I like the idea of sexy RPing. The idea of meeting a guy in Second Life or on F-List and typefucking his brains out sounds like a really fun thing. Sometimes it is. But a lot of the time I find myself running into the same annoyances that bother me, and sometimes make me into That Guy who's an asshole and just kinda disconnects in the middle of it because I'm not really feeling it anymore.

It's basically the fact that having sex on the Internet takes WAY longer than having sex in real life.

If you're trying to typefuck with any degree of literacy, you're probably going to want to take turns writing whole paragraphs. It can take between two and five minutes to compose a single one, and usually not a lot happens in them. Every three or four minutes, you might get another article of clothing off. Suddenly it's been twenty minutes since you got into the bedroom and you're JUST starting to get your dick sucked. And then to make it feel substantial, you usually have to trade about two or three paragraphs each on the blowjob before you get to the anal. So you've basically been at this for 45 minutes to an hour and JUST NOW are you starting to actually have buttsex.

It can get really exhausting. Especially if you're whacking it the whole time in between your posts, because, well, why wouldn't you be? So you're edging yourself for like 90 minutes or so before your character gets to cum, and you don't really want to do that in real life until your character does because then you're not in the right mindset anymore. Except it's ALSO increasingly difficult to keep coming up with literate, imaginative posts through the whole thing because your mind is going blank from how hard your dick is and ugghghghghgh.

But it still SEEMS like a good idea, and when it works, it works.

So I'm wondering if there's some kind of way to use some kind of card game mechanics to keep the action moving along, to make quality yiff RPing easier and less exhausting. The way Storium uses cards to help facilitate forum-post RPing (which doesn't need to be real-time) is really interesting, but that doesn't work as well for banging because you kinda just want to do it when you're in the mood to do it, and keeping that going over the course of several days is really tough. (Although people have written some GREAT long-form erotica through forum posts like this, it's just really hard to make it work)

What I'm thinking is a system where everyone has a turn limit of 30 seconds or 1 minute, and a focus on single sentences rather than long paragraphs. But there are also cards which pop up with pre-written sentences (maybe with some fill-in-the-blanks), making it easier to quickly move the action along. You can also combine that with making your character say things — there's a clear distinction between actions and words, which gives you room to roleplay through dialogue while helping you out with the imagination of physical actions (which, personally, I think are more difficult to come up with on the fly). The cards also have a logical flow to them, so only the ones that make sense in context ever appear (e.g. the "fucks you harder" card won't be available if you haven't actually started fucking yet).

The question is whether seeing all the same action cards pop up every time would make it boring. I'm not sure if it would. A lot of RPing is basically rephrasing the same things you always do, so if there's enough variety in the cards and how they can be combined, it might be perfectly fine. The only way to figure out whether it works would be to play-test it.

If anyone's interested I'd like to talk this over more. The key is to break down an RP into its basic elements so we can figure out how to split it up into cards, phases, etc. It'd be interesting to look at or do a bunch of RPs (ahem, purely for research purposes) so that we can analyze the similarities in them and figure out a typical rhythm for how they usually go.