Monkeypants said
Not insulting any one but this is a typical youth habbit of testing to see what one can get away with.

I get that but the fact is that it kills rps and has been one the biggest problems with Casual roleplays and it ends up pissing everyone off. All of my worst experiences come from players not GMs even though I have run a few who didn't do their job very well, but players can be so immature and such douchebags that it really gets on my nerves. These douchebags are one of the reasons why Nation rps and Naruto roleplays got a bad name.

another thing a hate is when people bring politics into chats for no real reason. Seriously two British guys brought their super conservative dogma into an rp I was a part of and they went on a rant with each other about how they hate the idea of Scottish independence. It was so annoying.

Been some really fascinating stuff to read in this thread, it'd take me ages to get through it all though...most of it just hammering home how much of a poor writer I am

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Anyways on topic

I can't stand people with absurdly high standards for what they're looking for in their fellow roleplayers, to the point there's not much of a hope in hell you can make them want to roleplay with you(especially when their writing isn't all that amazing either), so basically someone who isn't satisfied with anything but Brovo level of writing

As mentioned before by vance, people who just disappear off the grid without warning, if it's for a real life reason...well then at least try and get back to me somehow and let me know why you vanished, it makes me feel all sad and dejected inside when people disappear :P

Mostly just disappointed and frustrated, if I find someone I really enjoy roleplaying with and they're just...gone, completely off the radar, and I never hear from them again

I suppose I'm really not going to go on much longer, I feel like I'd just be repeating some of the complaints other people have already mentioned, and that I agree with

In regards to some of the things you said Kestrel, I'm really sincerely hoping you're not mad at me for throwing you for a loop in one of the roleplays we did...

EDIT: Oh hey did this turn into a thread that's not just about griping about roleplaying now? Would have read through the whole thing to find that out but...600 or so posts...

@prince, yo... to each their own dude... but I do enjoy white chocolate so we semi cool.

@yog, isn't it a nation always pushing rules as far as they can go? With that said, it has destroyed so many nation rps. Speaking of which and it appliesto all rp groups...

Dick measuring! Why can't people just go play hearts of iron to for thier need to win.

I don't know if anyone's said this before (I'm not one to sift through thirty pages, as interesting as this stuff can actually get), but this ticks me off so much.

When you try repeatedly to make contact with other characters (ie: talk to them) and they ignore you. Mostly in group roleplays. Maybe it's just that my characters can try to do this at a bad time, but it still makes me mad. Like, you talk to everyone else, and now when I step in and try to make conversation, you're suddenly going silent and just doing your own thing.
Then again, it might be my fault for trying to talk to people at the wrong time of a roleplay, but still...

robotgirls said
I don't know if anyone's said this before (I'm not one to sift through thirty pages, as interesting as this stuff can actually get), but this ticks me off so much.When you try repeatedly to make contact with other characters (ie: talk to them) and they ignore you. Mostly in group roleplays. Maybe it's just that my characters can try to do this at a bad time, but it still makes me mad. Like, you talk to everyone else, and now when I step in and try to make conversation, you're suddenly going silent and just doing your own thing.Then again, it might be my fault for trying to talk to people at the wrong time of a roleplay, but still...

This can be annoying, but sometimes it's just a case of a roleplayer not noticing/forgetting. That said, if it does happen, just mention it in the ooc and ask the other character's player about what's going on. If it's a genuine mistake then I should think they'll correct it. If it's not then... the rp has a problem that needs to be solved.

Communication can solve anything.

All of my worst experiences come from players not GMs

GM's whom provide poor experiences kill their own roleplays, or let them devolve into mediocrity. That's why you have more experience with poor players. You have a choice in what RP's and GM's you involve yourself with.

@Monkey: I lurves pumpkin pie.

Prince said
GM's whom provide poor experiences kill their own roleplays, or let them devolve into mediocrity. That's why you have more experience with poor players. You have a choice in what RP's and GM's you involve yourself with. @Monkey: I lurves pumpkin pie.

I tend to do this - involve myself with only particular GMs because I know the experience I am getting into. I usually take recommendations of close friends on this in high regard.

robotgirls said
I don't know if anyone's said this before (I'm not one to sift through thirty pages, as interesting as this stuff can actually get), but this ticks me off so much.When you try repeatedly to make contact with other characters (ie: talk to them) and they ignore you. Mostly in group roleplays. Maybe it's just that my characters can try to do this at a bad time, but it still makes me mad. Like, you talk to everyone else, and now when I step in and try to make conversation, you're suddenly going silent and just doing your own thing.Then again, it might be my fault for trying to talk to people at the wrong time of a roleplay, but still...

One time my character went to the restroom (slice of life RP) and by the time I was able to return to the group (it was supposed to be a few minutes) they had basically a 15 minutes conversation and didn't acknowledge my return to the table. Sometimes you get some bad people who don't pay attention or accidental skipping from people who SKIM READ (augh) to other stuff, but it's always frustrating. Yeah.

Prince said
GM's whom provide poor experiences kill their own roleplays, or let them devolve into mediocrity. That's why you have more experience with poor players. You have a choice in what RP's and GM's you involve yourself with.

But then it sucks when you can't find a roleplay that has the gm you. Also most gms who are very strict tend to piss off players and then the rp gets killed. I believe as a gm you have to bend a bit otherwise the rp just crashes and burns, especially since players tend to be very sensitive. Again I don't blame gms that much, I blame the players. As they say religion is not the problem people are the problem, the same applies to gms and players for me

While true, you have to understand it's not universal. Look at roleplays such as magical academies or VRMMO's or basic tabletops. You can stretch them, throw in a lot of creative lee way, create new things, alter and add to various aspects of the games and it not damage their integrity or atmosphere much. That's their nature. It's a strength of the genre. Then look at AU's, Slice of Life, mystery genres, etc. They are designed with a more strict, more defined nature. The GM should logically be more strict. It's a bit more complex than just RP'ers vs GM's in whose at fault. At times, I boldly say GM's make huge mistakes to the degree their actions are rude and should ideally be reprimanded, if there were a system for such. At the same time, players are far from innocent. Everyone has a creative license, but blaming one side is pointless, especially when you compare the fail-success ratio of the site.

I fully support Prince's stance on GM's. As a GM I have made some rather horrid mistakes but there are at times roleplayers whom aren't living up to expectations or prospective roleplayers whom don't understand how the GM is running the roleplay.

Likewise I'd like to complain about people whom don't acknowledge their inactivity. People who don't post in OOC or through PM's to inform the people they are playing with end up killing roleplays in some cases.

When people include things of modern technology and science in a fantasy setting where the most advanced tech they have is perhaps gunpowder

Where seriously, I want to go 'do you understand what 'fantasy' entails usually?'

I think the better question would be "Do you understand what the setting is?"

Rilla said
I think the better question would be "Do you understand what the setting is?"

This. Fantasy can grow to include a many great deal of things that doesn't need to be limited to just the archtypical medieval, dungeons and dragons, tolkien esque settings.

My rp is fantasy based and yet includes all the wonders of swords, magics, cars, trains, phones, televisions, lasers, mechs, dinosaurs, the works. :P

Pachamac said
This. Fantasy can grow to include a many great deal of things that doesn't need to be limited to just the archtypical medieval, dungeons and dragons, tolkien esque settings. My rp is fantasy based and yet includes all the wonders of swords, magics, cars, trains, phones, televisions, lasers, mechs, dinosaurs, the works. :P

While I won't argue that this would be considered fantasy it the broadest sense of the genre, and may very well capture the essence of the genre, I think it could be considered misleading if you refer to this as fantasy with no other qualifiers. Not an attack against you or your game just want to point that out.

I only used the phrase cause thats what fantasy typically entails

I hate the overabundance of anime RPs. Sure, it is fun to run an AU of them, but seeing RPs based upon the main universe irks me. It especially irks me when original RPs are sparse in comparison.

The few rp's I run based on the canon universe don't tend to have the canon characters as main sets. However rp's who do have the main characters do annoy me to have some degree.

I don't mind anime Rps. Just the ones that let people use already established characters from said universe.

Bleach-verse is fine, having Ichigo and everyone as player characters is not.

Anime is alright if it is used as a backdrop for the rp. Everyone playing established characters limits everyone since the personalties are already established denying any original role-playing.