Way back in the day, I used to use tags like "dark" or "mature" to mean "conflict RP with high brutality" and "I take RP seriously, not as a joke."
Nowadays, the meanings of these have gotten so muddled up that they're more or less useless, IMO. What's dark for one person is normal for another; by way of example, I had someone act surprised when I talked about certain elements of L'yhta's past and how she's reacted to them IC, since I had previously told them I don't typically like "really dark RP." When I think of actual, honest-to-goodness "dark RP," I'm thinking brutal violence, torture, and other horrors with no evident end in sight. Conversely, I've met people who thought that any form of negativity involving a character constituted "dark RP" -- to the point where once a person said I must be a big fan of dark RP because they saw my character get into an argument!
As for mature RP, I found out several games ago really quickly that instead of meaning "RP more like a movie aimed at adults," it'd been co-opted to mean "ERP."
Labels aren't especially useful to me.
What I do is make sure to keep OOC channels open so everyone has a good time.
Nowadays, the meanings of these have gotten so muddled up that they're more or less useless, IMO. What's dark for one person is normal for another; by way of example, I had someone act surprised when I talked about certain elements of L'yhta's past and how she's reacted to them IC, since I had previously told them I don't typically like "really dark RP." When I think of actual, honest-to-goodness "dark RP," I'm thinking brutal violence, torture, and other horrors with no evident end in sight. Conversely, I've met people who thought that any form of negativity involving a character constituted "dark RP" -- to the point where once a person said I must be a big fan of dark RP because they saw my character get into an argument!
As for mature RP, I found out several games ago really quickly that instead of meaning "RP more like a movie aimed at adults," it'd been co-opted to mean "ERP."
Labels aren't especially useful to me.
What I do is make sure to keep OOC channels open so everyone has a good time.
The Freelance Wizard
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((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))
Quality RP at low, low prices!
((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))
