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I wouldn't say it's derailing the thread. It's par for the course when reflecting on your past roleplays. I think it's normal for your writing style to be a mixed bag of everyone you've roleplayed with. It's only natural that you take after those around you. I always match what the other person gives me, not just out of spite, but because two completely different styles don't match well when you're writing a story. I can't give a detailed response to "*hugs and kisses*" but that doesn't necessarily mean I don't enjoy the simplicity. Trying to match the first poster's style is important. I almost feel insulted if I write out two paragrap

Well, like I said, it's not that I don't appreciate the simplicity of a short response, it's just that I literally can't do a detailed response to one. It can be really exhausting and make the roleplay feel extremely one-sided regardless of how the other person is enjoying it. At the end of the day, it's about meeting in the middle. If you're roleplaying with someone better at writing than you, you should strive to challenge yourself and try to write longer responses than you're used to. And if you're playing with someone who's not as good, you should try to ease them into it rather than just smacking them with a wall of text. And if meeting

I would agree about it being more spiteful, though some people don't have the experience to adapt to what the other person is doing. Sure they can try to adapt to the other person but sometimes it just can't be helped can it? So I wouldn't really blame people if they couldn't adapt so it flows better. I myself actually struggle now to respond to something around two or three lines since over time and experiencing roleplaying with other people I got used to doing one or two paragraphs. I roleplay with my gf a decent amount, one with years under her belt and as we keep doing it the length of our responses gets longer over time as I g

I don't wanna derail the point of this thread, but I just wanted to say: I'm guilty of this. I try to give as good as I can, as much as possible, but I usually settle into giving as good as I get. At least I try. I'm sure people bring their best, so I usually just match: length, style, so on. I tend to find it makes for a more equal experience.

Location: Haunted Hotel Time: 07:10 on a Sunday morning. Kelania snorted softly in a soft laugh, “A ghost that’s throwing things, and making lots of noise is a poltergeist, sweetheart. They’re more malevolent. A ghost is simply a spirit that wanders around the place they’re tied to.” She explained as she moved her phone about, lighting up the room. She could see the dust in the air that had made Sophia cough, sparkling softly in the light as the particles moved around in response to their movements disturbing the air. With her arm still around Sophia, she gently pulled the little beauty towards the centre of the room where she paused. Th

If she had any doubts before, there was no questioning now that Kelania had been teasing her after hearing her exaggerated sigh, at this point, she couldn't help but laugh slightly, though. Maybe she had been overreacting a little. She watched as Kelania replaced the cushion and closed the door behind her. She then heard Kelania mention using her phone as a 'torch.' That was terminology she hadn't heard much. she usually just called it a flashlight. To hear, a torch referred to a wooden pole that you would light the top of, like a giant candle. She could only suppose that Kelania must have been from some European country, which probably shoul

That would be perfect! Yes!

Location: Haunted Hotel Time: 07:10 on a Sunday morning. Kelania let out a slightly exaggerated, but quiet sigh of relief when the door didn’t make too much noise when opened. She slowly pulled the cushion away, carefully putting it back down on the chair where she had gotten it, making it look like as if no one had moved it. She then straightened and followed Sophia into the dark hallway of the basement. She turned around and carefully closed the door behind them, before quietly reaching for the latch and locking it behind them. To cover up any inadvertent sound she made, Kelania said, “I have a phone, with a light on it. We can use it

I'm just rife with poor wording today. To be more specific: "If you can adapt to other people, it's more spiteful not to." Though the caveat to that statement would be: "Unless you're trying to help them get better, especially at their request." 'Forcing' them to adapt to you is a good way to go about that, especially if you can ease them into it.

I should have worded that more carefully, I think. What I meant to say was: "While I understand that the point of this is to talk about your first RP, your comment about improving yourself and matching others was a good one that bears responding to." Further, you have a very good point there, too. In a way, I feel it would be more spiteful to not match, if that makes sense? An RP, to me at least, is a story written between two or more people. If you can match, it just makes the story flow, and read, so much better.

Oof, the first roleplay I did was actually just a Dangan Ronpa roleplay... lol. I've only been roleplaying for like 8 months and I'm still trying to improve. Honestly I was GARBAGE when I first started. I was close to the level of this one guy I knew who typed "Husky thrusts at a fast pace" when they did some erp, then thrir character passed out right afterwards and I'm just, what. I'm not trying to offend anyone like that though it's just he's not improving and still types like that so I just cringe, it's funny though. Honestly I struggled to improve over the past few months and only got better by trying to mimic people's writing. In the end

My first roleplay was on this Pokemon Mystery Dungeon-inspired sight about Pokemon trainers being sucked through a portal into a second dimension entirely inhabited by oddly-colored pokemon. The site was really interesting, but I was really young at the time, so my roleplaying skills were... garbage at best. I remember looking back at my earliest posts and cringing so hard. I didn't put spaces after punctuation, I didn't use capitalization, the whole thing was just a mess. >.<; I can't recall how old I was... maybe around 13-14? Anyway, I believe the site is dead now, unfortunately, so no rectifying that.