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[(Anonymous)]

Anons, I'd like some general advice. Lately I've been trying to do more roleplaying outside of games because the last game I was in several months ago left me pretty miserable. Whenever I try to start a PSL or a thread with someone outside of my plurklist, though, the thread is always dropped or dies after 5-10 comments. On bakerstreet it's even worse and I might not even get tagged back.

I'm getting some private advice on how to improve my writing game and how to write better hooks. I'm open to some general advice on how to write interesting top levels but I'm also curious if anyone has better advice on how to get more long-term PSLs and threads going! At this point I'm desperate for anything because it's become really discouraging for me to even look for new people to thread with if nothing's ever going to stick.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I pretty much only RP with my friends. Too many people in this community are weird about communication and tagging things "late" and I find that anyone I strike up a thread with at random is bound to drop it after a month at best no matter how much I say I'm fine with slow tagbacks. If I meet someone in a game or offsite or talk to them regularly about other things, it's much easier for me to know if they'll be the type to keep things going and what kind of pace they play at.

... which doesn't really help you out, I guess, but finding new partners on this site without apping into a game is a crapshoot. You're going to get a lot of duds, that's just how people are now.

You could also try tagging into game TDMs. Players on TDMs are way more likely to tag back, at least for awhile, since they're trying to voicetest or get samples to app with. Maybe you could find some new people to play with that way? I've never had someone ask me for a psl after a thread on a TDM but it wouldn't be the craziest thing I've encountered, if you're not apping into the game they might want to keep playing with you anyway if the thread was good.

[(Anonymous)]

i’m with the other anon re. TDMs, i know some people have feelings about using them for general tagging and not just fun meme times, but a TDM isn’t a guarantee that the player themselves will stay and enjoy that game, either. in a sense both of you are trying to find ways to make a given premise interesting, and in that way it’s no different from a themed meme post on bakerstreet.

the other thing is just patience. i’ve been away from games for a while and didn’t get back to PSLing until recently, but it’s really just luck and trial and error that got me to a place where I’ve got several PSLs going that I enjoy and occasionally get a decent thread going on in bakerstreet. are you comfortable with cross canon? because that can help your chances finding partners, too. there’s always EMP, i’ve had luck in there as well.

otherwise, you can try different sites for some other forms of rp as well. i’ve tried discord rp, it’s weird, i certainly didn’t stick with it after a while, but it was fun for me for the short time i tried it.

out of curiosity, what canon do you rp from?