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

[January]

@Weird Tales

OOC: Even if you're religious, that's no excuse to impose your biases on other individuals. Being religious just makes your stance understandable, but, in the context of an RP, I'd hardly call it permissible. If your religion is that strongly opposed to characters people have made, politely talk it over with them and hope they don't find you horribly offensive for demanding they change some core aspect of their character to fit your personal needs. If they refuse, either suck it up or join a different RP and hope for the best.

IC: Religious characters with strong to zealous beliefs add a good measure of spice to character interactions. This is a welcome thing, usually.

IC: Religious characters who are flagrant self-inserts intended to chastise all characters who disparage religion in one way or another can still be a good thing with a group who can roll with the punches. Usually, though, these characters just get damn annoying since self-inserts rarely develop past flat characterization and vapid interactions.

On another grievance along the lines of "so edgy you're making me bleed" characters, I already dislike the basis of those characters, first of all, and then, more specifically, I feel their sharp pain every time someone writes in an "Extras" section or a "Hidden Aspects" section that the aforementioned Edgy McEdgepants is actually a giant teddy bear who loves people with all of his giant teddy bear heart, but because his body is made of diamond-edged razors he tends to be misunderstood by those around him, something which cuts his heart so deeply he is eternally hemorrhaging inside, so his agony is twofold and very badass.

Sometimes, I'm so touched by their depth that I cry black tears for those kinds of characters.

[Rin]

Hmmm, anyone else notice that the people who are always most interested in playing villain characters also turn out to be the ones least suited to doing so?

Just something I've tended to notice over the years, I guess.

[Strawberry425]

On another grievance along the lines of "so edgy you're making me bleed" characters, I already dislike the basis of those characters, first of all, and then, more specifically, I feel their sharp pain every time someone writes in an "Extras" section or a "Hidden Aspects" section that the aforementioned Edgy McEdgepants is actually a giant teddy bear who loves people with all of his giant teddy bear heart, but because his body is made of diamond-edged razors he tends to be misunderstood by those around him, something which cuts his heart so deeply he is eternally hemorrhaging inside, so his agony is twofold and very badass.

Sometimes, I'm so touched by their depth that I cry black tears for those kinds of characters.

@January

A truly accurate, inspirational, and poetic description.

On a serious note, word. Too bad people, for all of eternity, will always be creating these types of characters.

[Weird Tales]

@Weird Tales

OOC: Even if you're religious, that's no excuse to impose your biases on other individuals. Being religious just makes your stance understandable, but, in the context of an RP, I'd hardly call it permissible. If your religion is that strongly opposed to characters people have made, politely talk it over with them and hope they don't find you horribly offensive for demanding they change some core aspect of their character to fit your personal needs. If they refuse, either suck it up or join a different RP and hope for the best.

IC: Religious characters with strong to zealous beliefs add a good measure of spice to character interactions. This is a welcome thing, usually.

IC: Religious characters who are flagrant self-inserts intended to chastise all characters who disparage religion in one way or another can still be a good thing with a group who can roll with the punches. Usually, though, these characters just get damn annoying since self-inserts rarely develop past flat characterization and vapid interactions.

On another grievance along the lines of "so edgy you're making me bleed" characters, I already dislike the basis of those characters, first of all, and then, more specifically, I feel their sharp pain every time someone writes in an "Extras" section or a "Hidden Aspects" section that the aforementioned Edgy McEdgepants is actually a giant teddy bear who loves people with all of his giant teddy bear heart, but because his body is made of diamond-edged razors he tends to be misunderstood by those around him, something which cuts his heart so deeply he is eternally hemorrhaging inside, so his agony is twofold and very badass.

Sometimes, I'm so touched by their depth that I cry black tears for those kinds of characters.

@January

Most people who get butthurt over sexualized characters are social justice warriors, I've yet to see a religious person complain on here.

On the subject of edgy characters, I find it is more of how much of a douche bag they are that makes me dislike them. Like I dislike punk and pessimistic characters because it's done to make them look smart or cool. Smart ass characters are more annoying

[January]

@Weird Tales

I was just referring to the "if you're religious it's understandable" part.

[Weird Tales]

@Weird Tales

I was just referring to the "if you're religious it's understandable" part.

@January

In that case, while I disagree with their dogma at least they are more honest and don't rely on professional victimhood.

[tsukune]

As much as those who don't like edgy characters...

This is a trend I noticed more in lower level RPs: overly crazy characters whose insanity don't fit well within the RP context. Nothing wrong to create a nutty type, but don't go overboard and turn that madness into indirect cyberbullying. Other players are nice enough to close one eye to the uncalled intrusion, so at least be polite enough not to act like a douchebag on their characters with your terrible attempt at making a Joker clone.

[Vrrak]

My first advanced RP back on oldguild I spent probably 12 hours catching up on the plot, reading the posts, making a character, then 3-4 hours per post. I got 3 sentences directed toward my character over 4 posts (The average post length in this RP was 2-3 pages). I said lines toward 5 different characters in that time and made so much effort to interact to just get ignored. Eventually I just stopped posting in the thread and no one seemed to even notice. I stopped RPing for about 6 months after that, and haven't touched advanced or joined any long in progress RPs since. Yeah, getting ignored sucks. It really gets under my skin when I see it happening.

[Royzooka]

Six months ago I had a partner who made RPing a chore and completely sucked the fun out of it. Basically they were like you must go here and you must do this and must say something like that. They would say why did you do this action such as walking and I was like I did not say I was walking, I mentioned standing up and picking something up but nothing about walking. Like a side table or desk was impossible or even unreal. I think the said person made their character OP somewhere down the line, they were really being Batman/Superman. Stop controlling me, go write a novel if you are going to do that.

People who bail annoy me too, more because they are too scared to say they are leaving. I am not going to hunt you down because you want to leave, but at least me nice enough to say I am dropping because I am busy or I lost interest.

[Unfortunately]

On another grievance along the lines of "so edgy you're making me bleed" characters, I already dislike the basis of those characters, first of all, and then, more specifically, I feel their sharp pain every time someone writes in an "Extras" section or a "Hidden Aspects" section that the aforementioned Edgy McEdgepants is actually a giant teddy bear who loves people with all of his giant teddy bear heart, but because his body is made of diamond-edged razors he tends to be misunderstood by those around him, something which cuts his heart so deeply he is eternally hemorrhaging inside, so his agony is twofold and very badass.

Sometimes, I'm so touched by their depth that I cry black tears for those kinds of characters.

@January

kek

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SJWs, my God!

If I ever encounter one, regardless of whether they're a roleplay mate or an uninvolved no-fun-allowed police suddenly barging in, I'm just going to flat out ignore them as if they've never existed in every dimension on a quantum level.

Even if the others that weren't intended to be targeted reply in my defense. Damn it if they do.

[Rin]

Seriously if you're going to sign up for a project (not even an RP, just a project) that has a limited amount of spaces, actually try and contribute and don't just sit around saying practically nothing for a month before suddenly popping in and saying "oh whoops, I have no idea what's going on! Dropping kthnx". There might have been other people who were interested and were willing to take part in discussion and, y'know, contribute to the whole thing that couldn't because you were taking up one of the limited spaces! It's... Incredibly selfish and irresponsible, and it honestly pisses me off immensely.

I mean hey, I'll admit that I've had to drop from stuff sometimes because I lost track of things due to illness or block or real life stuff, but even then I at least try to contribute and if there were a limited amount of spaces I wouldn't wait an entire month with NO contribution to anything at all before saying I was dropping! Ugh, seriously...

...So that was a bit more, uh, angry than what I usually post here but um yeah.

Have a cute baby bunny to make up for it.

[Weird Tales]

I'm very supportive of GMs' decisions and how they want to run an rp, but I hate it when a GM is fine with a character's main powers, but gets nit-picky with secondary powers that were for the purpose of merely adding to the theme of the character. I had a GM do this to me because he wanted characters to not mirror each other in powers, even though there was only one other with a power that was a slight bit similar. Also it only had to do with the character having the increased senses of a particular animal so it wasn't superhuman strnegth or durability or an attack, it was just a minor ability.

So yeah I understand that it's great for a roleplay to have diverse characters with diverse powers, but there's almost always going to be overlap and getting nit-picky at powers that don't make the character OP or used to much does not help with getting people to join.

I know this has been brought up before, but Casual gets so much drama that it can kill rps

[Tulpa]

[Fillet]

GMs whose character sheet tells of someone who's near perfect, whose only imperfection in power or personality is so minor that it's eye-rolling insignificant and added on as if to say, "There, that's their flaw!" E.g, a master swordsman who's well versed in magic, languages, music and only-moderately capable in guns (that humble pie!), a philanthropist and empathetic in any situation, whose only weakness is his friends in danger.

If I had known the GM would make a character so strong to play with the rest of us as equals in the game, I wouldn't have created a character whose abilities are like a freshly graduated mage. Then again, both as a player and GM, I like characters who start out weak and mortal, to develop into something else surprising down the line; I don't like to detail out every aspect of amazingness my character could have, esp power-wise, right in the beginning of the story. I feel it's limiting.

[Royzooka]

I am going to say it, people who drop you even before the RP begins. I mean the part where the RP is set up and discussed but then drops dead for some reason. I keep getting them and it makes me drop off the radar for a while though when I come back it is the same. Don't get me wrong, I know there are busy people and then we have the lets pretend you don't exist. I really don't bother to contact RPers who are silent for a while, I just assume they will get to me if they are busy. I used to contact players but gave up when all I got was nothing, 30 people and only like 5 would say something back. If I could be bothered I would write a who I should avoid list (privately) but if I do that I would probably have no one to do anything with, plus it would take effort just to do something that seems petty.

I guess blowing up champions with my rocket ult on League helps me a bit, go team Jinx.

[Spybuster]

@Tulpa I feel exactly the same way sometimes, and thus I vanish for extended periods of time. Perhaps i'm just picky, but i'm not a super big fandom person. I generally prefer things that don't have any direct ties to a certain series or existing setting. To be honest, I feel like that right now. Nothing that really interest me at the moment. Nothing i've seen anyway...

But when I still have an urge to write I usually put it off. If it festers for too long, I find myself going to Word or Google Docs to jot down small tidbits or ideas. Usually helps, but I don't feel much comes from it.

[NuttsnBolts]

@Royzooka I believe that some people enjoy making character sheets more than actually Roleplaying. I somewhat notice that when some people have these amazingly designed characters, but their writing skills in the RP are simply average.

[Royzooka]

@Royzooka I believe that some people enjoy making character sheets more than actually Roleplaying. I somewhat notice that when some people have these amazingly designed characters, but their writing skills in the RP are simply average.

@NuttsnBolts

Yeah that is cool and all but most of the time we do not even reach the CS stage, it is like the RP has a heart attack and dies.

[NuttsnBolts]

@Royzooka Oh I get ya (Soz, tired with slight headache again). People that say they're interested so you go to the effort of starting things up and setting up a new RP, only to find no one follows through. Heh... Yeah, that's part of the reason why I'm not interested in GMing anymore as I put in a fair bit of effort to start up some RPs and all of them never really took off. :\

[boomlover]

That moment when you think someone is gonna react but just leaves.