Tumblr rp is a lot looser and generally sticks to independent blogs interacting with each other- there are games and communities on tumblr as well, but unlike DWRP, indie is (or was, back in 2015 when I rped here) more widely used than in DW.Īnother difference most games have is applications generally these are sources of information that show how well you know your character and how you play them. Whilst you can buy paid accounts, this is not obligatory, and namely the benefit to doing so is having access to more icon space and the capability to create polls.įor rping, DW is a bit of a dream in comparison to Tumblr, considering that your threads are actually retained on the same page and are easy to navigate:Ī single thread between two people, on the same page, staggered, and collapsible? Amazing!ĭreamwidth already does have a relatively stable community of rpers - you can see a masterlist of all the currently active games in that link right there! In addition to this, there’s meme and testing communities that allow people to test out new characters or just enjoy singular scenarios without feeling obligated towards a game.įrom my own experience, absolutely.
So I’m going to do my best to sell people a little on DWrp, particularly rpers, but note that this really is a site that works very well for writing and fandom communities as well.ĭreamwidth is a community based website that derived its original coding from LiveJournal- yes, that LiveJournal that had it’s servers moved to Russia and ran out the majority of the fandom through very bad coding decisions, amongst other…really big issues.ĭW is advertiser free and has already shown that the small, US-based team is ready and happy to accommodate communities looking to go elsewhere- see the majority of 2012 when tens of thousands of new accounts were created by LJ’s rping community, including transferring the data and entries from communities several years and tens of thousands of comments old.