Just Do It: Step 1, Hurdles
By Bricu | April 16, 2012
If you want to into RP, there comes a point where you just have to do it. I recognize it isn’t always easy, and there maybe a hurdle or fifty to overcome to get your head in the game, but the fact remains: To RP, one has to just do it.
I have to be clear: This isn’t a general call to JUST GO OUT AND RP. I find the statement “just do it” minimizes the difficulties people may face when trying to start things. This is a call, however, to identify what’s in the way of your RP. So this is what we are going to do this week: Get back into RP. Step one: What’s in your way?
Are you burned out? Can’t find a group? Can’t find a concept to play? Have too many concepts to play? Are you missing follow-through from your RP organizers/circles? Let’s start talking about what’s in our way!
4 Comments
Rhoelyn on April 16, 2012 at 7:40 pm.
The one thing “in the way” that I find to be VERY hard to overcome: schedules. Finding good people to RP with can be hard. Finding a group with the right attitude and common interests and the drive you’re hoping for and all the various other … right stuff is not something that happens every day. But then to find that you can’t possibly work on their schedule and they can’t possible work on yours? It near breaks the dramatic little heart.
What options have you found that work to overcome the scheduling hurdle?
Bricu on April 17, 2012 at 12:50 pm.
Overcoming scheduling is really hard. The best thing I have found is to have everyone involved share their schedules and making a block of time the regularly scheduled RP time.
Inevitably, however, the schedules change. For instance, one of the core Riders can’t make the old school time anymore AND has additional responsibilities that keep him from joining in the fun. When that happens, we rely on fic and specially arrangements.
We’re working on teleportation and time-dilation, but the slackers at MIT are really taking their time.
Kyraine on April 17, 2012 at 1:05 pm.
I’ve been an east coast player on a west coast server pretty much since I started playing WoW. Blocks of time, like for regular Tuesday RP nights, are key. Even if I have to go to bed so I’m not zombieKyraine at work the next day, I can still squeeze in a little time for RPs.
My other big hurdle, aside from time, is stagnating characters. After you’ve had one for a while, and then after you throw in a little burnout with WoW in general, it’s easy to get into a rut. Doing something different, like taking Rp to forum writing, or stick figure comics (very entertaining to do!), or just shaking things up for the character in question can help there.
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