[@shylarah]

[quote=shylarah]
if the person in question is psychic, then it's hardly a matter of them knowing something they never found out, now is it?  =P
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Pretty much, yeah. xD I have a lot of characters who either possess some type of ESP or are not even mortal, which is just one of several reasons why a lot of them are quite difficult to fit into other people's role-plays. Honestly, if I was to explain the full extent of what a lot of my characters were capable of nearly all of it would sound "broken" or like "god-moding", but in the context of my own setting they're actually balanced very well, and I've put a lot of time into power-scaling everything. One of my good friends went so far as to say I've created the most powerful/"broken" series in fiction, period, at least if you don't include parody/joke stories that can't be taken seriously into account (and even [i]then[/i] it's very arguable).

[quote=shylarah]
Ah, advanced elitist...yeah I actually started with 2edition dungeons and dragons...and then the neopets forums.  ^.^  Though I was a tween at the time and I dont think I would have survived the sort of forum you mentioned.
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Surviving that forum is one of the reasons why I'm quite confident that, even if I don't have anywhere near as much "experience" role-playing as a lot of people, my proficiency is definitely nothing to scoff at. I've mentioned this forum a few places around the site so far; it's the role-playing forum I am arguably responsible for [i]destroying[/i] (I didn't hack it or anything, for the record). Essentially, while I agreed with the strict rules and emphasis on details, I didn't agree with the staff and some of their lackeys (the "Mahz" equivalent had technically left the site) because they were abusing members, including newcomers, and instead of focusing on detail they were more interested in bashing anyone who made characters they didn't like for preference reasons. I called them out that they were breaking site rules so they actually went and [i]changed the rules[/i], at which point I publically admonished the staff and their lackeys and migrated over to the site of a friend I made, plus this was around the time I started creating my own role-playing forums. My actions seemingly caused a domino effect that killed the forum, and I only returned later when it was mostly just the decent people left; I even ended up as part of the mod team myself at that point.

On a side note; I also use role-playing in order to test out new powers or abilities I've come up with for characters, essentially putting them into a simulation of sorts if you will, so some of the competitive collaborations I've done with associates were for that purpose. Whenever I'm writing the actual content of the official story, I really do see it as role-playing with or against myself, and Ailyn if it involves one of those female characters I mentioned, and I've gotten into a habit of making sure I get into both character's mind states equally during a fight. While my characters are very powerful, the combat is often as much a battle of wits as it is a direct confrontation.