Rant #1: Does anyone else have one of those people you really, really love to RP with and you always look forward to doing so with them? I have a partner I've been roleplaying with for... like 6 years now. Our characters have incredibly complex backgrounds because of it and I'm really comfortable playing those characters. Things just flow. Because we have a 13 hour time difference, though, it's hard to find a time that works for us. My work schedule's changed, though, and I was totally stoked to roleplay with her. First two days, no big deal. We roleplayed for a while and it was awesome. Then the next three days, when I asked, she just wouldn't respond to my IMs. I know she's there. She's posting status on like Facebook and her status says she's there but she goes idle every now and again. Dude, if you just say 'hey, not today, I'm so tired from work' or something like that, I know to stop bugging you. But when you can't even say Hi or something, it's totally annoying. I dunno, it rubs me the wrong way completely.
Rant #2: When you do a group roleplay, it's a group. This group is only a threebie, and because of time differences again, it makes it hard to find time. And not just that, but my internet's been out. But the other two don't just go "eff if, she's not here so let's ignore her characters and continue on" when you're in the middle of a serious conversation or important actions. Because I saw they had gone on like 15-20 multi paragraph posts, I can't even catch up, and I was like 'you know what, nevermind. You guys just roleplay' YOU CAN'T BITCH. You can't be like "No no no no, we'll just say Character C took you're character away and it'll be all good". It's not all good, because maybe I had ideas during the portion the other two were going on with.
I don't even know if that's comprehend able. Yay 3 AM.

Some time ago a friend had moved away. He ended up moving back and gave a quite... odd story. While away in another land he looked for new gaming groups. He did some D&D but managed to find a RIFTS group to join.

While at this RIFTS group, before the start of the actual session, they had some chit-chat, you know; introduction to people stuff. In this chatter he made mention how three of his friends (one being myself) have gotten the chance to meet with the Palladium crew including Kevin himself. Suddenly it seems the GM had some kind of fit and ordered him to leave this game and not come back.

Confused yet? Yes, that's right, my friend was told to leave a RIFTS game for knowing people that know the head of the company that makes the game. I mean... would you tell someone to leave a D&D game because they knew someone that had met Gary Gygax before his passing? I mean granted, I know Kevin is not always the easiest of people to work with or for, and I know there have been some unfounded rumors about him ( and a joke that he and Steve Jackson are secretly one person and a doppleganger or something because they have apparently never appeared in the same place at the same time) but it seriously strikes me as odd that a GM would act this way over a... well I guess 'chain of association' is how I'd see it.

What really dumbfounded my friend was the guy just throwing him out rather than having anything to ask about the guy that made the game they were playing possible. I know if I was playing a Star Wars game and someone there had a friend that had met George Lucas on several occassions I certainly would have a few questions to ask, wouldn't you?

So today, my GM approached our group and said that she doesn't need us anymore because she bought a plastic vagina.

My GM is a girl. . .

She did this after having to put up with a couple horribly bad players. Some of their crimes included but were not limited to-

Bickering, fighting, and generally trying to make eachother's lives difficult, breaking campaigns at every opportunity, and one particular instance, breaking down a thick, possibly magic, stone door as opposed to solving a puzzle involving making things line up.

There's alot more to it then that, but this is not really my experience, I was acting as a fleshy sock for a friend. By the way, Fen, I know you're reading this, help me stop looking like a crazy person. >.>

TL;DR~ DM is tired of putting up with bad players, and tells us that a sex toy we're not even sure how she'd go about using is more interesting then us as her last hurrah.

EDIT 1~ elaborated
EDIT 2~ Further elaboration.

If I see one more jackass who thinks it'd be clever to join a Mass Effect RP with a character named Revan, I will yell a lot and be very cross.

I guess it's not a real BRP, but it does make me want to break my face over a chair.

Minor complaint, really, but it's just so annoying...

It makes me really happy that, when we pointed out your mistake, you took it very well and very maturely, and fixed it immediately. That's awesome.

But god dammit, player, that weapon list is there for a reason, and that reason is so none of us have the same weapon or waste our time on an idea for a weapon that's already taken. It isn't hard to find, it was right there in the same thread you posted to reserve other player's weapon. Is it really that hard to look, or even CTRL+F it?

This might not annoy me so much if it wasn't obvious you never read anything on the thread. Ever.

You've named your character Aristole. That's okay. He's your pup, you can name him whatever the hell you want. He gets irritated, however, when people call him Aristotle. That's also okay. They're similar names, after all. But you claim he's named for a famous Greek philosopher. For some mysterious reason, I feel like you're doing something wrong.

Dear me.


Stop feeling so guilty because you enjoy playing with this certain group of players in our whole group.

They were the first people you met when you joined, and you have a lot of established back story with them - hell, your character is even in a relationship with one of them, and has a /child/ with said person. There's nothing wrong with enjoying RPing with certain people, more then the other people that happen to be on when you are.

Timezones suck yes, but don't apologize to other players! It's not your fault you're British!


Also, stop stressing over if other people like you, OOC. If they don't, it's their problem. Stop being so worried about being accepted, when your friends in the group love you to pieces, and vice versa.


Your sincerely
Yourself.




EDIT: Don't worry guys, I'm not being vain. xD I'm informing myself that I need to stop being such a paranoid bitch.

Someone in my immediate family has been in the hospital, I'm trying to find a new job and I'm working my old job.... How dare you tell me I'm staying offline just to avoid you! What a self-centered (attention) whore you are.

Dear excellent writer,

I know, I'm too attached to this character. I've been roleplaying her for five years as my main character, several hours every day. I've written out dozens of pages about her, so many that they could very well make for a short novel. Yes, I realise she's a callous, drug-addled bitch, but I still feel much too close to her. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not anything like this character and I wouldn't want to be. I realise that she isn't exactly sympathetic and that she, to some extent, deserves what she gets. I know that your character wants to execute her, and that I, OOCly, can't disallow that. I suppose I could, but you're a much too respected player and I'd be rejected by the entire community. My character should take responsibility for her actions, I agree, but you can't kill her and then complain about having no villains. It's hard for a character to be one against fifty, keep that in mind.
Yes, my character will be executed now, and I suppose I'll find some other way to spend my time, but I still feel like a little part of me dies along with her. Maybe it's for the best. I'll try not to be bitter.

The first happened like a week ago so I gave it some time to breathe before posting this here. 

Dear Hypocrite 
I love how it's ok for you to RP with 7 people  but if I get tied up in a drama filled game with one you have a conniption. I also didn't like it how you assume I should drop everything for you. I am sorry I have a life outside of AIM RP. Not everyone can lounge around computer and hope that someone entertains them. I'm glad you think your game isn't worth keeping. Because with a player like you it isn't. 

No love Bard

Dear ADHD Player
Please don't start nagging me about RP when I say I'm busy with something. We're doing ok RP wise but you can be a tad irritating with your pestering. 

Deals with enough hyper children at work
Bard. 

Today, dear friends, I bring you a tale
Of youth, and suck and epic fail
From Gaiaonline this story comes
And no, I'm not doing it all in rhyme, don't worry.

( Long rant is long )

Tl;Dr: Dear you, plz get off the 'I WANT BABIES" bandwagon, learn to rp you some proper relationships before you go trying to force babies, and stop badgering people to start rps when you aren't even tagging in yours.

Mikako (for cocoa puffs) is a Japanese fairy born to human parents whose characteristics include retractable butterfly wings, telekinesis, eyes that change color on emotion, aura reading, and an amazing singing voice.



( but she has no trace of a banana )

So um. Reading other people's RP posts would be good. I can tell you didn't because if you had, your character would not be walking deeper in to the forest to hide. Since two other characters have already made loud announcements that anyone who doesn't show themselves will be killed.

Either by them or, it has been established, by the ravenous monsters lurking deeper in the forest and played by the OWNER OF THE GAME.

Whose posts you apparently didn't read either.

Cheers, friend!

...I felt this conversation I just had was too lulzy not to share.

(beware, some foul and graphic language lies herein)

( Bitch girl is bitchy )

I'm not saying I was necessarily the best behaved person in the world, but I was walking on eggshells anyway trying not to offend this person on the off chance that this "PROFESSIONAL author" might actually be half-talented at writing.
C'est la vie.

(and for the record, her example posts kind of sucked...I was just being nice.)

Edit: Sure, okay, I'm butthurt, whatever. Like I said, I never claimed to be a paragon of RPers either. My point is that I find that a really poor way of telling me "sorry I don't think we would work out." I'd been doing my best to remain civil and cater to her hitherto, so suddenly pulling out "But frankly, we won't be playing anyhow. So don't even waste your time. You've provided my friends and I quite a few laughs tonight and I thank you for that much" does in fact seem like unto behavior that might be termed "bitchy," imho.

The GM has said he has never run the game before and wants to keep things simple until he has become familiar with the rules. This is fine.

So, dear self, stop coming up with convoluted character concepts and backgrounds that push the character creation rules to the limit. Yes, the ideas may be cool and interesting, and yes the actual character creation rules may suck horribly*, but if the GM wants something simple and straightforward that follows what's in the book, then this is what should be made!

*headdesk*


*This is 'Rogue Trader'. Oh Origin Path, how I hate you...

"Addie is the typical blonde beauty, she has pouty full lips that just make you want to kiss her. Her long blonde hair falls in llong aves that she usually leaves down. Her eyes a sparkling hazel that just pop out of her head."


Taken from an app on a board about a government that dictates marriages.

0_0 at that last sentance about the eye's popping out of her head. Then the spelling mistakes reared their heads. LOL

Why is it always sparkling!?

EDIT:

"In the past she had her best friend, well they were more like sisters, at the institute she was two years older that her but they got along like a house on fire."
>< english fail!

the whole thing is....bad >_

So there is this fandom and in this fandom there are actually several really amazing players. There are people that dedicate time and effort into reviewing the characters they have or at the very least not being obnoxious bitches. Then you occasionally get the mun/muse combo that you want to kick in the teeth even if your character doesn’t directly interact with theirs because they are just. that. obnoxious. This would be one of those cases. The mun failed to get the attention of the desired muse(s) with their first two attempts. These muses, while terrible, still weren’t as bad as the “winner” behind door number three. This mun started by taking something someone else did and effectively turned their version of this particular muse into a caricature of one that was being done well.

I have never in my life wanted to kick a muse in the teeth as much as I want to kick this individual’s take on the character. What’s sad is that I’m not alone. There’s an entire group of people (some of which aren't even IN the fandom) that have offered various suggestions in terms of dealing with this muse, acid and fire being the big two. It’s sad when you are so hard up for attention with your muses that you can’t tell the difference between positive attention and negative attention. Your character is meant to be an ambassador (- a diplomatic official of the highest rank sent by a government to represent it on a temporary mission, as for negotiating a treaty.) That implies the character has some sense of diplomacy (-skilled in dealing with sensitive matters or people; tactful) and is not an irredeemable cunt. Of course, this is when the mun isn’t making the muse some kind of schizophrenic freak. Irredeemable cunt one second, disgustingly cheerful "I'm going to be your new BFF" pleasant in the next.

What’s even worse is that barring the awful job the mun is doing with the character, they don’t even have basic RP etiquette down. Not every muse with the same face is the same. A thread held with a version of Muse 1 isn’t going to mean anything to a DIFFERENT version of that same muse (1b). RP is not a collective in that sense. What one person does with personal storylines doesn’t make it open for you to take and use, neither does it mean that another mun/muse combo is going to know what the hell you’re talking about when you use events from another unrelated thread and topic in theirs. Take how much they like to abuse punctuation, a sad lack of spell check, and add it to the fact that they can't be bothered to take the time to read basic community rules. For example: posting an entire letter style paragraph to a community with a word limit.

I’m aware the correct response here is just to ignore them.Hopefully once they’ve managed to piss off the community as a whole and no one gives them any attention, negative or otherwise, they’ll crawl back in the abyss they climbed out of.

TL;DR version? This mun/muse sucks. They are desperate to get the attention of the character they fangirl most and they’re using the “Even negative attention is attention” philosophy to get it among other assorted and various RP crimes.

I just thought I would share. this person has lots of RP blogs, and her mary sue character is pretty much the same other than the name and clothing on every single one:

Rules
1.) AVH Rules need to be obeyed
2.) No one gets killed
3.) NO other Employee is better than my Charrie
4.) MAKE UP numbers! DO NOT use your REAL one. And do what I did: Use four numbers EXAMPLE -- 11-11
5.) (: !! HAVE^^FUN !! :)

Those are your THREE choices :D Chose one of them to begin your Character ... ...

The Top Employee -- Me
~~Information Sheet~~
Name: StarLady Unicorn
Nickname: Star or Lady
Gender: Woman
Family: NONE
History: Last I saw of my parents was when they were on a Ship trip, and I never saw them again.
Height: 5 feet tall
Weight: 100 pounds
~~Job Information~~
Job: Be an Employee, serve customers, make food and drinks, eventually become rich, and eventually get retired
Job Ranking: Top Employee
Job Part: Waitress
~~Characteristics~~
Personality: Strong, wise, brave, happy, swift, PERFECT at Waitressing
Beauty: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS
~~Looks~~
Eyes: Sapphire blue and beautifully shine
Hair: Dark dark brown, drags on the ground as I walk, is silky soft, is always up in a ponytail at the top of my head, and is VERY wavy
Skin Color: Beautiful tan
Normal Clothing: All of my clothes are made of pure cotton. I wear a sapphire blue sleevless shirt, sapphire blue bodice, 5 pure white petticoats that drag on the ground as I walk, 3 sapphire blue skirts that drag on the ground as I walk. I also wear a pure leather belt that is a dark, dark brown color
Nails: Each nail is 1 inch long
Shoes: 4 inch, sapphire blue high heals
~~Home~~
Home: White Mansion
Street Number: 157
Name Of Street: Waterfall St.
Home Number: 69-96
Cellphone Number: 96-69

Okay, here goes. This is my first time posting on here but there's something that's been annoying me to no end recently and I figured, where better to bitch about it?
 
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Right, so having read an intriguing post regarding people looking for rp buddies, I messaged this person. They didn't seem insane within the first five minutes of the conversation. They seemed friendly, articulate, intelligent.

Then we started discussing chars and potential scenarios for rp and they interrupted me to ask if I had an image for the char. NOT a photo. They suggested I 'go to Deviant Art and select an image there are tons there.'

I was slightly bemused at the prospect of being requested to go and find an illustration of a pb on the spot. Right, so this person's a bit weird, I thought to myself. I cautiously suggested, 'Well, I have some stuff _I've_ drawn, I could send you a jpeg if you like.'

This, I was informed, 'might result in my char being rejected.'

Yes, rejected from an rp session via AIM. I figured what the hell, this person is obviously a twat, but I confess I've a bit of professional pride since I'm a freelance artist, so sent them a jpeg anyway.

I got this response: 'Your drawing style looks like Joe's. Suspiciously so.'

I have no idea who 'Joe' is, and so asked the other person to clarify just what the hell they were on about. I also mentioned that since I am an artist, the insinuations that I'm some sort of plagiarist are highly offensive to me.

Their response was, 'Oh no no I don't mean you're a plagarist. I have to ask Joe something.'

By now I was irritated and said I didn't think this was going to work out. Their response was, 'No wait, it's okay. Joe says it isn't him. Sorry for the misunderstanding but you can see why I have to be careful.'

So, after blocking and deleting this person, I am still left with the burning question...

Who the hell is 'Joe'!?