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So...

When did everyone start rping, where and who was your first character? Mine was on a browser game that also had forum rp going on. I was a Jaffa called Tul'ak I think his name was

I read a lot of Wikipedia pages about the concept of role-playing and it's many forms before deciding I liked the sound of it's forum based variant. I signed up for RolePlayerGuild in 2012 when I was thirteen, looked at some Teen Titans RP that had a CS that included a picture of the initial New 52 Superboy and started to formulate a sheet (probably for a Robin) before wussing out for like six months. I came back and started an interest check in the free section for a "street level Justice League" before failing to get anything to coagulate, so I nixed it and joined Byrd's UDC as Ultimate Dick Grayson, a cop who had never been trained by Batman but was still Robin.
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Can we devolve the thread into Dick Grayson jokes now?
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Marginally.

EDIT: For some reason, it didn't quite MB. Whatever, too lazy to fix it now.
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Yeah. I... did that, too. To say that I was a massive dickhole whenever it came to Batman at the time is a massive understatement. I had my issues with how JRK portrayed Bruce, but looking back on it, I shudder at my borderline harassment behavior. I wish the dude was still around so that I could've made amends before the games tanked.

Thankfully, I'm marginally less of a dickhole about Batman (and in general) now.

Kinda curious about these issues. World of Heroes is one of the games I never read the archives of.
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Yeah. I... did that, too. To say that I was a massive dickhole whenever it came to Batman at the time is a massive understatement. I had my issues with how JRK portrayed Bruce, but looking back on it, I shudder at my borderline harassment behavior. I wish the dude was still around so that I could've made amends before the games tanked.

Thankfully, I'm marginally less of a dickhole about Batman (and in general) now.


It's okay, fam. All has been forgiven. But not forgotten...
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I played Batman for a single post? Or was it just an application? Or all a fever dream? I just remember stepping in (or wanting to step in) because MB finally stepped down, and I knew there'd be no other chance.

And sure enough, there hasn't been...




But yeah, no, I've gotten that plenty of times over the years. I am a complete Bat-hog in any game I participate.
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<Snipped quote by Byrd Man>

Yeah. I... did that, too. To say that I was a massive dickhole whenever it came to Batman at the time is a massive understatement. I had my issues with how JRK portrayed Bruce, but looking back on it, I shudder at my borderline harassment behavior. I wish the dude was still around so that I could've made amends before the games tanked.

Thankfully, I'm marginally less of a dickhole about Batman (and in general) now.


I can relate to this insofar as I never quite warmed to Spider-Man9x17, who held the throne I coveted. I don't think I was ever actively a dickhead to the guy, though. (Passively, I'm a dickhead to everybody, so that doesn't count.)
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I read a lot of Wikipedia pages about the concept of role-playing and it's many forms before deciding I liked the sound of it's forum based variant. I signed up for RolePlayerGuild in 2012 when I was thirteen, looked at some Teen Titans RP that had a CS that included a picture of the initial New 52 Superboy and started to formulate a sheet (probably for a Robin) before wussing out for like six months. I came back and started an interest check in the free section for a "street level Justice League" before failing to get anything to coagulate, so I nixed it and joined Byrd's UDC as Ultimate Dick Grayson, a cop who had never been trained by Batman but was still Robin.

1) That was Ultimate One Universe. Henry ran that one.

2) You joined Master Bruce's UDC in 2013 as Green Arrow before that.
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@Inkarnate is apparently our stenographer. Good to know I don't have to waste energy trying to remember all this shit anymore...
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Can we devolve the thread into Dick Grayson jokes now?


I think Titans has us covered for any potential Dick Grayson jokes in the foreseeable future.

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@Inkarnate is apparently our stenographer. Good to know I don't have to waste energy trying to remember all this shit anymore...

I was the 2013 game's archivist for awhile...
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I think Titans has us covered for any potential Dick Grayson jokes in the foreseeable future.



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1) That was Ultimate One Universe. Henry ran that one.

2) You joined Master Bruce's UDC in 2013 as Green Arrow before that.


I don't think so. Pretty distinctly remember Ultimate Dick Grayson being my first because the guy's playing The Question and Solomon Grundy name-dropped my Grayson shortly before it died. Though I did have a brief, terrible GA run that had a bank robbery and... nothing else, I think.
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Kinda curious about these issues. World of Heroes is one of the games I never read the archives of.


I only jumped on to World of Heroes during its last two seasons or so, and I remember it being a real mixed bag. There was a big Legion-of-Doom-style arc which I remember nearly driving me to rage-quit-- there was a lot of really unsavory stuff in that arc like the Teen Titans getting captured and tortured (including Arrowette getting raped by Doctor Light while Deathstroke murdered Supergirl with a Kryptonite sword that he just...had, somehow), the Joker nuking Metropolis (without the player asking the Superman player [me] beforehand), and the heroes just kind of having to let them get away with it because we couldn't violate the no-kill rule, making the Justice League and everyone else look like a bunch of ineffectual losers.

I got so fed up with it that I eventually decided "to hell with it" and had Superman spend the entire next season in space, fight the ghost of General Zod in the Source Wall, and then spend the season after that bumping around outside the multiverse and fight Goku and stuff. That was sort of the start of me keeping my proverbial toys to myself.

On the other hand, I've been told by everyone else that they had really great experiences playing WoH, and it's the one game a lot of the older Basement-dwellers wax nostalgic about. But yeah, I....don't.
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I don't think so. Pretty distinctly remember Ultimate Dick Grayson being my first because the guy's playing The Question and Solomon Grundy name-dropped my Grayson shortly before it died. Though I did have a brief, terrible GA run that had a bank robbery and... nothing else, I think.

Pretty sure. Unless you did Robin more than once. But then again, I don't remember a UDC on Roleplayer's Guild run by Byrd either.
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Kinda curious about these issues. World of Heroes is one of the games I never read the archives of.


Long story short, JRK was a massive fan of The Dark Knight Returns (so am I, not judging) and unironically loved All-Star Batman & Robin. But to a problematic degree. Half of the time, he wrote Batman as he should be, with the whole no guns and no killing rule and a general sense of heroism. And then half of the time he'd pull random Miller-esque shit that felt incredibly out of place, to the point that a couple of our veteran players had to call him out for having Bruce kneecap a motherfucker with a gun in one of the middle seasons out of nowhere. And this wasn't an Ultimate game, this was meant to be a game where it went off of the current comics at the time. His Batman just had weird Millerism tourettes, almost.

But, even so, he didn't need a dude hanging around him all of the time making half-jokes about how if he slipped up even once, his character would be pounced on. And I should say that despite all of these issues, I still quite enjoyed his writing with the character most of the time. He was a good Batman for the game when he was on point. I was just a jealous little bitch who wanted to usurp him in what I considered the "official" Hype DC game.
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Pretty sure. Unless you did Robin more than once. But then again, I don't remember a UDC on Roleplayer's Guild run by Byrd either.


Yeah. The thing you're quoting happened, but after the thing I'm talking about. It's probably for the best that you can't find my posts from it. But it's from when Byrd was dipping his toe in the water over here.
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Pretty sure. Unless you did Robin more than once. But then again, I don't remember a UDC on Roleplayer's Guild run by Byrd either.


I forgot about that game. And I don't remember running any superhero game as the main GM since I've been here.
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I forgot about that game. And I don't remember running any superhero game as the main GM since I've been here.

So do I. Don't really like how I wrote Deadpool or didn't post as Aquaman. But I've had pretty consistent issues in these games with staying focused.
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having Bruce kneecap a motherfucker with a gun


Looks to one of MB's posts in the IC.
Yeah. Fuck the kind of writers who would to that.
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