Viewpoint Unpopular roleplay opinions?

[M.J. Saulnier]

Also the term darlings is annoyingly vague. Does it mean characters? Sentences? Paragraphs? Concepts? Artistic license?

It means your characters. It refers to how affectionately attatched people get to their OCs. In extreme cases it subconciously bleeds into IC. They become overly protective and prop them up at any chance.

Sometimes you gotta let go. I don't kill everyone all the time, but I have killed a lot of characters (or allowed them to be killed). If it works, feels right and adds to the story, why not?

 

[BasiliskVeranda]

Very much a matter of personal standards. As an RPG designer in Current Year, nothing is ever fully casual for me and I am always eager to take knives to my work, less in response to demographic wants and more a desire to make the best version of something.
But if you're a hobbyist? Fuck it, cuddle your darlings, we're here to have a good time.

"Cuddle your darlings". I like this. I like you.

This is great.

 

[SP3CT3R]

"Cuddle your darlings". I like this. I like you.

This is great.

Unless you're [Author] and your darling is [Character I dislike].

 

[defenderofberk]

- just gonna revive this thread right here -

Honestly I like it when people just message me with "hi, would you like to rp X?". It's fairly relaxed, it's casual, it's friendly. I'll sometimes get a long message through and it feels like I've just received their CV rather than a request to role play.

Now before anyone says, I do take role playing pretty seriously. But I like for the OOC chat to be goofy and open, not like I'm emailing my boss for the forth time to tell him I've lost my work code again. It leaves things open to be discussed; it's not like you can't ask them for a writing sample in the next post.

 

[BackSet]

I don't like that because I just don't like people messaging me in general. If you want to roleplay with me you will find one of my group roleplay interest checks, assuming I have some open ones up, and see if they interest you.

 

[Quiranna]

I really enjoy slow moving, character focused, long winded RPs. And I’m willing to let plot suffer in order to better develop the characters in the role play.

I'm willing to let metaplot damn near DIE for great character development arcs.

 

[BackSet]

Technically, character development arcs are plots. It's just that normally, they're subplots.

 

[Tulik]

Group roleplays that don’t do anything but allow the characters to loiter about. You know the ones I’m talking about. Where characters come and go as they please, do whatever they want. The schools. The open plots. It’s to open winded and people just drop a character into a situation and say “oh hi, I’m here now.”

 

[Malphaestus]

Group roleplays that don’t do anything but allow the characters to loiter about. You know the ones I’m talking about. Where characters come and go as they please, do whatever they want. The schools. The open plots. It’s to open winded and people just drop a character into a situation and say “oh hi, I’m here now.”

I think that is more a problem of base rather than setting; the people involved.

 

[defenderofberk]

Group roleplays that don’t do anything but allow the characters to loiter about. You know the ones I’m talking about. Where characters come and go as they please, do whatever they want. The schools. The open plots. It’s to open winded and people just drop a character into a situation and say “oh hi, I’m here now.”

True, but it can be really difficult to get a role play going if you require four people to all post fairly frequently, as usually at least one of them loses interest and it derails the whole story.

 

[Yolkfolk]

I think more people should roleplay people of color. It's not the most important thing in the world, it would just be nice.

 

[BackSet]

How is that unpopular?

 

[Grey]

How is that unpopular?

Give it about five minutes.

More seriously, a lack of implementation implies a lack of popularity. I think it's a threefold thing - people who don't think about it, people who don't want to do it, and people who are hyper-conscious of fucking it up.

 

[defenderofberk]

Give it about five minutes.

More seriously, a lack of implementation implies a lack of popularity. I think it's a threefold thing - people who don't think about it, people who don't want to do it, and people who are hyper-conscious of fucking it up.

I just find it's more hassle than it's worth, besides I am really uncomfortable with interracial relationships.

 

[BackSet]

I'm admittedly the first one.

 

[Tulik]

Don’t know how it’s hard to play people of color. They are just people. If you apply your personal stigmas to them maybe, but they aren’t any different than anyone else. I’ve created white, black, Asian, Hispanic characters. They were just people. Everyone has different flaws and personality.

 

[Grey]

Six minutes. Still called it.

 

[defenderofberk]

Don’t know how it’s hard to play people of color. They are just people. If you apply your personal stigmas to them maybe, but they aren’t any different than anyone else. I’ve created white, black, Asian, Hispanic characters. They were just people. Everyone has different flaws and personality.

Yeah they're just people, but it seems odd to play the same. It's like if you had a character and swapped out their sexuality; they're the same person but they would act and perceive the world slightly different.

 

[Saltwater Bound]

I just find it's more hassle than it's worth, besides I am really uncomfortable with interracial relationships.

Can I ask why? No judgment, just curious.

This thread is eye-opening because I’m biracial and until I saw your post it literally had never occurred to me that I have always had interracial relationships.

 

[defenderofberk]

Six minutes. Still called it.

Nah I'd say it's a pretty popular stance, I've gotten into this argument before.

 

[defenderofberk]

Can I ask why? No judgment, just curious.

This thread is eye-opening because I’m biracial and until I saw your post it literally had never occurred to me that I have always had interracial relationships.

I've often seen it fetishized as "big black man and tiny white girl" and as such it makes any such pairing very awkward to try and write.

 

[Yolkfolk]

As someone who's mixed I find it very odd that every time I roleplay with someone their character is white. There's nothing wrong with playing a white character, it just bothers me a little bit that this is such a common theme.

 

[SP3CT3R]

I think more people should roleplay people of color. It's not the most important thing in the world, it would just be nice.

I'm not saying it's faceclaims, but it's faceclaims.

And all of that stuff people discourse about.

 

[BakaTheIdiot]

Give it about five minutes.

More seriously, a lack of implementation implies a lack of popularity. I think it's a threefold thing - people who don't think about it, people who don't want to do it, and people who are hyper-conscious of fucking it up.

Last of the three here. As a white man, I'm not completely opposed to playing a character of color... But I am 110% socially conscious, and honestly can't handle the anxiety of wondering whether this is a genuine character or just a caricature of who someone is.

 

[zippy]

As someone who's mixed I find it very odd that every time I roleplay with someone their character is white. There's nothing wrong with playing a white character, it just bothers me a little bit that this is such a common theme.

Wouldn’t really call it a theme. It really boils down to there being a lot of white people on site in general. Therefore they play white characters. For the most part it’s not really anything nefarious.