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When Does It Stop Being A "RP Idea"?

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Probably when it's not interactive anymore? I've sadly turned things into that before and it becomes quite clear when no one is having any fun except the ones peddling the ideas

@LetMeDoStuff

I'd agree with this, that when it starts getting railroaded so hard the RP becomes more of a mildly interactive novel written on a George RR Martin timescale where the other players are essentially just providing writing-prompts and plot-pitches.

Ofc, when that happens all it takes is one Henderson to pull it off the beaten track to keep things interesting.

Although I found out the hard way that a savvy GM's counter to a Henderson is to retcon them into an NPC and then send them packing of to an early grave before they do any damage to the timeline... Essentially TVA/Loki style.
-Which is especially jarring in a nation-RP and the GM just retconned an entire continent after 2 decades. Followed by 14 others... It was easier just to retcon the person truncating their entire world to just themselves and their close friends from the franchise.

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>*fog horn banception noises*

Ban the Person above you

Banned for calling the old-gaurd the revolution, rebel scum.

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Banned for using that enlightenment to dominate spam.

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Golden

This isn't working out: Part 2

Oddly enough, Sun Tzu and the Art of War.

Not so much because they read it, but more because of the fact that they're prominently displaying it as though actively brushing-up on it in order to impress me.

It won't.

Don't be mistaken, it's full of good advice. But it's vague and old, with just enough usefulness on its own to fake competency at something. It's pretty much a 1st edition self-help book plus the language-barrier of being just abstract enough to be misquoted harder than the King James Bible.

It being laid on the table can mean one of three things:

1. They haven't actually read it yet. Yet I should be impressed they managed to get ahold of a mass-printed book.
2. They're brushing up on it because they're going through a rough-patch.
3. They've read it, and want to feel superior by letting everyone know it.

1 and 3 are obvious why I probably want out. 2 isn't. Trying to dig your way out of a specific problem, likely a highly modern and technical issue involving finances and modern legal constructs... and the book they reached for to solve it was Sun Tzu.

>They don't need Sun Tzu, they need a lawyer.
And if they're trying to outmanuver and manipulate my emotions based only off of Sun Tzu, they've came rather unarmed.

Boy X Boy Roleplay...But I'm a Girl

So I wasn't sure what to title this as but I figured what I put just gets to the point. I love (not in a weird or sexual way) gay or boy x boy roleplay or stories. I find it cute and fun and I get a lot of ideas. The problem is, is that I'm a girl and it's likely no one wants to do roleplay with someone basically pretending to be a guy. This website and forum and all seems pretty professional from what I've seen, meaning if I did get a chance I'd have to be extremely accurate as to how a male would act and things like that. Anyways, what I'm just trying to really say and figure out, is that if this is ok to do. Most people (on other places) usually reject this idea, though I'm no way trying to scam or say I'm a guy because I'm not! I just want to do roleplay like this.

@Skyess

Generally, all the internal thought-processes can remain same or similar, maybe a bit more openly competitive but sometimes on a completely different set of priorities. A dude still has fears and insecurities in a relationship and the only differences being cultural norms in when and how they permit themselves to express them.

Usually dudes wanna be problem solvers, even if that means ignoring their emotions best they can and grinding through and then deal with the emotional flak afterwards (assuming their plan to fix things even worked... sometimes they do a big-dumb and make the situation worse before it gets better). And even then if they're an emotional wreck they don't want to let out too many outward signs of weakness, at least not in public, so they put on a brave face and keep calm and carry on, usually telling crude jokes or using morbid humor as a means to cope rather than plastering on a smile and ignoring it, they'd rather make fun of their own fear in order to laugh at it and smile instead. In short, they've mastered the art of griping.

Your mileage may vary. But that's generally my view of how my co-workers behave in a factory-setting since my own behavior is probably not a good baseline.

need ideas for rps

What Yankee said, also go watch a TV show, movie, read a book, or just browse random art and music until you get an idea.
-Heck do something you'll enjoy and then write based on what you know.

Bounce said ideas off a friend until something just screams that it must be done.

I tend to take the demonic blender approach by combining multiple trope pairings into a single fluidly dynamic story with complicated motives and a broken moral compass in a world without any maps.... which actually sounds cooler than it should.

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