Confessions, hm. Sure, why not. Wall of texts incoming.
0: I talk too much. WAY too much. I write walls of text because it was pounded into me you have to write in great detail for great justice. It's a thing for me, so. Yeah.
I: I confess I like creativity of all kinds, even if it doesn't jive with the rest of the world. Straight up. Unless someone is pretending they're I dunno..a Primal crossbreed, or a major lore or other Final Fantasy canon character or something impossible, chances are I'll play with them no matter how alien or odd their concept seems, because the Rp can often be very engaging in spite of, or even because of that. I'm very easygoing with conceptualizations because I believe Rp is 99% imagination, 1% everything else. Lorebending to an extent is fine with me, even if it's on the wonky side. Openly breaking is harder for me to accept, but I've found many good players who became friends of mine with concepts not 100% lore friendly either, and I wouldn't give those friends up for the world. You won't hear the words 'special snowflake' or 'edgy' from me about RP or people's characters, because it's disrespectful, and when I grew up as an Rper, we learned to respect each others creativity, not snub our noses at it because we didn't like one or two little details that didn't fit in our happy bubble.
II: I confess, I hate slice of life RP to death. I know a lot of people think it's the bee's knees to be the everyman and have a quaint little soap opera life to play, but as someone who came from a heavy combat/conflict RP background I find it really dull. No offense to anyone who plays it, just ain't my thing unless I really have nothing else to do and my characters have no one to piss off. That, and I already have a slice of life RP I do. It's called married life. >> I happen to be an everyman in real life, why would I want to RP what I am?
III: Like some others have said, I confess, I do ERP at times if the character's nature or story would make sense for it to occur, and fade to blacks to me are like a blank page in a book I'm reading. I also laugh at people who judge Rpers because they ERP of their own choice. If it's outside someone's comfort zone it's absolutely fine for them to not do it, their choice, but those who act like it's a cardinal sin and look down on or shame people for it (especially behind people's backs because most of them don't have the stones to say it to someone's face) just make me roll my eyes.
IV: I confess I love drama (IC). I love conflict. I love fighting, blood, violence, I love when someone's feelings are hurt, I love when two people who used to love one another hate each other. I love when someone dies in battle. I love when the bad guys win. I love when the world is destructive and cruel, and I love when there is no truly happy ending. I know that doesn't jive with some people's happy bubble, but I really love when things are terrible. I'm only happy when it rains. ..is it weird then that I don't really like GoT? Huh.
V: I confess I do all I can to have an objective view of whatever world I play in, and play by its rules. I try not to let my biases from the real world affect how my character views their world because I'm looking through their eyes, not mine. I try to remember no matter what, this is not earth, it's Hydaelyn or however you spell it. /Effort. It's hard sometimes, admittedly.
VI: I confess it's hard for me to play racist characters. Weird, I know. This kind of coincides with V, but it's subtly different. I mean, I can play a character that slings an occasional slur to provoke someone easily, but playing an actual racist is difficult because I've never had that mind set in my life. Hating someone just for how they look or how they were born is so alien to me, it's hard to do despite how I've tried in the past even trying to look at it through my character's eyes.
VII: I confess I got my start in RP with tabletop D&D, 2nd edition with some old 1st edition flavor. I started at age 13, 23 years ago. I've loved tabletop games for many long years, though I've always preferred freeform combat (but that's neither here nor there). I also confess as an addendum that my favorite tabletop system is Pathfinder or AD&D 2nd, tied. It's just so good.
VIII: I confess I hate kidnapping/abduction/torture and rape as drama plots with a vengeance. The whole abduction/(gender here) in distress/rape/torture as drama is bad, and you should feel bad if you do them on a frequent basis. Not because of the subject matter (though for some that alone can be a reason), because sometimes shit needs to get real. But because I have run across only a handful of people in over twenty years of RP that have actually managed to play the severity of any of the above situations in the seriousness they need to be taken in order to have impact. Kind of the same as playing true villains. It takes a certain mature approach that the majority of people don't have.
IX: I confess that I don't often try to get involved in random RP because despite a lot of people having 'walk ups' in their info, I get ignored when I walk up. (I know, this isn't just a me thing). But I mean even by people who don't know me for the dick I can be. >> You walk up and start a conversation, get blown off, then they start yammering away at someone they know or that's in their FC like you never even tried. It's enough to swear you off of open world sometimes, but I keep trying. Maybe I like the abuse, meh.
X: I confess that I have a very bad short term memory, which kind of messes up RP sometimes. It's been damaged over the years. I literally have forgotten whole Rps I've done after a day or two has passed, and I genuinely am shit-horrible at remembering names. I have people on my friends list I repeatedly forget and have to ask 'who are you again?'. Yeah, my short term memory loss at times can be that bad. It gets really frustrating sometimes.
XI: I confess, godmodders don't really bother me at all like they do other people. Even the 'invincible' ones get tired if you counter them enough with their own medicine. It's actually kind of great for a laugh when you make their brains bluescreen or you frustrate THEM for a change. Good times. Plus, sometimes they just don't know any better and you can help them get better. :3
XII: I confess, I like anime style/magical physics and the suspension of disbelief in things like combat and can't stand when others just plain out mock people in a *fantasy* game for using said things in their RP. Gritty realism and plausible physics is fine, but we're in a high fantasy game with races that couldn't biologically exist with our own real world physics, creatures that can make matter into energy while violating all the conservation of energy laws, and where the laws of thermodynamics do not stop you from launching big fuck-off fireballs by waving a magic stick. Also, Godbert. Anyone who plays in a world with all this and has a problem with someone jumping a little too high or punching hard enough to crack a few stones if they've had enough training is nitpicking, and they need to RP in a more realistic setting. Not, you know, Final Fantasy.
0: I talk too much. WAY too much. I write walls of text because it was pounded into me you have to write in great detail for great justice. It's a thing for me, so. Yeah.
I: I confess I like creativity of all kinds, even if it doesn't jive with the rest of the world. Straight up. Unless someone is pretending they're I dunno..a Primal crossbreed, or a major lore or other Final Fantasy canon character or something impossible, chances are I'll play with them no matter how alien or odd their concept seems, because the Rp can often be very engaging in spite of, or even because of that. I'm very easygoing with conceptualizations because I believe Rp is 99% imagination, 1% everything else. Lorebending to an extent is fine with me, even if it's on the wonky side. Openly breaking is harder for me to accept, but I've found many good players who became friends of mine with concepts not 100% lore friendly either, and I wouldn't give those friends up for the world. You won't hear the words 'special snowflake' or 'edgy' from me about RP or people's characters, because it's disrespectful, and when I grew up as an Rper, we learned to respect each others creativity, not snub our noses at it because we didn't like one or two little details that didn't fit in our happy bubble.
II: I confess, I hate slice of life RP to death. I know a lot of people think it's the bee's knees to be the everyman and have a quaint little soap opera life to play, but as someone who came from a heavy combat/conflict RP background I find it really dull. No offense to anyone who plays it, just ain't my thing unless I really have nothing else to do and my characters have no one to piss off. That, and I already have a slice of life RP I do. It's called married life. >> I happen to be an everyman in real life, why would I want to RP what I am?
III: Like some others have said, I confess, I do ERP at times if the character's nature or story would make sense for it to occur, and fade to blacks to me are like a blank page in a book I'm reading. I also laugh at people who judge Rpers because they ERP of their own choice. If it's outside someone's comfort zone it's absolutely fine for them to not do it, their choice, but those who act like it's a cardinal sin and look down on or shame people for it (especially behind people's backs because most of them don't have the stones to say it to someone's face) just make me roll my eyes.
IV: I confess I love drama (IC). I love conflict. I love fighting, blood, violence, I love when someone's feelings are hurt, I love when two people who used to love one another hate each other. I love when someone dies in battle. I love when the bad guys win. I love when the world is destructive and cruel, and I love when there is no truly happy ending. I know that doesn't jive with some people's happy bubble, but I really love when things are terrible. I'm only happy when it rains. ..is it weird then that I don't really like GoT? Huh.
V: I confess I do all I can to have an objective view of whatever world I play in, and play by its rules. I try not to let my biases from the real world affect how my character views their world because I'm looking through their eyes, not mine. I try to remember no matter what, this is not earth, it's Hydaelyn or however you spell it. /Effort. It's hard sometimes, admittedly.
VI: I confess it's hard for me to play racist characters. Weird, I know. This kind of coincides with V, but it's subtly different. I mean, I can play a character that slings an occasional slur to provoke someone easily, but playing an actual racist is difficult because I've never had that mind set in my life. Hating someone just for how they look or how they were born is so alien to me, it's hard to do despite how I've tried in the past even trying to look at it through my character's eyes.
VII: I confess I got my start in RP with tabletop D&D, 2nd edition with some old 1st edition flavor. I started at age 13, 23 years ago. I've loved tabletop games for many long years, though I've always preferred freeform combat (but that's neither here nor there). I also confess as an addendum that my favorite tabletop system is Pathfinder or AD&D 2nd, tied. It's just so good.
VIII: I confess I hate kidnapping/abduction/torture and rape as drama plots with a vengeance. The whole abduction/(gender here) in distress/rape/torture as drama is bad, and you should feel bad if you do them on a frequent basis. Not because of the subject matter (though for some that alone can be a reason), because sometimes shit needs to get real. But because I have run across only a handful of people in over twenty years of RP that have actually managed to play the severity of any of the above situations in the seriousness they need to be taken in order to have impact. Kind of the same as playing true villains. It takes a certain mature approach that the majority of people don't have.
IX: I confess that I don't often try to get involved in random RP because despite a lot of people having 'walk ups' in their info, I get ignored when I walk up. (I know, this isn't just a me thing). But I mean even by people who don't know me for the dick I can be. >> You walk up and start a conversation, get blown off, then they start yammering away at someone they know or that's in their FC like you never even tried. It's enough to swear you off of open world sometimes, but I keep trying. Maybe I like the abuse, meh.
X: I confess that I have a very bad short term memory, which kind of messes up RP sometimes. It's been damaged over the years. I literally have forgotten whole Rps I've done after a day or two has passed, and I genuinely am shit-horrible at remembering names. I have people on my friends list I repeatedly forget and have to ask 'who are you again?'. Yeah, my short term memory loss at times can be that bad. It gets really frustrating sometimes.
XI: I confess, godmodders don't really bother me at all like they do other people. Even the 'invincible' ones get tired if you counter them enough with their own medicine. It's actually kind of great for a laugh when you make their brains bluescreen or you frustrate THEM for a change. Good times. Plus, sometimes they just don't know any better and you can help them get better. :3
XII: I confess, I like anime style/magical physics and the suspension of disbelief in things like combat and can't stand when others just plain out mock people in a *fantasy* game for using said things in their RP. Gritty realism and plausible physics is fine, but we're in a high fantasy game with races that couldn't biologically exist with our own real world physics, creatures that can make matter into energy while violating all the conservation of energy laws, and where the laws of thermodynamics do not stop you from launching big fuck-off fireballs by waving a magic stick. Also, Godbert. Anyone who plays in a world with all this and has a problem with someone jumping a little too high or punching hard enough to crack a few stones if they've had enough training is nitpicking, and they need to RP in a more realistic setting. Not, you know, Final Fantasy.
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