Experiences Whats making you angry today? Rp pet peeves

[Delinquent]

It irks me when people running fandom roleplays insist that they have to perfectly include everything from the source material, regardless if those things don't work in roleplays at all or are just actual flaws with the original work.

 

[iseelight]

It irks me when people running fandom roleplays insist that they have to perfectly include everything from the source material, regardless if those things don't work in roleplays at all or are just actual flaws with the original work.

God, yeah. I've played in a group for a few years that started out as a fandom rp, but we've changed and built onto the source material so much it doesn't really resemble it anymore, aside from the very base premise. In my opinion, we improved on it a ton, since the source material is wildly flawed and borderline absurd lol. But there are still a few people in the group who cling so stubbornly to the canon and try to shut down any ideas that stray from it. Like, at this point, it's not much of a fandom rp; if you're So invested in the canon material then go find a group that adheres to it. 'Cuz this ain't it, chief.

 

[rae2nerdy]

iseelight what is a mun?

As for the canon thing I actually go both ways. I am a Potterhead so I buried my Author years ago and built my own post book canon. I also however like to make sure the world is consistent with what JK sat down. So it’s not a rigid recreation but it’s also not total BS that is excused because “it’s not real so who cares?”

 

[iseelight]

iseelight what is a mun?

As for the canon thing I actually go both ways. I am a Potterhead so I buried my Author years ago and built my own post book canon. I also however like to make sure the world is consistent with what JK sat down. So it’s not a rigid recreation but it’s also not total BS that is excused because “it’s not real so who cares?”

The mun is the irl person playing a muse, at least that's what I've always used/seen used in tumblr rp haha. I think it's short for "mundane" but I could be wrong...

Yeah, I agree that if a universe already has a pretty solid foundation, there's no need to go changing all the lore. The canon universe that my group started with, however, happens to have been badly and inconsistently written in the first place by its author lol. Which none of us really minded when we started as teenagers, but as 20-and-30-somethings, we started noticing how shaky and flat the worldbuilding was and wanted to flesh it out. Funny story, we apparently fleshed it out so well that many of our ideas and characters were stolen by the original creator and used in his comics lol. Which is a bit off-topic so I'll leave it at that.

 

[rae2nerdy]

iseelight Ah I didn’t know tumblr did roleplays. On the sites I started on we usually called the person playing the character the player (as in role player).

 

[Brea The Brave]

People who sign up for fandom RP and make their characters way older than they should be in an attempt to skirt the rules. For example in a Naruto RP Genin start out typically as 12-13 years old, but for some reason, everyone is making their fresh out of the academy Genin 17 years old in an attempt to make them more skilled than they should be at that level, like Shippuden level and I'm just like, what is the point of you having a Sensei if you are already Jonin level? Why the hell are you still in the Academy at 17 years old?

 

[Crayons]

People who sign up for fandom RP and make their characters way older than they should be in an attempt to skirt the rules. For example in a Naruto RP Genin start out typically as 12-13 years old, but for some reason, everyone is making their fresh out of the academy Genin 17 years old in an attempt to make them more skilled than they should be at that level, like Shippuden level and I'm just like, what is the point of you having a Sensei if you are already Jonin level? Why the hell are you still in the Academy at 17 years old?

Um... if they stay genin till 17 then they will be LESS skilled than those who left the academy at age 12.


And also in my experience people do this so that they don't have to play characters going through the early fluxes of puberty as it's much less interesting to play when you're already an adult/late teen.

 

[iseelight]

People who sign up for fandom RP and make their characters way older than they should be in an attempt to skirt the rules. For example in a Naruto RP Genin start out typically as 12-13 years old, but for some reason, everyone is making their fresh out of the academy Genin 17 years old in an attempt to make them more skilled than they should be at that level, like Shippuden level and I'm just like, what is the point of you having a Sensei if you are already Jonin level? Why the hell are you still in the Academy at 17 years old?

Funny that their intention is to make their character OP, when anyone who's into Naruto knows that geniuses graduate early, not late lmao. Itachi graduated at 7 years old, if I remember right. Someone who graduates at 17 should be a Huge Useless Loser who only graduated cuz the instructor felt bad or was tired of the secondhand embarrassment lmao.

 

[Crayons]

Funny that their intention is to make their character OP, when anyone who's into Naruto knows that geniuses graduate early, not late lmao. Itachi graduated at 7 years old, if I remember right. Someone who graduates at 17 should be a Huge Useless Loser who only graduated cuz the instructor felt bad or was tired of the secondhand embarrassment lmao.

Exactly. I think Naruto just attracts people who want to power game and the age is just a correlation rather than a causation.

 

[Brea The Brave]

Um... if they stay genin till 17 then they will be LESS skilled than those who left the academy at age 12.


And also in my experience people do this so that they don't have to play characters going through the early fluxes of puberty as it's much less interesting to play when you're already an adult/late teen.

I know that logically they would be less skilled I'm just saying when I run into this particular peeve that is the reason they did it because their genin level ninja will know all these advanced jutsu like False Darkness or Kirin.

Also, I get the second part but I feel like if that's the case just let them start off as chunin.

 

[Brea The Brave]

It was 7 or 5 no I think that was Kakashi who graduated at 5.

iseelight

 

[Crayons]

I know that logically they would be less skilled I'm just saying when I run into this particular peeve that is the reason they did it because their genin level ninja will know all these advanced jutsu like False Darkness or Kirin.

Also, I get the second part but I feel like if that's the case just let them start off as chunin.

I'm not saying that people wouldn't do that, just that it's ridiculously stupid of them. XD

 

[Brea The Brave]

And also in my experience people do this so that they don't have to play characters going through the early fluxes of puberty as it's much less interesting to play when you're already an adult/late teen.

Also, I would find playing a character going through early puberty to be interesting. Don't get me wrong I enjoy myself a good interesting fight but I also enjoy a story and character development. I think it would be nice to play a character that grows and matures over time rather than one who is basically already a sound-minded adult with pretty much nothing left to do but get stronger.

 

[iseelight]

Naruto universe was my first RP waaay back when I was in middle school (I still love Naruto and I'm 27 lol) and I remember the whole fun of it was starting off with characters who didn't know all these crazy powerful jutsus and had to get stronger as the story progressed. I had a good experience because it was a group composed of irl friends I went to school with and nobody was being an asshole about anything. Ofc when we moved online and tried to invite new people, that was when we started to get all the sue's and stu's who were more interested in pummeling other characters with insane OP bs than actually telling a narrative.

 

[Brea The Brave]

I am very tempted to start a Naruto RP right now. I might do that.

 

[The Regal Rper]

When you have someone who complains about their character not getting any attention, but their characters hardly interact much with the rest of the player cast so its fair to understand why no one else in the group mentions them much in ooc.

When you also have someone who attacks someone else's character for being similar to theirs and swiping attention away from their character, when:
A) these two characters are completely different in their mannerisms and reasons for acting the way they do.
B) you should stop bloody complaining about your character being ignored and maybe should start having them interact more with other players instead of just two characters

Seriously I've had to deal with this more than once in rps I've been in and rps I've gmed and it never ceases to amaze how anyone could complain about something that's virtually their own fault for how they write their own character. Don't go blaming other people for that biz, that's on your writing style and inability to actually interact with the rest of the players and their characters.

 

[iseelight]

When you have someone who complains about their character not getting any attention, but their characters hardly interact much with the rest of the player cast so its fair to understand why no one else in the group mentions them much in ooc.

When you also have someone who attacks someone else's character for being similar to theirs and swiping attention away from their character, when:
A) these two characters are completely different in their mannerisms and reasons for acting the way they do.
B) you should stop bloody complaining about your character being ignored and maybe should start having them interact more with other players instead of just two characters

Seriously I've had to deal with this more than once in rps I've been in and rps I've gmed and it never ceases to amaze how anyone could complain about something that's virtually their own fault for how they write their own character. Don't go blaming other people for that biz, that's on your writing style and inability to actually interact with the rest of the players and their characters.

Hate this. Similar is when people rarely ever write anything IC, but have Such a loud opinion on what everyone else is doing OOC. Like, I don't care if you hate my idea. It's not like you were going to be involved in it anyways lol.

 

[Crayons]

Also, I would find playing a character going through early puberty to be interesting. Don't get me wrong I enjoy myself a good interesting fight but I also enjoy a story and character development. I think it would be nice to play a character that grows and matures over time rather than one who is basically already a sound-minded adult with pretty much nothing left to do but get stronger.

16 year olds are not exactly fully-formed adults... and I take issue with your comment that older characters can't grow and mature over time. All characters, all people, grow and mature and change until they are dead. I think it's odd that your conflating "start at a slightly later age" with "characters who are static" because those are two very different things.

 

[Brea The Brave]

16 year olds are not exactly fully-formed adults... and I take issue with your comment that older characters can't grow and mature over time. All characters, all people, grow and mature and change until they are dead. I think it's odd that your conflating "start at a slightly later age" with "characters who are static" because those are two very different things.

Well not to be that girl but they were 17 not 16 and I am well aware 16-year-olds can grow and mature. I am aware that you always keep growing and maturing until you gone from this earth. However, I am speaking in the context of how it is usually used. When these people choose for their character to be 17 I shit you not they stay exactly the same no matter how old they get afterward, they remain the exact same person, just older with more jutsu and a different outfit.

 

[Crayons]

Well not to be that guy but they were 17 not 16 and I am well aware 16-year-olds can grow and mature. I am aware that you always keep growing and maturing until you gone from this earth. However, I am speaking in the context of how it is usually used. When these people choose for their character to be 17 I shit you not they stay exactly the same no matter how old they get afterward, they remain the exact same person, just older with more jutsu and a different outfit.

That's not my experience. I think this is a problem with the players you've seen, rather than the fact that they start their characters at whatever age. I'm in a Naruto RP now, all the characters are 16/17, mostly chunin, and we're allowed five jutsus each to start with. Five. It's not exactly power gaming central.

Yeah, 17 year olds know everything... way more than 16 year olds. :/

 

[Brea The Brave]

That's not my experience. I think this is a problem with the players you've seen, rather than the fact that they start their characters at whatever age. I'm in a Naruto RP now, all the characters are 16/17, mostly chunin, and we're allowed five jutsus each to start with. Five. It's not exactly power gaming central.

Yeah, 17 year olds know everything... way more than 16 year olds. :/

I'm glad you understand, 17-year-olds unlock the secrets of the universe. Infinitely more knowledge than 16-year-olds.

Also I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about people I RP'd with and not every single last person as a whole.

 

[rae2nerdy]

I mean some people in real life genuinely never mature past 17 either. I know one IRL and she’s a hot mess.

Because stagnate people are always those who are stunted in some way. Especially if their last period of growth was as a teenager. And having other players point that out can be really instrumental to the person making that character.

Especially if the person playing the character is only 17 or 18 IRL they might not realize they are making their character stagnate because they are playing the character from their own perspective.

I had a partner once who was playing a divorced couple with me. I was playing the single mother of the pairing and she was playing the ex. And she played the ex like a very immature party girl who basically spent all her times in clubs.

And when I excitedly pointed out that they were doing an excellent job displaying arrested development their minds were blown. They had truly never realized that they were writing their adult characters like irresponsible teenagers. Because they themselves where a teenager (18) and were writing adults based on what they had seen from popular media without understanding that this was out of context and not mature behavior.

So the character not maturing can actually be a really fun situation to work with if you approach it right. As again in real life not everyone matures. Some people stay irresponsible and immature their entire lives. But they tend to face a lot of consequences for that.

I think in the Naruto example the issue seems to be more trying to out awesome everyone by making an idealized character who is the special snowflake of the group. Which is less of a stagnation issue and more of an issue where the person is an attention hound.

Stagnation in my experience is more of a honest mistake due to lack of experience OR a deliberate choice.

Attention hounds are basically just frankensteining character traits together to ensure the spotlight is forever on them.

 

[Delinquent]

When these people choose for their character to be 17 I shit you not they stay exactly the same no matter how old they get afterward, they remain the exact same person, just older with more jutsu and a different outfit

Isn't this true regardless of what age their character starts though? I don't really think that the kind of people who write static characters are suddenly going to stop because their character is like four years younger.

 

[Brea The Brave]

Isn't this true regardless of what age their character starts though? I don't really think that the kind of people who write static characters are suddenly going to stop because their character is like four years younger.

I never said they would stop. I'm saying it irritates me to see them do it, simply because they believe age makes you stronger. I never once said they wouldn't do it if their characters were four years younger and I'm not entirely sure why people suddenly think I did.

 

[King Crimson]

I'm just going to hijack this conversation to say that I'm not sure which is funnier; the mental image of a Naruto character in their 30's who's still trying to pass the chunin exam, or a Naruto character with terrible acne and who's voice cracks every time they call out the name of their jutsu.

Back to the subject of the thread, I hate it when posts are just painful to read, whether it's because of a lack of proofreading, meandering content, bad grammer, bad choice in font and/or format, (Don't even get me started on BBCodes) or all of the above.
I know writing is hard, and I'm sure I'm guilty of quite a few of those things myself, but it's hard for me to get into your character, and into the roleplay, when my eyes start glazing over after the fifth sentence in a row with no punctuation in your character's internal monologue about buying bread.