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

[Ace of Hearts]

@Ace of Hearts Only things you have the right to do because you live in a Western society where we have these "overrated" freedoms.

@Morden Man

Now, let's make the things I don't like illegal, and we'll all have a good time.

[Ebonsquire]

Well, a vast majority of things are sexist and racist, and transphobic, and homophobic, etc. etc. Because most of western society is sexist, and racist, and transphobic, and homophobic, etc. etc.

Do you see, wolf-friend?

Also, freedom is overrated.

@Ace of Hearts

Oy vey . . .

[Frizan]

I want to invoke Poe's Law with Ace's posts here...

But god damn they are truly indistinguishable from shit I've actually heard people say with 100% honesty.

Stop being so confusing, Ace.

[Ace of Hearts]

I want to invoke Poe's Law with Ace's posts here...

But god damn they are truly indistinguishable from shit I've actually heard people say with 100% honesty.

Stop being so confusing, Ace.

@Frizan

Who's joking Bruv?

[Rain]

Those people who exclusively play "Animal" Roleplays. School/Academy exclusives are up there as well. While neither of these directly affect me it just feels like both of those settings/genres/whatever squander the growth of what could be a decent roleplayer.

[SleepingSilence]

@Rain I'm not quite sure what you mean but I'm pretty sure if you purposely limit yourself to any style of role-playing it will limit the amount of fun you have.

[Wick]

My biggest pet peeve is when you have people who don't read all of the entries because they think it doesn't have anything to do with them and then they turn around and write your charachter doing something else in a different place or totally ignore everything you just wrote. This happened to me recently and it really pisses me off. I wrote something then three different people came in and rewrote the same scene adding their charachters and taking mine and someone else's conversation totally out. I have yet to decide how I will resolve this situation. Any suggestions?@SleepingSilence@Rain@Ace of Hearts

[Rain]

@Wick

Radioactive źombies on fire.

"IGNORE THIS SHIT, BITCH!"

[Ace of Hearts]

My biggest pet peeve is when you have people who don't read all of the entries because they think it doesn't have anything to do with them and then they turn around and write your charachter doing something else in a different place or totally ignore everything you just wrote. This happened to me recently and it really pisses me off. I wrote something then three different people came in and rewrote the same scene adding their charachters and taking mine and someone else's conversation totally out. I have yet to decide how I will resolve this situation. Any suggestions?@SleepingSilence@Rain@Ace of Hearts

@Wick

I was literally only here to start arguments.

[SleepingSilence]

@Ace of Hearts Troll somewhere else, the responces would be more funny. :P @WickSounds like a OOC discussion. If its a certain individual pm them politely about it. It helps to mention all people related to your post using [@person].

[Ace of Hearts]

@Ace of Hearts Troll somewhere else, the responces would be more funny.

@SleepingSilence

no

[Shorticus]

SIRRAH! SIRRAH! ALL YOU SIRRAHS! This is the roleplay discussion thread, not the beechfest thread!

So, here's one... As an avid tabletop gamer, I love bringing newbies into the hobby, and I'm elated when someone decides to try GMing for the first time. However, one thing that always bugs me is when the newbie won't share their feelings on the game. You know: they don't want to upset the group, so they just nod and smile and say "Oh, I'm having fun" when they probably aren't. I'd rather know what I - or we, as a group - are doing to bother ya so we can address any issue there may be. Trust in your group, folks! TRUST!

[Sombrero]

SIRRAH! SIRRAH! ALL YOU SIRRAHS! This is the roleplay discussion thread, not the beechfest thread!

So, here's one... As an avid tabletop gamer, I love bringing newbies into the hobby, and I'm elated when someone decides to try GMing for the first time. However, one thing that always bugs me is when the newbie won't share their feelings on the game. You know: they don't want to upset the group, so they just nod and smile and say "Oh, I'm having fun" when they probably aren't. I'd rather know what I - or we, as a group - are doing to bother ya so we can address any issue there may be. Trust in your group, folks! TRUST!

@Shorticus

Ah, I remember when I did that kinda thing. However, you were there to catch all of their social cues, so it might be different, but I was very shy and uncomfortable in my first tabletop session not because anything was wrong with the game, but it was the first time I'd ever done character improvisation without conversation in-between. I might be very wrong in your case, but in mine, I was having a great time in my newbie days, I just had to get the hang of it.

[Rain]

Teen roleplays. Because being an adult is apparently too hard.

[Shin Ghost Note]

Teen roleplays. Because being an adult is apparently too hard.

@Rain

Well, to each their own. Some people (like myself) like playing as teens. Or have an RP centered around 'em.

Nothing wrong with that.

[Rain]

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Well, to each their own. Some people (like myself) like playing as teens. Or have an RP centered around 'em.

Nothing wrong with that.

@Mr Allen J

Indeed to each his own. Don't get me wrong I've seen some absolutely stellar ideas and concepts come put of a number of the roleplays of that type but I personally couldn't take it completely seriously after learning it's centered around teens.

[VoiD]

The transient nature of nearly every good roleplay I've had on this site.

[Shorticus]

*Stuff about Teen Roleplays*

So, this is a weird topic for me. I've had good and bad experiences with teen RPs, but I think my big complaint with them is people tend to want to emphasize the stuff I don't focus on when I roleplay. I.E. most emphasis goes into romantic pursuits or something else I never cared about when I was a teenager for some reason.

What REALLY interests me is RPing kids, such as middle schoolers. I mean, c'mon: imagine some 10-12 year old kids investigating crimes, or the same characters fighting monsters. Their adventures, to me, would be so much more interesting than the adventures of teenagers because their challenges are compounded by their age. You can't beat a guy up with a baseball bat as a 10 year old; you have to think your way out of the situation somehow, or else fumble through awkwardly.

I'm also not a "slice of life" RPer. I prefer roleplaying adventurous stuff, as you folks can probably tell from this post. It's not enough to RP kids; I'd rather RP them delving into a mummy's tomb, or sneaking around to figure out whether there really ARE witches living in the woods, or trying to solve a murder or find the missing head from a saint's statue. Etc.

And don't get me rambling about medieval fantasy kids on adventures. There's something awesome about a group of kids working together to escape from a goblin prison. Hell, I'd love to see someone make a roleplay where a bunch of middle schoolers got sucked into the MONSTROUS REALM OF DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS by playing the game. C'MON.

Ah, I remember when I did that kinda thing. However, you were there to catch all of their social cues, so it might be different, but I was very shy and uncomfortable in my first tabletop session not because anything was wrong with the game, but it was the first time I'd ever done character improvisation without conversation in-between. I might be very wrong in your case, but in mine, I was having a great time in my newbie days, I just had to get the hang of it.

@Sombrero

That... might be the case in some of these cases. The thing is this isn't a one person thing, but a thing I've noticed with multiple people. Some of 'em warm up eventually, but others... Not so much. It always leaves me wondering if I'm doing something off-putting.

But what you say does make sense and does sound like it ought to apply in several cases.

[Sombrero]

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What REALLY interests me is RPing kids, such as middle schoolers. I mean, c'mon: imagine some 10-12 year old kids investigating crimes, or the same characters fighting monsters. Their adventures, to me, would be so much more interesting than the adventures of teenagers because their challenges are compounded by their age. You can't beat a guy up with a baseball bat as a 10 year old; you have to think your way out of the situation somehow, or else fumble through awkwardly.

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@Shorticus

I'd argue that everyone's capable of beating the shit out of a great deal of people that are a great deal bigger than them when they have a baseball bat, so long as the other guy doesn't have a baseball bat as well. I mean, sure, you might have trouble with Big Boris the 300 pound stock character, but so do most people.

Edit: Ohhh.... You mean the guy that they can't beat up has a baseball bat... I understand the things now...

[VKAllen]

Sent a formal interest reply to 1x1 threads. 0 responses so far.

I can understand life, but why isn't there an explanation? Kudos to 1 of them at least for saying that they're not well, but revoked for no reply right after that.

Funny too, I did not introduce new ideas. I asked for specifics and if it was plot heavy.