I agree... playing good and bad sides is fun and much more easier to get creative in.

My problem is: when I play both, I'm so much more nicer to the villain[ess]. I give them all the cool one-liners, action quirks, and wittiness. 'Spose it's because I relish them more - therefore give them more original character.

And my hero's are left puttering along in the dark with flashlights trying to figure out their own lines.

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When I first started RPing, I just played "good guys" (and girls), but recently I've started "widening my horizons" and playing baddies too. lol
I used a lot of quotation marks for such a short post. lol

Lol, Elenya--I generally use a lot of quotation marks, too.

I'm just very happy that you and Meldawen don't seem to find my Adanil-posts boring and pointless, LDM.

When in doubt, stage an ambush? It generally helps to have more than one character in the same RPG to do that, and I think I only have a situation like that in my Star Wars RPG, but in that case, both characters are on the same side. It would open up a lot of plot possibilities, but I don't like the thought of my two beloved characters turning on each other.

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Oh, look ... it works! Sorry for absence, yall, but the login was being weird and I didn't have time until today to clear out my temp int. files. I promise I'll post more if I can get internet access. Yeah spring break!

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Lol, Valera. Are you sure you have Spring break right now? Not Winter? I don't think it makes much sense to have spring break in Winter.

Here's a question to keep us all on-topic: What thing annoys you the most when you RP?

For me, it is without a doubt short, less-than-a-paragraph posts that don't add a thing to the plot. The next-worst thing is when people don't take hints. That gets really annoying, too, but not so badly as the first.

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I know what you mean, though I am somtimes guilty of the former. I usually post short little posts when other people around me are inactive, or when I just don't have much idea what I want to right and I don't want me part to die. But I do agree with you on when people don't take hints. Grrr. I want to shake them upside the head and smack them.

I'd say my pet peeve is people who think they're excellent at a certain character, when they really just...aren't. In fact, FM and I were just lamenting over that last night.
When I take on a new canon character who I've never played before, I really make an effort to study that individual and pick up their mannerisms (way of speaking, temper, manner of responding to different things, etc). FM does the same. As a result, we're both what you might call "good" RPers (or at least, we don't completely screw everything up). But to do as well as we do, we both worry constantly about "getting it right."
So is it understandable for me to get a bit annoyed when people who couldn't care less and think they're great at their character completely butcher said character (especially when they're one of my favorites)? It's just one of my major issues when RPing.

My other huge pet peeve is Mary Sues. I've dropped out of RPGs just because I can't take the Mary Sues any more. They just have a negative effect on my ability to RP in general. I literally can't function around them. They're completely insufferable (in my opinion), and it's nearly impossible to make canon characters realistically reply to them (especially since the essence of a Mary Sue is typically to defy the laws of canon).


I could go off on a huge rant about either of those, but I'll spare you guys the details. Just know that if you ever do either of those things, PotR shall personally hunt you down.

Point taken

The most annoying thing for me is posts that don't DO anything. I really get annoyed at posts like "Legolas sighed and kept riding." If you're going to post like that, don't post at all. If you're not going to contribute by adding dialogue or action, at the very least give us a few paragraphs of insight into what your character is thinking. It's just...pointless. That annoys me most, I think, more than Mary-Sues or characters that don't take hints. Also, characters with no personality. That just sit there and make sure their horse is okay. Please.

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Ohhh... wow... angryness...! *edges away*
I'll try to say something I've been wondering... or observing for a while.. or think I've been noticing...about the RPG's on A-U, but I don't want it to come off the wrong way...

Hmmm isn't it like the RPG's here have become more elitist and sorta professionalized?
A long time ago... maybe even a year ago, I saw a lot of RPG's starting off without a plot; elves meet in a random wood, they go on adventure - very boring, people posted three line-posts and tended to be quite Mary Sue-ish, and the RPG's died out quickly.
I'm sure they still exist, but during the last 4-5 months... maybe at the same time this club was founded, the RPG's seems to have become a lot bigger and more detailed. The hardcore RP'ers meet here and encourage and inspire each other to get better all the time, and the standard is really high. You are all great writers!
But... based on the discussions here, to me it sounds like you might scare other RP'ers away... people who might be less dedicated or have lesser writing skills - or just a different style. I mean when you spend so much time RP'ing, I understand why you demand a certain level of quality in the posts, but... can everyone meet the expectations? And if they aren't great RP'ers and writers yet... they might just need a friendly nudge in the right direction or an opportunity to discuss their plots or characters, someone to spar with...? I don't know if the harsh tone I sense in your discussion here is to be taken literally, but it comes off just slightly intimidating sometimes.

Well, just a thought that crossed my mind. RPG'ing here is completely foreign to me and I never follow any RPG's through, I'm only browsing a couple of posts or pages occasionally, so in fact I might not even be entitled to have a sound opinion about it.

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But I like my character's horse! Hehe. The horse is my fall back. if I don't have anythingto write about, I say somthing about the horse. I'm a bad girl. Oh well. Horses are pretty!

That was sort of an example, the horse thing What I mean is, every character should have a unique way to react to a situation. They should have little quirks and flaws that make them - them.

And Ea, you did sort of catch us in a bit of a rant phase, but you could be right. However, I don't think we're elitist. If that's what you meant. Anybody can join an RPG, we don't shut anyone out. We can be a little dismissive at times, I know I have in the past, but we're not attempting to form our own little clique that nobody else is allowed to venture itno. That's what the RPers' Club is here for, to give helpful hints and tips and to discuss RPing. Anyone's welcome.

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Apart from Mary-Sues, mine is also posts that have no character developement or add to plot. I don't mind short posts (sometimes you just can't write long-posts, especially if you're in a scene with a lot of dialouge) as long as they are helping the story move along.

I hate posts like:
"Storm glared at Magneto" End of post.
That's fantastic. That shouldn't be suprising seeing Magneto is the bad guy and Storm is the good guy. I don't care that you're glaring. I want to know why and how a character's brain works.

Also like pirateoftherings said, I can't stand people playing a canon who aren't staying true to the character. I mean, you can't do everything exactly like them but you can get pretty close. I don't know about the rest of you but it is actually painful for me to read a someone playing a canon character's post that does not depict the character at all.

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I have noticed that more and more rpgs start off with a definite plotline, and if there isn't one, the rpers tend to come up with one along the way. My own rpg posts have grown in correspondence with the increase of good rpers. I still remember how a year ago, there'd be plenty of rpgs simply titled "Fantasy RPG."

Perhaps my greatest irritation in an rpg comes from spam. It's one thing when you post something that gives fellow rpers absolutely no inspiration to post something back, but it's even worse when you post something completely useless and expect someone to reply within the next few hours. [a cute little bump ] and [*waits for [insert username here]*] are just a few. I've been in rpgs where entire pages were comprised of nothing more than out of character posts/palaver/bumps.

sorry, that was my rant of the day.

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I bit of a peeve that I have is when people put there character's actions in asterics, ie: "I would really love to ride the princess pony of glee and delight!" *skips over to pony and mounts into the saddle*
RPs should be like writing a story.

Oh yeah. That is really annoying.

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I've only seen one person do that. But it did bother me.
*skips over to pony and mounts in saddle* <

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