How about people who claim to be open and inviting to new members but want to play the main characters thus regulating the playerbase as supporting cast? I've run into this a few times and I hate it.

How about people who claim to be open and inviting to new members but want to play the main characters thus regulating the playerbase as supporting cast? I've run into this a few times and I hate it.

I tend to play more supportive characters generally, but that doesn't mean I want to be stepped on and treated like I'm less important because I'm not in your damn little circle of friends.

But there has to be more to it than that.

you haven't even mentioned the person being purposefully restrictive.

I'm now getting a feeling this may have to do with like D&D campaigning

They have in the past restricted me from adding a dynamic to a character because their character already had that thing. I also wasn't allowed to add anything to the sandbox setting in general.

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Ding. Somebody gets it.

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Ideas die hard.

If they where easy to kill off we would have no Nazi, confederates, or others still running about and still dangerous. Even up to a Century or longer after Thete defeat.

I sometimes find it hard to turn off my realistic brain for more fun loving role play. It is like being in a Disney movie, but being from the real world and being a realist haha.

Role Play: "Lets have a fun school based spy role play!"

Role Play: "Students are 15, laughing, flirting, and chatting and talking about this and that."

Me: "Will our characters have to kill people? Cause it doesn't look like any of our characters have ever done that."

Note this is in no way a criticism of the role play or anything. More just my inability to sometimes have the same mindset / tone as a role play presented. Anyone have any advice on how to work on breaking out of that type of mindset?

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what the fuck

you can’t “defeat” an ideology, only the people believing in it. you do that either by total eradication, erasure and removal from history (so you holocaust the shit outta them) or you just remove the ideology by making people believe in something else

trying to kill an ideology by defeating people is pointless. it only strengthens the ideology - look at ISIS

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Maybe you don’t have the same vision of reality as me - if you live in Uganda I presume school children who are 15 that HAVENT killed are rare and school children that HAVE killed are reality.

Sounds like you’re not looking for realism (your suggested question shows that) and more the opposite. I don’t see why you’d change that rather than embrace it. You don’t HAVE to like fun settings where the sun always shines. You get to choose that yourself.

Read the setting and read it correctly. If someone proposes a fun scenario where the setting is happy and whatever, the question “will we kill people” isn’t really relevant. It’s not about mindsets, it’s about reading the setting and understanding it.

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i love u

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Yeah, it's worse when you don't do it at all. Because when people accuse you of ulterior motivations it gets super irritating, really fast. So better to damn the consequences. Sorry, I just got my internet back and felt there was too much irony not to throw into my two cents.

I sometimes hate roleplay....

Like, why not just do a slice of life in that case?

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Have you seen Slice of Life roleplays?

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Yeah, they're bland as hell, but not any more than a spy RP where you don't explore what it means to be a spy.

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Yeah, they're bland as hell, but not any more than a spy RP where you don't explore what it means to be a spy.