Topics created by paperbrilliant

Introducing live speech/vr into RP sounds incredibly awkward, especially if your voice doesn't, uh, fit your character. Also it makes it kinda tricky to do awesome combat poses or describing things happening. That stuff's fine for tabletop games, but the average 'run plots and RP isolated scenes' superhero mush would be weeeeiiiirrrd.

Really I think we just need A) A new thing that lets us more or less what we do on MUs, but with better/more convenient functionality, and B) find some way for people to actually find out about that thing when/if it exists.

I have been lucky enough to enjoy a lot of very deeply satisfying and vibrant historical setting RP (including a lot of the not so nice aspects and tensions). But I will be honest. Whether that was in flashbacks OR in a historical themed mush, it's always been with a smaller playgroup or even one other person who enjoyed engaging on that level and had a similar desire for the level of "accuracy" or research or whatnot. I have NEVER found that "in general" on a historical place. I think that is okay, and if you want to play on a historical place like it or not you are going to have to be able to tolerate some deviation from your desired levels of things. Just like if you want to be super involved in a sphere or faction PROBABLY (not always) you're going to have to engage in specialized BaRP that may be amazing some of the time, fun hopefully a majority of the time, and downright painful much of the time as you rub elbows with people you don't know/aren't your preferred type. But if you are able to be tolerant during the BaRP esp. if you are new and without contacts, eventually you'll find hopefully 1 or 2 people that you can engage more fully with.