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RE: RP Confession Thread - Edda - 08-14-2015
1) I am severely under-confident about my RP and legitimately believe I am bad at it. Though I have never RPed in my life before playing this game, I am the type that will consign myself to ever be a failure at something if I am unable to do it correctly the first time.
2) I am highly uncomfortable asking people to RP most of the time, especially if they have a large network of friends. As someone who is generally not sought out by others for RP, I often wonder if those who agree when I ask are merely humoring me, or doing so begrudgingly. Knowing that RPers tend to be a more... passive bunch, I really do worry that sometimes I am THAT asshole. I enjoy roleplay enough that I have not ceased to ask people for it, but the worry that I am being a real pain in the ass, and not taken at all seriously, is always there.
3) I will not interrupt people who are conversing outside of the game, and I am extremely unlikely to do it in roleplay either. I feel it is extremely rude. Oddly, I do not feel this way when anyone other than myself does so.
4) Poor English and grammar does not bother me in the slightest, so long as a visible effort is being made. I find poor attitudes toward one's English particularly distasteful - consistently low-effort, one sentence RPers notwithstanding. Surely if you posses such a mastery of the language, you should be able to decipher the meaning behind the words of one who is ESL.
5) While I like to keep as close to the lore as I can get, I will roleplay with anyone, regardless of their character concept, at least once. Beggars cannot be choosers.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Seriphyn - 08-14-2015
(08-14-2015, 09:17 PM)Edda Wrote: 2) I am highly uncomfortable asking people to RP most of the time, especially if they have a large network of friends. As someone who is generally not sought out by others for RP, I often wonder if those who agree when I ask are merely humoring me, or doing so begrudgingly. Knowing that RPers tend to be a more... passive bunch, I really do worry that sometimes I am THAT asshole. I enjoy roleplay enough that I have not ceased to ask people for it, but the worry that I am being a real pain in the ass, and not taken at all seriously, is always there.
Not uncomfortable here, but the rest applies. Sympathy RP noooo.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Aaron - 08-14-2015
Confession - When I mess up in a RP event no matter how or why, I suddenly feel like everyone is giving me that "Wtf you dumbass idiot" look behind their screen. I know very well that's 9/10 not the case but I still feel that way and I scramble to try to redeem myself ;_;
RE: RP Confession Thread - Otte - 08-15-2015
1. I am terrified of RPing my favourite characters outside my group of friends, due to fear of being judged and getting a bad reputation inside the community.
2. I worry constantly about being 'boring' in RP, since I feel I'm really bad at creating interesting storylines, and that my characters aren't interesting enough to RP with.
3. There's many people I want to RP with, but not dare to ask because of points 1 and 2.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Kai Motokawa - 08-15-2015
1: I am terrified of getting to RP again after my horrible experience with it a few years back.
2: I bring myself down each time I come up with a character Idea.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Kaiz - 08-15-2015
(08-15-2015, 12:48 AM)KaiMotokawa Wrote: 1: I am terrified of getting to RP again after my horrible experience with it a few years back.
2: I bring myself down each time I come up with a character Idea.
Now I'm super-curious...
RE: RP Confession Thread - Dis - 08-15-2015
1) I completely changed my main character's public storyline because while I feel it's plausible, so many people cringe at her original character concept, and I got tired of being excluded from RP because of what I referred to her as.
2) I often feel as if my RP isn't interesting enough to really gain anyone's attention, and get, not so much shy, but nervous in large open RP settings. Because of this, I rarely approach people in places like the Quicksand, or even during open RP events.
3) I like high fantasy, and the extravagant, so I'm leery to approach anyone I see from the RPC for role-play, because I feel like I don't play to the ordinary life aspect of my character enough to be interesting for any kind of long-term RP.Â
In hindsight, I realize that some of those statements could be accusatory or an attempt to be inflammatory towards the RPC and its community, and I wanted to tack on a disclaimer here, because that was not my intention.Â
RE: RP Confession Thread - Virella - 08-15-2015
Oh. How could I forget this.
People roleplaying as major NPCs. The known main Scoins, Heavenswards knights, Iceheart ect. Canon characters basically.
I really find it disrespectful to fuck about with SE own creations :<
Not afraid to admit I will avoid interacting with these type of people.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Seye Qhesu - 08-15-2015
More Confessions!
1) I don't like to rp with people who have multiple characters. Especially if they are looking to try and get some active rp with my own. If people want to have multiple characters to jump to that is fine with me but when you are trying to become part of my character's own story and you are jumping between characters so much that nothing gets done but once a month it becomes a hassle. That and most of the people I have run in to with multiple characters just want to hook up and makes it feel like they just want to ERP with as many people as possible. (Not always true of course)
2) While I do RP with a lot of people from different timezones I actually hate it but I don't try and limit my character to such. Being able to only rp with someone one day out of the week because that is the only time our times work together is annoying and feels as if there is nothing going on. I will not stop my character from possibly developing feelings or perhaps hatred for someone because of the limited amount of interaction but oocly I just groan and hope they don't do anything to try and swoon her.
3) I hate people and characters who are completely anime. This is mostly Doman characters who are using 'sama' 'chan' 'senpai' and other terms during IC rp.
4) If you are an ass oocly, I will do my best to avoid you in rp.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Blue - 08-15-2015
(08-15-2015, 09:05 AM)Kaguya Nightsong Wrote: More Confessions!
3) I hate people and characters who are completely anime. This is mostly Doman characters who are using 'sama' 'chan' 'senpai' and other terms during IC rp.
*Quotes with sentiment*
Japanglish is one of the worst curses of roleplay >_<; makes me cringe every tiiiiime..
RE: RP Confession Thread - Rosekitten - 08-15-2015
1.) My character is a bit temperamental and some say difficult to get along with. I'm 100% not.. I will talk to anyone and everyone given the chance and time to do so. I have so many people on my friends list I'd love to get around rp'ing with.
2.) I hate being a bother.. for everyone on my friends list that we've talked about rp'ing at some point.. Come to me! I really hate asking if someone is busy or would like to rp. It really is a weakness of mine.. :<
3.) I love rp but I avoid it a lot due to real life (mainly when my kids are up). It is not that I cannot rp while my kids are up.. just I would sooner go hide in a corner then tell someone I have to afk for a moment to change a diaper or to give the little ones a snack or something. I hate making people wait (even if everyone I've ever rp'ed with swears its fine)!
4.) I tend to consider myself boring compared to most. Heck my character I rp is a smithy by trade. Now I enjoy her to bits but I don't have any tales of dragon slaying or capturing a bandit leader to spin at a fire either hehe.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Volk - 08-15-2015
** now that i have finished my shit posting about what bothers me in RP, I will say a few general ones:
- I would like to get into some of the bigger plots but I fear that I am operating on a level below the people who organize the big stories and get scared off.
- I really want to post IC character stories on forums, but I'm afraid no one would read it so I don't. This is a stupid thing, I know !
- I am soft at heart for romance - but my character is weird and scares the boys away
WHERE ARE YOU ASTRONAUT MIKE DEXTER (Elezen version)
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RE: RP Confession Thread - mongi291 - 08-15-2015
I had an idea to play a Padjal ICly without it being lore-breaking (lore-bending at most) but I'm too afraid to even try sharing it with others.
RE: RP Confession Thread - Caspar - 08-15-2015
I used to be that nag who was all like "C'mon, come back to the RP. It'll be fun, I promise..." to all those inactive players on my forum. Maybe I felt responsible for the community, but really I just hated seeing funny and interesting writers twiddle their thumbs or have a life. It takes conscious effort for me not to bother those who don't come on as often as I'd like, but I don't want to be selfish.
I once made an Exalted campaign self-destruct because I refused to make my character play nice with the other PCs, who with the exception of my best friend's character had philosophies diametrically conflicting with his. I apologized profusely for what an asshat he was being in OOC, but that wasn't enough and I feel I still didn't do enough. "Playing the character" isn't worth it when it makes everyone else unhappy, and I could have done more to communicate with the other players ahead of time to make sure my concept meshed well with theirs.
Yet on a certain level, I don't feel that guilty. I feel like conflict within the party makes sense in a heavy RP pen and paper system like that. Maybe I really *am* selfish!? :o
RE: RP Confession Thread - Klynzahr - 08-16-2015
2:00am and can't sleep ... clearly the solution is to haunt an empty forum.
Here are a few confessions.
1) I have a weakness for well written prose. While I am aware that it has minimal value in MMO RP, I still get giddily happy when I see someone turning words into art.
2) I am a natural paragraph RPer. Now I can adapt myself to work well at much quicker RP speeds, but if I happen to run across someone who indulges my paragraph addiction I will take complete advantage. Back in Wow, I once wrote an emote that was four paragraphs long and didn't contain a single word of dialog or internal thoughts. The entire response was composed of shifting expressions and gesture, described in extreme detail. I am both proud and ashamed of this feat.
3) I am extremely nervous about sending people /tells and even more nervous about asking people to RP in linkshells. I constantly worry that people will find me clingy, annoying, or rude, and the longer that I sit there thinking about it the worse it gets. After many failed starts, I have discovered that the only way for me to actually send a tell is to typeitoutsuperfastandhitenterwithoutthinkingtwice.
Unfortunately this has lead to the /tell and run phenomenon, which some of you may be familiar with.....
4) The /tell and run phenomenon: When Klynzahr logs onto the game and instantly fires off a /tell, containing some random question and really strange typos, to some poor other RPer, who is probably either afk or already RPing. Then she promptly looses her nerve and vanishes into a dungeon for the next hour, making it impossible for them to reply and ask her what "Goos EVening! :-d" was supposed to mean.
If you have been a victim of these, my apologies. I'm slooooowly getting better at it.Â
