Why no roleplaying on forum?

[ttb]

Title says it all. Just wondering. I'm not too interested in roleplaying myself, just wonder why its not allowed here.

Thanks

ttb

[Comrade Jenkens]

I don't know for certain but I think it resulted in too many arguments are something. It was allowed at one point.

[vexx32]

Moved to the Forum Forum.

We had a (brief) discussion on this a short time ago, if I recall correctly... Let me see... Here's my response to the previous thread.

[ttb]

Ok, thanks for that, clears it up for me

Cheers

ttb

[lajoswinkler]

Roleplaying? What exactly is that?

[vexx32]

It's a kind of collective storytelling, with some basic generally common sense restrictions (e.g., you can't dictate the actions of others and so forth) whereby each player or group of players create a persona and play it as a kind of game. It's often very competitive, at least with KSP-centric roleplays, as far as I've seen.

It's quite popular on Tumblr, though the format there is more directed at traditional prose storylines, as though it's a collective short (or long) story written by a minimum of two people, but every so often a group of three or more will get together to roleplay. There're entire blogs dedicated to roleplaying, many of them borrowing characters from various fandoms (read: books, movies, tv shows, you name it) or creating their own to roleplay in an existing fictional universe.

[lajoswinkler]

So it's like dungeons and dragons, except the only thing you have is written word? And people get into fights over it? Sound kind of lame.

[vexx32]

Don't tell that to the people that're fond of it, hehehe. It can be quite good, but it can be pretty terrible also, especially if the person you're roleplaying with is a terrible writer or just a terrible player or whatever xD