Tropes you are sick of seeing in RPs

[Umbrie]

That was just may take on faeries really. Or fynari as I let to call them in one of my series. By the way is your character asexual?

Shinkuro was Asexual. didn't stop guys from trying to romance him because they didn't want to acknowledge the identity of the spirit inside the body and only saw a feminine body to attempt to romance. they usually ended up eaten because Shinkuro was Asexual. Umbrie was demisexual.

 

[ynceiche]

It isn't that hard to play a badass.


It's just that stupid people misinterpret what a badass IS and how to get THERE.


Most people need to do/avoid doing three things:

• Mouthing Off: First of all, a badass knows that Talk Is Cheap and Doesn't Need To Advertise. A badass knows that he doesn't want to be found, or to find trouble. Trouble will find him by itself. And even so, he should not constantly taunt his enemies with meat and insults (Unless it's a part of the tactics.) He should stay calm, quiet and silent. Staying cool is more desirable than speed and strength, because you are prepared for surprises. A badass in combat should look like someone playing poker, except he holds a sword instead of a deck of cards. And Nobody Likes A Jerkass that insults every person they meet.
  
• Practical, but Cool: A badass' arsenal isn't a wall filled with pairs of identical guns. A badass is like an expert. They know what they do, and how to do it. As such, they treat each weapon like a tool for different purposes. Screw two, identical, silver-coated pistols. Make one of them white, the other black and memorize which is for rapid fire and quick drawing and which is for long distance firing and comfort. That's how a badass operates. Also, a badass still gets his ass kicked. The meaning of badassery is to have your ass delivered to you more than anyone else and be able to get up anyway. A badass feels immense fear, maybe more than anyone - but manages to beat it. 
  
• Beware the Nice Ones: Have you ever heard "nice guys finish last"? Well, that's bullshit. If the guy is usually a nice, level-headed guy, yet takes no crap from no one, and will kick anyone's ass for hurting his friends, he's a badass. If your badass character is a hero, you should really use this. They don't mess with the hero because he's nice, but because they know exactly what's going to happen.
  

By combining the 3 above, you have a recipe for BASIC BADASSERY.


Making a Magnificent Bastard isn't that hard either.

I would argue that writing a Magnificent Bastard is difficult, because they need to be successfully manipulative of other players and furthering their own ends, without powerplaying or just plain ruining the game for other people by messing up the plot. 

 

[Eye of Nowhere]

• Anime-acting: People who have to start off every confrontation with a lengthy speech and arm gestures, much like the cliché face-offs in most anime series.  It's like kids who want to show a trick or move.  It's cute the first time.  It's annoying after a hundred times. 
  
• I am all alone: It's been said a lot in this thread.  The edgy loners who must remain alone at all costs to retain their edginess. 
  
• The gender-identity-craze: It seems to be a growing trend to include the token character who identifies as a non-binary-double-mocha-latte-pumpkin-ruler-spice-demi-dragon half-demon-frappacino.  If you're doing anything other than slice-of-life, I find this sort of thing detrimental to the coherency of the RP.  No offense to people who go along with this stuff, but in my opinion it doesn't fit into every setting.  
  
• The endless pockets: People who'll pull just about anything out of their a**e, I mean pocket.  
  
• The I-don't-wanna-be-a-hero:  If I had a penny for all the reluctant heroes out there...
  

 

[Umbrie]

• The endless pockets: People who'll pull just about anything out of their a**e, I mean pocket.  
  

i had a character who kept a knife in her sleeve and a silenced pistol strapped to a holster under her skirt. she also had a Satchel that was loaded with a seemingly random assortment of consumable alchemical goods ranging from antidotes and smoke bombs to healing potions and sticky bombs. i limited her to about 36 vials before restocks. and restocking was whenever she could pick up herbs, go shopping or enter her lab. but she was a 2nd generation Apothecary.

 

[Eye of Nowhere]

i had a character who kept a knife in her sleeve and a silenced pistol strapped to a holster under her skirt. she also had a Satchel that was loaded with a seemingly random assortment of consumable alchemical goods ranging from antidotes and smoke bombs to healing potions and sticky bombs. i limited her to about 36 vials before restocks. and restocking was whenever she could pick up herbs, go shopping or enter her lab. but she was a 2nd generation Apothecary.

But did you have a spare rocketlauncher under that skirt? 

 

[Terrabreak]

• The gender-identity-craze: It seems to be a growing trend to include the token character who identifies as a non-binary-double-mocha-latte-pumpkin-ruler-spice-demi-dragon half-demon-frappacino.  If you're doing anything other than slice-of-life, I find this sort of thing detrimental to the coherency of the RP.  No offense to people who go along with this stuff, but in my opinion it doesn't fit into every setting.  
  

I really try not to be rude towards other rp's about this but it really rustles my jimmies sometimes. Heterosexual is fine, homosexual is fine, bisexual is fine, asexual is fine, pansexual is already over the line and anything else in my opinion is just on the same level than a full time edgelord. I just cant think of people like this anything else than someone going to infinity and beyond in order to be different than the rest of the characters. Trust me, I have tried.

 

[ewolf20]

• I am all alone: It's been said a lot in this thread.  The edgy loners who must remain alone at all costs to retain their edginess. 
  
• The gender-identity-craze: It seems to be a growing trend to include the token character who identifies as a non-binary-double-mocha-latte-pumpkin-ruler-spice-demi-dragon half-demon-frappacino.  If you're doing anything other than slice-of-life, I find this sort of thing detrimental to the coherency of the RP.  No offense to people who go along with this stuff, but in my opinion it doesn't fit into every setting.  
  

i know that feeling. it's funny that i just subverted that trope at some point. and the gender craze thing is kinda annoying. i know people want representation but that's not the way to go.

 

[M.J. Saulnier]

If you're expecting to run a RP with 20 people and multiple IC threads - Guess what? No... just no. (Especially by yourself.)

I ran a massive RP with 25 players and 2 IC threads, Galgothica East, and Galgothica West. Guess what? Yes... just yes.


It's about you, the substance of your project, and the people you accept into it, nothing more.

 

[Umbrie]

But did you have a spare rocketlauncher under that skirt? 

i didn't. just a wallet, a smart phone, a concealed 9mm Semi Automatic Silenced Glock and 3-5 spare Magazines for Said Glock of the 20 Shot Variety. about 80-120 rounds. but Semi Auto really blows through reloads quickly when you double tap to ensure a downed aggressor is down. but i wasn't carying 3-5 guns, just one.

 

[M.J. Saulnier]

i didn't. just a wallet, a smart phone, a concealed 9mm Semi Automatic Silenced Glock and 3-5 spare Magazines for Said Glock of the 20 Shot Variety. about 80-120 rounds. but Semi Auto really blows through reloads quickly when you double tap to ensure a downed aggressor is down. but i wasn't carying 3-5 guns, just one.

I cant tell if that's sarcastic humor, or if you seriously did something like that...

 

[snowstormspawn]

It isn't that hard to play a badass.


It's just that stupid people misinterpret what a badass IS and how to get THERE.


Most people need to do/avoid doing three things:

• Mouthing Off: First of all, a badass knows that Talk Is Cheap and Doesn't Need To Advertise. A badass knows that he doesn't want to be found, or to find trouble. Trouble will find him by itself. And even so, he should not constantly taunt his enemies with meat and insults (Unless it's a part of the tactics.) He should stay calm, quiet and silent. Staying cool is more desirable than speed and strength, because you are prepared for surprises. A badass in combat should look like someone playing poker, except he holds a sword instead of a deck of cards. And Nobody Likes A Jerkass that insults every person they meet.
  
• Practical, but Cool: A badass' arsenal isn't a wall filled with pairs of identical guns. A badass is like an expert. They know what they do, and how to do it. As such, they treat each weapon like a tool for different purposes. Screw two, identical, silver-coated pistols. Make one of them white, the other black and memorize which is for rapid fire and quick drawing and which is for long distance firing and comfort. That's how a badass operates. Also, a badass still gets his ass kicked. The meaning of badassery is to have your ass delivered to you more than anyone else and be able to get up anyway. A badass feels immense fear, maybe more than anyone - but manages to beat it. 
  
• Beware the Nice Ones: Have you ever heard "nice guys finish last"? Well, that's bullshit. If the guy is usually a nice, level-headed guy, yet takes no crap from no one, and will kick anyone's ass for hurting his friends, he's a badass. If your badass character is a hero, you should really use this. They don't mess with the hero because he's nice, but because they know exactly what's going to happen.
  

By combining the 3 above, you have a recipe for BASIC BADASSERY.


Making a Magnificent Bastard isn't that hard either.

I like looking to Quentin Tarantino movies for inspiration. He's a boss of badass characters. 

 

[Umbrie]

I cant tell if that's sarcastic humor, or if you seriously did something like that...

with the character


the Wallet and Smart Phone were in a pocket on the inside of the skirt.


the Glock and all 3-5ish spare fully loaded 20 round mags were worn on a holster strapped to the thigh beneath the skirt. concealed by a slightly longer and looser skirt. no loose rounds, i listed the sum of the rounds among the pistol's current load and the spare magazines.

 

[Eye of Nowhere]

I really try not to be rude towards other rp's about this but it really rustles my jimmies sometimes. Heterosexual is fine, homosexual is fine, bisexual is fine, asexual is fine, pansexual is already over the line and anything else in my opinion is just on the same level than a full time edgelord. I just cant think of people like this anything else than someone going to infinity and beyond in order to be different than the rest of the characters. Trust me, I have tried.

I try not to be rude, either. I will decline characters that don't fit the setting, or if I expect they'll be offended or annoying all the time.  I once had an 'sjw'-type wanting to join a story set in a world with the equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition.  Said person was offended that I declined their character who was an 'alternative gender', but they also didn't want to be persecuted by the religious zealots in the story because "it's discrimination'.  Well...  Sorry but I won't let one person ruin everyone else's fun.  If a forum wants to push such nonsense on me, I'll just leave and go elsewhere. 

 In fact, that's how I ended up here.  

i know that feeling. it's funny that i just subverted that trope at some point. and the gender craze thing is kinda annoying. i know people want representation but that's not the way to go.

Edgelords are comic relief at best, for me. Especially in a 1x1 RP.  I can go on a monologue-spree for pages on end and completely ignore their wallowing in self-pity and brooding in dark corners. Once, I went on an entire wonderland adventure by myself. I had to admire their persistence, though. They replied for ten more posts in proper edgy gloom. 

 

[ewolf20]

I try not to be rude, either. I will decline characters that don't fit the setting, or if I expect they'll be offended or annoying all the time.  I once had an 'sjw'-type wanting to join a story set in a world with the equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition.  Said person was offended that I declined their character who was an 'alternative gender', but they also didn't want to be persecuted by the religious zealots in the story because "it's discrimination'.  Well...  Sorry but I won't let one person ruin everyone else's fun.  If a forum wants to push such nonsense on me, I'll just leave and go elsewhere. 

 In fact, that's how I ended up here.  


Edgelords are comic relief at best, for me. Especially in a 1x1 RP.  I can go on a monologue-spree for pages on end and completely ignore their wallowing in self-pity and brooding in dark corners. Once, I went on an entire wonderland adventure by myself. I had to admire their persistence, though. They replied for ten more posts in proper edgy gloom. 





 






 

i feel sadden that my favorite site is being overtaken by sjws. should have made it clear that they can only pick 2 genders but that'll be triggering.

 

[Eye of Nowhere]

i feel sadden that my favorite site is being overtaken by sjws. should have made it clear that they can only pick 2 genders but that'll be triggering.

It was on another site, so I wouldn't worry too much.  I've seen no obstrusive behaviour around here   

 

[Cadryn]

with the character


the Wallet and Smart Phone were in a pocket on the inside of the skirt.


the Glock and all 3-5ish spare fully loaded 20 round mags were worn on a holster strapped to the thigh beneath the skirt. concealed by a slightly longer and looser skirt. no loose rounds, i listed the sum of the rounds among the pistol's current load and the spare magazines.

That seems like quite a leg workout. 

 

[Umbrie]

That seems like quite a leg workout. 

it was.

 

[ewolf20]

I'm glad

 

[AtlannianSpy]

I don't think tropes are really to blame here. I think most of the time when we roll our eyes at a stoic badass or an edgy orphan its because our experience leads us to expect the person behind that character is likely to... have different goals and standards for rping to us lets say.


But I'd take a wellworn character who has a strong arc and some depth over a confusing mess of a character whose author doesn't really know where to take them because they were assembled out of defiance to prevailing trends than to be compelling in their own right.


Ideas, whether they be innovative or classics aren't a shortcut to success or failure, its how you use them.


Oh and the next time I see someone complain that non standard sexual identities in historical settings are the most unrealistic thing ever I'm going to ask to see their research paper on medival sexual practices. Attitudes towards sexual practices varied region to region and from period to period and sources that tend to survive for us to study are usually focused on the society's elites and predisposed to favor reinforcing norms of the time. Since the vast majority of people who have lived and died didn't leave behind tell all diaries we don't actually know what their personal opinions on sex were. 

 

[KhazTheGiraffe]

sjw?

 

[AtlannianSpy]

sjw?

More of a social justice mage thank you.

 

[KhazTheGiraffe]

More of a social justice mage thank you.

Somehow... more questions have been raised...

 

[Truthblade]

sjw?

Social Justice Warrior.

 

[KhazTheGiraffe]

Social Justice Warrior.

I see, thanks fam

 

[TPBx]

i feel sadden that my favorite site is being overtaken by sjws. should have made it clear that they can only pick 2 genders but that'll be triggering.

I mean thats not a bad thing, but at the same time, I personally get really frustrated when thats all a character bio is. Like let them be gay, bi, or whatever you don't need half of a character's bio spent detailing the "struggle" of being in the closet. It becomes just as much of an cringefest as some edgy, anti-social, super hot vampire kid.