As Pyrephox said above, Keys is pretty casual-friendly. Most scenes run async or are pausable as the players agree on. There is ‘live’ roleplay, pick-up roleplay happening in the spur of the moment, but a lot of things are geared towards people with busy real lives, people with chronic illnesses, and people not in US timezones – or all three of the above.

We’re urban fantasy though not your ‘classic’ vampires, werewolves, and fae running around downtown. Everyone’s human now – but not everyone started out that way. We have been called the ultimate fanfic game by some and that’s honestly not quite wrong when you’re travelling in and out of infinite realities where everything is possible somewhere.

Anyhoot, feel free to come give us a peek if that sounds like something that might be worth your time.

@Coin Yeah, the scheduled scenes are what killed the last game I was on for me. 90% of the RP there was these scheduled scenes; no one seemed to understand the concept of just “go RP”.

With my schedule, I usually don’t know till a couple days before I have time, THAT I will have time. At best. There’s no way I can do these “Oh, in 10 days on Sunday at 5 PM, 10 people will log in and do a thing for 6 hours.”

I understand; though I think for the majority of people with jobs and stuff it’s likely the opposite.

That said, there’s been a lot more pick-up RP at Excelsior lately, it’s just unlikely that the plot scenes run by staff will stop being scheduled. But like I said, a lot of the scheduled stuff is also async, so.

With my schedule, I usually don’t know till a couple days before I have time, THAT I will have time. At best. There’s no way I can do these “Oh, in 10 days on Sunday at 5 PM, 10 people will log in and do a thing for 6 hours.”

Perhaps the bigger barrier for interest is that we’re roster-only, but we are expanding the roster slowly over time (and in bursts, occasionally).

There are rotating Seasons where your Actor takes on an entirely new persona and then there’s the downtime between seasons called a Hiatus where the Actors all hang out in the Dome as themselves.

it’s not for everyone but I’ve been playing it since it opened and it’s really just what you make of it. There have been Seasons I didn’t participate at all because of Life and seasons I went all in on and the Hiatus RP is always a good breather from one Season to the Next.

If your schedule is such that you have bursts of free time for live play and enjoy the horror genre you might like Silent Heaven (silentheaven.org). It’s set up to be slower paced on the metaplot level and is very character driven imo.