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

[Aalakrys]

@Gimple
That's a pretty awesome map. What software did you use? I am being a total hypocrite and not reading all of our post because it is close to bedtime, but from what I saw, I really like the set up you did. I was just complaining to my boyfriend today about how I can never find a good group to tabletop with. In my usual one, we have that one person who takes over and doesn't listen to anything anyone says and makes it kind of miserable for everyone. Sidenote - I saw someone today who is new that may be right up your alley once he/she gets more comfortable roleplaying ... let's see if I can find the name ... *wanders off* ... *comes back from the greeting forum covered in cobwebs* TurntechGallows, that's their name. They might bite from what I saw they posted as greeting. I'll push them in your direction. :D PSS: I hate that post count ridiculousness too. I had a four+ year text-based roleplay running with two of my friends before I discovered this place existed!

[Aalakrys]

[quote=@Pair of Hearts]
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Well, now. I'm guilty of this, since most of my plots are safe.

@wolf pawsI agree with you on the 'sexy times' part making that the rating of 18+, but I actually don't want to get in trouble for teenagers wanting to roleplay beings that I'm over 18. I do mostly slice of life roleplays with romance, so it's all normal and stuff ... which means sexy times could happen. Basically, I'm blathering because I just wanted to let you know we're not all jerks who have one thing in mind when we post 18+. And, I was also guilty of not having it on there until I saw this post. ^^; Haha, so, thanks!

Edit: Oh dear, I broke the thing ...

[Tim the Yeti]

@Faded Memory

I used an online thing called Inkarnate. It's a simple tool (it's still in Beta) but it's free and easy to toy around with until you get something that looks good. If you just play around with it, you'll eventually find something that works for you.

[Aalakrys]

@Gimple Thanks a ton! My friends and I have already gathered to geekfest over it. Haha.

[Pair of Hearts]

@Gimple
People like you who share goof stuff need a badge. Like a good scout. //srs nod

EDIT: Mistyped 'good' as 'goof'. Must be the avatar. :9

[Tim the Yeti]

@Pair of Hearts@Faded Memory

I'm happy to help. If you ever want any tips on what I've learned. Just PM me.

[Rica]

@wolf paws: See I'm starting to consider hiding my 18+ into my post because I end up running into a lot of people who take the 18+ to mean an RP that's barely toeing the line of cyber sex. @___@

When really it's there as a warning that sexytimes between characters can happen but I still fully expect the effort you'd expect from any other RP. I'm not here to write sex, I'm here to write character interaction and a lot of the times romance. And sex has a lot to do with both of them.

It's gotten to the point where people see the 18+ and completely ignore that I specifically want f/f romance, which is right in the title. M/f and m/m only being on the table when doubling is involved, described in the post.

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On a related note: READ THE WHOLE POST.

I've had so many people ask me questions that could've been answered if they just read my post. I'm a pretty flexible RPer, as such there are very few original ideas I won't do. So I haven't bothered to make a list of genres for original RPs because I am willing to do almost anything.

I explain this in my post, directly before listing fandoms I like and are willing to RP with.

You know how many times I get 'Well I don't know many fandoms and don't really RP them...'.

Great. Good. If you read the damn post you'd know I'm perfectly alright with original RPs.

-grumbles-

[Mixtape Ghost N]

When you tell someone how to improve their character sheet, and they just turn into a baby and give up on the RP. lol

[Pair of Hearts]

@Rica
I considered slapping on an 18+ sticker for my dark roleplays because it'll be morbid like "Exorcism of Mary Rose", but worry people think it's more like "Fifty Shades of Grey". :c

@Mr Allen J
I usually try to coax them into giving me "just enough for me to know how the first arc of the roleplay goes". Too much and I feel bad if the roleplay falls apart; too little and I don't know how to co-pilot the baby.

Speaking of rants about CS ...

Messy Character Sheets.

I don't expect you to go da Vinci on me with the BBCodes.

I'm asking for a bit of bolding for category title, keeping different images for one person in hider(s) instead of cascading, and not clumping paragraphs like mashed potato.

Is it really rocket science to put a character profile together?

[Rica]

I considered slapping on an 18+ sticker for my dark roleplays because it'll be morbid like "Exorcism of Mary Rose", but worry people think it's more like "Fifty Shades of Grey". :c

@Pair of Hearts

I had one person, despite the clear f/f in the title of my ad, as for a m/m pairing right away. :| And they clearly wanted a exclusively smut RP because when I explained I wanted f/f only they immediately asked for a sado-maso RP...

Messy Character Sheets.

I don't expect you to go da Vinci on me with the BBCodes.

I'm asking for a bit of bolding for category title, keeping different images for one person in hider(s) instead of cascading, and not clumping paragraphs like mashed potato.

Is it really rocket science to put a character profile together?

@Pair of Hearts

That bugs me too. I try really hard to make my character sheets look nice. And it's not actually that difficult!

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Messy Character Sheets.

I don't expect you to go da Vinci on me with the BBCodes.

I'm asking for a bit of bolding for category title, keeping different images for one person in hider(s) instead of cascading, and not clumping paragraphs like mashed potato.

Is it really rocket science to put a character profile together?

@Pair of Hearts

This is especially egregious when you provide them with the coding to use.

[Pair of Hearts]

@Mr Allen J
How do you do that? [code]?

@Rica
Ah, that. On some rare occasions, people who like homoerotic pairings assume others who do as well, except they don't wonder why people who like F/F have no interest in M/M.

It's like, "We both like Skittles! What's the problem?" "Yeah, but I only like the green ones. No reds, sorry."

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Mr Allen J
How do you do that?

@Pair of Hearts

Yup, just wrap your sheet in [pre] tags!

[Rica]

Ah, that. On some rare occasions, people who like homoerotic pairings assume others who do as well, except they don't wonder why people who like F/F have no interest in M/M.

It's like, "We both like Skittles! What's the problem?" "Yeah, but I only like the green ones. No reds, sorry."

@Pair of Hearts

Yeah like...I'm a queer woman! Part of my reasons for roleplaying is to play out relationships I'm not going to get for myself from media. And queer women are even rarer than queer men in media and even worse when they do show up they're usually killed off or alone and miserable because we can't be happy in the end either.

So I roleplay mostly queer women characters. So people acting like I must also play queer men is kind of rude.

[Pair of Hearts]

@Rica
I recommend 'Avatar: Legend of Korra'. Straight chick and straight chick like the same guy, then fall in love with each other. The lesbian faction triumphs! //joke-ish

[Rica]

@Pair of Hearts Hahaha I watched it already actually! I love Korrasami <333 But one pair out of god knows how many dead queer women doesn't fix things you know?

It's like someone asking you to pay for a pile of rotten fish because ONE fish wasn't rotten. xP

But I shouldn't go on this rant here. Gender and sexuality politics in media is a long complex thing that needs it's own topic elsewhere.

[NuttsnBolts]

When you tell someone how to improve their character sheet, and they just turn into a baby and give up on the RP. lol

@Mr Allen J

Imagine what they'd be like IF you accepted them. Seen it before and these guys tend to ruin an RP.

[Pair of Hearts]

@NuttsnBolts
I find it difficult to decline applications. Makes me feel ungrateful or something. Although I also acknowledge a good GM needs to know how to put down a foot. Burgh.

[FantasyChic]

When you tell someone how to improve their character sheet, and they just turn into a baby and give up on the RP. lol

@Mr Allen J

I can think of a few people like this and I am sure we both can come up with a certain individual we both have seen.

[Gowi]

I've run into it quite often, had a whole grammatical debate over it once because the guy perceived not being accepted as an attack.