Another off-site (but still roleplay related) bitch...but when someone insists upon playing the "edgy silent" type of character. All the time. Like, the character is entirely mute (which I don't have a problem with in and of itself, that can create a whole new and interesting dynamic in how characters communicate and such and I'm ALL for new and interesting things!) but darn it when this person and their character literally refuse to communicate with mine in ANY form....they don't even try to respond to the questions. They just "stare blankly and say nothing". DO SOMETHING. MAKE GESTURES, SHAKE YOUR HEAD, NOD YOUR HEAD FOR THE LOJVE OF GOD DON'T SIT THERE LIKE A FLOPPY EDGELORD NOODLE.

Like, I'm all for characters working through emotional trauma and hitting road bumps but for the love of god give me something to actually work with or what's the point in even roleplaying with you if my character is literally monologuing at himself? .___.
it wouldn't be so bad if I felt like I could approach them with it and ask them to actually give some kind of response to my character but the last time they did that and I politely said to them "I don't know how to respond to this post, my character has nothing to react to"

.....They ragequit and got offended and refused to change it. Then come back months later asking me to do another with different characters and now they're pulling the same shit T_T and I feel trapped because its like pulling teeth trying to think of a half-assed one-sided response for my character to give...and I hate it. But if I stop posting or say I don't know what to post, this kid goes whining to our other friends that I hate her and I'm ignoring her etc.

So either way, I'm screwedddd .___. push out posts I hate and that literally take me weeks just to think of to keep the kid quiet or offend her sensitive af ego and have her spread utter nonsense about me to the rest of my friends. I sure seem to have luck with this don't I? lmao

@The Elvenqueen

Make your next post about sitting across from her and declaring that you're not going to leave her and that you're going to sit right there silently until she speaks up.

If she doesn't speak, just post sitting there silently staring back again. It'll be boring as fuck but she can't say you're ignoring her AND it'll cost you the least amount of effort.

@The Elvenqueen

Make your next post about sitting across from her and declaring that you're not going to leave her and that you're going to sit right there silently until she speaks up.

If she doesn't speak, just post sitting there silently staring back again. It'll be boring as fuck but she can't say you're ignoring her AND it'll cost you the least amount of effort.

Why did I not think of this. I think I will actually try this, if nothing else it will be hilarious and it might actually force a more substantial response out of this person

@The Elvenqueen

I sincerely hope it works, make sure to update us here in this thread either way though, if just for the LOLs.

*pulls at hair a little*

v.v I don't understand the need for... table tennis rping ie replying to posts like someone plays table tennis. Take some time please, fix your punctuation, and give me something more than four line when I've given you three paragraphs! *cries a little*

I honestly thought this time would be better... clearly I was wrong. It kinda sucks as well when the person is your friend and you don't want to hurt their feelings.

@Greenie

In this case, you want to go for the guilt-trip without sounding passive aggressive, or at least that's what I'd do. Hit them with the:

'I really enjoy playing with you, but I worry that you're not as into it as you could be. Your posts seem to end abruptly, and I can't help but feel like you're rushing through them to get to something else. Is this a bad time for the RP? I understand if so, we can table it until you're free to give it more attention.' /sad violin music

And if that doesn't work, bail. Because you can get new friends, man. You can't get back wasted time.

sad violin music

Yeah, I'm definitely going to speak to them about it. Thanks for the reply. ^_^

There's this guy in one of RPs I'm in offsite who doesn't separate the OOC portions of his post and puts emoticons in his posts. He's a decent roleplayer otherwise, but it's getting annoying. And the worst part is that most GMs will let a person know that they have to at least indicate what's OOC with double brackets or something of the sort, but the GM isn't doing anything about it, and I feel like it's not really my place to tell the RPer about this since I'm not GMing the roleplay.

I'm mad that Dark Fantasy is a niche market. seriously I'm all for the light-hearted and jokes all around fantasy stories but I enjoy my despair and whatnot. *sips tea*

I'm mad that Dark Fantasy is a niche market. seriously I'm all for the light-hearted and jokes all around fantasy stories but I enjoy my despair and whatnot. *sips tea*

<--- has not wrote anything 'happy' for quite some time. Even when there is humor in my stories, they have a lot of underlying darkness.

But I tend not to do traditional fantasy. If I do I shall let you know.

Okay, probably the weirdest bitch for this topic yet but... My Rp's run too long! LOL I have tons of ideas and at least half a dozen of them ready and waiting to be launched but I can't because if I hosted anymore than 1 more RP I couldn't manage it time wise. Half the Rp's I am currently hosting are well passed their 1 year mark, the other are all passed 7 months running. None are even close to closing.

So, here I am stuck - having to chose between all these ideas and only 1 slot open to actually work with. It's an odd bitch but damn, I want to host more Rp's yet I can't! ><!!! A rare but real frustration.

@The MageHard Sci-fi is even more niche here. I think there is about 5-10 people on this site who like hard sci-fi, could be more but I have yet to meet them. The rest are space opera folk. That is not to say anything on their quality of roleplaying or story telling, but it is more to say on the creative choices they make usually end up in the space opera territory.

To give an example,

I actually get bothered when someone calls something that is clearly human looking an alien, it is damning as all hell. Even when playing space fantasy where alien species are more like races on different parts of the same planet, and that is where it makes the most sense, i'm not going to complain about it in star wars because star wars was always made with the intention of being space fantasy.

The worst offenders in my view are those who try to actually try to act like it is realistic instead of just saying 'it's space opera dude, we aren't trying to be realistic with the aliens'.

Look, it can't be justified if the setting is sci-fi or there is a alien policy that asks for more alien forms due to the cause and effect over billions of years evolution is. It is not just having present earth conditions that you need to get humanoids. It is also having all sorts of events transpire in the way they did on Earth going back to the first cellular life on Earth. Since usually sci-fi RPs usually are within one galaxy, it is incredibly unlikely to encounter another species which looks so human-like if it has the same facial design as us despite such face being really only seen with humans on Earth. Even if you seeded another world with humans and baked it for a million years, you'd cook up not elves but likely some humanoid that looks distinctly non-human to us even if it is adapted to what planet you put those people on. Just look at our nearby evolutionary relatives for what I mean.

Genetic modification is the cure-all to this of course as we would apply our concept of beauty to whatever forms we make so it'd stay looking like us and get the fancy colored humanoids and fantasy races people like making since you'd get people made with the intention of looking like fantasy races by the person who made the genetic coding. In short genetic modification aligns a lot more with how I notice a lot of aliens are made than well, the aliens they make.

Amusingly enough, there has been times when i've seen genetically modified people in a sci-fi NRP that look more alien than the actual supposed aliens in the setting. The reasoning for aliens that are remarkably human-like i've gotten are that they don't want to be subject to the limitations humans are given, which has caused me to try finding ways to make humans more widespread in order for that not to be an issue. You still get humanoid aliens it turns out, even in situations where humans get millennia in space and were abducted in Paleolithic times and placed on other worlds.

Of course RPers want a humanoid form because they're humans, i'm human too so I end up having some degree of anthromorphization anyways especially if I am playing as said alien and not as someone encountering an alien. Though it does seem like alien in many cases is more a flavor than anything else.

Originality in the newcomers of my rp is lacking when it comes to character diversity. I find this disappointing.

Someone on another site made the exact same concept for a roleplay as me on another site. Two days after my own thread/interest check. It has less details but I'm pretty sure it's more or less the same exact roleplay type. I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and say that he's maybe going to do something else but it still feels pretty bull shit to me.

There's a reason why I don't like martial artists in realistic RPs. Because 80% of the time nobody knows shit about it, and writes them like a god damn Street Fighter character (but worse, because at least Capcom does some research).

And as an actual martial artist (that's been in actual fights), that offends me.

There's a reason why I don't like martial artists in realistic RPs. Because 80% of the time nobody knows shit about it, and writes them like a god damn Street Fighter character (but worse, because at least Capcom does some research).

And as an actual martial artist (that's been in actual fights), that offends me.

i like daredevil as a good representation of how a lot of fights go, even with training

Bitching at myself: When I have a vague idea of the over-arching plot of an RP but I have a hard time sprinkling clues/allusions to it throughout the course of the RP without feeling like I am being either overly obvious, overly cliche', or too vague.

Which brings up a question, is there a good spot on this forum for brainstorming with others about things like plot for those of us who are struggling? Or is someone interested in chatting with me to be another brain for me to bounce some ideas off of so I can avoid a writer's block situation?

Bitching at myself: When I have a vague idea of the over-arching plot of an RP but I have a hard time sprinkling clues/allusions to it throughout the course of the RP without feeling like I am being either overly obvious, overly cliche', or too vague.

Which brings up a question, is there a good spot on this forum for brainstorming with others about things like plot for those of us who are struggling? Or is someone interested in chatting with me to be another brain for me to bounce some ideas off of so I can avoid a writer's block situation?

You are welcome to PM me or message me/guild-at-large on Discord.

There's a reason why I don't like martial artists in realistic RPs. Because 80% of the time nobody knows shit about it, and writes them like a god damn Street Fighter character (but worse, because at least Capcom does some research).

And as an actual martial artist (that's been in actual fights), that offends me.

As a martial artist I just think it's funny. Especially when people try to mix styles that don't really match that well and then claim they're super synergized.

Currently, people using the excuse of not wanting to metagame for not reading posts. Sorry but learning not to metagame is a basic RP skill that people really need to learn and it is no excuse not to read posts. You are not your character - draw that line and learn not to cross it.