Quote:Sorry for not being clearer, that was an attempt at a joke about Drizzt clones. For those who have never encountered the phenomenon, for some reason, inexperienced roleplayers playing in settings that have Dark Elves/Drow tend to love to make characters that are almost exact copies of the character Drizzt Do'Urden from R.A. Salvatore's massively popular series of novels set in the Forgotten Realms D&D setting. It's so common to see a chaotic good Drow dualwielding scimitars that the Overused Copycat Character trope used to be called Drizzt Syndrome.Oh okay, haha. You can see how without this background info I was like :shock: orly? picking on names?! xD
I agree with Kier to an extent. Sure people will have cliche elements, and cliche in itself shouldn't be perceived as bad. I think we talked about the negative, overdone, badly RP'ed cliche characters. Some people carry them through and actually make it work, while others fail to make it original. If anything it takes more skill to play a cliche/ordinary character than a completely original idea.
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