What Makes A Journey RP Difficult

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

As most know, a Pokemon Journey RP is an RP where a group of trainers travel together through a region, catching/ training Pokemon, collecting badges/ribbons, fighting the regional or fan made villain, and eventually compete in the league. While these RP's are quite fun to do if you can make them last, often times they die out pretty quickly. I've done numerous of these Pokemon Journey RP's, though 85 percent of them have died out before the first gym and only 15 percent have managed to make it past the first gym battle, both of which I've been in that have made it past this point have made it past the second before dying out. What is it about these types of RP's that seem to fall flat in terms of success? Do you think its even possible to start one of these and see it through all the way to the league at the end?

 

[Heroic Sociopath]

Most RPs die out fairly early, it's not just journeys. In fact, a large portion of the RPs I've seen completed here have been Journey RPs. I ran a 200+ page one myself.

 

[Lyrebird]

Generally I feel that journey RPs need to have a small number of people that are interested to press on. Also you need to move quickly and stay on a place too long otherwise interest dies out.

 

[Destructive Idiot]

If it doesn't reach a point of interest quickly, it dies out... and all of the "Trainer in a League" RPs die out really quickly because there's no real plot or action involving the characters' preservation of the world, or, at least, the region, as what already exists in the games, so it doesn't really present itself as being as interesting as the games themselves. Hell; it's slower and even more difficult to accomplish something within that kind of RP than it is in the games!

 

[Oblivion]

The same reason why I personally find Pokemon Red and Blue to be the most boring games ever (fight me), and that's because it follows the formula of "go to this town beat this gym go to this town beat this gym" ad nauseum. It's overly formulaic to the point that you feel more like a mouse in a maze than a player in an RP. The truly successful journey RPs are the ones that either make their own fun along the way and flesh out the aforementioned formula, or deviate from that formula entirely and turn it into something different.