Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

[Little Bill]

Oh boy! Better start writing my character sheet!

Height: 6'2

[Sprokkelhout]

<Snipped quote by Piddle>

"What do you think?"
"Sounds cool."
"I was thinking of ___, too. But I wanna hear your thoughts too!"
"Lol anything is fine with me."

@Pair of Hearts

Yeah, exactly that. Even had someone reply with 'I don't really care' once. Pulled the plug on that RP straight away. I get not always being full of ideas, but you can at least try, right?

[Pair of Hearts]

Newfound Peeve:

"I wanna' do an RP where it's Depressed X Normal. I'm the Depressed!"

*when roleplay begins*

All they ever do is be negative and spurn every attempt. 30 posts in, still the same. Bonus if they never write more than 50 words per post. If you ask to speed it up, they get batshit upset because GUESS WHO WAS SELF-INSERTING?

If you need help IRL, get appropriate help. Don't try to sneak on people through roleplaying.

[AtlasRedfox]

If you need help IRL, get appropriate help. Don't try to sneak on people through roleplaying.

@Pair of Hearts

*Moody sigh*

But self inserting into a RP is cheaper than therapy.... j/k

Yeah, exactly that. Even had someone reply with 'I don't really care' once. Pulled the plug on that RP straight away. I get not always being full of ideas, but you can at least try, right?

@Piddle

Serious? They just need a high five to the face with a chair. Nothing worse than trying to drag a RP through when the other party won't put in any effort.

[NuttsnBolts]

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*Moody sigh*

But self inserting into a RP is cheaper than therapy.... j/k

@AtlasRedfox

*Looks at previous character list*

God I hope I haven't self inserted myself into my characters considering my weirdest is a girl who can mutate her body at will to form a horrifying mutant being that is an alter ego of her reborn dead twin sister that died during their pregnancy and got absorbed into Eppie.

Either that or at that time I was enjoying horror like movies... but movies aren't real so I think I'm just crazy. :)

[The Elvenqueen]

When you look back on posts from a couple months+ ago and you realise there are so many other things you wish you had added/could change about the scenarios you'd written out because it would have made them a bajillion times better ;w;

[Gowi]

When you look back on posts from a couple months+ ago and you realise there are so many other things you wish you had added/could change about the scenarios you'd written out because it would have made them a bajillion times better ;w;

@The Elvenqueen

Change the bolded to years for me and I definitely agree with the sentiment. Lots of nostalgic regret.

[Lady Absinthia]

Oh this is probably already mentioned but right now it is something that is on the top of my irk list. People not playing to character.

They will list out in their characters psychology on a cs that they act one way, then in rp everything posted for them comes out contradictory to that characters set up. A timid character who is quiet suddenly in every post is brave and mouthy. A character that always is supposed to think things through is always jumping in and never considering any angle.

Or even worse, people who say their character suddenly know things their history and set have no mention of. A priest who has never seen a weapon much less battle suddenly is a sword master. A student in high school suddenly has the medical knowledge of the head cardiothoracics at the Mayo Clinic.

And the worst for me is an Rper using their OOC knowledge and attitude to post for their character, combining both the above and then some to where you are left face palming mumbling "stay in fucking character!!!"

[The Darklight Project]

A student in high school suddenly has the medical knowledge of the head cardiothoracics at the Mayo Clinic.

@Lady Amalthea

You're... you're exaggerating right? Please tell me you're exaggerating.

[The Elvenqueen]

Oh this is probably already mentioned but right now it is something that is on the top of my irk list. People not playing to character.

They will list out in their characters psychology on a cs that they act one way, then in rp everything posted for them comes out contradictory to that characters set up. A timid character who is quiet suddenly in every post is brave and mouthy. A character that always is supposed to think things through is always jumping in and never considering any angle.

Or even worse, people who say their character suddenly know things their history and set have no mention of. A priest who has never seen a weapon much less battle suddenly is a sword master. A student in high school suddenly has the medical knowledge of the head cardiothoracics at the Mayo Clinic.

And the worst for me is an Rper using their OOC knowledge and attitude to post for their character, combining both the above and then some to where you are left face palming mumbling "stay in fucking character!!!"

@Lady Amalthea

Oh man yeah I feel you there. Especially when people do this for Canon characters as well and STILL screw up their personalities or whatever. Like I get that it can be challenging sometimes when the character's not yours but when it's obvious that they're not even trying (or it'seems THEIR OC which they set the parameters for) it just leaves me going T_T

and yeah, I'm not perfect and sometimes I'm guilty of being careless/scatter brained and doing some of the things you mentioned but I try my hardest to keep to the personalities and histories I set for my characters. Sometimes they change slightly as the rp develops and I improve the ideas and/or replace them with better ones, and very occasionally I'll make it up completely as I go along (which usually doesn't end well lol)

[Lady Absinthia]

@The Darklight Project I wish I was, but that was actually something I ran into in an rp years ago. Guy got shot in an rp and suddenly this 16 year old who was on the verge of dropping out was trying to remove said bullet. The post itself was in depth and on the money, but I was left slack jawed because the character was typed to have this knowledge. Explanation when confronted - "Well I googled it, if I can Google it, so can he."

[Lady Absinthia]

@The Elvenqueen We all slip from time to time. Or characters develop and blossom. Heck I can even go with "extenuating circumstances" (a quiet mother suddenly is biTching out someone like there is no tomorrow, but hey you messed with their kid.) - So there is always that chance for a small or even larger change under the right conditions but that sudden out of no where complete 180 makes me want to break shit, lol.

[Gowi]

"Well I googled it, if I can Google it, so can he."

[Lady Absinthia]

@Gowi Yup, that about sums up my reaction.

[Wick]

I hate when someone wants to post as a potential mate for my charachter and they write him like an emo little boy. What would make anyone go for a guy who cries all of the time? Make your guy a GUY not a little crybaby.

[The Darklight Project]

@WickI mean to be completely fair to both sides I have to ask: is the roleplay set in middle-school/high-school? Because that was seen as attractive in my school.

For... some reason...

[Wick]

@The Darklight Project

No, this has been something that I've had a writer do with several of his charachters. The scene has always been with over 25yrs old adults. I don't do school rp's.

[Gowi]

or you know men are a little more complicated then "grrrr masculine!"

[Wick]

@The Darklight Project@Gowi

All I know is it's hard to match a weak guy to a strong female. She is going to want to beat him up not fall for him.

[Rin]

@The Darklight Project@Gowi

All I know is it's hard to match a weak guy to a strong female. She is going to want to beat him up not fall for him.

@Wick

Or dominate him. That could happen too! :D

...Ahem, um...

So hey, after bouts of sickness, random breakdowns and worst of all the dreaded writer's block, I start to wonder if I'm really actually cut out for RPing anymore. It's... Annoying to say the least, since it's been one of the longest running hobbies I've ever had, but when I can't even get anything done anymore thanks to outside influence I just... Hum.

Not much substance in this rant really but hey, something I should've said something about a while back.