Roleplaying online?
Jun. 12th, 2023 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrWould anyone be interested in some low-key online 'table-top' roleplaying during my daytime? I've dipped my feet into TTRPGs in the past and had a lot of fun, but unfortunately all the existing games I've encountered have been offline (not practical for health reasons) or in the middle of my night. So I guess it's time for me to organise a game myself, unless any of you know of some suitable games I might be able to join.
This post is just me poking the idea and seeing if anyone's potentially interested, if I get some interest and an initial sense of people's preferences then I'll try and organise something more solid.
My limitations
I'm only really awake like... 10am-5pm Perth time (UTC+8) which is like 7pm-2am Pacific Daylight Time in the US. Sorry non-nightowl Americans!
Also my health issues mean I can only play for an hour or so without a break, and have moderate odds of needing to cancel any given session.
Game Types
One option is two player games with someone who doesn't mind me needing breaks and intermittent rescheduling, since rescheduling with one other person isn't too bad. I've only played a two player game once, with a stranger, and it was a bit nerve wracking, but the fact it was a (perfectly nice!) random stranger who didn't know I was sick beforehand didn't help.
Another solution is 3+ player games where me (and thus my character) sometimes being missing or taking a break wouldn't interfere with the gameplay too much, eg playing like...a droid that shorts out intermittently and misses parts of the action, and if I as a player don't quite follow what happened while I was away then neither does the character, making that part of my roleplaying rather than everyone else needing to try and catch me up perfectly. The last time I tried roleplaying I carefully set up a character where this would work... and then almost everyone BUT me cancelled for unrelated reasons, and the game never happened, lol. But designing the character was fun!
Part of the appeal of roleplaying for me is as a sort of group social thing so I'm not especially looking at asynchronous stuff like playing by email, but that could also be fun, and would obviously make timezones less of an issue.
I'm open to most types of system/setup/game including video/voice/text-only etc. I'm more interested in collaborative storytelling and 'failure' as an opportunity to tell a different story than beating challenges. I'm not opposed in principle to paying for a module etc but obviously free is better!
Short one shots seem like a nice way to dip my feet into the whole thing but I'm not opposed to a longer campaign.
Possible specific games
Two relevant collections of recs I happened upon recently:
Newbie friendly games, mostly light and GM-less
One sitting fantasy tabletop RPGs for adult beginners
Most of these sound like they could be fun. I like most kinds of scifi/fantasy/heists etc.
But I'm not into zombies/pandemics, protecting kids/teens, playing a child (playing an older teen is ok but not my favourite thing), or anything with sex or romance baked into the gameplay (other players doing romance is fine I just don't think it's for me). Overall, while the setting/plot doesn't have to be sweetness and light I'm not up for anything super depressing or disturbing, and am easily squicked by sexual stuff.
Final Thoughts
I'm pretty new to all this and very open to working with other people who haven't roleplayed much/at all or have their own other complicated needs etc. I'm open to playing with people I don't know super well as long as they're cool with my health limitations.
SO. Anyone interested? Any other useful thoughts?
If people are interested I might take a while to reply to comments and organise anything but I'll do my best! And if noone's up for it that's ok, it was good to write it all out and give it a shot, hopefully the stars will align for me and roleplaying some other time. And if any of you get inspired to, like, run a 5 hour zombie sex romp at 3am Perth time then I just hope you have fun without me ;P
This post is just me poking the idea and seeing if anyone's potentially interested, if I get some interest and an initial sense of people's preferences then I'll try and organise something more solid.
My limitations
I'm only really awake like... 10am-5pm Perth time (UTC+8) which is like 7pm-2am Pacific Daylight Time in the US. Sorry non-nightowl Americans!
Also my health issues mean I can only play for an hour or so without a break, and have moderate odds of needing to cancel any given session.
Game Types
One option is two player games with someone who doesn't mind me needing breaks and intermittent rescheduling, since rescheduling with one other person isn't too bad. I've only played a two player game once, with a stranger, and it was a bit nerve wracking, but the fact it was a (perfectly nice!) random stranger who didn't know I was sick beforehand didn't help.
Another solution is 3+ player games where me (and thus my character) sometimes being missing or taking a break wouldn't interfere with the gameplay too much, eg playing like...a droid that shorts out intermittently and misses parts of the action, and if I as a player don't quite follow what happened while I was away then neither does the character, making that part of my roleplaying rather than everyone else needing to try and catch me up perfectly. The last time I tried roleplaying I carefully set up a character where this would work... and then almost everyone BUT me cancelled for unrelated reasons, and the game never happened, lol. But designing the character was fun!
Part of the appeal of roleplaying for me is as a sort of group social thing so I'm not especially looking at asynchronous stuff like playing by email, but that could also be fun, and would obviously make timezones less of an issue.
I'm open to most types of system/setup/game including video/voice/text-only etc. I'm more interested in collaborative storytelling and 'failure' as an opportunity to tell a different story than beating challenges. I'm not opposed in principle to paying for a module etc but obviously free is better!
Short one shots seem like a nice way to dip my feet into the whole thing but I'm not opposed to a longer campaign.
Possible specific games
Two relevant collections of recs I happened upon recently:
Newbie friendly games, mostly light and GM-less
One sitting fantasy tabletop RPGs for adult beginners
Most of these sound like they could be fun. I like most kinds of scifi/fantasy/heists etc.
But I'm not into zombies/pandemics, protecting kids/teens, playing a child (playing an older teen is ok but not my favourite thing), or anything with sex or romance baked into the gameplay (other players doing romance is fine I just don't think it's for me). Overall, while the setting/plot doesn't have to be sweetness and light I'm not up for anything super depressing or disturbing, and am easily squicked by sexual stuff.
Final Thoughts
I'm pretty new to all this and very open to working with other people who haven't roleplayed much/at all or have their own other complicated needs etc. I'm open to playing with people I don't know super well as long as they're cool with my health limitations.
SO. Anyone interested? Any other useful thoughts?
If people are interested I might take a while to reply to comments and organise anything but I'll do my best! And if noone's up for it that's ok, it was good to write it all out and give it a shot, hopefully the stars will align for me and roleplaying some other time. And if any of you get inspired to, like, run a 5 hour zombie sex romp at 3am Perth time then I just hope you have fun without me ;P
