Do you enjoy animal/creature role-plays?

[Fate Flyer]

We all have slightly different to vastly different tastes when it comes to role-plays. Some of us like one genre or style, while others of us prefer another.

So, that being said, are you someone who enjoys role-playing as animals? Be them wolves, lions, horses, dragons, dinosaurs, sea creatures, monsters, rabbits, foxes, etc., do you like to take on characters that are animals and give them voices/humanize them?


I actually was a member of a Lion King message board when I was young called Lilymud, and people there role-played a lot of Lion King (of course) along with other animals, like wolves and such. So, since that's one of the first major places I role-played at, I do have a soft spot for animal role-plays. I've found though that not everyone enjoys those types of role-plays and would rather RP as humans (or humanoids).

[Guest]

I enjoy adding animals to the cast, but as a main character? No.

[Stion Gyas]

Not as a main character, no. I have done a couple with animal companions given a slightly higher intelligence, and one where a dragon NPC was a very important part of the story. I prefer humanoids.

Post Script: HK-47 rules, meatbag.

;o

[Guest]

Post Script: HK-47 rules, meatbag.

;o

Yeah, I felt it was time to let my inner assassin droid loose.

Observation: Not that any of you organic meatbags should worry. That would merely prolong the inevitable.

[Fate Flyer]

I never really realized it, but it seems like us animal RP lovers are pretty scarce. I definitely love to role-play as humans, and as of currently, I don't think I even have any animal characters. Perhaps it's more something that we do when we're younger.

When I started out role-playing, I did a lot of wolf RPs and Jurrassic Park RPs (but from the dinosaur's perspective). I remember have some velociraptor characters too. Actually, here's a picture that my friend drew for me of my main velociraptor character, Carn. XD Oh, and here's him with his mate, whose name switched between Ruby and Stealth lol.

So yeah, I was pretty big into playing animals back in the day. One type of animal RP that I never got to do though that I always wanted to was a dolphin/whale RP. I've always loved dolphins, but it's hard (it would seem) to find other RPers who love them and would want to do a RP of them too.

[Stion Gyas]

Probably a big reason behind the lack of animal roleplayers is the fact that a lot of people consider it childish. Whenever I see "Animal RP" I think of Bambi frolicking in the forest with his rabbit friend, and it instantly turns me off. I guess I'm just one for grit.

[Guest]

That's probably too. It's seen as childish rather than a valid exploration of the psyche of a different species relying on different senses with different biological imperatives.

However, it makes for a good development exercise, so I wouldn't sneeze at it, personally. There are people who act like writing and RP are narrow-track things, neglecting to realize that just about everything they can do feeds into it. So a variety of explorations, such as animal RP, can't help but develop one's writing.

The first thing I thought in animal RP was some sort of predator, rather than Bambi, but it's not the most appealing sort of RP to me anyway.

[Lara]

I still have a soft spot for wolf roleplays, Fate, so you're not alone~.

I don't think I could ever do an advanced version of one, with massively long posts and all, but yes, I've done many in the past. They were fun.

[Ragter the junior greeter]

I've done only one animal roleplay, albeit the animals could talk in that one, and I have to say, it was really rather fun. Like Lara, I couldn't do an advanced rp of one, but could easily do a casual one.

[Digital Muse]

I don't like playing full animals. After all, communication is extremely difficult. However Lycanthrope or Pookah RPs can be very illuminating. I have found, however that few that play Werewolves are true to the wolf and more into the 'I look cool' part of it.

[Neschume]

I think animal role plays are really fun if their executed well. It really depends because there's so many different things you can do with them to make the role play different. You can make it difficult for the players to communicate (like Digital said) but it really depends on how you handle communication. In The Lion King all the animals could talk to each other and there was no problem with communication. You could, however, remove inter-species communications or communications at all (talking about English speaking here not other forms of communication) if you want to make it a bit more difficult.

Doing a werewolf RP would defeat the purpose of all animal because you would be human half the time but that's just me.

I would totally do a sea creature RP Fate but maybe if we added a bit of fantasy such as some new creatures under the sea. If you want more people that would probably be the way to go but there's already enough fun undersea life imo. Send me a PM if you wanna start one.

[Kalon Ordona II]

I'd do a casual undersea RP with ya, Fate! ^_^

I've never had an animal as a main character. I had a talking wolf as a side character, though. Well, not really TALKING...

Really the story I wrote for our Writing Contest here at FOG is the first major foray into the animal world. At least as far as serious writing. ^_^

[Fate Flyer]

I do agree that animal role-plays probably do come across as more of a thing younger role-players do (as obviously, I was really young when I started animal RPing on the Lion King board hehe). I still think it would be fascinating and interesting to see one done well.

Have any of you read the book Silverwing (or Firewing or Sunwing, the sequels)? That, today, is still one of my favorite books, and it's about a bat. I loved how that was executed. The writer was quite good and the story was engrossing, despite it being through the eyes of an animal. I'd still read it today and get into it, lol.

I've never thought of werewolf/lycan role-plays as animal ones, unless it's purely about the werewolves while they're transformed. Most werewolf lore though points to them not being able to speak while transformed, so that would be interesting and hard to role-play.

That's cool that some of you are actually interested in doing a sea creature RP. ^_^ I'd love to mix fantasy in there as well. (That kind of reminds me of Surface, a TV show that failed - but was extraordinarily good, in onenitedrive and my opinions - about undiscovered underwater creatures.)

Kalon -- I am shocked that you've never done an animal RP before! When I read your contest entry, I thought "Wow, this guy must have a lot of wolf RPs under his belt!" Seriously, that's amazing.

If you guys are still interested, I'll let you know whenever I am free to cook up a sea creature RP. :]

[Ragter the junior greeter]

Oh wow Fate, the 'Wing books' are something I have read, and just remembered. I believe the first one started with the ancestor to the bats that used wind thermals or whatever to get up in the air, right?

[Kalon Ordona II]

I think it was actually Loki's signature that inspired some of the story.
I've had ideas piling up for years about fog and wolves and stuff like that, (I just LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the image of a bunch of wolves running through a foggy forest by moonlight; and yes, I love it enough to type each of those O's ^_^). Being here at FOG, plus liking Loki's signature, kinda planted the seed. And I'm good at growing seeds into forests. xD

And undersea RP sounds like a real challenge, but I can just see societies of dolphins, kingdoms of whales, barbarian shark villains, and plenty of thugs like barracudas and eels. *wigs out* *grows a whole other section on his brain for ideas relating to such a RP*

[Kathryn Lacey]

In all honesty, I don't think I've ever accomplished an actual role play with animal characters being the forefront. I don't actually like the idea of it.

I prefer to play humanoids, but I also like to play as humanoids who can shape-shift into animals. I have played as animals that way, and when they're animals, they lose their ability for true human thought, so they're like... animals who are animals and not humans who are animals. I even research an animal before I attach it to a character, so that when they are that animal, I know wtf I'm doing rather than butchering the animal instincts.

However, I don't like to be that animal for the whole role play. The idea of it is just a turn-off for me for some reason.

[IWroteASongForYou]

Not so much, but I'm open to them overall.

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