Innue

Natrelmon: Forge of Souls

Accepted.

Natrelmon: Forge of Souls

Partisan said
I mean, we're not really FORCED to stay together right?

Dear god no. Please, please spread out.

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

Jazzy said
Again, it's a superpower RP that character and all of the examples are located in, and even in that context he's suffered a great deal of chemical, mental, and ohysical changes as any human would in such a large change. The only real difference is that he survived the change. The others have done things that have no relation to their power and because of that fact are to be treated like how a normal human would be.I will be the first to admit I am elitist. I'd much rather walk into the highest section available with high expectations than low ones, and whether people agree to my expectations really doesnt matter to me. What matters to me is if people meet my expectations or not in the roleplay I help manage. If they dont, I help them fix it so it does. I also keep in mind the examples I provided are out of context, so I provide no attempt to provide more as to justify my opinion to you (as I'm not here to argue). I came here to express my distaste for the anime obession (I myself am a fan, but I dont think it's a good source for everything), whether or not you agree is your opinion, and therefore it's not my right or concern to try and sway you in that. To answer your other question, I dont decide that. I'm a Co-GM, not the GM. I provide assistance in judging sheets. I dont make the final call.

I'd suggest that you reframe your opinion to the context of your thread than the rather wide scoped attack it reads as. I suspect a lot of the things you have issues with could be entirely possible and logical in any thread with forms of superhuman abilities. However, it is entirely appropriate to be displeased with someone making a character that has no reason to fit into the constraints of the thread. I'd just prefer avoiding the broad generalizations when discussing these things.

Elitism isn't a badge of honor and I truly wish people would stop wearing it as one.

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

Jazzy said
...

I'm all for anime and shit, hell, there are some good ones out there like Attack on Titan and stuff. But it pisses me off to no end when people use anime as a basis for making characters. I can understand it to a degree in Free or Casual roleplay where people who are less experienced or moderately experienced start out, but it's bullshit if you are using pictures to describe your character from an anime with skills that wouldn't work at all (wtf is a gun kata), or are suddenly a ninja and capable of jumping three stories and falling out of buildings and thinking it's realistic. Anime is not a good source for realism and there are consequences to your actions if you do that because in Advanced there are repurcussions to idiocy. Especially in RPs that I help manage like Academy 218. If you jump out a building then your ass will be the last thing going through your mind, just like in real life.

...

This is very elitist.

There are many thread scenarios that could operate very effectively in advanced where things like this would be entirely possible. Please do not so be so arrogant to think because you post in advanced that your opinion on what material belongs there (or is better left to free and casual) matters.

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

Pachamac said
You lament people's preference for anime and their tropes within roleplays citing it's not realistic and then you say you have a seven foot tall lizard man character.*fucks a landmine*

Going off of this, may I ask why the lizard person is acceptable yet materials that could withstand that heat are impossible?

Also apparently anti-fantasy at all, yet has lizard people. Odd. Most odd.

Natrelmon: Forge of Souls

Xzayler said
Errr... I have no idea about the subplots. I guess I'll just challenge the Toran arena then. But then we need some sort of "and all went back to normal" post cos Toran had just been invaded by living dead and people arent just gonna to go about their daily life right after, and we also need something to keep the characters together.

I was hoping people would have gotten the decision phase done. I'll do a recap post shortly.

Natrelmon: Forge of Souls

Some of you still need to let me know what your decisions are for the plot rewards. Either PM Alex or I. ^.^

Moving forward we have a few things to address. I know a lot of you have subplots you need to do. Please let me know when you'd like to start them and I'll whip up some posts. For those of you that don't have subplots to do right now, it would be a GREAT time to start your Arena challenge if you are going to go about trying to do that. Remember for those of you that are not keen on combat, you do have the new items in the general trainer items thread that allow you to bypass this necessity (Ring of the Fifth Edict and related items).

Ideally, we should be aiming to try to wrap up the Toran stuff in the next couple weeks. I will be releasing the purchase of weapons soon as well.

Natrelmon: FoS OoT Shio (Innue) vs Kasumi (Tuujaimaa)

Shio had rarely been in this kind of situation - unarmed and matched with a strong stylistic counter. Sensing the Gen still within the mists, biding its time created a complex problem. She was unable to enter the mist to deal with the Natrelmon without giving Kasumi an opportunity to strike out at her. Alternatively, she had two versions of Kasumi on one side and a singular one on the other. Invocation mages were noted for their deception, which made determining which was real quite difficult. Shio had only one option to deal with Kasumi's threat which was to quickly pivot and run, angling towards the southwestern side of the square (more south than west). She needed to bide enough time to create a threat herself. Kasumi was faster than her, but Shio had more endurance and if she could manage to avoid being picked off long enough, she would be able to retaliate in kind.

Shio's Ocalia ran along with her, keeping up with its trainer easily.

[Patience 10, Conviction 1, Inspiration 1]

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

vancexentan said
Yes some people have bigger issues broken bones (like the girl's sister who pm'd me on the other site I wished her sister a good recovery and understood why she couldn't continue), bigger seizures than my own, or what have you. But the topic on my post that seems to rile people up is that I'm expecting to much from people. I'm not really asking more than what I'd do for anyone else personally. If someone doesn't post in a week and is in the hospital then so be it. Maybe they'd need to drop everything to recover. I'm fine with that as long as I get a notification from someone or the player wasn't in an important spot.

If they can't do so so be it. Tell me in later that you were in said hospital and I'll apologize readily for whatever and take you off said shit list mentioned above and if possible allow you to keep playing. It happens. I'd gladly ask one of my pals or family members that I injured myself in some way shape or form, that's if I was in some sort of state that would allow me to do so, to inform the people whom I do stuff with on this site or another that I'm inoperable. I view myself with a sense of professionalism, not just in roleplaying in real life I carry myself with expectations as well and readily admit when I have failed or will fail at something, and view it as an obligation to at least tell people why I am inoperable. Why? Because that's how I do things. I don't want people to wait on me if I can't do something and neither do I want to be that one guy everyone needs to do something then not show up. Do I take myself too seriously? It's very possible that I do take myself way to seriously. It's also possible that I have too high of expectations for others. Does this mean I won't adapt? No but I expect the common courtesy of being informed when stuff happens.

This was not in your original statement. Your original statement was entirely dickish (usually I'd use seemingly, but this manages to remove that for me this time).

I'm sorry, but when someone is facing an emergency my first thought is how to make sure the player doesn't feel alienated from the thread as they have enough to deal with. You have much better alternatives to how you seem to portray how you handle these things rather than being (insert appropriate expletive of choice). You are entirely capable as GM to solve a problem with missing players that does not involve making those with situations outside their control feel awful. You could use the exact same tools you would use as if they had informed you they'd be gone to deal with the situation, because knowing and not knowing is frankly irrelevant. All you have to do is utilize these SAME TOOLS YOU'D USE IF YOU KNEW ANYWAY when someone is missing for X amount of time and you need to move it along.

You may see your attitude as professionalism, but it isn't. You are making a conscious choice to create an entirely toxic environment by putting someone on any form of 'shit list' for not posting when they have a serious conflict that draws them away. Each person needs to deal with these conflicts differently and any 'I have experience in X' is a false equivalency - they have entirely different breadths of experience and methods of recovery or coping than you. To kick someone when they are likely already down because of some guise of professionalism is horrid, absolutely 100% horrid.

Your original position isn't remotely defensible, even with your inane ramblings of trying to. Your comparison to most games is incredibly irrelevant because as a GM you can control the situation.

No player should ever be considered to be on a 'shit list' when they are gone. Deal with it. If they don't have a reasonable explanation when or if they return, then remove them. But to think ill of someone not knowing their status is improper. I always assume someone has a good reason for being absent unless I know it is a chronic problem because I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt than kick them when they are down.

HOWEVER, it is rude when they do that and continue to be active on the site, but I stress this is ENTIRELY different than your original statement and not what I am addressing.

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

vancexentan said
People who don't post for an entire week with next to no explanation why or forenotice. I once had a girl;s sister tell me she was in the hospital for some broken bones at one point. The point being if YOU can't then ask one of your friends to log onto your account and tell the GM and people you're leaving or you're not able to post. People who don't post leave notices always IMMEDIATELY go on my shit list.

This happens. If there isn't a good reason, then be irked, but I agree fully with Rilla.

Even if a player is gone for awhile, without telling me, I'll still almost always welcome them back because I'm capable enough to work around it if it is causing a roadblock. If I can't, then I'm failing as a GM. It may be irritating, but I know life can get in the way.