How NOT to Roleplay!

I need somehting cool, oh I know, I´ll get demons! I´m sure the creature solely discribed as the true incarnation of evil which I will not make any attempt to comprehend will earn a lot of affection when I make them a rebelilious bad boy with a heart of gold!

What´s this? Stepping into the shoes of the character I am supposed to be roleplaying? Making someone who is consistent so they can actually gradually grow instead of everything feeling great? That´s too much work, not worth it, I should just make shit up as I go along! And if it doesn´t feel super fun in the first three posts, it´s because we´re not meant to be, not because writing is a medium that takes time to build up and pay of when the character´s conflict is ultimately resolved after a intense test of the narrative stakes sublty created through a well-paced plot!

Magic? Why yes, I love magic! What kind of magic? Don´t be stupid, only elemental magic is worth anything. I´m sure everyone will be super excited to see this super original way of praticing magic. Heck, might as well use it to divide my culture. I am sure, no one did that before! Wait, where was I?

And then the fire nation attacked....

wait, that´s not it...

Oh, yes, rules. Forget about them. Magic should always just based on tired people get. Because nothing is more worrysome than getting sleepy. Besides, since when do players extend their character´s metaphorical energy bars to unrealistic extremes just for the sake of convinience? Nah...


And you should totally follow the advice below!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ogrx6d9oohf6D42G44j1A
 
Speaking of magic make sure that there are no rules that a character must follow to use their magic everyone knows that you just have to wave your hand and things will just happen. Making characters have restricts are no fun! So don't put them in at all!
 
Don't forget to fill up the forums with dozens of threads about pet peeves, criticism of roleplay styles, types of characters and threads you hate, etc so that new and potential players will be intimidated into leaving the site or never joining, ensuring that our hobby dies.
 
cherbear said:
You can only be these races and you must pick one of these pre-defined party roles.

What, you want to create a character you might actually enjoy playing? Nah get fucked mate
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i would probably allow more variety on the humanoid end. by allowing humanoids with various nonhuman appendages ranging from snake scales or faerie wings to cat ears or goat horns. i would probably allow a prince that was cursed by a witch to live life as a talking donkey and i would likely allow a shapeshifter who changes faces more often than he or she changes his or her clothes but typically sticks with humanoid forms or maybe animal forms appropriate to thier homeland, but i'm not going to accept your incontinent anthropomorphic wolf fursona that wears diapers in a serious toned fantasy roleplay and i'm sure as hell not allowing players to play fully grown dragons. i might let a juvenile dragon slip by, but that dragon has to survive to adulthood by their own choices and probably has to dedicate the sum of their class choice and advancement to being a dragon. not an issue if you just wanted to play a kobold, draconian or lizardfolk, as those don't have the full raw power of a fully grown dragon.
 
cherbear said:
Don't forget to fill up the forums with dozens of threads about pet peeves, criticism of roleplay styles, types of characters and threads you hate, etc so that new and potential players will be intimidated into leaving the site or never joining, ensuring that our hobby dies.
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Because everyone knows there is only one style of roleplay! Also remember kids if you can write 17 paragraphs in that one post that is just responding to dialogue then you are a roleplaying god and everyone should bow to you!!
 
Umbrie said:
i would probably allow more variety on the humanoid end. by allowing humanoids with various nonhuman appendages ranging from snake scales or faerie wings to cat ears or goat horns. i would probably allow a prince that was cursed by a witch to live life as a talking donkey and i would likely allow a shapeshifter who changes faces more often than he or she changes his or her clothes but typically sticks with humanoid forms or maybe animal forms appropriate to thier homeland, but i'm not going to accept your incontinent anthropomorphic wolf fursona that wears diapers in a serious toned fantasy roleplay and i'm sure as hell not allowing players to play fully grown dragons. i might let a juvenile dragon slip by, but that dragon has to survive to adulthood by their own choices and probably has to dedicate the sum of their class choice and advancement to being a dragon. not an issue if you just wanted to play a kobold, draconian or lizardfolk, as those don't have the full raw power of a fully grown dragon.
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Oh yeah I forgot to add, after you spend two weeks bumping your looking for players thread and end up with three people total joining, and your IC dies after one month and five posts, don't forget to jump on the RP discussion forum and complain about the high school RPs that allow anyone to join with no restrictions that grow to hundreds of pages each in a matter of days
 
cherbear said:
Don't forget to fill up the forums with dozens of threads about pet peeves, criticism of roleplay styles, types of characters and threads you hate, etc so that new and potential players will be intimidated into leaving the site or never joining, ensuring that our hobby dies.
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yes, because we all know that anyone who cracks under criticism of their roleplay style would absolutely not turn out as the kind of person who would be in a constant quest for attention, and would always know the boundaries of what they can do or not, since obviously they are not just banking of feelings that can be offended at the slightest thing


Speaking of offended, remember that anyone who wants to suggest that people improve their writing styles so up the quality of roleplay as a whole is someone who should be demonized instead of someone who should be discussed with and potentially be taken as a rolemodel should they present a good point.
 
cherbear said:
Oh yeah I forgot to add, after you spend two weeks bumping your looking for players thread and end up with three people total joining, and your IC dies after one month and five posts, don't forget to jump on the RP discussion forum and complain about the high school RPs that allow anyone to join with no restrictions that grow to hundreds of pages each in a matter of days
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restrictions aren't a bad thing on thier own. the bad part with restrictions is when they get excessive. i don't mind banning dragons, demons, vampires, angels and other "Power Grab Species" while keeping most of the other nonhuman humanoid species relatively open. i just don't want to deal with stuff like players running around with the full power of a demon or dragon or deal with something ludicrous like somebody playing as an incontinent babyfur.
 
Umbrie said:
restrictions aren't a bad thing on thier own. the bad part with restrictions is when they get excessive. i don't mind banning dragons, demons, vampires, angels and other "Power Grab Species" while keeping most of the other nonhuman humanoid species relatively open. i just don't want to deal with stuff like players running around with the full power of a demon or dragon or deal with something ludicrous like somebody playing as an incontinent babyfur.
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Understandable. I was mostly referring to threads which require you to pick from a number of races you've never seen or heard of before and have no interest in playing, and in addition require an exact number of players, each of which must fill a role selected from a pre-defined list provided by the GM. Typically after a multi-page word salad of proper nouns only the GM cares about that is sure to destroy any interest you might otherwise have left over.
 
Tbh i dislike it when people are like "oh looks nice I'll join" next thing you know they'll drop out.

Some people are either picky, basic/generic when wanting rps.
 
cherbear said:
Understandable. I was mostly referring to threads which require you to pick from a number of races you've never seen or heard of before and have no interest in playing, and in addition require an exact number of players, each of which must fill a role selected from a pre-defined list provided by the GM. Typically after a multi-page word salad of proper nouns only the GM cares about that is sure to destroy any interest you might otherwise have left over.
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such roleplays usually devolve into Dungeons and Dragons with a different skin overlayed upon it. you usually have the physically strong and hardy race that makes up the majority of warriors, blacksmiths, and axe crazy drunkard lunatics, you usually have the expressive nature race that for some reason, make damned good spellcasters, you have the city dwelling race that makes damned good thieves and leeches off the cities of other races, and you usually have the creepy small race that puts on the child act as a cover, and is typically either a damned good rogue or a damned good spellcaster.
 
Umbrie said:
such roleplays usually devolve into Dungeons and Dragons with a different skin overlayed upon it. you usually have the physically strong and hardy race that makes up the majority of warriors, blacksmiths, and axe crazy drunkard lunatics, you usually have the expressive nature race that for some reason, make damned good spellcasters, you have the city dwelling race that makes damned good thieves and leeches off the cities of other races, and you usually have the creepy small race that puts on the child act as a cover, and is typically either a damned good rogue or a damned good spellcaster.
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The one thing the races invariably have in common is that none of the players care about them.
 
cherbear said:
The one thing the races invariably have in common is that none of the players care about them.
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very true.

i would rather allow racial flexibility, but i would ask the player about their concept before they pitch their character. and by concept, i mean more than just role. concept is about 2.5 lines that describe your character like an elevator pitch. 3 lines is doable, but i don't want to see you devoting a novella to a character you might not get to use.
 
When rping a 1on1 make sure to leave all development and story building to your partner because that isn't frustration and completely against the whole idea of roleplaying in general!
 
1x1 interest checks should always be about romantically pairing one character with another, and should never explore any of the other dynamics and interactions that can occur between two sentient beings. There have never been any interesting stories about two characters that didn't involve romance, don't even suggest it.
 
hey i know, i should play a Tsundere Loli, have her Flash her generic blue and white striped panties at some random older male by means of conveniently tripping over a soda can onto his face while i am wearing a girl's school uniform and expect him to instantly fall in love with this perverse gesture of fanservice, because Otaku Males in their Late Twenties totally like Tsunderes, Lolis, Fanservice, and Striped Panties.
 
cherbear said:
yeah but those Red Flag terms, I'm not taking any chances
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it is a bad roleplay sample i deal with seeing a lot of other people use to create instant romances without pre-existing precedent on other sites.i'm kind of desensitized to the trend due to years of watching cutesy moetrash anime. if an anime girl flashed her stripes at me, i would ask an OOC reason for why, i can see it being used as a distraction against weak willed male targets in combat to get that sneak attack, but that is the most i see it being used for, and even then, it probably only works against a given target for the first time you face them at all.
 
cherbear said:
it's fine I was just being silly

your avatar is top cute btw
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thankies. my Friend Annette Drew it for me as a request, it is a Faerie cuddling a plush Raptor. well, supposed to be Umbrie cuddling her mother's Plush Raptor, other than the fact the Raptor wasn't the size i imagined it to be, it is an amazingly cute image. the Faerie was supposed to be 155 centimeters tall and the Raptor Plushie was supposed to be 170 Centimeters tall. still a huggable image.


Edit: the smaller raptor most likely makes the image even cuter.
 
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