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Welcome to Santa Somabra [Fantasy Noir]

It might be me and my imagination but the IC is disturbingly quiet as of recently, is there something bothering the players who haven't posted?

Colours in the IC

@Vilageidiotx LOL. I'm reading this straight, "...colours represent immaturity in the writer..." by your logic, right?

Well, to be honest, I think anyone who agrees with that saying wholeheartedly are way, WAY more immature than the writer using colours. It's just very shallow to think that way especially when said shallow individual bases professionalism entirely on something as unrelated as not having colours, while still refusing to be seeing the arbitary value colours have in structuring a post.

No amount of colourless text will make you sound more professional when we find out this is the mindset you write and read through. I find it a very small minded way of seeing things.

Colours in the IC

@Vilageidiotx I don't get your point, colours help differentiate dialogue and allow me to locate them at a glance without affecting anything else. You speak as though they inherently lower the quality of the post when used, which is the most ridiculous notion I've ever heard from anyone who dares call themselves a roleplayer. It's a visual thing, it's like saying road signs make the road less effective. I would not understand how anyone would go as far as to leave / reject roleplays or roleplayers just because there's a hint of colour like you say you do, but hey, honestly - I wouldn't even want to be in any roleplay you start having heard that. Who knows how many other weird things you obssess over.

@Dinh AaronMk I tried to read your quotes, I really did - but halfway, my eyes got too strained trying to find the dialogue through that unecessary amount of words, that I simply stopped reading. I'm sure their content is something you feel proud of but none of it was good enough to keep me reading ...maybe some other day. When I really have nothing else to do. Maybe not.

I've got a feeling certain people are just unsatisfied there is disagreement towards their thinking and thus are so irritated by the existence of colour, but let me tell you something you two kiddos - COLOURS ARE HERE TO STAY. Deal with it.

I mean that you can gripe about how colours make posts look too vivid or how irritated you feel by their existence, but unless you tell me you're prone to seizures from visual overstimulation, I will never understand your hatred towards coloured dialogue. Or try to understand it.

I just know that colours can help the reader and as a writer I don't mind taking that extra step to make my posts easier to read, in conclusion: - - - anyone who thinks colours will help their post, go ahead to employ them. Those that dislike colours so much that they will barr their own characters from interacting with you because of it, are the minority and are not even worth considering. Keep in mind that there will always be sensible individuals like myself who aren't palette-phobic, who see the proper use of colours as a sign that you've gone the extra mile to make things easier to read. That, is never unappreciated.

What am i doing wrong as a GM?

Sure, I say the same thing - no one likes drama or gathering attention for drama, especially in a forum.

Colours in the IC

I use the colour function for speech, I don't see anything wrong with it when this is out of necessity.

To those that say nay to colours, I say.

THERE IS NO GOOD REASON TO MAKE A POST MORE TEDIOUS THAN IT NEEDS TO BE. There is nothing worse in Roleplaying than reading a post in monotone where you can't even tell whose dialogue is which. There are those who say that's just making up for lousy writing, but it is these same people whose posts can't point out who is talking. Colours solve that issue in a tetiary way.

I speak through experience, I'm now in a fantasy noir roleplay and BELIEVE ME when I say when we started it was an eyesore to read through dialogue in first persona narrative without colours. Why? Many typed like the entire post was a speech bubble, this is apparently the noir style, but many of us decided we could not stand it anymore so we each picked a colour that best represented our characters and stuck with it during multicharacter posts.

I don't care if my posts look like crayon to certain people, I didn't come here to torture my eyes. I write to inspire, or at least, convey a message. Making readers have myopia is not conducive to my goals.

Hence I VOTE FOR COLOURED SPEECH.

What am i doing wrong as a GM?

I've been reading the posts throughly and while I do agree that it seems like the player is a bit aggressive, he backs up his attitude with evidence (the image things he posted of your, honestly, rather halfassed messages back to him which I don't blame him for reacting to, I know if it were me I would react somewhat like that too). I have met several people who play dungeons and dragons IRL who think they are everything because they think they 'run the game' but often forget that without those actually playing the game, there would be nothing at all.

I don't know what happened exactly since he seemed to have taken away the IC posts when he left (?) but from what I've gathered, you might not be as innocent as you portray yourself to be. To be completely honest.

I'm feeling iffy about what is happening But nonetheless I shall share my opinions on how to deal with these matters. Like jig said, it's not 'your game', it's not 'their game' either. It's everyone's. They have invested as much time as anyone else and it's better that you don't forget that. That's the whole reason it is Roleplaying, not Recounting. Everyone has a part, not only you.

But he left on his own in the end and from my experience, anyone who bothered to stay that long in any roleplay doesn't usually leave for a no good reason. That's kind of what prompted me to decide against joining your roleplay even though I was intrigued by it, I had the feeling something was not right.

I'm being very frank in here because I think you might genuinely want to know what others thought and I believe lying nicieties aren't going to accomplish anything, I'm not trying to hurt you or anything.

How you feel about reading books after roleplaying

Read books to be inspired. Roleplay to apply that inspiration to good use. Write to inspire others.

Welcome to Santa Somabra [Fantasy Noir]

I've not met this issue yet, however if you're doubting your sanity, the post counts at the top of each tab never lie. :>.

When You Haven't Went To Roleplay Guild for A L000000NG TIME, you act and write liek dis.

Dunt care. u rolplat it anyway! :D.

Original Character VS Canon Character Roleplaying

I vote to original characters.

Why?

I rue the idea of some nerd coming up to me and saying "But Batman wouldn't do that!" twenty years down the road. Then I'm like "WTF!?" and it gets really, really awkward. ...like it is now.