (which some people characterize as a hostile takeover, and others as the actually active staff doing what they had to to keep maintaining the place). The current staff seem friendly enough and the place is a lot more lenient with its rules about what you can build and how much they want to railroad you into their vision of things.

The +kinks system is old-fashioned, but has a concise display which I find easier to read than Shang's or PD's. There's also an interesting "parts" system that apparently used to do some code stuff, but now just serves as additional character info basically.

Also watch out for Elektra, who's set up shop there after being banned from everywhere else because she's a self-aggrandizing tool who thinks she's the hot shit at RP (but actually sucks and barely reads anyone else's posts) and has stalkerish tendencies.

There is a minimum character age, but it's 12.

I've never played on Yuriba, but I had a friend tell me about it and that it's a place where dickgirls are against the rules but people secretly play them anyway, which pretty much killed any interest I have for it. If you want to play a dickgirl, great, but be fucking honest about it at least, I can't stand when people list as "female" with no indication of dick-having and then just spring one out.

I've never been on Tapestries, but I'm curious about it, the main things that I'm wary about are that "furry" and "BDSM" are both prominent in their description. Furries are only occasionally my thing and I don't much like BDSM at all (but if it's anything like Shangrila, maybe there's a whole lot of non-BDSM stuff even if the game tends to slant that way?)

>>281763

>minimum age being 16 which pretty much pleases no one because that's still too low for most of the anti-ageplay people.

Weird, considering that it's the age of consent in a lot of western countries.

Also, you forgot that PD uses the pueblo system, which makes things clickable, and shang doesn't, which turned me off after starting to take it for granted.

>>281767

I forget the Pueblo system because there's only one client that actually supports it and that's not the one I use. But yeah, if you use MUSHClient that's nice too.

>>281764

>Naughty Muffin

>Yuriba

Can you provide links?

>I can't stand when people list as "female" with no indication of dick-having and then just spring one out

Agreed. Lying wastes everyone's time.

>I've never been on Tapestries, but I'm curious about it

Tapestries is worth trying! It's the number one most populated MUCK. It has pros and cons, of course, though.

>"furry" and "BDSM" are both prominent in their description

The vast majority of characters are furries. If you don't want to play with furries, Tapestries won't work for you. However, you can play a human and get lots of furry ass if you're fine with that. There are also a considerable amount of quasihumans (elves, orcs, gargoyles, witches with cat ears, etc) but actual, entirely plain humans are very rare. I like human on furry pairings, myself, and wish I found more humans (and quasihumans) to pair with my furry character.

As for BDSM, (sadly, for me) there's not as much BDSM as the website claims. Supposedly, the whole MUCK used to be BDSM-oriented, but now only a few places on Taps cater to it. So BDSM absolutely will not be a problem for you, on Tapestries. There's lots of vanilla stuff available.

>>281768

>I forget the Pueblo system because there's only one client that actually supports it and that's not the one I use.

This.

>MUSHClient

MUSHclient is terrible. At least use BeipMU, if you're using Windows… MUSHclient still doesn't support TLS or SSL on its own, yet.

>>281769

Naughty Muffin MUDStats:

http://mudstats.com/World/NaughtyMuffinMUSH

Yuriba MUDStats:

http://mudstats.com/World/YuribaMush

Yuriba homepage:

https://www.yuriba.com/

>>281769

>MUSHclient is terrible.

What's so bad about it?

>>281771

No TLS support. That's a significant issue. You can use stunnel to work around that, but it's still a major inconvenience.

It's been ages since I've done any roleplay or MU*ing while on Windows, but if I remember right, MUSHClient also maps the number pad by default to cardinal directions, which can be nice in some situations but is unintuitive as a default.

>>179482

best sho.. the limmy sho