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1As an outgrowth of their enormous fandom contingent, Platform/LiveJournal, [[http://insanejournal.com InsaneJournal]], and [[http://dreamwidth.org Dreamwidth]] have a large and lively (and dramatic) roleplaying community. No, not [[TabletopGames that kind of roleplay.]] Or [[{{RPG}} that one.]] The format has also taken off on other personal blog-based sites, such as Tumblr, Twitter, and Deviantart.
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3Essentially, it's a cross between the PlayByPostGame and CharacterBlog, where the player characters come from various fandoms. Original characters may also be seen; initially, these were less common, and disallowed in most games for fear of a SelfInsertFic, but the culture has changed over time, and beginning in the late 2010s, most games now allow them.
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5[[index]]
6!!A (by no means complete) list of games: 
7%%Don't add games unless they already have pages! It will mess up the navigation.
8%%Don't add games that are entirely locked to members (e.g. most sex games on DW.) At least some gameplay needs to be publicly viewable.
9* ''Roleplay/AcesAndSpades''
10* ''Roleplay/AdventurersClub''
11* ''Roleplay/AFacility''
12* ''Roleplay/{{AGENTS}}''
13* ''Roleplay/{{Airlocked}}''
14* ''Roleplay/{{AKUDAMAX}}''
15* ''Roleplay/{{Anemoi}}''
16* ''Roleplay/AnimaSolus''
17* ''Roleplay/ASMCores''
18* ''Roleplay/AstralCabal''
19* ''Roleplay/{{Ataraxion}}''
20* ''Roleplay/{{Austice}}''
21* ''Roleplay/AxiomNexus''
22* ''Roleplay/BraveNewWorldAnAUPokemonRP''
23* ''Roleplay/BulletTime''
24* ''Roleplay/CabaretDesespoir''
25* ''Roleplay/CampFuckYouDie''
26* ''Roleplay/CanCry''
27* ''Roleplay/CapeAndCowl''
28* ''Roleplay/{{Carriero}}''
29* ''Roleplay/{{Cartesio}}''
30* ''Roleplay/CastleWhimsical''
31* ''Roleplay/CirqueDesReves''
32* ''Roleplay/CirqueDuNie''
33* ''Roleplay/CirqueMortum''
34* ''Roleplay/CittaAlveare''
35* ''Roleplay/ClassTrials''
36* ''Roleplay/ConundrumEstate''
37* ''RolePlay/CumberholmesRolePlayTwitterCommunity''
38* ''Roleplay/{{DAMMED}}''
39* ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplay''
40* ''Roleplay/DCNation''
41* ''Roleplay/TheDeadland''
42* ''Roleplay/DearPlayer'' (formerly Dear Mun)
43* ''Roleplay/DeathDropGameShow''
44* ''Roleplay/DeathOfHeroes''
45* ''Roleplay/DeliciousFriends''
46* ''Roleplay/DespairMart''
47* ''Roleplay/DestinyStrings''
48* ''Roleplay/DigitalDive''
49* ''Roleplay/{{Disappeared}}''
50* ''Roleplay/{{Discedo}}''
51* ''Roleplay/DiscordPlaysStellaris''
52* ''Roleplay/DisneyAcademy''
53* ''Roleplay/DoubtAcademy''
54* ''Roleplay/DragonHaven''
55* ''Roleplay/DramaDramaDuck''
56* ''Roleplay/{{Edensphere}}''
57* ''Roleplay/ElegyCity''
58* ''Roleplay/EndZone''
59* ''Roleplay/{{Entanglement}}''
60* ''Roleplay/FandomlySteveWars''
61* ''Roleplay/{{Fandomstuck}}''
62* ''Roleplay/FifteenStrangers''
63* ''Roleplay/FoolishMortals''
64* ''Roleplay/TheFoundation''
65* ''Roleplay/FunshineWorld''
66* ''Roleplay/FurryFury''
67* ''Roleplay/GardenRonpa''
68* ''Roleplay/{{Genessia}}''
69* ''Roleplay/{{Glowfic}}''
70* ''Roleplay/TheGrandHeist''
71** ''Roleplay/TheGrandHeistII''
72* ''Roleplay/{{Gravefall}}''
73* ''Roleplay/GreatDespairLodge''
74* ''Roleplay/HideoutJunction''
75* ''Roleplay/HighSeas''
76* ''Roleplay/HogwartsHocus''
77* ''Roleplay/HolidaysAcademy''
78* ''Roleplay/HolyRelic''
79* ''Roleplay/TheHopeSaga''
80* ''Roleplay/HouseOfCardsRP''
81* ''Roleplay/TheIdolExperiment''
82* ''Roleplay/ImperialSaga''
83* ''Roleplay/InkCity''
84* ''Roleplay/IslandRP''
85* ''Roleplay/IsolaRadiale''
86* ''Roleplay/ItsCurtains''
87* ''Roleplay/ItsJustAGame''
88* ''Roleplay/{{Jarjammed}}''
89* ''Roleplay/TheKingsGame''
90* ''Roleplay/{{Kyriakos}}''
91* ''Roleplay/LandelsInstitute''
92* ''Roleplay/TheLastFreeCity''
93* ''Roleplay/LastVoyagesRPG''
94* ''Roleplay/LegionOfHetalians''
95* ''Roleplay/LightningWar''
96* ''Roleplay/{{Luceti}}''
97* ''Roleplay/LunaticLunado''
98* ''Roleplay/MAHOUProject''
99* ''Roleplay/MallOfDespair''
100* ''Roleplay/MarchenKarneval''
101* ''Roleplay/MarinaAsylum''
102* ''Roleplay/MaskOrMenace''
103* ''Roleplay/{{Mayfield}}''
104* ''Roleplay/MGRPTheMurdergame''
105* ''Roleplay/MilliwaysBar''
106* ''Roleplay/ModelUSGov''
107* ''Roleplay/MostlyHarmless'' (Gargleblasted)
108* ''Roleplay/MSElegante''
109* ''Roleplay/MyLittleJamjar''
110* ''Roleplay/NonaryDespair3''
111* ''Roleplay/OriginalCharacterRP''
112* ''Roleplay/TheOuroborosProject''
113* ''Roleplay/PeakOfHope''
114* ''Roleplay/PermaneoSpes''
115* ''Roleplay/{{Personifications}}''
116* ''Roleplay/PhantasmalRift''
117* ''Roleplay/PJOFacebookShenanigans''
118* ''Roleplay/PokemonGijinkaMysteryDungeon''
119* ''Roleplay/{{Polychromatic}}''
120* ''Roleplay/ThePosthumans''
121* ''Roleplay/ProjectDaisychain''
122* ''Roleplay/RakuenRevolution''
123* ''Roleplay/ReachingDespair''
124* ''Roleplay/{{Realignment}}''
125* ''Roleplay/RevivalOfTheFittest''
126* ''Roleplay/RisingCrowns''
127* ''Roleplay/RisingInferno''
128* ''Roleplay/{{Roleplayedingly}}''
129* ''Roleplay/RouletteRampage''
130* ''Roleplay/Route29'' (renamed Victory Road)
131* ''Roleplay/{{Ryslig}}''
132* ''Roleplay/SaveTheEarth''
133* ''Roleplay/SecondCity''
134* ''Roleplay/SemesterOfDesolation''
135* ''Roleplay/{{Singularity}}''
136* ''Roleplay/TheSkyTides''
137* ''Roleplay/SleeplessCitizen''
138* ''Roleplay/SmashRising'' (formerly Smash Academy)
139* ''Roleplay/{{Somarium}}''
140* ''Roleplay/SongOfDissent''
141** ''Roleplay/MiracleOfDespair''
142* ''Roleplay/SortingHat''
143* ''Roleplay/SuperRobotWarsUnlimitedGeneration''
144* ''Roleplay/SuperRobotWarsUnlimitedGenerationAlpha''
145* ''Roleplay/SybalHeim''
146* ''Roleplay/{{Syrellia}}''
147* ''Roleplay/TowerOfAnimus''
148* ''Roleplay/Trans9''
149* ''Roleplay/TrialsOfDesperation''
150* ''Roleplay/{{Trustfell}}''
151* ''Roleplay/TwitchTrollsPokemonLoreplay''
152* ''Roleplay/{{Ukimiya}}''
153* ''Roleplay/{{Undergrounds}}''
154* ''Roleplay/UtopiaAcademy''
155* ''Roleplay/VantagePoint''
156* ''Roleplay/{{Vatheon}}''
157* ''Roleplay/TheVelvetKey''
158* ''Roleplay/{{Vertiline}}''
159* ''Roleplay/VirtualDistress''
160* ''Roleplay/{{Visitants}}''
161* ''Roleplay/TheWake''
162* ''Roleplay/WanyaKingdomVSAwoofyUnity''
163* ''Roleplay/WeCouldBe''
164* ''Roleplay/{{Weirdies}}''
165* ''Roleplay/WelcomeToMyWorld''
166* ''Roleplay/WhoWouldWinVerse''
167* ''Roleplay/WitchesReign''
168* ''Roleplay/{{XIRPG}}''
169* ''Roleplay/XProject''
170[[/index]]
171
172!!Tropes applying to [=JRP=] in general or very commonly used in games:
173* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Given JRP's fandom roots, players frequently come into conflict over whether a given player's interpretation of a character is true to the original.
174* AlternateUniverse: Most games that aren't "[[OntologicalMystery spooky jamjars]]" are [=AUs=] where the canon characters' backgrounds have been altered to fit the setting, or else "dressing rooms" which accumulate many alternate versions of characters into one setting. A few games also allow [=AU=] versions of characters in addition to the [[OriginalFlavor canon]] ones.
175* AnyoneCanDie: The point of both the horror and murdergame genres, and applicable to others as well.
176* AppliedPhlebotinum: Many games have 'events', handwaved in different ways depending on the game, that influence characters against their wills. Common events include:
177** ForcedTransformation: Characters are transformed, usually into something embarrassingly small and fluffy.
178** FreakyFridayFlip: Characters switch bodies, generally portrayed by the players using each other's accounts.
179** GenderFlip: Characters have their physical sex changed overnight.
180** LoveIsInTheAir: Characters feel...amorous, which sometimes leads to KissingUnderTheInfluence.
181** MusicalEpisode: Characters start singing.
182** OvernightAgeUp: Characters are physically aged up or down.
183** TheReveal: Characters' memories are broadcast on the network or otherwise made apparent to some or all other characters.
184* ArchiveTrawl: "Canon review", the process of re-experiencing a series (or portions of a series) to better play a character.
185* AudienceAlienatingPremise: There have been a handful of games that failed to take off because of an offputting premise. Possibly the most infamous among the DWRP old guard was The House[[labelnote:Explanation]]Otherwise known as "Rape House," due to being a sex game that rewarded characters for forcing themselves on others. Also the orignator of the "[[PlotRelevantAgeUp Their bodies are of age]]" meme.[[/labelnote]].
186* BackFromTheDead: Many games do not treat death as permanent, so that a player can keep on playing them.
187* BroughtDownToNormal: Many games tend to depower or nerf overpowered characters to put them in line with other characters. However, there may still be imbalances due to the state of different series (even a nerfed Franchise/{{Superman}} is still going to be more powerful than Joe Everydude).
188* CanonImmigrant: Some games allow players to import their character's CR[[labelnote:*]]"Character relationships"[[/labelnote]] and history from one game to the next game. Such a character is usually referred to as a "CRAU."
189* CastHerd: Inevitable in big games (who can interact with everyone?) but tends to lead to accusations of cliquishness.
190* CelebrityParadox: Resulting from this style of roleplay usually using existing fandom characters. This often creates awkward situations, particularly if someone is playing a well-known character referenced in many other works (like Literature/SherlockHolmes) or is playing a character who regularly references other works (like Konata from ''Manga/LuckyStar''). Ways to handle the Celebrity Paradox vary; many games have a "no fourth-walling" rule--i.e., one character can't reveal to another character that they're fictional, or use knowledge of their original canon to their advantage. Others (though much more common in the past) take the fourth wall and bomb it to rubble, usually with permission from the players involved.
191* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In big games, the friends of dropped characters may angst for awhile about their friend's disappearance, but then they are sometimes never mentioned again.
192* ClosedCircle: Most dramatic [=RPs=] forbid characters leaving the setting of their own volition, because many of them have no plausible motive for staying.
193* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Generally called 'Played Bys'. (Which is usually shortened to '[=PBs=]'.) A typical custom among Original Characters (and fandom characters who don't have visual media to draw from) is to take a celebrity or a character from an actual work who looks like the character and use them as a general appearance aid. Some people, and games, actually prefer this over a drawing of the character.
194* CommLinks: Most games include these for the PlayerCharacters only, sometimes against all logic.
195* CrackPairing / CrossoverShip: So, so many.
196* CrossPlayer: The vast majority of [=DWRPers=] are women who only or mostly play male characters. There are also male players who play only or mostly female characters, though these often are (fairly or not) seen as creepy.
197* CutShort: The fate of many a log, whether due to the fickleness of the players or real life getting in the way.
198* DeathIsCheap: Death isn't permanent in most games. Many of these impose a punishment of some sort (e.g. memory loss) for dying.
199* DoubleStandard: Guys that RP mostly girls are seen as creepy. However, it's perfectly alright for a girl to RP mostly guys. [[SlashFic Slash]] ships are treated much differently by the RP base at large (and much more common) than femslash, as well.
200* FirstGirlWins: Characters don't often date around, but tend to settle down with the first person they hook up with.
201* FunetikAksent: How characters with accents are often handled, sometimes to the chagrin of other players.
202* GameMaster: The moderators.
203* HollywoodProvincialism: LJ's servers were originally in California; when the Journal Roleplay community was on that site, this was the stated reason that sex games and some horror games had a lower age limit of 18.
204* {{Honorifics}}: Japanese ones are often retained by characters from Japanese (often anime and manga) fandoms.
205* InAndOutOfCharacter: Due to player schedules and posting speeds, real time is generally not exactly the same as game time.
206* InsufferableGenius: In contrast to SmallNameBigEgo below, there are some roleplayers who are every bit as good as they claim to be, despite being unpleasant out of character.
207* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Series that become especially popular among [=RPers=] tend to gain a {{Hatedom}} that rivals the fandom in size. ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', ''Manga/DeathNote'', ''Manga/Reborn2004'', ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', and ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' have all had this happen to them.
208* KinkMeme: Since these often appeared for fandoms on LJ, there was a trend for some time of games making their own where players requested pairings from the game.
209* LimitedWardrobe: This tends to happen when characters are brought into games with nothing but what was on their person at the time.
210* MeanCharacterNiceActor: It's an unwritten rule in almost any game that "IC =/= OOC". Meaning, even if a ''character'' is a complete JerkAss, the player might still be a pretty decent person. [[FanDumb That doesn't stop some people]] from taking it personally, however, and therefore in many games it's stressed at every opportunity that if a given character is a JerkAss to your character it doesn't mean the player hates you. 
211* MegaCrossover: Panfandom games by their very nature.
212* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: It's not uncommon to see complaints about people [[SeriousBusiness "ruining" games]] with [[{{Yaoi}} sparkly buttsex.]] (Not that they're any kinder to people who play lesbians.)
213* NakedOnArrival: Not uncommon in Spooky Jamjar settings.
214* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Because there are a lot of people who play anime characters and characters from other Japanese media, and {{Translation Convention}}s differing person-to-person means that some muns use Eastern order and some use Western order, often at least somebody is confused as to which name is the given name when introduced to a new character. (This goes double for obscure canons or characters with TwoFirstNames.) This is one of the common ways to get around it.
215* NiceCharacterMeanActor: In contrast to above, there are plenty of people who play nice characters in comms, but are complete [[JerkAss Jerkasses]] out of character.
216* NoSocialSkills: Some characters arrive with the little knowledge they had in social conventions. Part of the fun in their CharacterDevelopment is having them win them with cross-fandom characters that, at times, could even be complete Foils.
217* {{NPC}}: Setting-based characters played by the moderators are referred to as such.
218* OCStandIn: Generally known as "Canon [=OCs=]", these are used for all they're worth in many games. On the other hand, others may only accept characters that have a sufficiently distinct canon personality or history. Matt from ''Manga/DeathNote'' was, at one time, particularly infamous for being used this way.
219* OddCouple / OddFriendship: Many!
220* {{Omake}}: Players sometimes play out extra scenes with their characters outside of the main game, or draw art, write fanfiction, make fanmixes, etc. for their game characters. Most current games have "meme communities" for silly stuff outside of the main games.
221* OntologicalMystery: Very common plot device for a lot of games.
222* TheOtherDarrin: The result of different players playing the same character over time.
223* PaintingTheMedium: [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} Font]] color, face, and size is sometimes played with. Many players go as far as mimicing a character's style, such as various {{Webcomic/Homestuck}} characters' typing quirks and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s "little yellow boxes".
224* PerspectiveFlip: Inevitable when characters talk about their past--not everybody was the main character back home.
225* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Sex games usually require the aging up of child/teenage characters to legal age to protect the players from legal shenanigans and/or squick, if they allow them at all.
226* RealLifeRelative: Siblings do occasionally play together.
227* ReplacementScrappy: When apping a character who was previously at the game you're looking at, it's considered common courtesy to wait a little while after the previous player has dropped, especially if they dropped all their characters in one go. Otherwise, you risk becoming one of these, especially if you're a new player.
228* RevolvingDoorCasting: Dropped characters may be picked up later by a different player. In a long-running game, this may even happen with the same character multiple times.
229* RomanceOnTheSet: Players forming romantic relationships with each other is not uncommon.
230* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: On a game scale, it's when a person decides to flounce from a game, usually due to a number of things, from the stupidly simple to the complex. On a net-wide scale, the many games listed here actually jumped ship from [=LiveJournal=] to [=DreamWidth=] when [=LJ's=] system changed to the point where playing there was impossible.
231* ShootTheMoney: Many people are reluctant to drop characters they no longer feel like playing until their paid accounts run out.
232* SkeletonGovernment: Unless the premise of a game centers around a {{Dystopia}} to begin with, the basic structures necessary for a functional society are usually an afterthought at best. The majority of players would rather assume that the game's city or town [[AWizardDidIt just works]].
233* STDImmunity: Outright stated in most sex games' rules.
234* StopHavingFunGuys: Even dressing room games, which are ''made'' to be laid-back and casual, are not immune to anonymous backlash. Hell, even some ''museboxes'' (private games in which only a select few players are allowed) have been known to get this, to the point where ''[[WretchedHive Wankgate]]''[[labelnote:What?]]An infamously nasty anonymous discussion community spun off from the mellower rpanons.[[/labelnote]] of all places instituted a rule against it. Combine this with the [[ForumSpeak GIFT]] (courtesy of the aformentioned memes) and it gets ugly.
235* StrangledByTheRedString: Ships can often be forced and/or rushed and seem out of character for the character(s) in question.
236* SummonEverymanHero: How games end up with the most overpowered shounen/video game heroes... alongside ordinary high school students.
237* [[ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet There Are No Boys On The Internet]]: Well, there are male roleplayers, but they're definitely in the minority.
238* TranslatorMicrobes: These anime characters must be chatting with those comic book characters must be chatting with these aliens somehow. Usually it's unexplained, but in some games the translation device is something that can be lost or stop working, at which point HilarityEnsues.
239* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Probably the most common setting.
240* TrueCompanions: Sometimes formed between characters, [[DysfunctionalFamily but these aren't always the most stable]]...
241** Also formed between players, which more often than not leads to complaints about people being cliquish.
242* WatchItForTheMeme: A variant -- many people get into new series because of the characters they've interacted with in panfandom games.
243* WhatIsGoingOn: Far and away the most common type of intro by new characters in a jamjar game.

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