Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4799587-20140926205622/@comment-3293219-20140927204144

To answer Alduin's question.

The RP board is a place where people implement their ideas and apply it to the already established TES world. This achieves something that cannot be achieved by writing solo or by writing with friends, you have very little control over the story and it is the other players who dictate it. I found it interesting to see where people drew their inspiration as it often clearly shone through in their work. Some things I liked, some things I didn't like but overall, something was made, like The Legend of Nirn which a lot of people collaborated to make a story and world that they all enjoyed by chipping in elements of the things that they loved together and making it one great project.

In fact, LON was such a great story, with such great characters that a lot of it's members cried at it's sad ending. I don't think I've ever worked on anything and I've been an RPer for years now, that had me that deeply immersed and involved that I actually found myself showing emotion to a character's death or the events happening to them.

I can't pretend that everyone's had the same experience but I'd say that all of us are better writers now, than we were when we started off and there's a great story to show for our efforts. I'm sure that everyone has a story like that, whether it's the people from the Burned Mane canon, the Pirate RP, back to roots and many others have all created something, poured their hearts and souls into it, made friends, become better writers and most importantly enjoyed themselves.

That's what makes the RP board popular and that's why people take offense when they are told that they are merely spammers, who spend most of their time creating and developing characters/plots/etc to just earn and edit count and a few stupid trophies.