Sypherkhode822

The Binding of Isaac: My Pain and Suffering

I've taken to describing what Isaac (or whomever he's pretending to be during a run) aloud after collecting some items after a while.

'So, I originally only had one eye, and the other was covered with an eyepatch. But then I got a blood clot, so my eyepatch is covered in a blood clot. And I stabbed myself with a wire coat hanger, so I cry a lot more. I just drank some rancid milk, but I then made a pact with the devil, so I got a nice cloak which makes me look like a sith from star wars.'

Next, I'm going to start composing haikus.

One character many Role-players

Age and name of kingdom are great.

Cannot describe how pumped I am about this finally happening, looking forwards to a long and fruitful adventure with you all.

You are sitting in the back of a cop car with the avatar above... (Game)

Well shit, I guess looking like an abomination against all things good and holy is a punishable crime now.

You are sitting in the back of a cop car with the avatar above... (Game)

(MFW, this is a giant cop car)

Nar Mat Kordh-Ishi - an Orcish saga

Woooooh.
Finished the relationship tab for everyone. It's in the CS.

Extramundane - A Supernatural LGBT Roleplay [Full]

Hey, everyone!
I saw the interest check, and then forgot about it, but I saw this thread in the update feed, and I thought to drop by.
Unfortunately, I'm not interested in joining, (I'm signed up for too much stuff as is) but I'd like to commend you all for going ahead with this. It's awesome to see people trying to legitimize LGBTQ portrayals in Rps, since it means that it's becoming more acceptable in other facets of life, which is even awesomer.
Carry on, please. Know that you have my respect and approval.
Lurker: OUT

You are sitting in the back of a cop car with the avatar above... (Game)

Goddammit, I should have known that only sex offenders wear pleather.

One character many Role-players

The character you REALLY want to play

I've consistently used the same character for the majority of my Rps. Her personality and appearance are the only thing that stays the same, though.
She's existed as a Cyberpunk cop, a Victorian nanny-turned mage, D&D mage, mercenary, fantasy mercenary, star trek-esque medic, etc.

In each iteration, I've adapted her slightly and added a bit more or altered her mythos slightly. There was a long streak of her being a musician, yet since it was so inconsequential on the RPs I played, I dropped it. She's often been a medic or another 'healing' role, which I have also been moving away from. If there are guns, she'll most likely have an uzi, and if there's magic, it's likely that she's a pyromancer. But of course, I change what is needed for the game.

So it's less like me shoe-horning a single character into every single game, it's more like infinite alternate realities of the same woman.
Maybe I'll have a crossover RP that I host, where everyone plays as an iteration of her, and they gang up and take down the big bad, who is a lazy RPer who likes to play as what he knows.

Why do cities, particularly NYC and California based cities (and cities based off of those), appeal to roleplayers so much?

Semi-incoherent rant about to begin
As a proud NorCal Bay area kid, I actively try and avoid playing RPs set in the San Francisco Bay Area (or read/watch/play any media set there) because of how wrong everyone gets it.
My personal take on it is that it's the entertainment industry. What two places have the highest collection of writers and actors? New York and L.A.
People write about what they know. People who live in these places will make movies about those places, because regionalism is alive and well. And so it gets shipped around the country, and then everyone watches it, and they learn of these places through the films or whatever.

And people aren't all that original, truth be told. So when it comes time for THEM to make an RP/book/film/whatever, they'll be inspired by the last movie they saw, and think that New York/L.A/SF are the cool and mysterious places, and then they'll set the story there.
Last time I played a game in the SFBA, I ended up making a map to show the spatial relationships between everything, because goddammit people it's fucking impossible to get from Stanford to Napa without preparing for a year long journey through traffic.
Or people will ignore the existence of Oakland (unless it's a crime show, in which case they'll ignore the fact that much of Oakland is just nonviolent suburbs) . Or they'll fail to understand that Marin county is what's on the other side of the Golden Gate, and only mention the charming little town of Sausalito, because that's directly where the ferry runs to, so that's what they'll see if they go on a tourist trip.
The list goes on and on. I personally find it really hard to play a game anymore that is set in the contemporary and real world, because the knowledge that I am so grandly fucking up the geography of that place is too much for me to bear.

TL;DR:
People like to talk about where they live. The two main centers of global entertainment are in NYC and California. The people who live there like to set stories where they live. Those stories are shipped across the world. There is now a meta-narrative about these places. People from elsewhere, wishing to have work viewed similarly to mass media, will imitate them in setting. And this causes a lot of amusement from the people who live there, because they will horribly, horribly fuck things up, because they are not from there, and have no clue about what it's actually like. SO SET YOUR CONTEMPORARY RP IN WHERE YOU LIVE.

ALSO: Anyone who refers to San Francisco as 'Frisco' is a disgusting tool who deserves to die a peasants death.

Rant: END