Text-first GTA V roleplay on FiveMLive since July 2026

A city you can actually own.

Roleplay Project is a heavy, text-only roleplay server in San Andreas. Buy the house, open the bar, run for council, write the story. There is no application: create an account, link your Discord, and you are in tonight.

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The city, in four moves

Four things you can do here tonight.

Not a feature list. A house, a shop, a city and a front door, in the order you will meet them.

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01 Own the house

Every address is player-owned.

Buy it, furnish it, rent it out, sell it when the story moves on. No instanced homes, no NPC landlords, no reset at the weekend.

Browse the market01 / 04

02 Run the shop

Businesses with real books.

Stock the shelves, set the prices, put staff on payroll, run the card reader, pay the tax bill. Or build the crew the law never sees.

Ways to play02 / 04

03 Write the city

Text only. Every scene written.

Six public departments, a council you can be elected to, a stock market, a newsroom. The city remembers what you write.

The departments03 / 04

04 Be in it tonight

No application. Two minutes.

Create an account, link your Discord, connect to play.roleplayproject.net. The lights are on and there is a lease with your name on it.

Join and play04 / 04

05 /The city

Scenes from Los Santos, as they happened.

Every frame here was captured in game by the people playing. No renders, no staged press shots. The flood and the blackout were one night; the End of Summer Festival was our busiest yet.

01

Vinewood and the Hills

High-end real estate, nightlife, and the press that follows both.

02

Downtown

Skyline condos and storefronts. Where the market opens and the deals close.

03

South Central

Block politics, family businesses, the city's heartbeat.

04

Blaine County

Cheap land, long roads, room to build something of your own.

06 /Ways to play

Nine lives the city is built for. Pick one, or none.

Nothing here is gated behind a faction, a level or a staff decision. Log in and start writing the one you want.

01Small business

The Shopkeeper

Lease a storefront, stock the shelves, set your hours. Your till, your books, your call on closing time.

  • Property
  • POS
  • Staff
02Property and flips

The Landlord

Buy low, hold, flip. Rent out flats, lease the shop downstairs, live upstairs. The market is genuinely open.

  • Buy and sell
  • Rental
  • Furnish
03Body shop and tuning

The Mechanic

Run the garage. Tune engines, weld frames, write work orders. Be the name people call when something stops running.

  • Mods
  • Plates
  • Workshop
04Tattoo, music, barber

The Artist

Open a studio, run the loudest barbershop in town, DJ a residency. Let the portfolio do the recruiting.

  • Tattoo
  • Venue
  • Wardrobe
05Taxi, courier, haulage

The Driver

Long shifts on quiet streets and every fare a different story. Build a regular run and a name people ask for.

  • Trucking
  • Bus routes
  • Delivery
06Underground

The Hustler

Build something the law does not see. A fence, an after-hours room, a crew. Hierarchy, vetting and consequences are on you.

  • Crime systems
  • Encrypted phones
  • Orgs
07White collar

The Suit

Lawyer up, accountant up. Open a firm, write contracts, sit on a council seat. The paperwork is real and someone has to draft it.

  • Licensing
  • Records
  • Elections
08Farming and brewing

The Producer

Grow it, brew it, distil it, sell it. A full chain from field to shelf. Run the depot, set the wholesale price, get up early.

  • Farming
  • Brewing
  • Distribution
09No commitment

The Civilian

Do not pick a lane. Be a journalist, a columnist, a barfly with a back story. Most of the city is exactly this, and most of the best arcs start here.

  • Open
  • Always
  • No cap

Want a crew, a gang or a company with your name on it?

Player organisations are built in the city, not on a form. Start small, earn trust, register when you are ready. Staff only step in to make it official.

Join and play

07 /Public departments

Six public departments. Real ranks, real shifts.

If structure is your thing, these run on chain of command, rosters and radio discipline. Most players never join one and never miss it. The ones who do tend to stay for years.

City Government

Government · GOV

Recruiting

An elected Mayor, a City Council and public works. Draft laws, issue licences, hold council sessions. Most seats are won at the ballot box.

Ranks 5Entry ElectedTwo-year terms

Los Santos Police

Law · LSPD

Recruiting

Patrol, detectives, SWAT. The academy runs every other Sunday. If you want a badge number and a beat, this is the lane.

Ranks 18Entry AcademyProbationary track

Emergency Medical

Emergency · EMS

Recruiting

Hospitals, ride-along medics, a dispensary. A full injury and illness system, and bedside scenes you cannot write anywhere else.

Ranks 7Entry ProbationTrauma and general

SA Highway Patrol

Law · SAHP

By invite

Statewide traffic. K-9, pursuit specialists, accident reconstruction. The freeway is the office.

Ranks 17Entry By inviteStatewide jurisdiction

LS Fire Department

Emergency · LSFD

Recruiting

Engine, ladder, rescue. Live structure calls, freeway pile-ups, brush detail in the hills. Cross-trains with EMS.

Ranks 7Entry OpenEngine and rescue

State Fire Marshal

Law · OSFM

Limited

Arson and fire-crime investigation. Small headcount, deep cases, long arcs alongside the detectives.

Ranks 7Entry In-city applicationInvestigative

08 /The city by numbers

Everything here is read from the live database.

Pulled from the public stats feed the moment this page loads. Nothing rounded up, nothing invented for marketing.

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Vehicles registered

Titled and plated to players.

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Factions

Legal and criminal groups on record.

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Jobs completed

Shifts finished across the city.

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Hours roleplayed

Logged across every character.

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Money in circulation

Bank balances and cash held by characters.

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Criminal records

Filed by the city departments.

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Taxi rides

Booked and driven by players.

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Active in 24 hours

Characters seen in the city.

09 /House rules

Six rules. Read them once, live by them.

The full ruleset is a page of its own and you accept it on your first login. This is the short version everyone in the city can recite.

  1. 01

    18+, players and characters.

    A hard line on both. We check when we have reason to, and lying about it is a permanent ban.

  2. 02

    Value your life.

    Your character has one. They run, comply, or fight only when fighting is what that person would do.

  3. 03

    No metagaming.

    If your character did not learn it in the city, they do not know it. Streams and Discord are not evidence.

  4. 04

    No power-gaming.

    Use /me to attempt, /do to ask. Nobody writes outcomes for anybody else.

  5. 05

    Player safety is the floor.

    Slurs, harassment and out-of-character threats end your time here on the spot.

  6. 06

    Roleplay your wealth.

    Lifestyle matches finances. No petrol-station attendants in supercars without a story that earns it.

Read the full ruleset

10 /One account, every door

Run by the people who play it. Open to everyone.

One account signs you into the server, the forum, the market and every department site. The staff team are players first; you will meet them in the city long before you meet them in a ticket.

Discord

Support tickets, out-of-character chat, events and the people who run the place.

Join · the room

Forum

Character bios, long-form arcs, case files and dev logs.

Live · forum.roleplayproject.net

Property market

Every listing in the city, at the price the seller set, updated live.

Open · browse listings

Department sites

LSPD, LSFD, SAHP, OSFM and City Hall, each with its own site and roster.

5 · departments

11 /Frequently Asked

The short answers.

Anything else, ask on Discord. Someone already in the city will answer faster than any handbook, and staff read every question.

Ask on Discord

Genuinely open. Any property in the city can be bought, sold, transferred, or leased between players. There is no instanced "your house". What's listed is what's available, at what the seller's asking. Businesses change hands the same way, every week.

The lights are on

The city is open tonight.

Writing every evening since July 2026. The market is trading, the departments are recruiting, and there is a lease with your name on it.

Join and playRead the rules first