(10-15-2017, 01:36 AM)Kaiverta Wrote:(10-14-2017, 05:53 PM)Parvacake Wrote:(10-14-2017, 04:44 PM)Faye Wrote:I think what they mean is when someone preplans this kind of thing purely for drama's sake. Less so for progressing a story and moreso because they want to recreate Days of Our Lives: Eorzea Edition.(10-14-2017, 10:21 AM)Kaiverta Wrote: Setting up IC drama. I personally almost never pre-plan RPs. I like spontaneity more than planned situations, but sometimes planning things is required. It becomes an issue when the other person says things like, "Omg it's so juicy, I love it!" Basically when it becomes gossip.
I don't understand the issue here unless I'm misinterpreting this. Not everyone likes soap opera style drama in their RP (I think that's more a matter of personal preference but I guess could be a "red flag" if someone has had bad experiences with that or believes it's indicative of some bigger problem) but it just sounds like... someone getting excited about the RP? Shouldn't that be a good thing? I love when scenes and role-play actually evoke some sort of reaction, or when the person I'm RPing with is excited for things we have planned, that's the whole fun of RP.
I hope this tags you both... o.o
But yes, when people do this sort of thing purely for the OOC juiciness of there being drama ICly. For instance, I had one player who would sort of do things to try embarrass my character because that player OOCly was a gossip and loved drama, so she saturated her RP with her OOC attitude and behaviour. There was no furthering of the storyline, and it even cut the storyline short in some cases, purely because she wanted the drama. She even went against how her character had been (with mine) in the past for drama's sake, and that ended their IC friendship.
Things like that. :3
Perfect example! What I was talking about JUST happened about an hour ago.
This one person, who was in my example before, just said, "Who wants to do a mass murder? My character would never ask people IC but I want to do it OOC." That's a small, relatively sort of harmless thing, but it's an example of creating IC drama for OOC purposes. That is a huge red flag for me. It has always led to worse.
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