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

@The Grey Dust yessir.

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

@Bishop and that's the difference between, what is in my opinion, good writing and bad writing.

If you write 'Bob uses his tracking skills to track the bandits' what is my character gonna do? You didn't describe anything except that he did tracking. What is he doing, tasting shit that bandits left behind? Looking at their bootprints with a magnifying glass? IDK, not a lot to respond to with my character. So all I can say is 'my character watches Bob track'. Nice. Good post.

And yes I was talking about intellect, which I stated kinda. But it wasn't very clear. Even so I disagree. I am a martial artist myself (woe me, I hate saying that, but I have a black belt so I suppose I know a thing or two about my respective martial arts style, so just ignore the air of arrogance that sentence causes and bear with me). The amount of shit I've seen written because a character was a supposed genius has me shaking my head in displeasure. Just because he's a genius doesn't mean the way you write him is immediately sensical.

Calling him a genius is not the same as him actually showing traits of a genius. Telling is worse than showing. It's writing theory 101. The only time telling is more acceptable than showing is in free roleplay, when you can't be arsed writing a paragraph explaining the details of what you are doing. Any other time it is, again in my humble opinion as I am not the perfect roleplay, impermissible.

It's the equivalent of calling yourself a genius of martial arts when you don't understand a thing about it, and then trying to do a crane kick in real life. It's just silly, it doesn't work, and it makes you look like a moron. The same goes for you as a writer. Don't pose your character as a master of chemistry and then say he 'mixes together some fluids' and creates gold. That's just silly.

But coming back to the original point, yes I was referring to intellect. I do believe 100% that if you are not a genius, you cannot accurately play a genius without powergaming, metagaming or godmoding. If your way of playing a ultra-perceptive character is to metagame in information to show off how perceptive he is, you're a bad roleplayer and you should feel bad.

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

@Lalliman lol, I've never seen that myself except in silly anime-like RP's where it honestly makes more sense, but yeah if you're going for a realistic RP you should take care to show, not tell, how smart your character is.

Which is why I honestly believe that you have to be a genius to play a genius. And part of that might be having a lot of knowledge about a given topic.

It's easy to downscale knowledge (anyone can play a dumbass that knows nothing), but it's very very hard to upscale knowledge (you can't know what you can't understand) and thus it's hard to play a character that is 'above you' so to speak.

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

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This post brightened my day.

@Mr Allen J

Am I wrong though. Whenever people play a supposed genius they just meta-game the shit out of everything to make the character seem smart.

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

I honestly think the biggest problem a majority of the roleplayers on this site face is that they can't grasp "Show, don't tell."

Examples I have seen recently;

"Gosh! My character is so smart and clever, even though I've done nothing to suggest that!"

"My character's a reeeeeal edgy dick, lemme just have him sulk in a corner instead of taking a perfect opportunity for him to be an asshole!"

@Mr Allen J

It takes a genius to play a genius accurately, but anyone can play a dumbass.

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Mahz's Dev Journal

Doesn't even account for the fact that making a new account is easy as piss. From a ''perp'' perspective even the current measures are futile.

Mahz's Dev Journal

One reason why putting Descriptions on why people are banned is that it encourages negative discussion about someone behind their backs where they are unable to defend themselves. That's why I say it's abusable more than the feature itself. I don't believe that sort of discussion is edifying to a community. @Mr Allen J

@JBRam2002

I think the fact that you had to be forcibly removed from an RP by matter of a ban already kind of is shaming enough. Letting a GM add a description to detail the offense won't change that.

Besides, the description wouldn't be 20 paragraphs, it'd be like a sentence max?

neotokyo ⋮⋮ ネオトウキョウ

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^{“There's no clean fight in a war.”}

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name.

Yamato Kurisawa

aliases.

Yama. ^{It's short for his name.}
Kurakura. ^{It's a dumb version of his surname.}
(Biting) Dog. ^{A nickname he earned by his violent and aggressive nature.}

sex.

Man.

age.

22

occupations.

◽ bouncer at a nighclub
◾ bodyguard for hire at the private security company attached to the mob he's a part of

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height.

5'7"/1.72

weight.

149lbs/68kg

body type.

fit, athletic, but not like a body-builder

strengths.

◽ athletic
◾ fearless
◽ no social ties.

weaknesses.

◽ hotheaded/reckless.
◾ no formal education.
◽ no connections.

skills.

◾ handling weaponry (knives, sticks, pistols).
◽ can drive cars rather well.
◾ lockpicking, hotwiring.
◽ street fighting.
◾ karaoke.
◽ videogames.
◾ partying.
◽ smoking.

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personality.

↳ Yamato is exactly how he looks - stand offish, delinquent, and an asshole. He generally does whatever he wants, not exactly being a role model. It is lucky, then, that he stays out of the spotlight and stays behind the scenes most of the time in his years in the mob.

For what it's worth, Yamato is quite loyal to his friends and would stick up for them if needed. That said, friends are few and far between, since he's not the most open of people and his mark as a person that is supposed to be erased has separated him from anyone that cared enough to call themselves his friends. It takes some time to get used to him, and most people don't have the patience for that. Mostly those that stick around him are people like him - delinquents, troublemakers, criminals and crooks.

But his delinquent attitude also makes him seem cool (to some people). Frequent smoking, hell the guy is a chainsmoker, as well as drinking and going out, make him seem slightly more cool. Whether or not this affects your view of him depends on you as a person, but it does give him a certain attitude of being a dangerous member of the mob. Suppose that's also why he got marked.

backstory.

↳ Yamato was born in one of the poorer districts around Osaka, with his father being a car mechanic and his mother being a stay at home mom. Being an only child in a poor family meant there was a lot of pressure on him to perform well to make the investment his parents made into him worthwhile. “Get good grades,” was a thing he'd hear quite frequently even though he used to do quite well for himself. As he became older and moved on to highschool the pressure proved to be too much for him as he became more independent. The lack of income and nice things made him jealous of those around him and ensured that he got in with the wrong crowd - the mob. Although he was merely affiliated at first, not being an official part of the mob but merely.. an associate of sorts that did the odd errand for them, he quickly became more involved in it all and began doing other things for them.

The errands were simply enough. “Take this money to here, deliver that message to there, go take a look at what these guys are doing.” It wasn't even criminal until he started delivering 'packages' that had illegal items in them, but really, what police officer would stop a 15 year old kid? It was the perfect cover, wasn't it?

At 17 he dropped out of highschool after a particular large fight with his parents and he was disowned. And any chance of coming back into the family fold was ruined when he moved out the next day and strayed around for a few days before being taken in by the mob. They saw a chance in him, after all, a 17 year old trouble maker that seemed to be unafraid of causing a ruckus and getting physical. He moved up from being an associate to being a muscle for the clan. Hotwiring cars, breaking and entering, collecting 'enforcement money', it were all new ways to make money and they were all so easy. He learned the ropes quickly and moved up rapidly, becoming more influential within first his regime and then the organization. But he never stepped into the upper echelons of the hierarchy - he was considered too brutish and rash for that, which were just nice ways to say he was stupid. It suited him just fine however.

This continued for some time. Yamato made more money, and began getting involved in the street racing nightlife scene. He purchased a sweet tuned up car, and raced it across town at night, losing a lot at first but gradually becoming better and better until he started winning, and actually earning a bit of money from the prize pools.

This all proved to be a rather short lived success. Five years after he originally moved out and got involved in the scene, he'd be notified he was to be erased. Somehow, someone somewhere had gotten offended with his very existence. Thinking about it, it was probably the father of the person he rivalled in the street racing thing. Usually these things were about offenses much bigger than just beating someone in a race. But this was about a lot of money, and to add to that, the dumb kid totaled his car while racing against Yamato. It'd be little concern otherwise if it weren't for the fact that his father was a mob boss of his own. That must've been where the hit came from. And once it was known in the upper echelons that Yamato was going to be erased - well, his own clan cut ties with him rather quickly. His social life already didn't exist anymore. His history would be erased - if needed his parents too would be erased. Just non-existence.

So when he received the mysterious text that warned him, he had no real other choice. He was already dead. You might as well fight back at that point. Otherwise... you might as well lay down and accept your fate. But not Yamato. He'd fight back. So he packed a bag, grabbed his keys and ran for his car, running off to Tokyo, where the mysterious text had ordered him to go. Hopefully the head start of a day he had meant he could do it without being traced immediately, but these guys weren't just random nobodies. They were better than Yamato at what they did - so he had to become better than them. Not to win - to survive long enough to take revenge.

Better to die fighting than to die on hands and knees begging like a prostitute.

extra.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Sherlock Holmes your image is borked, friend.

Mahz's Dev Journal

The banlist has to be the best and most innovative feature thus far.

While I do think the banlist needs to be much higher (or infinite), I can at least have my entire blacklist banned at once!

@Mr Allen J

don't bother putting me on, i'd never join your RP's anyway