Kes Wrote:I suppose 'Lone Wolf' is a bit cliche, but I like to think I pulled it off pretty well in FFXI. I'd participated in RP and usually kept to the sidelines, often going to events grudgingly and with little enthusiasm. The character was intended to be respected more than liked (FFXI mirrors RL?) and I had a lot of fun dancing the line between all-out isolation and "being a good sport."
Cliche I think mainly happen because people don't really know how to play them. Having played a lone wolf myself I can say you hit the nail on the head. Its an art to play a character like this because you do have to dnce on a fine line to keep others interested in the character. People fall into default cliches when they aren't really sure how to play them. Like I've seen people like this snapping at and attacking a lot of people for really stupid things never considering they should have a reason behind a sore spot and not have a million of them. Its the small peeks behind the armor that fastinate people enough to care about the lone wolf. Tsu's weakness is what she herself can't understand, a passive and completely controlled individual who doesn't get upset at her insults designed to keep others away from herself. Tsu ended up married to such a person to everyone's shock.
Kes Wrote:Cliche or not, I left a lot of details about one of Dyterium's grandparents to the unknown and a number of people were led to believe that he was 1/4 Zilart. He never had any superpowers or anything like that -unless a sort of imagined sense that he was some kind of prophet counts. I'd had a debate with myself and with a few people in the LS at the time as to whether this would be plausible or not and while there was really no objection, I rather enjoyed the fact that nobody ever really know whether it was true or not, even at the very end.
Again a few elements of mystery aren't bad if its not just an excuse to not write a background. My character Ashtari is Jakoh Wahcandalo's granddaughter but her grandfather is in question. I played on the whole rumor that Jakoh was involved with Gilgamish mystery in game to great effect. Ash didn't know because it was a secret even from her though the fact that Gilgamish treated her like family fanned the flames of curiosity. lol
Kes Wrote:I am in full agreement with Verence, though. Loosely-regulated RP fosters creativity by reducing boundaries and making a broader range of possibilities... possible... Such RP that encourages over-the-top behavior is fine and well for some people, and I am sure that there are people that will be drawn to such groups. I'm just not one of them is all.
Same here I like some boundaries or I think the suspension of disbielf becomes too great to take such a character seriously.
Kes Wrote:Also while it's fresh in my mind, vampirism was a pretty hot issue for awhile there but it was only ever discussed and I don't think we ever had anyone actually openly RP it. The common argument was that it existed in the game already, but was uncommon and probably would have grown stale pretty quickly if done. We also had someone who was considering doing a werewolf sort of storyline after the gnoles came out in WotG, but wound up leaving the LS before she could get a chance to do anything with it.
In my previous LS we had 1 vampire that did a good job and one werewolfish character that never got off of the ground also. When we decided no supernatural for our new LS he rewrote the vampire though. I got a bit of flack for using an idea of a Dark Lilly style witch for a storyline though but it never got really supernatural at all. It ended with her being killed lol.
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