RPing with Nobody
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If we expand out from the MUniverse I can recall solo RPing a lot on play by forum games. But that, much like the vignette most recently demonstrated and expanded upon in the Ares system, was… it was sort of like RPing for an audience, rather than RPing solo. Does that make sense, or make it different?
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I always thought of vignettes and journals/blue books and things like that less like solo RP and more like RP hooks–you’re putting it out there hoping someone reads it and is like gee this person sounds cool or hey I have information on that I could help them with.
So I guess it is kind of like throwing a (long) pose out into an empty room and hoping that someone sees it when they come in and wants to pose back.
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@DrQuinn I definitely see them as RP hooks and also a visual presentation of character development. Both for other readers and the player of that character. I saw in another post that someone mentioned that some players treat these games partly as a CRPG that is closest to a TTRPG and I can definitely see that. When I play a character, I try to create one or pick a roster character that is more of a blank slate and let the character shape itself through the adventures and scenes they participate in.
In my opinion, vignettes can definitely help both for the player to write out how they see their character growing in the story they are part of, but also let others in on it as well. Vignettes also play a part in plot +requests the player puts in, being able to show what may have happened with dice rolls that happened behind closed doors.
