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

[Rin]

idk something about people only playing one character and just changing it to fit into different universes is weird to me. Or playing only the same type of character, so basically the same thing.

Also wonderful image use ^

@Eklispe

And then there's the people who do the former and throw a hissyfit when their precious little snowflake somehow doesn't fit into a setting.

[Chao]

@Rin There was this one guy who's username was Jack Ransom. He joined an RP and made a CS sheet with the same character image as his avatar, and the char's name was Jack Ransom.

In the chat, I tried to explain to him some things, about you are not exactly are suppose to use the same character in every RP unless it is revamped somehow, and that not really anyone here roleplays their actual user avatar.

He then complained he was only good at RPing one character, and left the site. :/

[StarWight]

@LoneSilverWolf I think it's more the fact that you're only really supposed to bitch bout that roleplay related things in here. Lol

@pugbutter This is the best thing I've read all day. Lmao

My bitching complaint today is people who post character sheets an OOC, get accepted, and then disappear from the RP. Not RPG. The RP.

@Baklava

Oh...OH I um. didn't notice what forum...this was in..I wasn't paying close enough attention...

*ahem*

My bad D:

[Shin Ghost Note]

My bitching complaint today is people who post character sheets an OOC, get accepted, and then disappear from the RP. Not RPG. The RP.

@Baklava

Yeah, that is something I've been noticing for years. As a GM, I can't count how many times people make these interesting and detailed character sheets, and show hype, only to go poof a few days later. I thought it was an aberration at first, but it kept happening.

Might be a curse of some sort. Join my RP and get hit by a bus.

[Baklava]

@LoneSilverWolf Haha, well it was entertaining to read at least.

[pugbutter]

My bitching complaint today is people who post character sheets an OOC, get accepted, and then disappear from the RP. Not RPG. The RP.

@Baklava

Flip side of the same coin: when I join an active RP and it dies not very long thereafter.

I don't smell that bad guys

[Baklava]

@pugbutter That's happened to me sooo many times. Do I know how to clear a room or what? Of course, the RP never dies BEFORE I spend 2 hours reading all the made-up lore and asking questions and then 3 more on a really intricate character sheet. Always after.... Always after....

[ScreenAcne]

@pugbutter@Baklava

Same problem, my digital dwellers. I think that, like. The nerve market can only keep the hype for such a period of time before it goes bad. If you don't have new wonders and works spreading out between the group the mud of the time span it takes for people to post, even if they're fast starts to sink everyone in.

Yet, you can't add too much from the get go or people feel it's going to be a chore to join the first place. It's the great balancing act, my online orbit originators.

[Todd Howard]

@pugbutter
This shit is why I don't hardly do any group roleplaying anymore.

Too much work, never enough reward.

In other news; Something that has been pissing me off lately that I'll bitch about is the fact that some people either don't read my interest checks and PM me regardless because I have something interesting for a 1x1, or they DO read it and then just don't care, telling me they aren't compatible and putting another worthless PM into my inbox.

Like, if I said I have a three paragraph minimum and you PM me telling me you usually only post one paragraph, what the hell are you expecting to happen? It's even worse when they make it SEEM like they are legit, and then start posting a bunch of shitty posts that belong in Free instead of the High Casual standard I requested. Thanks, guys. You probably are reading this and know who you are.

Do know I DESPISE you.

[pugbutter]

>when people say "I post 3 to 5 paragraphs on average" like that's something to be proud of

You realize that later into the RP you'll be spreading so little butter on so much bread in your attempt to impress people with your novella-length posts that it's actually gonna have the opposite effect, right? Because you'll be desperate for things to say, any things, even things you've already said two or three times, and it will show. We'll be able to smell this desperation, and will basically stop reading your posts when we realize you exhausted your reservoirs of interesting things to say several posts ago.

And don't think posting a shit-ton of dialogue and turning your character into a garrulous sperg will fix this either. That's just a band-aid on a bullet hole.

[Todd Howard]

And don't think posting a shit-ton of dialogue and turning your character into a garrulous sperg will fix this either. That's just a band-aid on a bullet hole.

@pugbutter

This.

[Dion]

@pugbutter What if it's just a genuine count of what they usually write? I find it pretty important to know.

[ClocktowerEchos]

tfw you realize that most of the PMs you've sent/received begin with some variation of a greeting ie Hi, Yo, Heyo, Ayyy, Aloha Snackbar, etc

[pugbutter]

@pugbutter What if it's just a genuine count of what they usually write? I find it pretty important to know.

@Buddha

If you actually have three paragraphs of content to contribute, more power to you, go for it. But "you must be this literary to enter" length quotas are spawn of a very pretentious devil.

[Dion]

@pugbutter fair enough.

[Dervish]

I pretty much live in Advanced and in my games, I pretty much have a 2 paragraph minimum standard, but posts oftentimes turn out being way more than that.

I like to give people the option to reply even if they don't have that much to contribute to a particular scene/ they're hitting a writing block that completely screws you over. It rarely happens that people post the bare minimum, but I like to leave that option there because sometimes there just isn't 3+ paragraphs worth of things to contribute, and needless padding is kind of awful, especially if you're just regurgitating the exact same stuff that was covered in another post.

[Gowi]

My definition of advanced is not "how many words does the wordchuck chuck", lol. A friend actually wrote the following and I've been regurgitating it since because I agree with it—

Advanced roleplaying should focus on developing interesting and complex characters that become part of plot-lines which catch the imagination and inspire the writer behind them to exercise creativity. It is mature, humorous, imaginative, tragic, terrifying, passionate, and rife with descriptive language and characters with real personality and relatable cares. Quality posting is far better than needless novels, yet one should never neglect detail when one feels the need. However, while word and paragraph requirements ought to be unnecessary, single paragraphs cannot contain enough detail to suffice.

[BrokenPromise]

Well yea, i don't think anyone but scrub writers really believe that longer = better. But it's a lot harder to cram small minute details into not very many words. Having said that, keeping "thesaurus-dot-com" and "dictionary-dot-com" in open tabs at all times doesn't make you a great writer either. Gotta have the ying to that yang.

[NuttsnBolts]

So I'll give an example from darkest dungeon.

"You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial."

Gotta be my favourite line from the opening narration, but it shows how simplicity in the choice of words will always be better than mountains of fluff.

[pugbutter]

Gotta be my favourite line from the opening narration, but it shows how simplicity in the choice of words will always be better than mountains of fluff.

@NuttsnBolts

On this note it's why I advocate having a large vocabulary full of big, intimidating, "literary" words, despite my hatred for roleplay that doesn't read Shakespeare. These big words tend to be more precise, and can actually result in conveying your message in shorter time and fewer characters/syllables.

Did you "reduce [the body] to ashes" or did you "incinerate"? Simultaneously one is more impressive and more efficient than the other.