Deal Breakers. What makes you "walk" away?

[Tove]

what if the person doing the healing is established as being a magical healer of great power? i don't neccessarily mean a D&D cleric, i mean somebody who is extremely specialized in the art of magical healing to the exclusion of most other things.

That would not be a problem but like I mentioned I have an issue with if the character never had powers to start with or basically developed them for the situation.

 

[Umbrie]

That would not be a problem but like I mentioned I have an issue with if the character never had powers to start with or basically developed them for the situation.

that makes more sense. a powerless character pulling powers out of their hat.

 

[Illiterate]

Highschool.

'Nuff said.

 

[kitphiroth]

Usually if the theme is interuptted by nonsense. A friend and I have a serious RP, our characters are basically in love and are talking marriage during their adventure.

He decides he wants to bring his characters world jumping daughter from another time line to greet her dad. I was like....um...thats too wacky. He thought it was interesting, but it was just dumb lol.

We have a pretty serious RP, random antics need not apply lol.

 

[Savemexx]

Having to be the sole person making any decisions

 

[Ammy]

I've done some roleplaying away from here lately and I've got a fun new one now. Really tired of being the odd man out. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect a single person to have their character drop all their initial plans to have the topic revolve around whoever I throw in. Yet when you're in a small group and the GM can't even be bothered to involve you so they can continue to play favorites with one or two specific people then it raises the question of why they even accepted me in the first place. It's hard to have any character development when nobody can pretend to want to put heart into interacting with your character.

So yeah, I see the signs of that and try to reach out a bit. If I get a lackluster response to where it's clear I'm just a distraction rather than a potential contribution to whatever they'd like to attempt, then I bail. Tired of beating my head against a wall for nothing.

 

[Bacon is fluffy]

I've done some roleplaying away from here lately and I've got a fun new one now. Really tired of being the odd man out. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect a single person to have their character drop all their initial plans to have the topic revolve around whoever I throw in. Yet when you're in a small group and the GM can't even be bothered to involve you so they can continue to play favorites with one or two specific people then it raises the question of why they even accepted me in the first place. It's hard to have any character development when nobody can pretend to want to put heart into interacting with your character.

Yep that always sucks when the gm is too busy to care to involve new players. I quit a really good looking rp here because no one wanted to respond to me in ic or include me in ooc discussions.

 

[Chimney Swift]

When people obviously only want to play with me because they have a creepy infatuation with my character's faceclaim. Ugh.

 

[Imaginiaria]

People having characters who are the daughter/son/sibling of *insert fictional character here*. Especially in non-fandom rps. You won't believe how many times this happened to me.

Another is forced romance. I like romance too sometimes, but you can't expect me to believe two people fell in love with each other after saying hello like a disney movie.

 

[Hexanna]

I'm not one who's usually picky when it comes to roleplays, but I always hate forced romance roleplays. I'm not someone who gets easily attached to romance roleplays, but the second when someone's character gets so "mushy gushy" around mine, I just dip out of there. It can get rather irritating.....unless we talk about "love at first sight" before the roleplay starts, I just nope out of there when it happens. ESPECIALLY, when the character starts getting touchy because it just makes me downright uncomfortable. There are barely any cases when I feel like the romance can actually work.

I also just leave when there are one-liners or two-liners :p I'm someone who wants to write a lot, and I prefer to have someone who's able to keep up with my pace. I also make the connection that the roleplayer is younger than me and it just doesn't click with me that well. That might just be me not being used to roleplaying with people younger than me, haha.

ialsocantstandcharacterswhoarejustsostronglikeitcanbesoannoyingidontmindstrongcharactersbutlettherebelimitspeople.

 

[JokerValentine]

In my personal opinion, a plot can be good, but ruined by toxic environments in the OOC. I have seen conflicts develop, or just behavior that is constantly going on that distracts me from writing, makes me feel uncomfortable or irritated, or seems to be over-the-top dramatic. I'm definitely all for sociality in a Roleplay, and memes are always a plus, but behaviors in OOC that really take away from the fun of the RP and makes you not enjoy the people you are writing with is usually what causes me to leave a RP behind.

 

[IFudgedUp]

I don't remember the whole thing that happened, but I remember a few years back I posted some plots I had on Facebook when I was doing that was the time. I don't remember what it was, but there was an element in it that she didn't like and called it "stupid" but otherwise wanted to roleplay one plot in particular.
I stayed polite and told her we could leave that out but maybe don't call an element in someone's roleplay stupid because they obviously like it if its in their roleplay. You don't have to like it, but they do, ya know?

Anyhow, she messages me and starts GOING OFF on me. She's all "don't you dare put gore in this RP" "AND DONT YOU EVEN TRY TO SNEAK IN [the one element I can't remember that she didn't like]"

I try so hard to be nice so I send her a starter. I do remember that it was a pirate and mermaid RP and she gets all pissy. The reason? I sent the longest starter of a shipwreck taking place I could without getting gorey with it, so I focused more on my pirate surviving than I did men being impaled and eaten alive by sharks and shit. So instead, most mention of the crews was the bodies and nothing else. I felt so cramped with that, I just made filler of the moments before the wreck.

She got pissed off because I just made it too convenient. She was really snarky, too. I finally lost it and sent her the REAL starter with crazy gore and shit.

I probably shouldn't have gone that far, and I would apologize for taking it to the next level, but she pissed me right the fuck off before the interaction even began and at the time, I just didn't care.
I would NEVER had done that if she hadn't been so incredibly rude the entire time. And I mean the ENTIRE time.

Just rudeness, man. Be polite. Don't be an ass.

 

[ChoShadow]

The implied level of effort put into created characters and the length of posts in the IC thread.

If the characters are skeletons (literally having maybe one point of information and a few sentences which someone dares call a "biography") then I walk away.

If the IC thread is littered with posts that barely even reach one paragraph, I walk away.

Such RP's and characters (if you can call them characters) prove to me that there is a lack of creativity or zest in the role-players themselves, and that role-playing with them is not worth my time.

 

[ataraxia]

when players don't finish their stuff in the time allotted i lose interest tbh.

 

[SakuraBlossom28]

People having characters who are the daughter/son/sibling of *insert fictional character here*. Especially in non-fandom rps. You won't believe how many times this happened to me.

Another is forced romance. I like romance too sometimes, but you can't expect me to believe two people fell in love with each other after saying hello like a disney movie.

I agree with you on the first one, nothing annoys me more than that.

 

[rae2nerdy]

when players don't finish their stuff in the time allotted i lose interest tbh.

Do you mean like they don't fill their character sheets out in the time allotted, they don't post, etc?

 

[ataraxia]

Do you mean like they don't fill their character sheets out in the time allotted, they don't post, etc?

yeah lol

 

[rae2nerdy]

yeah lol

So the character sheets or the posts?

Because character sheets I don't consider to be that vital to the story itself. I mean for the most part in groups they're more used as a way to make sure that people understand the setting and the rules than they are vital to the plot.

So if you didn't get a character sheet done but were still able to post I don't see how that would be that big of a deal.

If you're talking posts than yeah I can understand that more easily. As some people do get bored if they have to wait long periods of time between replies.

 

[ataraxia]

So the character sheets or the posts?

Because character sheets I don't consider to be that vital to the story itself. I mean for the most part in groups they're more used as a way to make sure that people understand the setting and the rules than they are vital to the plot.

So if you didn't get a character sheet done but were still able to post I don't see how that would be that big of a deal.

If you're talking posts than yeah I can understand that more easily. As some people do get bored if they have to wait long periods of time between replies.

if someone doesn't finish their character sheet by the deadline (aside from people who talk to me about it and explain why, then i'll give extensions), they're not getting accepted into my roleplay. therefore, them being able to post wouldn't matter. i use character sheets to judge whether or not the character would fit and whether or not the player can follow rules. so yeah, they are pretty vital. i mean i get why you think that way, but as a gm, they're important. the biographies are my version of a writing sample. the sheets themselves are a way to ensure the player can stick to the deadlines and understands the world the roleplay is in.

as for posting, i especially hate when people repeatedly say "it'll be up soon i promise" and then never do it.

 

[rae2nerdy]

if someone doesn't finish their character sheet by the deadline (aside from people who talk to me about it and explain why, then i'll give extensions), they're not getting accepted into my roleplay. therefore, them being able to post wouldn't matter. i use character sheets to judge whether or not the character would fit and whether or not the player can follow rules. so yeah, they are pretty vital. i mean i get why you think that way, but as a gm, they're important. the biographies are my version of a writing sample. the sheets themselves are a way to ensure the player can stick to the deadlines and understands the world the roleplay is in.

as for posting, i especially hate when people repeatedly say "it'll be up soon i promise" and then never do it.

Lol you misunderstood. I understand the tool that the character sheet provides for Roleplays but not all GMs require a completed sheet before you can post.

So that was what I meant unless the sheet is an actual requirement to posting than I don’t see how it should effects the story itself.

Obviously it’s used as a means of quality control but that doesn’t necessarily means it has to be complete for people to post in the thread. Some people have different degrees of what they consider necessary information prior to posting. That’s all I meant.

I mean if a completed character sheet is step 1 for posting in your roleplay than obviously yes it’s frustrating if the person doesn’t complete it on time.

But if your in a roleplay where you can post prior to it being completed than it’s less important.

I’ve been in groups and 1x1s that had both requirements but sense I skew to 1x1s where in general character sheets aren’t used at all or are very minimal it’s not as important to me to have one filled out as a requirement in my Roleplays.

Heck even in groups I was never like you must have all the thing completed. I was always more - give me the relevant bits to the plot and flesh out the r3st when you get the chance.


Yeah posting isn’t really an issue for me as again primarily in 1x1s but I do remember it being more frustrating when I did groups as one person being slow could hold up an entire scene ( lol why I don’t do groups actually my schedule is too hectic to post often enough to keep up )

 

[Lenny2000]

What's one or two things that make you "nope" out of an rp, no matter how promising?

I just simply cannot roleplay with people that type detailed paragraphs of anything more than 2-3. The role plays ideas are amazing but the issue is that not only my lack of creativity and impatience but as well it mentally tires me to read tons of paragraphs from a medical condition. I just wish there could be open roleplays that are short but pack a lot of punch into it. Quality vs quantity but a lot of detailed rp people don’t know that they both are tied so the more detailed rp you put in the longer it goes in text and typing.

 

[Anya Romanov]

When my partners don't respect me and take the role play in a completely different direction without talking to me first, that's a turn-off. Also, when they try to move things along too quickly, when their characters aren't believable or halfway interesting, when they do things like double-post, etc.

 

[Necromantic]

When my partners don't respect me and take the role play in a completely different direction without talking to me first, that's a turn-off. Also, when they try to move things along too quickly, when their characters aren't believable or halfway interesting, when they do things like double-post, etc.

Man, i just had that exact problem. Entire setting forced on me in a 1x1- whats more, it was a setting i dont like at all. When we came from my interest check. Perfect way to turn me away.

Also, characters with an overtly edgy background and personality somehow getting accepted. Like, nothing makes me quit faster than seeing a character that outright states "all the women want him all the men want to be him" and then having a sob story backstory get accepted. No, them just being there to get all the bitches literally takes away from the story. At least give him some self confidence issues or... SOMETHING.

 

[Blue Aisle]

When their character constantly makes your character feel like shit. I had this RP where her character was a super emotionally sensitive druggie (which she did NOT put in her character sheet). We were doing a stranded RP, trapped in a dense forest with lots of predators. Her character would constantly run off because "she wanted to be useful" and get in trouble with a boar or trip over a rock and scrape her knee. At first, I played along and let my character look after her on the premise that her eccentric behavior might just be from shock. But this continued for like 5 pages.... so my character was like NO, and he stopped chasing after her because he was sick and tired of her tantrums.

So then her character gets all sad and takes out coke from literally nowhere (WTF), and gets super high. She then comes back to my character and passes out in front of him. At this point I'm like: NOPE, I'm OUT.

 

[lostwanderer]

- One liners that do nothing to make things progress.

Spoiler

It was in another site, and the story was set in a sharehouse, kind of similar to how Big Brother functions, just without the cameras, recordings and the whole creep factor.

In the beginning, the people there post a minimum of a paragraph, so I had no issues with that. However, when a new set of people came in, they would bombard the IC with one-liner exchanges. I would come back to five pages worth of something along the lines of “She nodded and smiled back at her friend.” Wat.

- Flooding
Related to the first one. If I wake up to more than a page of the same two people exchanging replies, I would drop that roleplay like a hot potato.

- Inconsiderate people.

Spoiler

Whenever I roleplay, most of my partners almost always live on the other side of the world for me. No big deal ’cause I’m at that point where I’m used to it. I constantly take it into account to tell them this so they know what to expect.

In the very same roleplay as the first one, someone was calling out for my character because she had an announcement for the group, however I was offline that time since I had classes, so I obviously couldn’t respond right then. She literally said she was mad at me on the IC and went on a rant after one of her friends told her I wasn’t on.

When I finally got on and put up a reply, explaining my side, she ignored me and didn’t even apologize for her earlier crap, acting as though nothing happened

- Instant romance.
Happens way too often when I put up a male character. //shudders

- Sudden, unnecessary drama
Don't get me wrong, I love angst and all that jazz, but I would much prefer some sort of build up alluding to it before it actually happens.

- Plot-less
I avoid rps, in which the GM says “we’ll make it up as it goes lol” like a plague.

- ‘Leeches’
When your character is too codependent on mine in a group roleplay. Mingle with the other people too, hun.