SolanaVernon Wrote:My suggestion is that many need to just mind their own business and to not be so sensitive on what people are doing. The more people worry about something that should be considered minuscule, the more there's going to be squabbling and turmoil. It's unnecessary to judge others RP and to limit creativity. :star:
Agreed. Personally, I really don't care what other people do with their characters. Be a demon, or a half-dragon, or a god, or a Pokemon for all I care. Though I might be a bit hesitant to RP with someone whose name is SupaSayajinCloudsama and claims to be the son of Batman, as long as they aren't a jerk, I'm fine with it. The only exception is if they aren't following the LS rules, regardless of what they are. The way I see it, the best way to avoid conflict is if everyone can agree on the rules of the community. If you don't like them, it's usually in everyone's best interest to just abide by them anyway, for the sake of the group. If you can't or won't do that for whatever reason, rather than argue about it, I would think it be better to just respectfully withdraw yourself from that community.
Mason Wrote:I think this is a little too nit picky. I think it's okay that there are a lot of people whose families were/are effected by the history of the world. For example in FFXI: parents died in the war, Orcs attacked family etc. It's actually being realistic according to the lore, although one may also view it as less creative/easy. So yes there are characters that are effected by the Garlian war, and there are the Elezen you mentioned... not just one, whole populations. So I don't mind seeing more than one character with similar background in that way.
The eye color is indeed silly, but calling various letters in people's character names is equally so.
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.
Keir Wrote:The more I review this thread, the more I feel as though we're simply stifling our own creativity with all of these examples.
Of course, we have all had the people who go a little over the top in order to draw attention only to them, and in those situations, it just serves to make role-play less fun for everyone else.
But on the whole, I think that many of these 'cliche elements' can be and will be role-played successfully. Many of our own characters are surely going to use elements from each of these things.
Definitely true. All a cliche is is a trope that's more common and recognizable than others. Practically every character ever made can fall into one cliche or another. If a character didn't have at least a couple of identifiable traits shared by others, most people couldn't relate to them. That's what makes them characters, as opposed to a rock or a glass of water. Not to say that inanimate objects can't have character. I'm sure most of us have come across people, real or fictional, that have had less character than a doornob, lol.
That being said, I was under the impression that this thread was just for poking fun at the various stereotypes and overused tropes that we've all seen, or have used ourselves. I know I'm not, and I don't think anyone else is, making fun of any one individual. If that's the way I've come off, I do so apologize.
In the end, all that really matters is that everyone gets along and has fun (・∀・)