Bad RP/Strategy (split from RP Praise!)

[Rebma]

I don't like how people expect you to RP JUST by game mechanics sometimes....

As opposed to RPing by marshmallows or something.. I'm actually not sure what you mean. Example?

[Ryaga]

I don't like how people expect you to RP JUST by game mechanics sometimes....

As opposed to RPing by marshmallows or something.. I'm actually not sure what you mean. Example?

Anything that doesn't exist through game mechanics but is probable to exist gets "WTFs" from other people. Example: Smoking pipes.

[Rebma]

I don't like how people expect you to RP JUST by game mechanics sometimes....

As opposed to RPing by marshmallows or something.. I'm actually not sure what you mean. Example?

Anything that doesn't exist through game mechanics but is probable to exist gets "WTFs" from other people. Example: Smoking pipes.

I guess that's a matter of perpective. I mean, when someone rolls up some leaves into paper and lights it off a nearby fire pit, I can deal with that. But when someone is magically like...Oh look, I have a pipe! Haha! I'm like...no...you don't...you crazy crazy person. I mean, if they're gonna RP creating it for a few hours, well then, good job. I just don't like things being pulled outta nowhere with no effort.

[Ryaga]

I guess that's a matter of perpective. I mean, when someone rolls up some leaves into paper and lights it off a nearby fire pit, I can deal with that. But when someone is magically like...Oh look, I have a pipe! Haha! I'm like...no...you don't...you crazy crazy person. I mean, if they're gonna RP creating it for a few hours, well then, good job. I just don't like things being pulled outta nowhere with no effort.

Agreed.

[Gran]

Once there was a guy who jus' spawned and came like:

'ello! Whaddya gaiz think of my pegleg?!

He spawned in a woodless island. <Insert Grand Ackward Pause Here>

But something way worse was waiting me just years after. In the same city once spawned a woman. Here follows the recriated conversation. Warning, there is no exageration here ( and names were changed to protect the people involved). This happened in a small agrarian village, long time ago.

XXXX-X.x.xx:You notice a woman in her twenties whom you haven`t seen before.
XXXX-X.x.xx: You say: 'Hello, what is your name? I am councillor Alfred! Welcome to Generic City!
XXXX-X.x.xx: Barbara says:' Mah name is Barbara. Oh, may you help me?
XXXX-X.x.xx: You say:' Sure! What is the problem?!'
XXXX-X.x.xx: Barbara says:' Well, I hav come from distant lands huntin for teh city of Elvengrad, home of the high elfs. I am a elven hunter. Do you know where it is?'
XXXX-X.x.xx: You say:' Err... I'm sorry, but I think there is no such thing as elves...'
XXXX-X.x.xx: Barbara says:'Sure there is. *lights up a cigarette and lays her back at the light pole* I've seen one years ago.
He killed my mentor.*has a pause to smoke her cigarette*'
<Insert 'Moment to have a Stroke' Here>
XXXX-X.x.xx: You say:' (OOC: Excuse me, but what the fuck are you doing?)'
XXXX-X.x.xx: Barbara says:' (ooc: Yeah, sorry. I think the cigarette was too much.)'

BAD RP IS BAD.
(Spawning light poles in tribal societies? Veeeeery veery bad!)

[Ryaga]

LOL. She thinks the cigarette was too much.

[Rebma]

Precious. I LOL'd.

[lordcooper]

Stuff......
I just don't like things being pulled outta nowhere with no effort.

Like notes perhaps?

[Rebma]

Stuff......
I just don't like things being pulled outta nowhere with no effort.

Like notes perhaps?

Yeah you got me. It is something that bugs but, it's so widespread now it can't be stopped! And they really do come out of nowhere, but at least they exist, for RP's sake. What I was taling about is things you pull outta nowhere, with no RP, that you can't prove exist.

Btw L.C. Where the frig have you been?

[lordcooper]

"Doing the circuit" as I like to call it

Basically my dad kicked me out and I've been crashing in like a different house every night. Pretty damn fun really

[Rebma]

Shiiiiii-. That sucks. ...but yeah..trying not to derail topic here

[SekoETC]

Another was in an army and stepped into a cell full of prisoners.
I typed a huge speech about how I was going to free them and pressed enter.

In that time, they had killed my charrie. I think the only rp was along the lines of "Get him!"

looooooooooool That's why you write before entering the room, and preferably step outside right afterwards to give them time to absorb it. The other stuff was funny too.

My roleplaying experience prior to Cantr came from freeform chatroom roleplaying so my characters were mostly spawned with a background story and some basic clothing.

• Maline was spawned in a location that only had one sleeper (or I assume it was a sleeper, didn't stay there for longer than a few minutes) so didn't manage to communicate with people for the first years of her life. The first time she saw iron she was like "Wow, I've never seen that before! Well I mean my mother had a kitchen knife but that's it."
  
• Seko was an orphan, never knew his father and after his mother died, he got so upset he torched the house and ran away. Spawned in Pak that's nowhere near a source of wood, and technically you can't burn houses even if they were cottages.
  
• Jaina's father was mauled by a bear so being the oldest kid in the family, she was sent away to make a living. And her father had hoped for a boy, which made her grown rather tomboyish.
  
• Hannah had ran away from home because her father was going to force her to marry someone about thirty years older than her. She had a cotton dress. Discarded that when they managed to make hide bikinis.
  
• Gahak was from some sort of a noble family no one had ever heard of. Very arrogant. Didn't like peasants. Understandably "the peasants" didn't like him either.
  
• Pharap grew up on the streets of Tircqi, I imagined some sort of a slum neighborhood. He had a hat and a pipe and I'd imagine some sort of nondescript clothes as well. Explained having found the pipe in a pile of rubble. This one time he tipped his hat to a person and the person emoted *doesn't see a hat but (something)*. After that I figured out it wasn't appropriate to rp having stuff that doesn't exist.

[joo]

• Pharap grew up on the streets of Tircqi, I imagined some sort of a slum neighborhood. He had a hat and a pipe and I'd imagine some sort of nondescript clothes as well. Explained having found the pipe in a pile of rubble. This one time he tipped his hat to a person and the person emoted *doesn't see a hat but (something)*. After that I figured out it wasn't appropriate to rp having stuff that doesn't exist.

Pharap Jahrot?

[SekoETC]

Yeah, he's one of mine.

[Debsy]

LOL. She thinks the cigarette was too much.

Just for the record, Ryaga...I think those little guys in your sig are very creepy...