Hi Decota.
I'm afraid I'd disagree completely on tabletop rp being anything like a mud.
In a mud for instance, you are one character in a very large world, where as
in a good tabletop game, the players, ---- usually 2-8, are the heroes. The
plot, npcs and the like revolve around them, unexpected encounters,
villains, friends, saving the world etc
to take one example, in my mutants game my character gains his super hero
powers from a battlesuit. Originally, sinse the suit fell out of the sky, he
assumed it to be alien. Yet actually it turns out that the suit was
developed by mages in ancient egypt (you have to love superhero mythology),
to guard a city of magic.
in one session, our party went to egypt and explored the various other
places where the guardian suits in the same series as mine were located,
sinse we knew that the bad guys were looking for them. Needless to say, this
plot was all about my character and his backstory. You wouldn't get that in
a mud, where your backstory is just one sentence.
This is part of the reason why i really enjoy tabletop rp, but am never
really interested in rping in online games like alteraeon, sinse if I want
to rp, I don't just want to be another face in the crowd.
As to larp, aka live action rp where you dress up as your character, run
around and smack people with plastic swords, unfortunately that's something
I've never really fancied doing, sinse there are inherent access problems.
Yes, I could play a blind character, ---- but why do I want to? I'd rather
play someone different from myself who can fight on their own, or do magic,
than someone with the same limitations I have in reality.
i've got lots of friends who are very seriously into larp, make their own
costumes, are extremely skilled with fighting and travel around the country
to events, but because of the inherent access problems it's just been
something I've never been tempted to do at all.
Probably if I had normal vision this would be different, but as it is I'd
rather just stick to tabletop games where I can play any character i want.
Also though, I'll point out that in a tabletop game, your characters can do
things that aren't humanly possible. For instance, in a larpg game, magic is
reduced to either in character stuff like mental magic, or to projectile or
weapon based magic, with the projectiles being represented by chucking
footballs at peopl. In a tabletop game however, you can have magic to make
yourself fly, change your apprence, have a massive explosive wave of energy
running out from your character, psychically manipulate objects with
telechynises, create objects etc.
None of these things could be represented in reality, therefore they can't
be done in larp.
As I said, it's something I'd considder if I had normal vision, but as it
is, I'd just prefer to play characters who aren't! visually impared.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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