RP Horror Stories

Argent Dawn
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Hey. I’m really bored. :skull:

So I’m making this post so people can write their absolute worst RP experiences, so I can read them and weep.

It can be virtually anything. Maybe some egregious TRP you’ve seen, awful interactions, terrible events, horrible guilds - anything.

So do it now, please. I believe in you. :index_pointing_at_the_viewer:

I’ll start. I was once in a guild with a Laughing Skull orc in it. They would always keep making pop culture references, be gratingly kooky and wacky, but also had a Pandaren girlfriend.

The worst example was when they picked up a harpoon, while trying to fight down some flying creature, and instead of throwing it, started emoting themselves pretending it was a sword, and making audible lightsaber “vrumm” sounds as they swung it.

It made me recoil and clench my fist in fear and disgust. A very bad day for the nation.

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Had to be the time I ran into a dwarf who combined warhammer stereotypes ( Talking about grudges going into the book) with blatant elden ring ripoffs when talking about monsters they encountered.

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An orc basically RPing Thor, professing his love to my mag’har withing five minutes of meeting her.

Honoury mention to foot fetish. Or rather, dishonoury mention.

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That one paladin I met once who didn’t like that I was a warlock and used the light to teleport behind me.

I think it was very personal to him.

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There was once this guy who got in a duel with Blondie, and his character was just screaming E D G E. He had like a demon soul within him and what not, and like OP emo powers that were too much too handle.

However, me IRL roleplaying with a bit of a hangover was kinda in wacky mood, and one of the running gag was that Blondie was playing the Kazoo while the duel was going on.

The funniest darnest thing was that I constantly got good rolls, which I combined with how well Blondie played the kazoo. At one point it went a full 100 after which I RPed my combat move combined with the line “… playing the kazoo so hard it challenges the existence of the gods!!” which caused hilarity in the discord group I was in because of the huge divide between the wacky colourful RP style and the dark edgy emo RP style going on during the duel.

Of course after Blondie won the emo guy went anime and did the thing of “You’re pretty good but you got much to learn blabla” stuff, which again got interrupted by more Kazoooooooooo.

There has been worse RP, but there are kinda ehhh and not that funny. Mostly meeting disturbed people who spend too much time online and forgetting how people normally socialise.

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I’ve once RPed in this cool MMO with pretty interesting warring factions you could use to generate really fun IC conflict but then the devs decided that peace and the power of friendship themes sell more so they retconed loads of the lore. Worst RP experience for sure.

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Every time I hear a dranei talk like zhis makes me not so much horrified but it just instantly kills any and all immersion.

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Silvermoon once housed a person who wanted to shrink down and live in my character’s unwashed boot IC. I’m reliably informed this was an ongoing thing for some time.

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I’ve got a special story from a place you might not know even had RP in it: Warcraft III
While RP in WoW is often done on character basis, WC3 RP was more focused on grand scheme of things, with players controlling cities, countries, armies and such, creating a story of large conflicts on maps that were designed for RP and allowed people to build these things.

But, since many people’s internet runs on potato, DCs were plentiful and sometimes it meant people crucial to the plot just disappeared. Sometimes this problem was fixed by giving their things to other player who took over (2 players are evil force, one DCs, OK, we just give his armies and castle to the other evil dude). Or, in my horror case, to a random guy who was nearby and wanted to win RP.

So, army from outpost of far away human empire (that could spawn infinite troops) came to furbolg village and said “Join us.”
The furbolgs did and started spawning infinite furbolgs.
Then they came to my camp, said “Join us”, and when my guys tried to talk (a thing known as RP), the infinite army wiped out my entire faction.
Then I was kicked after complaining that what just occured wasn’t RP but just some guy painting the map in his color (in a WC3 map that gave everyone infinite resources because it was created for RP).

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Do tell. Does this MMO have a name? It sounds like it used to be pretty wicked.

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I once did a little bandit RP in Duskwood. Laid an ambush by hiding in a bush. Jumped out at the first and best bypasser that looked muggable, showed my very sharp knife and said “Oi, give me the money!”

Then they pulled out a massive, shotgun-like contraption and pointed it at my character’s head. And then, as more and more people walked by and started forming a crowd, somehow everyone took the party of the person pointing a shotgun at a poor human.

The whole thing ended with my character being brutally killed by a random, unrelated elf who thought my dude was talking too much (he was desperately pleading for his life). Once again, surrounded by a crowd, none of whom cared about the murder.

It may not be the scariest Duskwood story, but it was annoying at the time.

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Horrifying and relatable.

I had once done a similar bit of Duskwood bandit RP, hopping over a fence and going “Stand and deliver!”

I should have known that the elf dressed in normal clothes was actually a master assassin, who laughed and said “Are you sure you want to do this?” who then teleported behind me and put a knife to my throat.

I suppose it was at least nice of them to not instantly kill me, because I ended up escaping by tossing pocket sand at them.

Whats a boy gotta do to get a good mugging, I ask of you!

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Over the years I’ve been in tons of guilds and communities, most of them with pretty terrific people. Alas, as is sometimes the case when you gather a bunch of folks there can be some bad eggs.

What I lament most are the guilds with a solid concept that draw in fine people, but the officer/GM delve into some sort of OOC powerplay and/or turn more, let us say exotic role play fantasies dominating decisions behind the curtain.

Sadly, I’ve been in numerous situations where people made me feel rather uncomfortable (read: bad vibes, younglings) and I even had to put beloved characters on hold due to their situation involving people I simply didn’t enjoy interacting with.

One such situation was when I joined a supposedly all-pandaren guild with a chubby, jolly always-happy-to-eat travelling firework vendor. (I had stacked up SO much firework to sell) It was a more down-to-earth non-combat character which whom I had hoped to visit cities and public events to liven up the place. The little RP I had with the GM was fine and although the guild was still small, I was looking forward to contributing to its future.

Then, a human monk pops online in the guild. Curious, I think, since this was meant to be an all-pandaren guild. I check the roster and he’s the only non-pandaren there.

So, with I trying to be a social bun, we talk OOC and he seems pretty alright. He notices I am trying my hand at PvP at the time and, after some persistence, convinces me join him for a 2-man arena as a rogue/monk combination that can wreck enemies.

And wreck people we do! It was actually quite fun since I hadn’t delved into arenas for many years.

The arena ends, he party persists. He follows me around for a while despite that I mentioned I would like to do my own thing. (red flag) He wants to RP, and I figured what the heck, so sure. His character is immediately super suggestive because he really, really likes pandara-sized women. (Red flag!) Having no interest, my character brushes it off and mentions she prefers to travel alone on her yak. He gets super pushy IC after his request to travel with her is denied and then mentions OOC that he’s going to follow her around anyhow because she can’t stop him. (RED FLAG)

Now I’m in this guild I really like the concept of, but this guy is somehow always online and immediately on me the moment I log on.

I stop partaking in RP.

I contact the GM and inform her that this guy is getting super suggestive, won’t take no for an answer and altogether makes me uncomfortable. The GM tells me that the monk is an IRL friend of hers and she doesn’t recognize any of this behaviour. The GM gets upset with ME claiming that I try to slander the guy and incite drama.

Feeling trapped with no means out that wouldn’t actually incite drama and whatever may follow; I lost all motivation to log on to that character. And so I shelved my panda firework vendor, stalked IC and OOC only because she was big.

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Damn, this one takes the cake. That’s actually nutty and wacky.

Guild horror stories are a different breed.

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Once upon a time, I roleplayed a zany forsaken spleen merchant with an imaginary friend called Keith. Said spleen merchant would bicker loudly with Keith over her mobile phone [sic] during transactions, as part of a gimmick to haggle the price of her wares.

She also talked exclusively in yell. Even during solemn orcish funeral events.

The rest is history I’ve drunk a lot to forget.

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Damn, the rare self-horror story.

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(Same guy BTW)

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My entire roleplay career has been one long horror anthology

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when i first played world of warcraft back in vanilla, i hadn’t played the previous games

my first roleplay encounter was in goldshire where i, a night elf hunter, agreed to be adopted by a female gnome and a male human

it might only seem to be cringe, but to me it haunts my dreams to this day

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That seems to be the standard Duskwood thing.
you get attacked or stopped by strangers in the woods, and since the zone is so active and short, you inevitably gather a crowed of bystanders who lack any and all context and just pick a side at random or they ignore it.

I my warlock was once attacked by a demon hunter because I guess having green eyes and other minor fel mutation is grounds for attacking an old man warming his hands around a campfire just off the road.

any case while I had to defend myself two other DHs were just having a casual stormwind tier conversation and plenty of people walked by ignoring the struggle.

it was very immersion breaking.