DevourerofLove

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chronos Curse! (NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPS)

Sorry for late start. IRL issues. I'll be able to do an intro post later on tonight.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chronos Curse! (NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPS)

Sorry, it's probably not a great idea to respond to me with .gifs because I'm not really accustomed to people using images as a form of communication, so I'm not sure if I miss understood your intentions or you are being a total jerk. For now, I'm going to assume the former.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chronos Curse! (NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPS)

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@The_written_John

Jesus Christ! Sorry for using a minimum amount of color when I talk! I'll remember to be dull and literal about everything from now on.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chronos Curse! (NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPS)

Should be fine so long as other people leave well enough alone. I am not an open book for other people to read and critique, and I hate it when people treat me like one. I don't even know you guys and you're already asking me about sensitive topics. I came here to RP, not to be interrogated.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chronos Curse! (NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPS)

Whether you decided to listen to it and improve or ignore it and regress inwards is up to you.

@LeeRoy

Apparently it's possible to improve upon the way I create characters by listening to people call me a fucking retard for making a black character. There's a word for it, actually, it's called being a push over, and letting other people walk all over you. I COULD stop people harassing me by completely changing her appearance or ripping out entire segments of her back-story (i.e. all the things that people I RP with LIKE about the character). But that wouldn't be a real improvement, now, would it? Of course, judging by the way you have spoken to me thus far, you would probably believe that it would be. Because creative freedom takes a MAJOR back seat to conforming to other people's (Even people you don't RP with) draconian standards in the RP community. Quite frankly, though, it's none of your business. Sure, go ahead, look down on me because I don't want to listen to your quote-end-quote "Judgement", I don't give a shit.

*SIGH* This is the reason why I keep to myself 99% of the time.

How to be a good GM?

Another example is when I ran an evil campaign where the players were part of a necromancy cult and one of the players (The same one who made the terrible Crystal Pony) came up with some bullshit reason why their neutral character would be hanging with Necromancers, involving being based on some con-artist character on TV, because they didn't want to play an evil character (Even though they seem to be perfectly willing to play as a character who is a total jerk to everyone. I really hate that Crystal Pony). I ended up telling them to actually make an evil character or just don't play. They chose the latter. (This would technically count as a failure, since having such a limited pool of players means it's more important to try to get everyone involved than to just have the RP run the way I want it to. But at the time I was already frustrated at them)

How to be a good GM?

I have RolePlayed without a GMPC (Game Master controlled Player Character) exactly once! The players harassed the character I'd designated to be their contact to the underground for no reason, they shot an old man to death, and burnt down a building (That last one was by accident, but still...). Then they spent the next couple of days roleplaying the downtime they had in between missions, which I had no involvement in what so ever. The next in game morning, I introduced my GMPC, who had her own sub-plot that was never fulfilled by the campaign's end unfortunately. After that the game was our second most successful RP amongst our group.

Now that I think about it, the best GMPCs that have been involved in our group were characters who were some-how incorporated into the campaign's storyline.

I don't have much experience with RolePlaying with people who aren't close friends who I didn't meet outside of setting up the RP, so things like God-Modding, misbehaving players, DMs being an asshole and Munchins aren't really things I've ever had to deal with.

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One of the biggest obstacles I've encountered as a DM is actually getting the players to let me actually DM. One RP we did, somebody wanted to play as a Chaotic Good Changeling. I rejected the idea out of hand (Both because Changelings are arrested on sight, ESPECIALLY if they try to disguise as another race, in this particular setting and because we already had another special snowflake in the form of a Chrystal Pony, who I'd already established beforehand didn't exist in this setting but the player really wanted to play a Chrystal Pony (And their character ended up sucking so hard that they single-handedly ruined the RP anyway!)) and they cracked the shits at me.

Things you Google while writing.

When there are multiple words that sound the same but are spelled differently and I want to make sure I use the right word. Also sometimes I use it to correct spelling because Google seems to have a better spell checker than every other program I use for some reason.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chronos Curse! (NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPS)

Kay, link me to this character then.

I want to see it for myself.

@LeeRoy

I'd rather not. I've had more than enough people judge me based entirely on early drafts of the character who has probably gone through the roughest development stage for me.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chronos Curse! (NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPS)

If having your characters called Mary Sues is something that happens frequently, maybe they're onto something.
Just saying.

@LeeRoy

It's because "bronies" started putting my main OC onto shit lists, and using images of her without my permission, and then going onto my deviantArt account and being verbally abusive towards me when I demanded that the mods remove said images. All because she's a black unicorn with wings; even though her back-story (which nobody bothers to read) explains why she has wings (She is not an alicorn. Doesn't stop people from being verbally abusive towards me for having an alicorn OC, which should not matter anyway). I've even already stated that she wouldn't exist in her main form in the canon setting. One of a couple of reasons why I don't call myself a pegasister, despite liking MLP.

And no, they are not "onto something." People who throw the term Mary Sue around are all idiots who don't even know the definition of the term.

Sorry if that came off as a bit ranty. There's a reason I don't like to talk about it.