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People that are too precious about RP as a whole, to the point where they start to see one’s IC actions as an indication of their entire OOC personality and morality.
Taking this hobby seriously is good, in the sense that you should want to take part and enjoy yourself and enable others to do so too… but we’re still all grouping up together to play Let’s Pretend, and we’re all just trying to portray characters and tell stories.
Stop calling people literal fascists for playing villains, or implying someone needs to be kept an eye on because they RP’d with someone you don’t like. -
ERPers. But especially those who believe they’re writing some sort of magnum opus while doing it. ERP has one intention, and one only… so don’t tell me there’s any other reason to do it. Character development? Do you think I was born yesterday?
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Glory Hogs. Some people seem to forget they’re here to RP with other people who perhaps equally want their character to do something. If you’re constantly solving the problem, summoning up the solution, talking over others, performing every action and making every move, and all while portraying your character as some enviable wonder of the world… it’s not impressive. It’s very boring to RP with because no one else might as well be there.
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Child RPers. Sorry kids, but I really can’t take RPing with you or your sentimental glurgy kiddiewink character.
When the main ‘cast’ are adults; kids just get in the way, and I find it hard to accept that all these adult characters are even making room for these children in most situations they insist themselves on.
Maybe if most child RPers I’d seen were a little more reasonable about the fact that, for the most part, people don’t wanna RP hanging out with random children. -
I dunno.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.766889238.1657/poster,840x830,f8f8f8-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.u1.jpg
No, this is my house
I’ve seen people do the spongebob meme WhErE tHeY tAlK lIkE tHiS IC
it’s a really good way to make me instantly 180 and run away from the RP
No effing way.
What?
I’m talking about people that can’t seperate IC and OOC to the point they start to spread daft and dangerous rumours about people.
Obviously there’s a difference between people just playing an unpleasant or villainous character, over someone RPing… whatever that example would be.
There are good reasons to play a very young character, but they never seem to actually come into play with “Child RPers”, like inexperience and the importance of learning making it perfect for some long-term char development, or the emotional vulnerability of a child making them good at communicating themes and ideas that are “beneath” adult characters most people play (like getting traumatized by a battle or its aftermath), etc.
But no, instead playing a “child” means “I’m cute, give me attention and cookies :3” because that totally doesn’t clash with the room full of Paladins having a serious debate about the future of the entire concept of Paladins, or a camp full of hardened warriors preparing for battle…
For that, just play a young adult about to come of age. Your race’s equivalent of a 16/17 year old. It gives you room for growth and development, but also makes you old enough that you’re not a useless crutch to carry around just because you insist on being an oogoo gaga child.
Coming of age stories are cool when done right. There’s nothing wrong with that. But RPing a pre-pubescent child is just weird given how some people tend to go on about doing it.
Even I think it’s bloody weird. ME. WHO FINDS NOTHING WEIRDD.
My list:
• Players who use their character as a surrogate life.
• Players who expect other players to make their character stick with their unlikeable / asocial / passive / “mysterious” character.
• Players who play the hero who never leave the inn and all his feats exists solely from his bragging.
• Players who think their character is the main protagonist and every other character exists to support the story they’re crafting for their character.
• Players who make their character deal with any challenge in a finger snap because they’re overpowered or have a magic bag that gives them exactly what they need when they need it.
Where are your clothes?
Invisible apparently.
It’s the yeti suit, I think its glitched.
Its existence is a glitch 
Why can we have a yeti suit but not Vulpera?
- Second Life Avatar roleplayers – people who roleplay themselves in a video game. This leads to probably the one main reason OOC can be such a huge problem.
- ERP’ers – I feel it’s self evident but I think all they touch dies. Players who are so dopamine addicted they revolve all their roleplay around their next hit. Join guilds for ERP, try to roleplay with peoples characters purely for cybersex and so on. They cause a lot of internal strife and drama that can destroy guilds and communities - be they hubs or racial groups too.
- Zane RP’ers – I think Telaryn brushed on this above but this falls into a second category of the avatar roleplayer who exist on a permanent semi-OOC basis and roleplay like they’re in a Discord group. It’s essentially someone who likes to joke too much. They roleplay races / characters that don’t fit their concept and often act like a Deadpool-esque annoyance or generally ruin the atmosphere of World of Warcraft by talking about immersion breaking elements. For example, thousands of year old Nightborne characters who join Saurfangs rebellion to then hang out in Mulgore camp nights discussing having sex with jars of sauces. Yelling and cursing and acting like teenage girls from 2019, not a fantasy setting.
- Wikipedia / Patch roleplayers – I think we all know this. People who read datamined or announced content either in the way of having a crazy vision or simply just claiming they already know. Sometimes it’s appropriate to know something before hand but most of the time it’s done often enough as a OOC grudge match. For example, the recent rebellion conclusion, people deciding they don’t want to roleplay the rebellion until they discover who wins officially.
- Contract Players – “You need consent for this OOC first” - “You can’t come to this event because your mindset doesn’t fit the atmosphere OOC” - “You need permission to touch my character, this is god / force emoting” - “Hey, even though I just tore up half the city and killed a lot of people, I don’t give you permission OOC to kill or harm my character” - I think we get why the recent trend in OOC permission for everything has severely harmed the roleplay community.
-People who swear excessively, like, swearing way too much to the point it actually makes the RP awkward and really lowers the standard to the point of using swear words to describe an emote.
-People who RP being in relationships but let that drama spread IC but then lso OOC.
-Excessive metagaming
-People who do weird things with jars of sauce.
gimme that isekai goodness
Sword WoW Online.
- People without an IC / OOC divide, who either bring OOC grudges IC against a character, or let IC events taint their OOC attitude towards a player. You are not your character, damnit.
- People who use “but it’s what my character would do though” as an excuse not to think about whether other people are enjoying the RP as well as them
- People with “main character syndrome”, who always need to have the spotlight on them and won’t sometimes stand aside to let other people’s characters have their moment
- People whose characters always have to be In The Right, even when that means going against all previous characterisation and established lore. See point 1 again. It is okay for your character to hold questionable beliefs, admire awful people, or sometimes make mistakes.
- People who complain there’s not enough of a particular kind of rp, but aren’t actually trying to create or support it. Be the change you want to see.
TL:DR; give me generous, collaborative players and nuanced, flawed characters plz.