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RE: You Know You Overthink RP When.... |
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01-30-2016, 04:00 PM
(01-30-2016, 03:13 PM)Nero Wrote: When you spend a weekend studying sociology and group psychology in order to construct a fictional society for them to originate from.

...Wow. I am awed by that one. O_O

...when you go in to character creator and look at nose shapes for hours.
...when you research armor forging techniques in the hopes that you get to RP actual crafting, even though you barely level up the appropriate DoH but you do it anyway because you just don't know if it might happen.
...when you jam a bunch of bread in your mouth, talk, and note how that sounds in order to accurately write your character speaking with their mouth full.

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01-30-2016, 04:14 PM
...when you consider the effects of aether on a character with high sensitivity and write up the possible side effects of aetheryte travel, realizing you basically described a cocaine overdose.

and then roll for heart attack ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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01-30-2016, 04:16 PM
You spend days and days writing so much for that RP you will run, and the party ignore it and run off doing their own thing. After that it is just so many "head meet table" moments.

Personally I tend to under think it and just see what happens.

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01-30-2016, 04:32 PM
... When you make NPCs in character's background just as nearly as fleshed out as your actual roleplay character. And they will very likely never ever show up, or be mentioned in roleplayer. Ever.

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01-30-2016, 04:56 PM
...When your spend hours grinding for that one piece that will make your IC glamour perfect.

...When you have their whole backstory hand-written, including details of their clan, their customs, festivals, etc. when it was detroyed by the Garleans.

...When your OOC friend wants to RP with you and you spend the weekend trying to write a convincing way for the two characters to connect. Even though they never would normally!

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01-30-2016, 05:13 PM
When you spend two real-life weeks working out a part of your character's backstory that if you don't mess up or get an absolute perfect group of individuals to roleplay with nobody besides you will ever know of.

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01-30-2016, 05:20 PM
When you start to take on the attributes you've assigned to your character in real life...and rather liked the results.
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01-30-2016, 05:44 PM
When you start using Eorzean terms in texts and conversation.

I actually said I swear to Hydaelyn at work today Lmfao

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01-30-2016, 06:45 PM
You spend two years fine-tuning and modifying a dice-system and working with 30+ players at a time because god dammit roll RP has merit.

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01-30-2016, 06:52 PM
(01-30-2016, 05:44 PM)Aaron Wrote: When you start using Eorzean terms in texts and conversation.

I actually said I swear to Hydaelyn at work today Lmfao
I've said gods instead of god a few times irl haha.

like 'Ugh, gods!'

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RE: You Know You Overthink RP When.... |
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01-30-2016, 07:36 PM
...When you create a bunch of characters to add to your character story and spend months working on a backstory only to never RP cause you get to nervous.
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01-30-2016, 07:48 PM
- When you have tried to (and failed) make a conversion from gil into real money 
- Because you thought it would be a good idea to make a budget for your character
- So as to properly reflect states of hunger, soberness etc. when there's no money to spend. 
- And then contemplated making a budget for the whole company too.

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01-30-2016, 08:39 PM
(01-30-2016, 02:44 PM)Alderique Wrote: When…

…you have to create a schedule to explain how and why your character manages to show up to RP locations around the globe within their timeline.

…you wait a long period of time between hairstyle changes for your hair to "grow".

I feel these two particularly. It's part of why I'm never just sitting around in the Quicksand and it kinda makes it harder on myself to try and get myself "out there" or whatever


-When you've named and developed four older siblings and parents for your characters
-And their pets/mounts
-And try to RP them

-Every time you try to make a joke character they turn into serious/kinda depressing characters the minute you start considering a backstory

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01-30-2016, 09:38 PM
(01-30-2016, 08:39 PM)Shoshopu Wrote: -Every time you try to make a joke character they turn into serious/kinda depressing characters the minute you start considering a backstory

Oh no, this is me. This is every character I ever played. There's no escape.

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01-30-2016, 09:58 PM
You've decided on events within an otherwise perfectly workable self-contained story just to explain the identities and motivation of NPCs your character may only meet once or twice. And there are enough of them to start a swing band.

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