Me: For this campaign, your characters should be Cyran loyalists who have a vested interest in (New) Cyre and its people, specifically working for the prince. Beyond that, your backstory is pretty freeform.
Applicant: uhh this character has wanderlust, came from a travelling caravan/circus, and no connection to anything or anywhere. I will not mention Cyre at all
Great! I will immediately ignore you. Basic instructions too hard I guess?
A question I ask myself, sometimes, is if my standards are too high wrong, because I got a half-dozen applicants and I like basically none of them. Is it a me problem? Or does everyone else suck?
Itâd be nice if they could at least pay lip service to the setting of the game instead of providing the most generic stuff possible, which just makes me think you wanted to play that character in general, and any game would have done.
âDonât focus on my pronounciation of German namesâ
spends the whole video pronouncing Gruber as Grabber
I was pretty sure it was Gruber when I first heard him pronounce it (I have in fact seen Die Hard) now its going to irritate me. He could at least have tried?
I forget who said it but Iâm sure I saw it in a clip between Brennan Lee Mulligan and Matt Mercer and one of them says that their approach to character creation is to ask their DM âwhat character can I make to make your life easierâ
And while I donât necessarily think that all characters should be made like that, itâd be nice if everyone did kinda have that question somewhat in mind when creating stuff for a specific campaign where the DM clearly has the story and hook dangling in front of you.
Like I get it for stuff thatâs sandboxy, but this clearly wasnât (and never will be, Iâm not really interested in sandbox stuff).
Iâm a big fan of Vampire the Masquerade 5e-style session 0s, where you not only make characters, but also establish the relations between every one of the player characters as they are at the start, their goals, and their relations with some of the pre-established NPCs. Does wonders
for reference relations here includes how they generally interact, but also how the characters views the other character/NPC and how they view the character
really helps ground people in the group + their surroundings
A big chunk of advertising your game on public forums boils down to filtering out low effort mass-appliers to apply to basically every campaign with the same character with little to no editing in the hopes that the character will get accepted.
Iâve even had a couple of cases of people applying with D&D 5e characters when I was recruiting for a Legend of the Five Rings campaign. Some of these people donât read, they just shove themselves out there until their dream character finally gets accepted into a campaign, then I suspect that they probably lose interest and flake after a few sessions.
As I mentioned Legend of the Five Rings, Iâll use this as an opportunity to sing its praises. Players are encouraged to answer twenty questions as an important part of character creation, questions which tend to change depending on the edition but often involve non-mechanical details, like relationships and beliefs.
Sometimes I even use them outside of L5R, to help wrap my head around a character explore details of their personality that I normally wouldnât think about.
Actually FFXIV doesnât allow you to take off shoes entirely. If you do take them off, youâll be wearing non-unequippable beige sandals with heels. No doubt to save the trouble of making a separate barefoot version of every animation.
I donât think you can ever really have âtoo highâ standards or expectations for your own game or the players of it tbh, at least if theyâve been vetted/you know them personally; there should be an understanding on all sides of equal expectations.
Shogg has already put it well, but when youâre not just in a group purely with friends/people you can trust to go off and cook something up alone you are basically at the mercy of all the people who keep begging for a game that their fey-pixie from a travelling, interdimensional circus is able to be a part of, rather than âJohn Smith, Knight of Cyrene, Loyalist of the Prince, Second-Son of Lord Highupâ. A lot of people, and it goes for WoW RP as well, are simply in the wrong hobby or just. . .arenât good.
The riots and other racist hate driving things across the UK is really disgusting and I canât wrap my head around using the death of children to justify it.
They are absolutely horrid individuals. And it is very common behavior. They do not give a damn about the children or victims, its just an efficient scapegoat and convenient excuse.
