User blog comment:Munchydragon/RP Complexity/@comment-26307371-20150430071524

Like my 'Length' post, I would have had a simple answer to this at one point in time. Generally speaking, I prefer layered, complex stories. I've got an on-going one with a friend that's been happening for... Um, like a year and a half now. We've made up an entire setting detailed from the creation of the world to the present time (over 3,000 years), and there are so many plotlines and subplots affecting those that it's dizzying to think about. We've always considered our characters' personal motivations, outlooks, morals and prejudices. Our 'main' characters in that RP are a young noblewoman who's a magical prodigy and a rebellious satyr. The contrast between her upper class upbringing and his nomadic, almost tribal style of life has always been fun to elaborate on.

Having said that, I prefer to coordinate to my partner's preferences. I've done some, um, 'shadier' RP before. Sometimes people prefer to get straight to business, so to speak, and don't want to consider the world beyond moving bodies and exchanged fluids. I feel like such things are rather cheap thrills, but I can understand the draw to them, I guess. The enjoyment in such scenes, for me at least, is not the scene itself, nor particularly the writing or content, but knowing that my partner has enjoyed themselves.