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Razilin
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pssshWhen people expect every post to be super relevant to the plot. Sometimes, a post is a moment of personal experience and not something meant to pivot the plot forwards.
Sorry Raz :p.
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pssshWhen people expect every post to be super relevant to the plot. Sometimes, a post is a moment of personal experience and not something meant to pivot the plot forwards.
Sorry Raz :p.
Fix'd that for you.(for those not familiar with ES stuff, it's pretty much top tier stuff that's basically made of demons)
Fix'd that for you.
Also, GM's that put a tiny line somewhere that says 'put bananashitwaffles somewhere in your CS'. Yes, it's your thing and you want to make sure everyone reads it to its fullest. But when I'm skimming a page-long post about every possible rule that you can find and more fluff than a WH40K argument, it's a small detail to miss.
Cut me some slack, I like your idea either way.
I'm always ashamed to say I can't post because it got too hard to find reason for my character(s) to interact or be bothered with shenanigans.Adding one more. It's not in RP but more a case out around it. If you're around, posting everywhere then why not in the RP where people are waiting for your reply!
If someone has to be away for a while or is simply stuck: Let us others know so we move on! It's really annoying how, with no notification at all, there's suddenly no replies. You don't have to write an essay detailing why you're stuck/away. Just a line will do.
I have a few, but as I'm a pretty shitty writer myself my particular gripes likely stem as much from frustration with my own flaws as with others'.
One big gripe for me is that really awkward scenario where someone technically meets the required level of ability for the RP, but still pales compared to everyone else. You can't kick them, because what they're doing/their writing is entirely reasonable, but it completely kills the flow when you're trying to immerse yourself and read through the RP. You have a bunch of fantastic writers and one who's... good. Nothing they're doing is inadequate, but...
I also hate - and I mean fucking loathe - really dark backstories. Unless the setting of the roleplay specifically calls for it - like, say, a post-apocalyptic wasteland where nearly everyone has lost people and seen some pretty horrific shit. But I was in an ME RP back on RPG and someone applied whose character was a quarian who'd been forced to be a sex slave and trafficked all around the galaxy and just... ugh. I mean, sure, that stuff definitely happens in the ME universe, but it was so totally unnecessary for the specific setting of the roleplay. The roleplay was about mercenaries, who could have come into the profession in any number of ways, many of them not that dark or harmful. This generally stems out of a loathing for unnecessary darkness in entertainment as a whole. I am fully, utterly behind any thoughtful or serious exploration of the darker aspects of the human experience, because terrible things happen and we shouldn't pretend otherwise, but far too often it's just gratuitous and, because of that, pretty disrespectful, superficial, and shallow. Shock factor is not a legitimate reason to have had your character been raped or tortured, and unless there's a good reason within the setting of the story to have had that happen, don't have it happen. It just trivialises it in the most appalling way.
Other gripes are just the standard ones - Mary Sues, incompetent writing, people not paying attention, etc. etc.
It is, and you did, as I recall! Which I was most happy about. But it just stuck in my mind as a particularly bad example of that gripe. I mean, seriously. Godnopleaseno.If it's the game I was running, I'm pretty sure I tore that sheet apart and used it as asswipe. Doesn't help that you can't have a quarian as a sex slave because they'd literally get murdered by hot beef injection infection.