Is it just me or are RPs just not creative anymore. They're either camping or high school drama. Lets get some original ideas on this server like a purge rp or create an rp with a story of your own (not MYOR rps).
Love those, I actually use the Magic Tribes one a lot, or some kind of varient on it. Once I did two families with magic powers at war who each had half the plot as their landI agree, it's not just you who feels that way. While I constantly claim nowadays that I never roleplay, I used to love rp-ing in creative nearly every day. Of course, as high school, camping, and other common roleplay themes began to bore me, I started brainstorming ideas for my own. Since I have not the time nor the energy to make them anymore, here are a few anyone could use:
- Field trip - A group of school kids could go on a trip to anything from a museum to another country. Travel RPs work well, too. A group of kids travel together and may or may not be supervised by an adult. This could tie in with horror as well... jeez, I'm getting off track here...
- Band - I've always liked to imagine starting my own student-run band with my peers. This would require some rather music-savvy people who know basic musical terms and instruments, at least by name (alto, soprano, tenor, and baritone, for example). You could combine this with many other things, perhaps summer or even survival if you're creative enough. The characters would include band members, supporters, and haters.
- Magic Tribes - This one's a bit complex, but with enough creativity and imagination, anyone can pull it off. I personally enjoy thoroughly developing a magical fantasy world, complete with different styles of elemental magic, mythical creatures, and characters with wide ranges of backstories. This could perhaps involve a war sort of thing, a story of cooperation, betrayal, tribes' dark secrets, or forbidden cross-tribe love.
- Another dimension - A group of people one day come across a magical portal, and when one reckless teen gets sucked in, they take the entire group with them. Now everyone is stuck in this weird dimension, trapped until they find a way to get out. Are the creatures lurking there hostile or friendly? Another opportunity for creativity here in developing the world underneath.
- Treasure hunt - This concept is fairly flexible. Tales of an abandoned mansion holding a great treasure spread across the land, and two villages hear of it. They arrive at the same time and fight to find the treasure first, but the mansion turns out to hold more than they expected. Is it haunted? Is it even abandoned at all? Does it leave behind hints of why it was abandoned in the first place? Will the two teams of villagers have to work together in order to even survive? You decide!
- Time travel - A group of time travelers (or pair?) begin arguing over which period of time they should go to. During their argument, anger and clumsiness lead them to be sucked into an unfamiliar time and location. Soon they discover what they learned in history class was all wrong... all the while, the time police are hunting them down because one of them created an illegal time anomaly! What an unfortunate situation...
I want to be more creative with my rps but AngryRena is right people really only join rps if their camp or school.I agree, it's not just you who feels that way. While I constantly claim nowadays that I never roleplay, I used to love rp-ing in creative nearly every day. Of course, as high school, camping, and other common roleplay themes began to bore me, I started brainstorming ideas for my own. Since I have not the time nor the energy to make them anymore, here are a few anyone could use:
- Field trip - A group of school kids could go on a trip to anything from a museum to another country. Travel RPs work well, too. A group of kids travel together and may or may not be supervised by an adult. This could tie in with horror as well... jeez, I'm getting off track here...
- Band - I've always liked to imagine starting my own student-run band with my peers. This would require some rather music-savvy people who know basic musical terms and instruments, at least by name (alto, soprano, tenor, and baritone, for example). You could combine this with many other things, perhaps summer or even survival if you're creative enough. The characters would include band members, supporters, and haters.
- Magic Tribes - This one's a bit complex, but with enough creativity and imagination, anyone can pull it off. I personally enjoy thoroughly developing a magical fantasy world, complete with different styles of elemental magic, mythical creatures, and characters with wide ranges of backstories. This could perhaps involve a war sort of thing, a story of cooperation, betrayal, tribes' dark secrets, or forbidden cross-tribe love.
- Another dimension - A group of people one day come across a magical portal, and when one reckless teen gets sucked in, they take the entire group with them. Now everyone is stuck in this weird dimension, trapped until they find a way to get out. Are the creatures lurking there hostile or friendly? Another opportunity for creativity here in developing the world underneath.
- Treasure hunt - This concept is fairly flexible. Tales of an abandoned mansion holding a great treasure spread across the land, and two villages hear of it. They arrive at the same time and fight to find the treasure first, but the mansion turns out to hold more than they expected. Is it haunted? Is it even abandoned at all? Does it leave behind hints of why it was abandoned in the first place? Will the two teams of villagers have to work together in order to even survive? You decide!
- Time travel - A group of time travelers (or pair?) begin arguing over which period of time they should go to. During their argument, anger and clumsiness lead them to be sucked into an unfamiliar time and location. Soon they discover what they learned in history class was all wrong... all the while, the time police are hunting them down because one of them created an illegal time anomaly! What an unfortunate situation...