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

[Shin Ghost Note]

Most of RPG's RPs are becoming uncreative, especially within the Fandom category. Their premises are all too similar, too many of them come from the same source material, and many GMs just pick whatever is popular, even if it's not really plausible.

@Unfortunately

Yeah, I've been kind of feeling the same lately. A lot of the RPs are looking like the same to me. Slice of life teenaged bullshit, whatever fandom is popular atm, etc. I wish there was a bit more diversity, but then again, I was never really super interested in a lot of what the RPG had to offer. lol

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If it's not young justice then I don't feel the nostalgia

@Weird Tales

I mean, make your own YJ RP, you twit.

[Kaithas]

@Ammokkx
End of Days? It's been like a year since that ran, and while I liked it to continue, I wasn't angry about it ending. Some RP's just end up dead, no matter how good a community is around them.

@Ariamis

That one was entirely my bad, and I still feel terrible about it. You've got my heartfelt apologies. If you wanna PM me we might have something to talk about. If you meant my EoD, anyway.

Wait. This is the rant thread, contriteness isn't appropriate here.

Errrrrrr

Rage rage hate hate

[Weird Tales]

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Yeah, I've been kind of feeling the same lately. A lot of the RPs are looking like the same to me. Slice of life teenaged bullshit, whatever fandom is popular atm, etc. I wish there was a bit more diversity, but then again, I was never really super interested in a lot of what the RPG had to offer. lol

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I mean, make your own YJ RP, you twit.

@Mr Allen J

Salty much?

[Gowi]

<Snipped quote by Unfortunately>

Yeah, I've been kind of feeling the same lately. A lot of the RPs are looking like the same to me. Slice of life teenaged bullshit, whatever fandom is popular atm, etc. I wish there was a bit more diversity, but then again, I was never really super interested in a lot of what the RPG had to offer. lol

@Mr Allen J

Guild's diversity isn't the issue, to be fair, just because your taste doesn't align with it. I've been on a few other RP sites as of late and Guild is one of the better ones for range and quality honestly. Take a look at RP Adventures sometime, that site is dull as hell. Also, the summer being here should open up a lot more RP opportunities here in general. In fact this is very much true if you look at the general interest section here on Guild-- survival horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, superhero, slice of life/drama, and thriller are just a small portion of the first page alone. There is no "lacking diversity" here and thinking so seems obtuse and illogical.

[Wick]

I hate when we are in the middle of a scene and the person I am writing with just disappears without warning. It's like WTF shoot me an OOC or a pm but don't leave me hanging for 20 minutes.

[Dolerman]

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Guild's diversity isn't the issue, to be fair, just because your taste doesn't align with it. I've been on a few other RP sites as of late and Guild is one of the better ones for range and quality honestly. Take a look at RP Adventures sometime, that site is dull as hell. Also, the summer being here should open up a lot more RP opportunities here in general. In fact this is very much true if you look at the general interest section here on Guild-- survival horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, superhero, slice of life/drama, and thriller are just a small portion of the first page alone. There is no "lacking diversity" here and thinking so seems obtuse and illogical.

@Gowi

I agree with this, people have problems with fandoms until its a fandom they are a part of.

E.G. they will moan about minecraft RPs but then flood the interest checks with overwatch ones.

[Weird Tales]

aside from Harry Potter roleplays, I am almost tired of seeing so many school based rps pop up so much. I get it, school roleplays are fun and relatable, but having them flood the interests checks is just making it generic

[Ammokkx]

aside from Harry Potter roleplays, I am almost tired of seeing so many school based rps pop up so much. I get it, school roleplays are fun and relatable, but having them flood the interests checks is just making it generic

@Weird Tales

Can we just bitch about this very same argument being brought up every page or so for a sec? Gettin' real annoying.

[Gowi]

“Slice of life is flooding the site!”

“Superhero is flooding the site!”

“<insert game that just came out> is flooding the site!”

Nonsense. Stop perpetuating this weak opinion.

[boomlover]

@Gowi problem with flooding is. It means finding the rp you want is harder. because there are more rp's focused only those few genre's.

[Ammokkx]

@Gowi problem with flooding is. It means finding the rp you want is harder. because there are more rp's focused only those few genre's.

@boomlover

Flooding is not a thing.

If there's a demand for certain RP types, those prevail. If the community wants to play something, that's going to prevail. If you're that worried about not finding anything to play in, GM something yourself.

[Gowi]

@Gowi problem with flooding is. It means finding the rp you want is harder. because there are more rp's focused only those few genre's.

@boomlover

It's not that hard to look through a few pages for something that catches your eye or using the search function.

[boomlover]

@Ammokkx gming is nice and all but if you don't have the time to gm its kinda hard to keep an rp going.

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It's not that hard to look through a few pages for something that catches your eye or using the search function.

@Gowi

I know and i use all those functions. But i am also a rather picky bastard so that's my own goddamn problem XD.

[Weird Tales]

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Can we just bitch about this very same argument being brought up every page or so for a sec? Gettin' real annoying.

@Ammokkx

This forum was made for us to bitch, I don't see the logic behind complaining about other people's complaints

[Gowi]

thread*

And if you don't want your complaints countered or rebuffed, say them privately.

[Weird Tales]

thread*

And if you don't want your complaints countered or rebuffed, say them privately.

@Gowi

it's not that you countered them, it's more about how you seem to take offense to people getting annoyed at types of roleplays.

[Shin Ghost Note]

The real problem is that there are too many RPs on this site, we need more fucking diversity.

[Mao Mao]

The real problem is that there are too many RPs on this site, we need more fucking diversity.

@Mr Allen J

What do you have in mind? I am interested in what you have to say.

And I agree that there's too many RPs on this site, especially Nation RPs. You go to that sub-thread and you see so many dead roleplays that last only a few weeks.

[boomlover]

@The Spectre have fun changing almost everyone to rp something else. XD

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

There does exist an over representation of certain genres among the roleplaying community here and while people should be free to participate in what they enjoy, I am hardly pleased by the lack of original works. I am sure they are all well and good to those interested, these predominantly fandom series, but why not do something all one's own? In my opinion they snuff out creativity by garnering peoples' limited attention and availability. I have always been opposed to their dominance given the amount of frustration I have personally experienced when seeing some members of my target audience pulled aside and active into them rather than my works or those I subscribe to.

In a way they strike me as insincere, but even that much is not true and I know it. But what I do know is that anime, fandom and slice-of-life categories are significantly more common than many others.