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(08-20-2015, 01:43 PM)War Siren Wrote: It's fantasy, part of the reason to RP is to not be yourself, maybe a person is stupid, and they realize that but have learning disabilities and desperately want to be a genius, so RPing one is their fantasy or escape. That's what RP is about, what it's always been about, being something your not. Escaping into a fantasy.
I think judging someone forgot being as smart as they want their character to be is a bit of a sour disposition and my need to be rethought by the person judging.
If you think they're not up to snuff, you can always offer assistance OOC, etc etc.Â
If the person is a jerk about it, judge away, but if they're not and they just want to play their fantasy.. I think we as a community should help said person, rather than shun them.
I guarantee you that if you were playing a female character, and a man comes in and pulls a bro-douche act, then says he's trying to play a womanizing character because he's not popular with women in real life, nobody's going to suddenly pretend that his character is sexy after the fact.
Same difference. Â You can only TRY to play a character that you aren't, but the audience actually does judge you. Â That's the difference between RP and just fantasizing in your own head. Â No one is under any compunction to comfort you if you can't carry the trait you're trying to get across. Â Genius, wit, charisma, these are things you have to have some measure of before you can write them.
This happens ALL THE TIME, I can't stress this enough. Â I have a friend from my WoW days. Â She's a perfectly fine and helpful human being. Â She loves RP and helped me run a guild for a while there. Â She is not a genius, and to make matters worse, she has very poor grammar and spelling. Â So when she tries to play someone cunning and intelligent, it shows. Â Badly.
And even as a very, very good friend of hers, it was very grating having someone punching that high above their weight.