Gorean Roleplay
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OregonGal
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Ive heard of it, Ive even participated in it. Thing is, unless you keep really really tight guidelines on what type of roleplay... as in only Frees doing the RP and having no signifigant roles for slaves, you would be better served to post it to SRP instead of ORP. unless you just want to risk having it moved over there later
little_golden
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It's a great series of books! I loved reading them.... and roleplaying parts. 
I tried to SRP here but it was tough. I've never had luck with multiplayer threads. Under four can work but more than four I have a harder time keeping the interest or continuing the adventure/SRP.
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Cindy
I tried to SRP here but it was tough. I've never had luck with multiplayer threads. Under four can work but more than four I have a harder time keeping the interest or continuing the adventure/SRP.
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???
Never heard of it.
Never heard of it.
badbabysitter
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Should definitely be in SRP
Jeremy Davis
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I used to play in chatrooms and in IMs but that was a few years ago.
Definatly a SRP thread due to the material.
I would be happy to join a Gorean thread and suggest that if we are going to do it that we set up a house(tower) and play the daily lives. Training of Kajira, mealtimes, sparring in the sands, maybe a fiest, Training of Tarns. Then maybe start inserting small stories.
Slave market comes to town -Could give us new people to play-
Someone has an assassin after them.
Tarn Raid.
Anyone who wants to know more about the Gorean Lifestyle and culture, just drop me a PM. Ive read almost all of the books -own 20 of them- and have taken notes on what Ive read. Would be happy to pass that information along.
Definatly a SRP thread due to the material.
I would be happy to join a Gorean thread and suggest that if we are going to do it that we set up a house(tower) and play the daily lives. Training of Kajira, mealtimes, sparring in the sands, maybe a fiest, Training of Tarns. Then maybe start inserting small stories.
Slave market comes to town -Could give us new people to play-
Someone has an assassin after them.
Tarn Raid.
Anyone who wants to know more about the Gorean Lifestyle and culture, just drop me a PM. Ive read almost all of the books -own 20 of them- and have taken notes on what Ive read. Would be happy to pass that information along.
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Eeh, I have heard something of 'The Light Upon the Homestone'.
I've also found that Gorean roleplay, whether in chat, email exchange, or threads is notoriously difficult.
Not only must a Free or slave be familiar with Gor's culture in general, they must acquire specific information on their Homestone-- meaning the farm, hamlet, villiage, or city where the action is located-- but the player must also immerse himself in character.
In my experience, few are up to this task for any extended amount of time. However, the benefits of roleplaying Gor definitely are in the journey, not the destination.
I wish you well...
Tal
Eeh, I have heard something of 'The Light Upon the Homestone'.
I've also found that Gorean roleplay, whether in chat, email exchange, or threads is notoriously difficult.
Not only must a Free or slave be familiar with Gor's culture in general, they must acquire specific information on their Homestone-- meaning the farm, hamlet, villiage, or city where the action is located-- but the player must also immerse himself in character.
In my experience, few are up to this task for any extended amount of time. However, the benefits of roleplaying Gor definitely are in the journey, not the destination.
I wish you well...
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I am relatively well versed in Gorean, having played a kajira for years in a online chatroom. I will never say I am an expert, but I certainly enjoyed the expierence.
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I loved the books. I've found it brutally hard to have an open role play. Players come in with such different levels of knowledge. I'd almost be temped to pick one book and then try to role play the next six chapters as if that book continued on. There are a number websites dedicated to a Gor community - but they seem super serious about it.
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Elayne said:
Yeah, after you posted this I went back and checked the dates and realised that the post is well over a year old but miraculously ended up on the main page of the ORP.
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I was pretty shocked when it suddenly moved up and was bolded in my subscribed threads list. Dern auto-subscribe.I actually wouldn't mind participating in a Gorean themed thread, but yah, the initial start up requirements seem to not permit for casual writers (like myself.)
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I think you can have casual writers....
I just think you need to start small with a similar frame of reference if the goal is to keep it very Gorean. Otherwise it quickly becomes another thread about sex slaves and men running around with swords vanquishing everything in sight. The thread is prone to have unexpected guests who can change the initial direction so you make it a closed thread.
Another option is to go very basic, and just build the thread very slowly. Focus on some small peasant village and get a feel for it. Maybe move up to a free city after that. Those with "Gor story" knowledge could share aspects to try to create a common background/backdrop.
If there is a will there is a way.... Now strip.... kneel down... Spread your legs.... and kiss the whip. (Just kidding).
I just think you need to start small with a similar frame of reference if the goal is to keep it very Gorean. Otherwise it quickly becomes another thread about sex slaves and men running around with swords vanquishing everything in sight. The thread is prone to have unexpected guests who can change the initial direction so you make it a closed thread.
Another option is to go very basic, and just build the thread very slowly. Focus on some small peasant village and get a feel for it. Maybe move up to a free city after that. Those with "Gor story" knowledge could share aspects to try to create a common background/backdrop.
If there is a will there is a way.... Now strip.... kneel down... Spread your legs.... and kiss the whip. (Just kidding).
Jeremy Davis
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I think the best way to do it is...
1) make it a closed thread for at least three poeple, possibly more. (Master/ Slaver, Training Kajira, Barbarian.)
2) have the setting a slaver's caravan, that way you could change the setting from city to city and have a reason. Slave Trade. Also sets up occasional posters or new people to come in with the hiring and firing of Guards and the buying and selling of slaves.
3) Have one of the Ladies that join the thread play a Barbarian (Earthling) and start from there with the training of the barbarian by the Master and the other slaves.
If anyone is interested in playing this I can get a SL worked out, juts have to see who all is interested?
I can play any Gorean setting though Im fond of the viking style Jarls of Torvaldsland.
1) make it a closed thread for at least three poeple, possibly more. (Master/ Slaver, Training Kajira, Barbarian.)
2) have the setting a slaver's caravan, that way you could change the setting from city to city and have a reason. Slave Trade. Also sets up occasional posters or new people to come in with the hiring and firing of Guards and the buying and selling of slaves.
3) Have one of the Ladies that join the thread play a Barbarian (Earthling) and start from there with the training of the barbarian by the Master and the other slaves.
If anyone is interested in playing this I can get a SL worked out, juts have to see who all is interested?
I can play any Gorean setting though Im fond of the viking style Jarls of Torvaldsland.
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on Gor
I've Gorean RPed online in chat venues, but I am new to threaded discussion RP. I've done non-Gorean RP ( sexual ) RP before of course... and although RP in a Gorean sense requires a bit of a climb up the learning curve ( the setting, customs, etc ) Gorean RPers are overall -quite- skilled; imaginitive and naughty group.
It's hard to do Gorean RP well, so those who do it even kind-of-well tend to be outstanding "regular" RPers. This is my own opinion, of course
On RP ideas... I've always had a few favorites. Most of them center around the haughty young Free Woman, scion of wealth and influence, slowly realizing the fire that burns inside her. Class and status lines are -particularly- clear in Gorean society, and play along these lines is fertile ground for erotica.
Perhaps she's seduced, slowly over time. Perhaps she's brought very quickly into the raw, lusty world of passion slaves by a freak occurance of mistaken identity, or simply turning right instead of left in a seedy part of town. Sold to settle a sudden and immense personal debt of her father's. Seen by one of the household slaves taking too keen an interest in things below her station. The ideas just flow.
And then I rambled. Heh.
I've Gorean RPed online in chat venues, but I am new to threaded discussion RP. I've done non-Gorean RP ( sexual ) RP before of course... and although RP in a Gorean sense requires a bit of a climb up the learning curve ( the setting, customs, etc ) Gorean RPers are overall -quite- skilled; imaginitive and naughty group.
It's hard to do Gorean RP well, so those who do it even kind-of-well tend to be outstanding "regular" RPers. This is my own opinion, of course
On RP ideas... I've always had a few favorites. Most of them center around the haughty young Free Woman, scion of wealth and influence, slowly realizing the fire that burns inside her. Class and status lines are -particularly- clear in Gorean society, and play along these lines is fertile ground for erotica.
Perhaps she's seduced, slowly over time. Perhaps she's brought very quickly into the raw, lusty world of passion slaves by a freak occurance of mistaken identity, or simply turning right instead of left in a seedy part of town. Sold to settle a sudden and immense personal debt of her father's. Seen by one of the household slaves taking too keen an interest in things below her station. The ideas just flow.
And then I rambled. Heh.
Great Ideas
I'm extremely impressed with the wealth of storylines put forth in this thread. Online Gor, as I remember it, was a place where normally the whole notion of roleplay was shied away from...mostly because people wanted to insist that one did not play a Gorean, one was a Gorean. (All well and good, but with the limitations imposed by meeting solely in virtual space, a little roleplaying might have relieved a lot of tedium.)
A thousand years ago, or so it seems, I went on a magical tarn flight. It was an experience never to be repeated, but so sublime it was that those of us present that night spoke of it for years afterwards. Gor, at its best, could make the heart pound and the pulse race. I look foreward to reading whatever you might come up with.
Clearly we have got some creative minds here.
I'm extremely impressed with the wealth of storylines put forth in this thread. Online Gor, as I remember it, was a place where normally the whole notion of roleplay was shied away from...mostly because people wanted to insist that one did not play a Gorean, one was a Gorean. (All well and good, but with the limitations imposed by meeting solely in virtual space, a little roleplaying might have relieved a lot of tedium.)
A thousand years ago, or so it seems, I went on a magical tarn flight. It was an experience never to be repeated, but so sublime it was that those of us present that night spoke of it for years afterwards. Gor, at its best, could make the heart pound and the pulse race. I look foreward to reading whatever you might come up with.
Clearly we have got some creative minds here.
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Aah, the lifestyle vs roleplay debate, old as Gor itself.
That kind of annoyed me for my own time in Gor. You'd either get people that would insist that it was real and should be applied to real life or people that took roleplaying to silly lengths (magic and superpowers and nonsense).
That kind of annoyed me for my own time in Gor. You'd either get people that would insist that it was real and should be applied to real life or people that took roleplaying to silly lengths (magic and superpowers and nonsense).
I found it annoying as well as isolating. Anyone who was ever on Gor will remember that word of anathema: Player. In my case, guilty as charged. Gor was like a holodeck to me. It was a place of recreation. It could be quite sublime on a good day. What's wrong with a bit of make believe? I found the feelings there to be quite real, whatever trappings we dressed them up in.
Ahh, memories.
Ahh, memories.
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Well this Thread is still hanging around, so does anyone want to start a SL on the SRP or are we just going let tjis die away?
I don't mind starting a Thread so long as I have people to post with. Elayne and I already have a closed thread based of Gor, but noone said that we couldn't do a open thread for others to join.
I don't mind starting a Thread so long as I have people to post with. Elayne and I already have a closed thread based of Gor, but noone said that we couldn't do a open thread for others to join.
