We all have our preferences and no doubt most of us like a little of column A and a little of column B. But if you had to choose, which one would it be?

I voted romance/relationships, but I was kind of ashamed to vote that way, LOL

I don't like boards that roleplay solely around romance and relationships, but I don't think I could play at a site that was ONly action/adventure. I'm not a big fan of shootemup kind of boards and to me, human relationships are a lot more interesting. I'm not all lovey dovey with my characters, but relationships include friendships and enemies, and I prefer roleplaying that than just fighting or some complicated adventure.

Relationships.

Because action just gets hollow after a while. XD So that'd be the one I'd pick if I absolutely -had- to choose between the two.

Of course I like it when plot informs and changes relationships between characters. That is ideal. :)

Romance/relationships. I mainly RP modern-day/high school/real life stuff, about teenagers or people in an apartment complex or something. Not a lot of action-movie-type things going on there. But romantic drama is fun stuff. <3 I agree with sarahj; my type of action is of the normal, everyday variety, where you encounter lovers, friends, and enemies. :]

Relationships. I don't really play anything else. I think the most action I've played has been either my character getting his nose broken by a Beater's bat or playing Voldemort torturing his daughter. I just prefer to play relationships. Again, my action is more everyday stuff rather than war or fights or anything.

I voted for action/adventure but I kinda like RPing non-romantic relationships the most. There's nothing more fun than an argument fest IC.

Relationships--not necessarily romance--are the lifeblood of my RP. Oh, I do tons of duels/skirmishes/slicing-people-open...

but I'm going to agree with Ezz. If I were only interested in action/adventure, I'd play a video game. Besides, relationships add tension to a fight scene, or they can. In fact, typing out combat scenes with no emotional heart is damn boring.

I voted romance/relationships, although my focus is not on romance, although I do play it.

Friends, rivals, families... all sorts of relationships are fun to play. Siblings have a very different dynamic to best friends (with innuendo-filled banter) which is different to those of a more romantic nature.

I do like action, but in smaller chunks. Action to spur on character growth, or act as a catalyst for some sort of a relationship (change). If I wanted grand-scale action/adventure, fighting or whatever, I would play on my Nintendo DS, or watch a movie.

I voted action / adventure, mostly because I don't ever RP romance. I do RP relationships if that means friendship, but mostly I need my character to have something to actually do in a post.

I voted for romance/relationships, since that is what I generally roleplay and thus have a better grip on it. However, lately I've become involved in a few action/adventure roleplays and I must say, they too are fun.

Romance is an adventure what has action in it.

The reason I picked relationships is because I find it intercepts all things. I would be hard pressed to enjoy participating in an all action/adventure game that had no romantic elements, or any kind of relationships. That's far too two-dimensional for me and naturally, very unrealistic. Action on its own is too shallow a genre--as is romance. Action is designed to get your blood pumping and romance is to get you off. Combine the two and you've got much more potential for something deeper and more interesting.

Personally, I like a combination of the two. However, I'd have to go with Action/Adventure with a dash of Romance/Relationships on the top.

Voted Action/Adventure mostly because well... I've never run across an adventure where relationships DIDN'T develop. I mean really. Especially in a 'party' sort of setting. It can be action-y and incorporate relationship-type things too.

If a roleplay centers around a relationships only, I get bored and feel the urgent need to hurl Horrible Bad Things at the characters in bring in some action. Romance can blossom in the Lulls between fights, but there'd better be a fight somewhere in there, you know?

I like Romance/Relationships when its with someone I care about, but for the most part I enjoy Action better.

Sadly I voted for Romance/Relationship. Not that I think a site needs to be based on relationships alone… plots and movement are important. But really when I think about sites that I keep coming back to, it’s the relationships between my characters and other characters.

Depends on the verse, but honestly you gotta find a mix. Action is great, romance is great but not having both can get boring...

Romance/Relationship. I have to agree with .Ra, it's the same with me. ^_^

I'm more for action/adventure but I won't say no to a little love on the side. =] Usual;ly I like that sort of thing to come in unexpected anyway, so what better way than whent he city blows up two stragners are clinging to each other and develope a relationship.

<sub>i get tired of romance.
cause that's all everyone EVER does.
i feel like that's what most people base their plotting on.
which frustrates me - or at least on the boards i end up joining.
i like where things HAPPEN but not necessarily love and that jazz.
i think that's a back burner really.
yes, it's nice. yes, it creates drama.
but gawd there's more to life than that in real life.
so on RPGs it seems unrealistic for that to ONLY be going on.
give me other sorts of drama. like bad grades or something.
lmfao simple as that sounds.

probably why i'm slowly moving away from cliche boards.
and moving onto boards with a bigger picture.
including making a vamp/werewolf/human RPG.
-is so excited when that i'm almost done-</sub>

Neither?

I'm all about the comedy/humor/plain quirky stuff for me.
About interesting interactions. Problems, and things. I don't like adventure, going-to-save-the-world plots, and I don't like romance, either. I like playing the odd duck that gets on everyone's nerves and weirds people out. I don't want to do romance. If I want a perfectionist character that overloads herself and causes her own problems, that's fine, innit?

I voted for romance/relationsships - and not just romance. I like it when my characters interact with a wide range of different other characters. Don't have any plotting page, but I'm sure that for most of my characters, it would be more than a "crush on... in love..." and so on. There's friends and enemies, enemies turned friends and the other way around, former lovers, children, current lovers, sadness and happiness and everything. And there IS adventure to it too, naturally. Something has to happen, it can't all be threads about the relationsship itself, although I guess somehow it is, because through threads - even action/adventure threads - characters develop relationsships of one kind or another... so everyone does it, although some seem to not want to admit it :)

A-freakin'- men.

I like romance and relationships as much as the next guy but c'mon people. There is more to stories than plot pages and making sure so-and-so gets with so-and-so because they are totally FINALS OMG.

Really now.

I like plots and I LOVE subplots. I enjoy having some sort of basis to build off of when it comes to a game. I just hate it when they are all based on someone getting with someone else. There are games where the whole point is that there are two opposing forces and NONE of the subplots have ANYTHING to do with the conflict at all. It's all about twins going after the same guy or massive love triangles. I wouldn't mind those if there was just MORE about other stuff, you know?

Blah.

Romance/relationship, because I'm more into character development than story development. I do enjoy action, but it's the characters that really drive the story, not the plot.

I don't mean clichéd romances, but when I see the word romance, I tend to look at it differently than 'Oh-I-love-you-and-need-to-shag-you-right-now'. Romance comes in more forms than one.

Action plots intrigue me more at first glance, but I like developing relationships around the drama of the plot

My characters never get in on the romance-action...
and when they do it's a highly disfunctional relationship.

I chose romance/relationships regardless, because I absolutely love unique relationship... hence the whole disfunctional thing. Action is great and all but...

Yep, that just about sums it up...

Adventure! Which in itself can have elements of blossoming relationships and romance.


Personally I've never been a fan of RPing actual relationships (like long term lovers or happily married couples. I like people who hate each other forced to work together to survive. I like married folk to have issues, hating their routine romance that's worn thin over the years and the slow seeds of their spouses faults, growing into despised characeristics.

I like my character being independent, a girl (or sometimes a boy) venturing on their own, only to come across strangers and interact with them. Be influenced, for better or worse, by these foreign personalities and experiences.


...yep.