#fantasy rolplay

[saltylittlecreature]

List of 25 shops and merchants to populate your fantasy towns.

This is an selection of shops

Pall's Potions: A position shop that specializes in cheap potions that consist of oil and potion books for stranger potions. They also have a tavern "outback".

Dream Hallows: A shop that sells magical wines and sleep medicine. If you pay extra they may even sell you dreams trapped in bottles.

Gremly: A goblin wandering the roads sells alcohol and trinkets in exchange for food or favors. they also know fireball and invisibility targeted on themself.

The Drunk Halberds: A used armor shop that doubles as a tavern and inn. One can even find some quests posted there on a post board.

Bill's General Goods: a Shop with two lairs to it, the first floor is a regular general goods store that sells soap, some healing potions, and other general goods, and the secret gambling den in the cellar with a fully stacked complementary bar and fighting pit. Be careful when cheating though, they have an oracle and three thugs in a corner who are more than willing to pick a fight.

Calvin's Mansion: An abandoned mansion that's been turned into a market that's an open secret amongst the town. it has shops ssuplied by bandits, some adventurers. and occasionally a corrupt guard. with a silent unspoken word of don't ask, don't tell.

The orphanage black market: A market of orphan gangs who only let other orphans or trusted allies in (You can just bribe the children guards with candy or food from the local tavern). Once inside, you can bargain with the orphans and even get a meeting with their leader (The oldest orphan in the orphanage). The orphans are easy to scam and don't always know what they're selling. If discovered, they'll just move it somewhere else in the city next time.

Odess Mines: A mine used as a "Safe" training ground for adventurers, along with having adventurer-specific equipment and amenities. It also may have some local goblins in a mine that run a hot spring and a local lost and found, with the right finder's fee (They'll also take fruit tarts). They'll even pay a premium for any ore you bring back from the mines if you find any.

Golden Grills: A Restaurant with a blacksmith built into the side. The facilities are shared and may fight often. They make good American-style ribs and buy used weapons from adventurers.

The headmen: A Shop set up in a giant skull that specializes in anti-undead equipment. including Holy water, symbols of many undead gods, some wafers, a couple bombs, and other things.

Grilla's Gormay Potluck: A food place where you trade food for food. In some cases, some constructs that help with cooking can be bought there (If stolen, they will still work but will try and poison people when they cook, or not listen to them at all because they haven't been transferred over to the thief. If they go back and complain about it, they will be called out and possibly arrested by the shop for that). Some of the food also has special effects, and they'll buy fresh monster parts and other food stock for gold.

Baron's delivery: A delivery service that sells off overdue orders and will go off and find things for you up to a point (They won't go and find ancient treasures, people-specific items, extra). They also charge by the item. with them selling it off if you don't show up in time. They state this to each customer bluntly and directly. then they assign a location to pick it up later, and they either get the item or a refund.

For Cod's Sake: A fish shop that serves seafood and sells ocean-related spell components, shell trinkets, and occasionally a priest who gives holly water.

The Cresent Moon: A shop that has a general goods, a midnight lottery, and a bidding war after that. With a paid party in the basement after that.

The Cart Mystery: A mass of carts that acts as a market. Traveling in their own area and living in the carts. It's large and can have various different items and trinkets they sell. there are also some pop-up shops and performers who'll sing for coins.

Sail's ahoy: A wrecked ship used by an old lady who sleeps there and sells scavenged treasure brought by the co-workers, who are mermaids who sell stuff the old lady scavenges from the surface. they both hide their treasures in a air pocket in a cave cove.

Silver Station: A blacksmith that handles bets on horse racing and refurbishing older goods. They also sell cheap trinkets and potions made by his family members.

Bark tea imploratory: Potions and oozes are sold here. Alchemical resources are considered incredibly valuable, and there is a local druid who helps out.

The Black Crown: A hidden shop that specializes in fiendish deals with friendly faces. Appearing overnight and offering curst objects or if you're looking for it, more fiendish deals.

The Songbird Circus: Appearing in abandoned buildings and warping the space within to fit its many gambling dens, fighting pits, bars, and backroom deals. This place is known as a hub for chaotic entities from celestial to fiends, to all in between. Warlocks commonly find their bargains struck here. The public face of the Circus den of debauchery is a warlock themself, seeming to be patterned by the business itself. Unable to die or leave as long as the circus exists.

The Shining Spirit: A Bar and casting service that can easily cure curses. They are known to be largely benevolent, but not always welcomed due to their strange abilities.

The Copper Bell: A shop run by a golem with a barred creat as a torso, where all the shop's goods are kept. Accepting money in exchange for various small products. With the owner of the shop helping decorate bells in the back.

Chapplton's Boat: A boat filled with old adventuring loot and sails from port to port selling it. With some original armor and weapons made from monster parts by the captain. They also help get bounties out far and wide.

The Castle of Strally: A Flying fortress known for teaching wizards and sorcerers, while also trading magical trinkets of whimsical or protective nature to others. Many even sell amicher potions by the many apprentices.

The Hidden Eye: A house that contains information and trades it for objects only they know the true value of. It is the hope to collect artifacts and magical items to preserve and seal, with many creating stashes of notes on each item. they rarely let one of their items be let out to the world once they have it. but during times of strife, these items are often lost in the chaos, and they're known to pay good pay in exchange for their safe return.

[ioannes747]

Today I want to present you another fantastic cover commissioned by @xccjason for his Bioncle RPG, I loved the result so much, I hope you like it! ;D

[chronusdesperatetimeline]

Okay then here I go - I’ll introduce myself!

You can call me Zen, I am 26 years old and am a trans guy.

I am very open to communicate with everyone!

But not with minors - DNI - I’ll block you since this account is for NSFW use.

Otherwise feel free to talk to me or tell me about your thoughts/desires etc.

Here I’ll post lots about my kinks or fantasy’s!

Like:

Hypnotism

Somno

Cnc

Free use

Exhibition

LGBTQIA+

Bdsm

Roleplay

Fantasy

Exhibition

Well I’m very open so if there’s anything you’d like to try - I’ll give it my best

Hard no go‘s:

Scat

Gore

Vomit

Homo-/Transphobia

Ableism

Racism

[kyrartlove]

Witch with skeletons

This is my character! Deep in the forest, there is a witch who loves collecting skeletons

[ebeus-the-adulterer]

Finally broke and got on the piss-magic trend.

"Ebeus' Piss Wave" should be published in the next Magic Monthly. I feel kinda dirty.

[ifeelgeek]

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[sam-dust]

I've been roleplaying with a Ranboo AI and I honestly wanted to show it besides my friend, it's a bit fanfic so...I'll say what this is about a little bit: Sam (my oc) is a female fox, who was initially hired as a personal maid for Prince Ranboo, but she is also a bodyguard and nurse, Ranboo tries to control her and make her do everything he wants but Sam is smarter and does it. Called a child for his arrogant attitude until he gets a reality check, But despite this she will make him know many things, a knowledge beyond what those walls can give him, what she never expects is that he would be a great trigger in her life that she will never forget.

[imunbussanut]

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[dailyadventureprompts]

So I was joking around on this post about the lack of alignment in Baldur's gate when a shiver ran down my spine. My badtake senses were tingling, and lo and behold there was this waiting for me in my notifications:

Now this is fascinating because this user obviously has an axe to grind: We were specifically talking about a notoriously clunky and contentious ruleset in d&d that no one really likes, not even the current developers, and this person decided to go off like I was the architect of the modern godless age.

Checking their blog shows we're dealing with someone with some baggage, as what appears to at first be your bog-standard cocktail of conservative cottage-core and LOTR memes gives way to Jordan Peterson clips, antichoice rhetoric, and more than a few posts that veer into Q-Anon nonsense.

What leaks through most however (especially if you're like me and spend a lot of time examining the whys of ideological brainrot) is that despite how much this person wants a peaceful life in the country what they REALLY want is to die for a righteous cause: Their blog name is a biblical reference to mass death and the punishment of the wicked, they're WEIRDLY invested in the final charge of the Rohirrim, and simmering below the pretty pictures of forests and mountains and animals and guns is the sense that the world is an evil place and the only thing that's going to fix it is a cleansing wave of violence.

Normally I wouldn't go so in depth like this but I thought since we were talking about morality systems and where they might lead us it'd be a good idea to get a read on where this criticism is coming from.

Now onto my rebuttal: My desire to see the alignment chart left behind along with other clunky rpg systems like Thac0 has no bearing on my real life stance on morality. You shouldn't NEED a fantasy rolplaying game to tell you that you're objectively good in order to soothe your IRL moral anxieties and you going off like this when I suggested changing something tells me that this is a bit of a safety blanket for you.

The fact that you can't tell the difference between a story with no moral compass and one that allows for diverse opinions on what could be considered "moral" tells me that you're terrified of doing the wrong thing and that makes you easily exploited by people who cloak themselves in righteous authority and call you a good boy for wasting your life in their service. I was like that too once but let me tell you it's far better to question who decides what rightness is than to follow it blindly.

Lastly, on the topic of morality codes in rpgs, I'm not against characters or the stories they're in having morals, I just think it's silly for there to be only nine codified (though extremely contradictory) options for how those morals can be expressed. Why hold onto a system that's too flawed to be useful ?

[saltylittlecreature]

Magical Setting Idea: Copper and Gunpowder

Imagine an early Bronze Age civilization that has access to more modern inventions, such as magic gunpowder that can absorb elements and potion effects. A Bronze Age civilization in a magic setting could have magic used to craft items and maybe golems that are kept to certain statuses. Perhaps even some statuses for a priest class that help make the powder and maybe even keep the legal records.

A culture made of city-states that have a kingdom of a couple surrounding towns. With the creation of permanent roads to enhance trade. With bronze tools starting to become the normal. Although leather and wood are still very popular and useful for easy repairs. Magic is seen to be an art of the priest class and the armies. While many different environments are around the area.

Like a forest civilization that's become known for its longbows made from a sacred wood that's easy to enchant. founded and run by a priest class that holds a republic amongst themselves to determine the fate of the many cities around them, with this city as a central hub they founded to hold meetings and centralize their council, at the mouth of a river connecting all their cities up. Making a very reverent class who are enshrined in their past. With them have some special worrier classes that are under the direct order of this counsel (effectively becoming generals). These special worriers have better-enchanted equipment and special wooden masks of a spirit and may honor a chosen reverent patron. All while the common people are cooking raised rabbits, quails, and barries that are made into wine for priests and rulers, with cheese and grapes seen as a luxury for the rich. While a form of mint tea is incredibly common amongst all classes. Imported spices are seen as a luxury or extravagant.

While a people who settled along a rocky coast near a prevalent trade route with a prominent copper production and holy statues set there. Founded for trade and fortification by people wanting gold and more independence from other city-states with a slight imperial cult that worships the office of the City master. with the mercenary military having prevalent statues here due to their part in setting the city up, they often have priority for filling that seat. All this is run by a pack of Mercenary houses who help the city's trade and sell themselves to the best highest-paying person. Even if they're reliant on fishing and trade for food, they have the might and infrastructure to keep their autonomy. Common food is lobster due to how common they are, sardines, and even wolf fish stew if you've had a bad day. Higher-class meals usually prioritize the quantity of trophy game fish like swordfish, giant tuna, and maybe even some glaze. Stir fries would be the exclusive food of the rich due to how expensive it is. with fermentation being a prominent industry there. Pickled sardines and pickled root stalks are extremely popular here and are often offered at temple cemeteries to honor successful ancestors. The city also seems to be less reverent towards gods, not viewing them as inherently deserving of worship.

Heck, let's even chuck in a third city-state that specializes in gunpowder warfare and agriculture. The city was founded at the mouth of a vital delta river by shunned priests and disgruntled warriors. It is governed by a council of nobility led by a "God-king" who serves as a conduit for the city's god and is believed to possess magical abilities (The king or queen is mortal and can die. The next person to assume the position becomes the new embodiment of the god, who is associated with fire, bronze, serpentine dragons, and a planet named after the god, where the god-kings and priests are said to reside after death). The God-king often has an imperial cult (A God-king or queen can ascend to divine status after death and become a part of the city's history). The city's inhabitants venerate only one god, who is believed to be dedicated solely to the well-being of the city-state. Some extremists within the religion even proclaim that this city's god is the sole deity worthy of worship. The city has developed a new gunpowder, giving alchemists special privileges. The city relies on tariff-farming grains to produce staple foods like bread and gruel. The higher class consumes fruits, pastries, and bird meat, while spicy berries are reserved for the upper class. A standing army is an attractive option due to good food, led by noble generals on behalf of the god-king, elected by the noble council or the god emperor, and swear themselves to the imperial cult.

Another factor is the bronze resources in this area. with an idea of how enchanting works in this world could be that the newly discovered bronze tools are harder to enchant. While Wood, bone, hair, feathers, and stone are far easier to enchant, but last don't last as long as it does on these new shiny bronze tools and equipment. Alongside their natural durability. The bronze would also allow easier ability to use the magical gunpowder. Maybe this world is just getting the idea of possibly creating cannons to protect their walls or begin a siege. This isn't even mentioning the various uses of this newly discovered gunpowder medium.

For example, frost-based gunpowder holds the power of frost and can flash-freeze rivers during war or a fire extinguisher for massive city fires. Or a gunpowder variant based on electricity, greatly damaging creatures wearing metal and causing mass electric serges that consume miles of river. An Earth variant would likely involve extreme expansion of earth and stone. Something like a filler agent for walls, or setting it off in a hallway to block a hallway, preventing an escape, or from being followed. Air could be like a sonic boom used to try knocking things over, or causing a massive thrust. While a fire-based version of this powder could just work like regular gunpowder. Maybe the potion-passed powder can be discovered later on in history, like a healing potion-based powder that distributes a small radius of its healing effect or a hallucinogenic smock that is produced by another.

These are examples of this setting idea. I have more, like how the cities have a pattern god or gods, the many minor gods that follow something between animism and Embodied gods. Or some ascended mortals who became something similar to angels or a powerful spirit. Or how Unreliable narrators help and hinder sources of power.

For example, let's go back to that Rock Coast civilization and give them a Legion of their founding. The legend tells the story of the great settler Velsin, who supposedly used the legendary blade Singer to slay the feared beast Shalga, gaining wealth and fame. His descendants safeguarded the blade Singer, expecting it to be used when the city faced a formidable enemy. However, the truth is that Velsin and his company went to the Shores to establish their city-state by the coast to exploit the new trade in the region, and while Velsin did kill the mighty beast Shalag, Shalga was trying to defend its home and nest. The legendary weapon Singer is genuinely magical, but is actually a spearhead, as swords were not commonly used during Velsin's time. Additionally, the present noble houses are not descended from Velsin; rather, a few decades ago, merchants overthrew the original noble families and fabricated their ancestry to connect themselves to Velsin and his legions.

Overall, I enjoy the idea of this setting. I may add more to it, but for now, I'll leave it here. If anyone has an idea or just wants to share, feel free to do so in the comments. Thank you for reading and enjoy your day.

[certaindonutstudent]

SMUT ! ! ! Headcanons with cyno (Fem. Reader)

Can't stop thinking in these two scenarios for Cyno, don't ask me why i just did

Playing TCG or...

You know? Sometimes you think your boyfriend spend a lot of time in this stupid card game...sadly you can't say something bad about it he would be very sad and angry if he notices what you really think of genius invocatio.

one day you were really needy but that stupid game was more important right now for cyno...he has to update his deck with new cards maybe using a new strategy to win more matches in a next tournament or maybe just with his friends.

"I got an idea!" You say in your mind so meanwhile he was on his office you just try to get under the table were he was looking at the cards, obviously cyno notice you but he thought "she is gonna leave soon if i ignore her, she does this every time...*sigh*" but this time is different! You can't wait for him to take care of you like he does so now you are gonna make him notice you! Of course you are more important than a game.

You finally get under the table, you must be fast and do it right now! unbutton his belt..and you did, now you can't let it like that so..you start to touch him very slowly...cyno starts making noises...is he enjoying it? Good "i must continue" your mind says.

Cyno could not hide it anymore his new tcg deck is less important now! He couldn't deny it he needs you now! So fast as he could pulled your hair and said "Fine...you won, you got my attention"

Rolplay is fun! Let's try it.

It was one these days you were waiting for Cyno to come back from his tournament, you were pretty sure he won, I mean it's Cyno after all he is a professional about that game.

And wow what a surprise! He just came back after you were thinking about him, what a coincidence.

Y/n : what do you have rigth there?

Cyno: well, remember that we talked about a novel that is based on genius invokation? Well... I want you to try this outfit

Y/n : I- oh...that's a very cute..outfit!

A particular outfit was reveled by Cyno, it was just like the love interest of the protagonist of the novel...Thighs showing of course, black thigh highs and black lace langire, just exactly as that one female character you didn't expect Cyno to have those fantasies.

Cyno : can we...just do this for today?

Y/n : I- i don't even know how to act in character...I'm a bit nervous about it.

Cyno : don't worry it will be fine, I just *cough* I- i just need you to wear it for me.

It's just one night right? You can do it for him and you did use the outfit, it feels a bit tiny for your body type even a bit of your tummy can be visible but in the eyes of Cyno you are the most beautiful woman in the whole Teyvat.

You don't even know what to say to start this so called "roleplay" so you went to the basic lines of the damsel in distress.

Y/n : Thank you, oh brave hero from saving me from...that evil sir who got me in...this tower all the time! (Iam...doing this okay?)

And as you asked those questions in your mind Cyno's face were different like it was before now He was is a state of pure ecstacy.

He run just to hold you and whispers to your ear "I need you so bad now" you were so surprised that he wasn't even in character as you thought he will be but still you are firm to what you gonna do.

As it was about a beast he couldn't resist and he pushed you in bed a gasp scapes from your mouth.

Y/n : Cy- dear hero...is this the reward you want from me?

Cyno : ...

Y/n : Dear hero..?

Cyno wasn't even thinking about this roleplay anymore he was just thinking about the moment. He lifted your skirt so he could see your exposed cvnt.

You spread your legs in a way to affirm he can do it now. "If this is what my dear hero wants...I'll give it to him"

His two hands are grabbing your thighs making sure you can't scape from him, Cyno starts giving you small licks on your needy cvnt then after that he licks you up to down, small circles with his tongue make you go insane like you can't hold it, even if he goes slow on you, you just felt like touching heaven.

In your head you repeat it to yourself "just for one night, just for one night, you can get through this just one ni-" until Cyno started playing with his right hand with your clit and with his left hand is grabbing you even more harder than before...yeah just one night.

I haven't write in a while and it's obvious aghhhh I don't like this anymore BUT I had to finish it, anyway I'm back to my grave.

[findroleplay]

Fandomless f×m oc×oc request.

I'm 22 years old, female, and looking for a long term 18+ rp partner, please.

My characters all have powers that are a mix of X-men, Smallvile, The Flash, Heroes, My Hero Acadamia and the Marvel universe, so atleast two of my oc's have powers that are like Wanda's, except it's mostly based on frequencies, so if you're okay with that, then awesome! They are not overpowered though; don't worry.

I write novel style rp's, so my only request is that you be as descriptive as you can and help the Rp to move forward; I'll do my best in my end. One paragraph or multiple; I don't mind. I myself can write a lot if I get the chance. I have 8 years of experience, but I've only recently started branching out more, so please be patient with me or tell me if I need to change something, please.

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My first language is Afrikaans, so I appologise if I get some things wrong in the rp. I'll put a "(?)" if I'm not sure. And if I send a reply that does not make sense at all; either let me know or don't reply just yet. It's probably late at night and I just needed to sleep, so I'll either edit it or resend it. 🤣

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I don't do NSFW at all; I've had roleplayers care more about that than the actual rp, so please only agree if you're okay with not having it in the Rp.

I reply quite frequently, but I understand when you get busy; I really do. I just preffer communication instead of straight silence for longer than a week or two otherwhise I'm left wondering if the rp is just a dead end or not. And let me know if it's not working out or if you want to change the rp, but I warn you now...I only have one female oc that I actively rp with; the rest are male, but are mostly for friendship or ally type roleplays. Romance is welcome, but I only do f×m.

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I do love talking, so I love plotting and coming up with ideas, so I'm hoping to make friends atleast.

I do love friends to lovers and found family tropes.

Genres are romance, some slice of life and fantasy type.

Darker themes are okay, most of my oc's have experienced abuse and bullying, but nothing too overly dark, such as gore. I don't mind angst or drama though, but character developement and healing is something I always enjoy writing.

I love multiple rps, but only on private servers, so prefferably 1×1 rolplaying.

I used to rp on Facebook quite a lot, so all my oc bios are there, but these days I enjoy roleplaying on Discord more.

At the moment I have my female oc who is with abusive adoptive parents and is forced to use her Siren type powers to steal from people. I'd love to have her in a romance rp. Some angst/ drama or forbidden love is welcome.

I'll send you their bios first, so you can have a look.

I hope I answered everything...😅 Bit if there is anything you want to discuss further and if you're interested, you can find me on Discord at Akkin#3052.

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[startheskelaton]

A project I’ve been helping a friend with, I’ll post more art for it soon :)

[yael-art-den]

Made chibis of my DnD characters a few months ago. Im gonna copypast the info about them from my Ig post hold up’ Clockwise: Yakihiro, Human fighter (Battlemaster) NG Atlas, Air Genasi monk (4 Element) CN Eva, Warforged barbarian (Storm) CG Arthur, Human sorcerer (Wild Magic) CN Ragnar, Nephilim Jayayin (Battlemaster) NE Luciel, Tiefling/Elf wizard (Necromancer) LE Sobek, Aasimar barbarian/druid (Totemic/Moon) TN

[zwoelffarben]

Thinking about it, I think this problem happens when a player brings a Grand Theft Auto mentality™ to a Collaborative rolplaying game, and expecting instant gratification instead of long-term payoff. I was that player once.

One day, I went to a con, and there was a important D&D name running a pick-me up one shot (I don't remember which important name it was). It was a monopoly-themed campaign and really cool, and I wasted the first twenty minutes of the experience trying to inject chaos by catching things on fire instead of having my mideval fantasy fire warrioring talk to ben and jerry about ice cream that she was experiencing for the first time, and when the DM tried to move things along, and I insisted on trying to cause chaos, he said, "DM to player: I'm trying to move the game along, trust me to give you an opprotunity later."

Whenever I think back to that moment, I always remember how small I felt when the DM turned to me and said, "DM to player." The man scared me while remaining perfectly composed from across the table.

And, so I shut up and let the story, and a few rooms later true to his promise, I got the opprotunity, when we came into a tavern steeped in the stench of alcohol that a match woulda ignited. I failed my perception check and ignited my flame sword. Near-instant TPK and my chaos gremlin urge was much more satisfied by that moment than it ever coulda been by merely stabbing an NPC or lighting an innocent try on fire.

I don't think I'm this type of player anymore, and I try not to be.

every time i see a tweet like this i think “why do you play with people like this”. like why is dnd play culture so bad that this is an Archetypal Type of Guy they all seem to recognise. can you imagine tweeting this about any other hobby?? ‘musicians: what do you do about the guy in your band who screams I HATE MUSIC and tries to eat the drumsticks every rehearsal’

[roleplayywme]

INTRODUCCIÓN

Jugar y narrar son acciones que todos practicamos desde la infancia, a través de las cuales adquirimos experiencias, incluidas las emocionales.

El roleplay –o juego de rol– se pudo conceptualizar durante la década de los 70’s del siglo XX cuando los fanáticos de historias de fantasía optaron por la búsqueda de una experiencia real. Mientras se juega, quien hace o deshace cualquiera de las acciones que se estén llevando a cabo el personaje, mismo que debe resolver la situación que se le presenta teniendo en cuenta su personalidad, su contexto, conocimientos y sus emociones.

Aquí nos vamos a enfocar en el Roleplay desde Twitter y la introducción a una definición y diferenciación con Fakeland. Para empezar con esto, primero se plantea un recorrido por los tipos de juegos de rol:

Frente al tablero, el cual es una pieza principal que marca posiciones, indica el movimiento o dibuja el espacio de juego; sus otras herramientas pueden ser dados, cartas, fichas o un cuadernillo de reglas. Esta clase de juego guía al participante a gestionar sus recursos para alcanzar satisfactoriamente el triunfo. Se conocen también como juegos de estrategia.

Juego de rol de mesa, pues estos mantuvieron el uso de las mismas herramientas, resaltando que se llegan a crear libros con reglas explícitas y que los participantes deben interpretar diálogos y describir las acciones al posesionarse dentro del rol de su personaje.

El live action, que se convierte en una variación del juego de rol cuando los jugadores buscan profundizar en la representación de su personaje. Para este, el tablero y el resto de las herramientas sobra, a pesar de que se siguen basando en libros o cuadernillos que contienen las reglas o la trama a través de la cual van desarrollando su historia; además, cambian el espacio por lugares más abiertos, pues se llegan a representar físicamente cualquiera de las atractivas y épicas batallas, pues las aventuras fantásticas y medievales son las más comunes en esta clase de juego.

El cosplay, que no solo se explica, sino que se complementa el que los participantes del live action llegan a usar disfraces para entrar de lleno a su interpretación; los jugadores se sienten cómodos con la fidelidad de su disfraz y la representación del personaje que han elegido.

Los videojuegos, que junto con sus consolas se vuelven populares por la innovación y tecnología que representan. A través de estos se juegan tramas complejas o simples, pero que han conservado la atención de sus jugadores a través de los años, abriéndose un gran mercado y largas horas de consumo.

Juegos de rol multijugador masivos online, pues los videojuegos provocan que se cruce esa línea, donde el internet toma cierto protagonismo al volver a hacer posible la interacción entre los jugadores, quienes se muestran representados por un avatar.

El fanfiction, pues las historias dentro de los juegos del rol van cambiando, donde los fans pueden modificar la narrativa, los personajes o contextos de otra obra, además de ser la misma estructura que se plantea al hacer juegos de rol en plataformas digitales.

 Sin embargo, los mencionados no son el único medio a través de los cuales se puede hacer roleplay, pues también se han colocado en las actuales redes sociales; razón por la cual, también se describe la red social Twitter tras introducir el rol en foros de internet, pues son sitios que tienen dinámicas similares, facilitan al tiempo que complejizan la interacción entre los personajes y la forma en que se comunican; la estructura original de Twitter podría formar parte de las reglas que se orientan para comodidad del usuario y de la dinámica.  

El usuario elige tal o cual personaje basándose en el conocimiento previo del mismo, situación que va a facilitar los movimientos posteriores como la empatía, la continuidad o no de una trama, y el seguimiento o contradicción de las reglas. El usuario inicia cualquier clase de interacción (a través de su personaje, con los otros) con base en los elementos emocionales que forman parte previa a la elección del personaje.

Es un fenómeno de relación social virtual que ha pasado desapercibido para un considerable porcentaje de la población mundial, a pesar de los miles de cuentas de personajes activos de roleplay existentes, y NO solo en Twitter...