RPG Venting

[ghoulmouse]

TTRPGs can be weird. I am currently playing a character in a fairly large (6 players, which is large IMO) Exalted game, and my character is SUPPOSED to be slow to act, cautious, extremely deliberate. He is a SLOTH. Like an actual sloth. He is a Lunar scholar, and every Lunar has an animal they're associated with on like a spiritual level and his is a two-toed sloth. But somehow I always end up being the person who needs to step up and push things forward, and my character also ends up doing SO much of the talking I'm going to buy social skills with XP just to justify it.

Other than that I really like my character and I hope I'm at least playing him cerebral enough that it'll be a nice contrast when he inevitably kind of unravels over his undead past-life ex boyfriend.

ANYWAY.

I'm probably going to do NaNoWriMo this year with a longfic, and I used to enjoy hanging out with the local group so I went to see if they were still active. For one, they exclusively use Facebook and Slack, of all things, to communicate, which...who uses Slack for recreational purposes? And for another there seems to be some drama between the NaNo organization and the people who used to run the local group, so I guess I am either going to have to give up on the local group or investigate the Lore AND grit my teeth to join Slack (I'm nosy enough to want to know what the deal is but probably not THAT nosy).

There's a sort of...long-ish (25k) original story that I want to have in postable shape before then but I guess we'll see how things shake out. I'm not so good at making promises.

Comments

[vriddy]

The last time I attended a local NaNo meetup was around 2009 I think, and it was super informal, organised through the NaNoWriMo forums... I drifted off after that but when I peeked back a few times over the last few years, it seems to have gotten a lot more structured with also a ton of rules that the local groups have to respect-or-else, it felt very top down. I didn't spot any upset in the group though I didn't check too far since I wasn't going to participate. I didn't recognise any of the names to see if the organisers changed (but mostly that's because I literally don't remember any XD). It was super nice at the time to have a weekly meetup in a quiet café, hope you find a nice support group as well :)