This is a quick way to end up on my ignore tbh. Never seen someone with this who wasn’t also a very unpleasant person both IC and OOC within 5 minutes of interaction.
Either just use it as its meant to be used, or if someone doesn’t like it/find it pointless, just don’t use it at all.
tbh the main trend I see right now is logging in and not finding anyone I fancy RPing with 
or anyone at all
and I’m someone who’ll give most anyone who doesn’t have loving descriptions of their privates in their profiles 15 mins
Super cringe but certainly a trend and I think it has some utility in identifying who to avoid.
Yeah, absolutely – I don’t disagree with your sentiments at all. It would be, generally speaking, a better community for players like us if everyone made the concerted effort to be ‘lore-friendly’, or to at least design a character who fits into the setting and scene they’re played in.
San’layn in Orgrimmar is a good example of what I’d prefer not to see.
But, at the same time, nobody in the community is under any obligation to follow the lore strictly (or even at all). If they’re not forcing it on anyone else, and they’re having fun doing their thing, why should we expect them to change? We’re all here to enjoy a hobby, not arbitrate good from bad.
Fair enough! I’ll stand by what I said in a more general sense of people giving unsolicited advice, but if they became hostile when advertising themselves as criticism friendly, then… yeah.
One trend that comes and goes which seems to be pretty divisive, but I think is an easy pitfall to drop into is useage of titles in TRP3.
It’s a nice/easy way to make your profile pop a little or stand out, and it could be personal preference, but I personally find it rather off-putting(ranging from mildly to more) when its used in certain ways, both of which are fairly popular at the moment.
The first one is people putting in very mundane, non-proffession titles(so things like Mother, Ex-child etc).
The second, but often used with the first, is having way too many titles. I personally like it simple, go with one thing.(Demonologist maybe for a warlock). But it is popular/common to see profiles with roughly 6-10 titles that reads more like a work resume.
<Breather of Oxygen | Eater of food | Drinker of water | Reader of Books | Big silly dumb
dumb | Archmage >
“Former Child” is my favourite.
(Side-note; this is not hate. I genuinely love it. It cracks me up every single time.)
That’s been a strong trend for many years to the point of self parody, yes.
I do admire the roleplayers that are able to make their own stories and concepts based on the World of Warcraft. There are some really creative concepts out there and it is truly wonderful to see.
But it is important to accept that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s totally fine. Nobody is obligated to RP with anyone.
Honestly someone should just write their TRP profile exactly like they’re writing that character’s CV.
Formerly I was involved with the Argent Crusade where my duties included:
- Cleansing the frozen north of undead filth.
- Being heavily involved and supervising a battering ram team at Icecrown Citadel
- Conducting annual appraisals and 1-2 meetings for my squire
Prior to that, I was a barmaid at the Pig and Whistle-
A goblin with an incredibly misleading CV as their TRP would be amazing
tbh the trend I’d like to see is all RP profiles taking the form of either a Haiku or a Limmerick
This is true yeah, and I’ve said this myself a couple of times, usually in discussions. Only using myself for example, even if I’m vocal about not liking some aspects of people’s roleplay I see sometimes on the forums, I’m not going to go rant on them ingame.
If anything, if it’s something I dislike, I’ll just not interact with them and leave them to their own stuff.
Unless it is something specifically harmful to others.
Such as jade witch profiles, or something else? (genuine question)
That is one yes. But also one I won’t argue with(since they wont listen), but I do report it and write a ticket when I see it.
Otherwise, it would also be things like just plain IRL racism(time to time seeing humans roleplayers write bad stuff about dark-skinned humans etc), or other more offensive things which also has no place in game. (Any character going on a rant about sexualities, or throwing slurs around and such).
Oh yeah, legit. I recall meeting similar characters in Duskwood - it’s rather cringe.
Like a few people have mentioned in here already, the one trend that I’ve noticed - and recognise as a massive red flag - is any TRP profile that uses the pronouns section to be an epic jokester. I’ve seen more than one attack helicopter pronoun listing.
Out of genuine curiousity - how common is it to even make use of the pronouns section if your character’s engine gender matches your roleplayed gender?
For example, let’s say I play a male character (as in, male character model) that identifies as male and also looks male at first glance. Putting ‘he / him’ in the pronouns section seems a bit…redundant to me.
Am I missing something here?
I can perfectly understand using pronouns if what you’re roleplaying as differs from your character’s engine gender (female model, male IC is probably the most common example), but if both are the same, I don’t quite see the reason for even filling it out.
That said, the meme pronouns are incredibly unfunny and should just go away.
In that case, it comes down to personal choice/preference. You shouldn’t feel obligated to do it, but I do think it generally fosters a more… accepting atmosphere for the people who want to use the section for less gender-conforming characters. If they see cis players/characters taking the option to list their pronouns, they can be more comfortable in the knowledge that they’re going to be tolerant.
I’ve also seen a fair few non-binary(?) characters around, assuming that they/them always represents a non-binary person. That’s always nice to see IMO.