/erp/ - Erotic Roleplay

>>276402

>unfamiliar with a fandom

>wants to play a canon character in it

Why?

Adding onto this list;

Tokyo Ghoul; Pretty much everyone interested in it right now just likes it for edgy shit. if you've ever seen Dark City, it's like that. A looooot of Dark City.

DC/Marvel; Lots of players for this, lots of potential but stay away from the Private Rooms. They're complete hugboxes.

Dragon Ball; Apparently there are okay parts to this but honestly, just seems like garbage.

Naruto; Avoid unless you enjoy BBC/NTR/race play

Any fighting game; There's so many characters and designs you can use that all you need is a single good partner to have an entire bunch of stuff to do.

RWBY: Drama bullshit.

Kancolle: Infested by cuddle posters and people who hate 'edge'

GFL/Most gacha shit: Rooms suck, individuals don't.

bumping to get rid of flood.

Warcraft is awful on FList. It's a fucking default room, yet no one roleplays. Plus there's always the same 10 or so people in chat circlejerking.

>>277186

and 90% of the playerbase is futa or lesbian

>>276374

>STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE GAME OF THRONES UNIVERSE. Even if you're into some of the darker subject matter that envitably comes up, people for some reason always get hung up on the insignificant details

I dislike playing in canon universes for the most part, so I can avoid this despite liking GoT by saying "GoT is fun including the darker stuff so let's play a setting inspired by it!"

Same goes for Harry Potter >>276376 and Star Trek >>276402 By all means let's do magical school or space opera ERP, and use those mediums (and others) as inspiration, but not canon, so no worries about sticking to the franchise or not changing things to suit our fetishes!

>>277187

Funny, D&D settings are among the few I'm okay with canon playing. Probably because the canon is pretty flexible and open anyway, since that's what it's meant for, roleplay. All ERPing does is add sexy. I prefer orcs being grey too thanks to D&D.

>>277194

Yeah, this is a really good strategy, especially if you have characters who are semi-flexible and can fit into multiple settings.

That's the hardest part about canon settings. They're usually so inflexible.

>>277196

I find that inflexibility not just difficult for getting the RP to make sense, but also stunting for the imagination/potential. There's so much that can be done with any of those settings, gritty low fantasy, magical school, space opera, that just doesn't fit with that particular continuity. For small reasons or huge ones. And when two similar franchises have different hot ideas, which do you play? Neither imo, just combine the sexiest from both!

I feel the same for canon characters really. I like creating my own and giving them a personality that feels right for me and fits the story my partner and I want to tell and the setting we've made, and plays well with the other person's character. But maybe this is a personal thing? Like, I've never been into fanfiction, I'd rather write my own setting and character just like I'd rather ERP them, but many people feel the other way and love reading and writing fanfics. I accept that as just different taste, so I shouldn't look down on people who aren't into OC character/settings in ERP either.

>>277197

I've always had the impression that people who are sticklers for canon just don't want to be surprised – maybe they had bad experiences with partners pulling stuff out of their asses thay they didn't like? I find it hard to breach because I can't be arsed either way when it comes to settings. If I have an itch for, say, a cyberpunk setting, it's not the minutia getting mangled that's going to bother me you know?

>>276896

Yeah, theres lots of people in the Persona fandom who are pretty good at portraying the characters and doing in universe stuff. I have a few girls myself, but I wouldn't go around saying I'm looking for the most story driven stuff with them.

To add to this conversation, I'll say good luck if you want to do Homestuck stuff. There are some players still around, but most of the people who RP that canon do it outside of the site or have moved on from it. Hell, I don't even have any of my Homestuck profiles any more because its just easier to out source them.

I will chuck in some positivity though and say the BNHA, Danganronpa and the Touhou communities have been rather pleasant. Even when I'm interacting with some of the degenerates who are into the weird stuff I'm into, they are still able to play the characters off really well despite adding in the perverted undertones to the characters. I even know a decent amount of DR players who really nail down what their character is about.

There are characters who just attract people who just want to slut them up for quickies though, you got characters like Futaba from Persona, Himiko from BNHA, and a few for DR such as Chihiro, Junko, and as much as it pains me to say as I play her too, but Chiaki as well.

>>277201

Possibly that's something that keeps them favoring canon settings over OC, but I feel like it's not the core thing, the same way some people naturally like fanfics and others like me prefer original stories taking inspiration from established ones. Interesting that people with no preference like you exit too!

But like, I can imagine getting particular about minutia mangling even in original settings, when it's a detail that contradicts something my partner and I established already, or even just how I pictured it. Conversely, on other occasions I'm happy just going with whatever the other player says, and I think canon wouldn't change that, since the ass pulling thing must happen in canon ERP too.

Basically any series that's had lots of mainstream appeal is going to be majority shitters. That said, flavor of the year Ovewatch is on the shitlist.

>>276376

Link Slytherin girl?

>>277190

Because shockingly enough people don't like straight-up BLACKED.com only with horde races. Gotta add that girldick spice

>>277190

That's 90% of all MMOs.

You're all fools for wanting to use canon universes that aren't designed for fan input. A D&D setting may have its own lore and decades worth of novels to read up on, but in the end it's up to the player to decide what is used and what is thrown out. Superhero continuities are similarly fucked from constant reboots and alternate timelines, so it's fair to just do whatever the fuck you want with the characters and setting, because how can you make it worse than what the actual paid writers have done to it?

Single creator universes, however, are so specific and detailed, and have such strict lore and histories that anyone trying to roleplay canon characters in uncharacteristic scenarios will be in a heap of trouble. Why are you wankers so be boring you have to take someone else's work and corrupt it to suit your shitty fetishes? Just rip them off and use a modicum of creativity to make it more of a parody and less of a fan fap fiction. You can steal ideas and insert them into your own universes, with your own characters. Ya'll that fuckin' lazy?

>>278488

Yeah? Is there something wrong with being uncreative and lazy? It's a hobby centered around getting your dick hard man, chill out.

>>278496

For many of us it's more than that and you know it. We all play our own way, and your way happens to be unsatisfying and creatively corrupt.

>>278497

>For many of us it's more than that and you know it

That's your problem, not mine. Some of us use our creativity on efforts that aren't cheap.

>>278503

And yes I absolutely mean 'cheap'. Much like people who write stories/music for kids. It's cheap but effective because there's an audience who will simply eat any shit you feed them. Not only that but it's ROLEPLAY, for fucks sake. It's already easy to do because you are typically only writing for a single person. You can find someone to enjoy literally any piece of shit turd you pull out of your ass, especially with the context that you'll get their dick hard.

>>278497

>we all play our own way

>but the way you're doing it is wrong

>inb4 "i said unsatisfying not wrong!!!!"

I doubt you get much play at all, being this obnoxious.

>>278497

Looks like you triggered the shitters who don't have a creative bone in their body

>>278506

My creative bone goes into someone else's body, ba dum pssh.

>>278508

Seething gacha tard

>>278510

nice rebuttal gayboy

>>278504

Roleplay is a two way road, though. You act as if all I need is a person to felate my ego for being such a good writer, for being able to produce such impressive walls of text while others barely have the attention span for a single paragraph. Truth is I struggle to find anyone who can keep my desire and interest up in a given role play. I want a creative and intellectual equal, a person worthy of a role playing partnership, where there is give and take, and we both get what we want. Most fall short. I haven't enjoyed a RP in a long, long time. No one makes it past the trial period and those I do actively enjoy writing with have incompatible schedules and inconsistent availability. I might just go back to forum posting where there's a higher demand for literacy and long term stories. I know that to get what I want I have to wait, remain persistent, and hope for the best while expecting the worst.

>>278505

Obnoxious is a funny way to say "has standards".

>>278508

>Implying anything I make is generic

>Implying a depressed person wants to play a depressed character

>Implying the shitposting and banal /me posting canons do is "fun"

I don't believe anyone enjoys low effort shitter role play. I don't want to believe that the human race is that fucking desperate and stupid.

>>276374

>go with Arthurian lore; everyone vaguely knows of it and won't go all autistic on you.

Arthurian lore is all about nobility and chivalry. Very different from the gritty and grim Game of Thrones.

>>278533

>Truth is I struggle to find anyone who can keep my desire and interest

I am entirely willing to believe that you are amazing at roleplay. You can very well be the Rembrandt of the erotic roleplay world and have few equals who can satisfy you. I am more than happy to believe this because as you've already pointed out, this makes for a very poor position to be in. You aren't satisfied and you're hard to please. These are not good qualities to have in a hobby and it's why you come off as so bitter.

>>278550

Let me just stress on this a bit more. I think it would be fucking FANTASTIC if I could be satisfied by one sentence roleplay, but I'm not. I can go as low as semi-para, and I can go as high as 5k characters per post (perhaps more but I've simply never run into that). I enjoy canon roleplay, I enjoy original characters. I can go along with voidsex, cliche scenarios and original concepts. Quickies, short-term, scenarios that are still on-going for the past few months.

To be satisfied by this wide range means having very few barriers to get into something enjoyable on at least some level. So when someone says they have very high standards I feel at least a little sorry for them because it usually means they aren't getting what they want.

>>278533

>M-My shit isn't generic…!

>I-I'm depressed so I can't possibly be a boring piece of shit…! E-Every good creator is depressed so that MUST mean my purple prose is good!

>Y-You're not actually having fun, you just THINK you are! I'm the only one who can define how others have fun! You're doing it wrong!

Top fucking kek.

Post a profile then, Shakespeare, otherwise you're talking out of your ass.

>>278533

>long term stories

Okay now I know you're a retard. Let's see your profile if they're so intensely creative. Or let's see some of your old forum posts if you're worried about being harassed on f-list.

>>278559

Dismissing all of this drama, what is wrong with long term play?

>>278562

Nothing. But in my experience, anyone who just sits down and says, "Let's do something long term/story driven!" is bad and usually have really boring ideas for story beats. They're the same kind of people who like worldbuilding and just want to talk about the world without actually fucking roleplaying in it. Demanding a long term story means you're basically forcing two characters to act together in a way that's useful for long term interactions, which really limits how you can act.

>>278565

I've found plenty of people who want to do long term story driven stuff but we always started with something more condensed. It makes sense. Why even plan out a long involved roleplay when you don't even know if you're a good match for each other?

>>278565

>Demanding a long term story means you're basically forcing two characters to act together in a way that's useful for long term interactions, which really limits how you can act.

Limiting in what way?

There's ways around that, like characters within a single story. If your chevalier likes one-night stands, I can play a chain of squires, whores, desperate village women needing aid, captured villains, etc. Maybe even surprise you by bringing back an older character in new circumstances.

>>278569

You could decide if you're probably good matches from the preliminary talk about characters, kinks, worldbuilding, etc?

>>278569

That's the right way to do it, of course.

But then you have fuckers furiously jacking off over the fact that they exclusively do long-term, story-oriented, multi-paragraph roleplay with original characters, almost as if that automatically makes them the next J.R. Tolkien, when they're actually just barely in the league of Ernest Cline.

>>278570

So you *are* the type of mong who only ever wants to talk about their "totally original" world instead of actually playing. Got it.

>>278570

>You could decide if you're probably good matches from the preliminary talk about characters, kinks, worldbuilding, etc?

You could, but I'd still prefer to just get a feel for them right off the bat and see how they write, but it's definitely doable that way. I just hear a lot of people have trouble finding people interested in long term story-driven scenes and meanwhile they're falling into my lap when it's not something I seek outright. I've taken it as something akin to proposing when you haven't even been on a date.

>>278570

>talk about characters, kinks, world building

Limiting exactly like that, predisposing yourself to outcomes from the get go. That's fucking boring. Go back to doing forums, I'm sure no one on f-list wants you to begin with.

People will praise you for any stupid, overcomplicated, unexciting plot devices you put on your profiles as long as the character you are playing is a reasonably attractive female who is open to other females.

I could post quite a few but I don't feel like having Baron delete my post.

>>278594

Honestly imo any plot devices are praise-worthy, compared to the average profile with zero hooks at all.

>I could post quite a few but I don't feel like having Baron delete my post.

Is there a rule against screencaps now? Just cover up names and don't post profile links.

>>278631

Hell most profiles are either 1) empty, 2) a single inline or 3) a few sentences of text. Those are the vast majority.

>>278631

I was going to post censored screencaps but I'm pretty sure someone will be mad if I put a picture of their waifu's profile here to illustrate a point - you can just go down to /erp/ lounge, pick out a few bi/lesbian pink profiles and see it yourself without me causing an upset.

>>278632

I see a lot of profiles, regardless of gender/orientation, that just read like a list of demands. Where do these people get off? How come they seem to receive constant attention like that (otherwise they'd change it up)?

>>278633

>I see a lot of profiles, regardless of gender/orientation, that just read like a list of demands. Where do these people get off? How come they seem to receive constant attention like that

I have the opposite problem when I look at profiles. They seem to have no clear desires or wants and just outline what they wouldn't like.

>>278594

>I could post quite a few but I don't feel like having Baron delete my post.

Why would that happen? If it's breaking some F-List rules or something, that doesn't apply here, Baron's made it pretty clear in the past he doesn't give two shits about F-List.

>>278585

F-List has kink lists for exactly that purpose, "limiting" yourself to outcomes you and your partner both enjoy…