Containment Fiction has a long history of mixing roleplaying into its storytelling. During the embryonic stage of the SCP Foundation English Wiki’s(SCP-EN) development, the Fieldwork/Active Duty role-playing games were highly influential in characterizing some of the SCP Foundation’s most iconic in-universe personnel.
Fieldwork was the first organized Foundation RP, although calling it organized might be a generous overstatement of its complexity.
Active Duty succeeded it and was a much more popular and longer-lasting RP than Fieldwork. Sadly, the website was wiped during a failed reboot, much of the content was lost or became hidden.
After Action
Tamlin House
SCP-RP: http://scp-rp.wikidot.com/
Attempt at doing forum RP that was popular for a time but eventually fell away.
SCP Origins
Unofficial RP:
https://scproleplay.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
Far Recon
ROLE-PLAYING IN THE RPC AUTHORITY
ROLE-PLAYING IN THE BACKROOMS
ROLE-PLAYING IN THE LIMINAL ARCHIVES
ROLE-PLAYING IN THE WAYWARD SOCIETY
ROLE-PLAYING VIDEO GAMES?
Influence:
Playing role-playing games and mixing the written universe with the one players are acting out can lead to great long-term benefits for confic site. By having a small cadre of writers be extremely familiar with the basic character traits of a group of characters makes writing a shared universe with collective storytelling much easier. By this metric, it could be argued that roleplaying is an essential element of containment fiction.
On the other hand, this mixing of fiction and gaming has let to a tremendous amount of drama and community conflict emanating from the RPG spaces of various containment fiction communities. In addition, erotic role-playing games where there are potentially minors involved has been at the root of multiple sex scandals across the containment fiction ecosystem.
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