It shall stay open, then!
Also, I have to giggle a little at Hatsuma from two years back.
Also also, my current primary reason for not being more RP active (aside from school) is the fact that I GM locally. Since I did so all last year and am starting to do so again after a brief hiatus, I would feel like I was betraying my friends slash players if I ran off to go GM on an online forum instead. The fact that I have been part of the forum longer than I have known them is inconsequential; I enjoy tabletop to the point where I'd much rather play with people IRL than via the net if it's possible and the people available don't totally suck. I also imagine that they'd feel rather betrayed as well if I abandoned GMing for them and then GMed elsewhere instead, given how much they seem to enjoy playing tabletop D&D.
And before anyone retorts with "do both," I don't have time. I just don't. GMing takes too much effort, requires too much planning, creates too much stress, and is too time-consuming for me to be GMing multiple campaigns every week or every other week on top of my classload.
Although given the opportunity (and that it doesn't conflict with my RL GMing [man that sounds weird] responsibilities/times) I can and will RP here as a player. I'm in a couple forum RPs, though at least one of them is unfortunately moving at the speed of molasses.
As a side note, something like 75% of the people I used to RP with on a regular basis are gone or don't RP at times or in places that are accessible to me. Some of them are still here, but there are neither lots of new people to RP with nor lots of old friends to RP with, which makes me wonder what
is going on sometimes to keep this community alive. I guess that there are RPs going on both on board and in chat, and some people are doing less-conventional stuff that still definitely qualifies as RP (Idran's 2e D&D game, for example), even if they aren't technically "open to the general public."
So I guess I "don't RP anymore" because my real life has largely consumed me and because I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to who still RPs and what they're doing. It just isn't the same for me without the characters that have such dominating presences in my RP history. <p>
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