I always have images in my head to music, sometimes telling an independent story and sometimes complementing an existing roleplay if I'm heavily engaged in one. This is a particularly powerful scene sequence for me, especially with the end of the Harry Potter/magic roleplays with Venturi Muromachi that I'd been engaged in...
Burn the incense of dragons' bane and light the oil lamps about the altar; not of Satan does it reminisce but instead the orgiastic frenzy of pagans ritualizing the passing of seasons as we doth tend to the fires of Summer. Folds of red, black, and white satin hide the padding and eyelets for chain...
Being a roleplayer has its disadvantages. Sometimes people you communicate with virtually won't be able to tell which is the "real you" and which is a persona, confused such as they are with the variety of characters I might play that they're familiar with. One time I created a 'me' character in Second Life that...
Hanging out in Khitai watching the field for Corrupted Yaks to hunt, I came to the realization that quest operations in Age of Conan were to be so moronically obvious to even the most illiterate of person that they were insulting my intelligence. To quote an “Uphill, both ways” sort of remark, I recall in...
Avatar construction is probably the most fun, yet least thought out part of roleplaying. For my own part, I usually write up a blurb or two (or at least ruminate) on the personality of the character and how some of those traits might manifest themselves in within the (often limited) scope of personalization options given...