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@catzilla said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

All Bar RP is social RP but not all social RP is Bar RP.

I still want to make a game with a single IC grid square: The Bar.

All RP is Bar RP. The only plot is The Bar.

catzilla

To me, Bar RP is “let’s just throw our characters somewhere and socialize about whatever”.

Social RP can be Bar RP but it can also be picking up a scene with these intentions:

building/furthering a relationship between PCs
discussing plot
sharing plot or other activity happening in the game
doing an activity together to help raise stats (like the mentioned training scene)
meeting a PC I haven’t met yet
Etc.

The difference is intent. “Let’s just see what happens” vs “Let’s have our characters gossip about NPC X.”

All Bar RP is social RP but not all social RP is Bar RP.

sao

I’m partway through the Inevitable Ruin right now. I’ve got to drive across the state for work in a couple weeks and am a little worried I am going to run out of books before the next one comes out.

Solstice

I’ve been listening to the audio books myself the past month!

Endlessly impressed with the one-man-show that the narrator is capable of putting on. I think it does sag occasionally (The Iron Tangle comes to mind), but it’s been such a different tone to my previous binge of the Cosmere that I’m all in on the dark comedy romp that it is.

God damn it, Donut.

mietze

I tend to be okay with “just talking” social RP if the characters involved are engaging enough. When I think of BaRP, I tend to think of more “primarily talking” social scenes. If that’s all I had access too would be sad after awhile though.

I think for some (maybe most?) people that may also include what I would count as more actiony type of social RP (playing a game/researching/building something) but I think that’s because I kind of like rolling dice too. I would put using abilities or little one-shot exploration stuff that isn’t really GMed and isn’t tied to a metaplot thing as mostly social too. But I can be perfectly happy with that for a long time. I’m not sure if that counts as slice of life (it certainly could, depending on the context!) or not. And then for some people dice rolling breaks immersion if it’s not important enough or it really stresses them out OOCly, or it is totally possible for someone to be a colossal showboating ass with dice rolls OOC too which isn’t super fun except to them).

Roz

@KarmaBum said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

@Roz said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

i wasn’t asking what types of RP she dislikes

Thank you for clarifying, as I also read it that way, and was like… damn, I tried to explain that it just doesn’t hit me as fun, and people were like NO I BELIEVE YOU DO LIKE IT!!!

what i really meant is that — i think social RP is a fairly broad category, and it’s moreso that i think there’s gonna be stuff under discussion here that myself and some others are going to categorize as social RP. so it’s more just like. “i don’t believe people hate all social RP ever because i think the category is broader than they’re suggesting”

YES - Action, adventure, travel, cool scenery (and then generally something theme-specific, like “dark magic” or “rebel alliances” or something)

NO - Slice of life

i’d count a lot of “travel” and “cool scenery” stuff as being social!

and slice of life is another hugely broad category for me tbh. like in talking about fiction in various forms, it’ll get applied to everything from “high schoolers getting into comedy hijinks that’s entirely fluff” to “following a family’s life in the aftermath of a serious loss as they deal with the process of grief.” so again, it may just be a question of definition

Always enjoy playing weird NPCs for story purposes, so currently enjoying storytelling with some friends; historically enjoyed lots of scenes on GH where I got to play the weird creatures.

The whole zombie arc on Crimson Compass.

On Horror2 where we used the holy water in the stupidest possible way, which I think was just a 2-3 scene arc?

The training montage on LA (even though I wasn’t actually in that scene).

When my character exploded himself as a weyrling on HT.

“Travel” scenes are always fun for me, especially travel to a surreal or impossible place. Preference for me is as a storyteller, but I’m down to be along for the ride.

some of these i just don’t have enough context for cause it’s just referencing events on games i’m not familiar with. but stuff like training scenes, travel scenes, etc.? those are social to me. hijinks with items just for fun is social to me.

playing NPCs, doing a zombie plot arc (i say just from assumption without context), etc., sounds like it’d just all fall into the ‘plot RP’ bucket for me

Hopefully, this helps.

i do legitimately appreciate you writing it out, thank you

bear_necessities

@Roz for what it’s worth I was attempting to show you my definition of.social RP by providing an example of what I consider to be social RP.

bear_necessities

@sao said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

that interrupted a movie night with rocket launchers would be fine.

That is not social RP to me. I would do that. So I guess there’s my definition

sao

@junipersky a friend of mine recently recced that and I have been listening to the audios a lot. I LOVE DONUT

sao

I also don’t like movie night scenes but that’s just conceptual because it is inherently uninteractive to me to rp about watching a thing. RP that took place AFTER a movie night with a big dumb pillow fight or that interrupted a movie night with rocket launchers would be fine.

I can think of several ways to make mail sorting impactful or fun especially if there’s a war on.

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