Post by Head Moderator on Jan 10, 2014 2:12:58 GMT -5
(I found this old list a bunch of people put together back in the UV d100 days, I suppose some of them could still be true but some are just too funny!)
Stuff we wish we could rid of the roleplaying world
This was created in fun by a group of people that roleplay in UV, so please people don't get offended if you see yourself in the list! It's just a bunch of opinions!
1. Glowing red eyes.
2. Children characters that can wield swords and fight and talk and do all sorts of things that no child of that age no matter what race can do.
3. Regular Joe walks in and instantly hops into the rafters. The rafters are for birds, not perching people!
4. OOC whining during roleplay that things aren't going their way or they aren't getting attention.
5. People that come in, sit alone, never talk to a soul, stare down at the table... and then complain that they were ignored.
6. People that don't like the consequences of their actions, and attempt to do "just kidding" roleplay and backpedal. i.e. "just kidding, I didn't really say that"
7. People who mistake the local tavern or inn for a hospital, and drag their bloody bodies in then get mad when everyone doesn't rush to their aid.
8. Vampires who blatantly let the world know that they are vampires. It's called the masquerade for a reason.
9. "Learning" information from people's profile, thoughts or ideas stated in actions and then acting upon that knowledge.
10. Animals somehow able to open the door of an inn or tavern and come inside.
11. People who prepare and scroll immense entrances (probably prepared by someone else), and then continue their rp as a one-liner.
12. Characters that meet and instantly fall in love, get married and have kids all in a week's time!
13. People who play elves who have no idea how to play an elf, and end up playing basically a pointy eared human.
14. People who pick a race for their character just to get 4d but play them as humans in roleplay. For instance, saying a character is an "angel", "demon", "dragon", etc but never intending on manifesting such things. This does not mean those who masquerade. This means those that pick a 4d race just for the 4d but don't ever play it.
15. People that argue with the proctor in the chat room.
16. People who act as if their character is the all-powerful god of roleplay, and that they are better than anyone and everyone, bow to their awesomeness.
17. Roleplay that one has to use a dictionary/thesaurus/encyclopedia to understand. Detail is good, 10 lines of reaching for the doorknob is not good. Leave your "family of five" at home.
18. Excessive detail just to make your post longer.
19. Characters that pump out child after child after child, and end up with more children than a normal guild's membership and guess what, they are all under a year old too!
20. People whose alt characters are instantly best buddies with their other characters: without even the slightest drop of ic rp played.
21. People who choose one mun, and shack up all their chars with their chars - c'mon, what about the rest of us?
22. Women who give birth in an eating/drinking establishment.
23. Characters who go out of their way to act pitiful, in order to garner attention. Then cling to your character with a death grip.
24. Characters who waltz in, then complain if your character can resist theirs (eg: charm, will, fire breathing etc)
25. Folk who attach one of their characters to another, then makes a new character to shack up with the same significant other on a whim (eg: daughter stealing mothers bf, vice versa).
26. Those who (male or female) get into a relationship with their character and then pretty much desert them after they "catch" the man or woman. Then they're off to play the hunt again elsewhere.
27. Folk roleplaying *regular* animals, and then complain when they recieve their 2d, and are looked at strangly when that "canine muzzle" can enunciate perfect human speech.
28. People picking races that contradict. Immortal human? Uh... immortal lycan? Hmm.. a half ice elemental/ half fire elemental? I don't think so.
29. Ever thought about how many princes, princesses, queens, kings and empresses we have? There must be someone somewhere making heraldry documents for 5 gold.
30. Speaking of five gold... five gold for a glass of wine? Could buy 6 bottles for that price.
31. Carrying around 30,000 gold (or something similar) in their front pocket. Anyone realize how HEAVY gold is?
32. Medieval gardens with an advanced timer set sprinkler system.
33. Teddy bears, tickling, kissing and other non-agressive attacks during a training combat.
34. Mixing timelines up, without a good story behind it. Your armored knight boasting his bastard sword comes into the inn and strikes up a marlboro, or maybe that same knight in his "kevlar" armor.
35. Drinking massive amounts of any type of ale or liquor and NEVER visiting the bathroom.
36. Bloodwyne. Need I say more?
37. People asking for permission to enter a PUBLIC room.
38. Pregnant vampires.
39. That horse guy that always IM's with "Do you like horses?"
40. People that leave quests in order to go cyber. Or just as bad, people who cyber while on a quest, and pay more attention to the cybering than the questing, yet want the same xp as everyone else!
41. Characters who insist on adding wings to their race.
42. Faking that their aol connection is lost, just to change to another screen name.
43. Rpers that insist that you only rp with them and all their incarnations. Or those that get mad if you are rping with someone else on a different screen name. Share the love people!
44. Always wanting to rp in a PR.
45. Someone that only ever wants to rp sex. Some people seem to think that when two characters hook up, that becomes the only roleplay they know how to do.
46. Or how about the guy (or girl) that leaves your character because you won't rp sex all the time.
47. People that open public chat rooms then proceed to ignore anyone that enters. If you're going to open a chat, roleplay. If you're going to work on other things, don't open the public chat! Simple.
48. Actively recruiting someone for hours, then someone swoops in and it's their name given as the recruiter.
49. People that only mentor their own characters.
50. Characters that treat your character like crap, and then next time you rp you're best friends.
51. Cross roleplay. Hating a mun because you don't like their character, hating a character because you don't like the mun. Taking OOC information, IC.
52. Illogical activities for characters just because the mun likes something. i.e. having a druid practice necromancy; having a vampire be a kind, loving healer; having a vegetarian red dragon, etc.
53. Putting two characters together just because the muns want it, even though the characters logically wouldn't work. A chaotic evil vampire with a lawful good cleric for instance.
54. Changing your character's name every few days. Or, trying to keep your dice for a new character by saying they've "gone into hiding, had plastic surgery, got a new name".
55. Pregnant women in mass spars.
56. People that beg you to come rp with them, but then when you come they barely interact with you.
57. Making assumptions that you know what is going on in a conversation or storyline, then proceeding to make a fool of yourself.
58. Evil characters that act good. Just whenever the mood strikes they they are "evil incarnate on this world" but next thing you know they are petting the dog and snuggling with their woman (or man) "hey snookums, how's the kids".
59. People that use famous people for character pictures. How many Johnny Depp's do we need? If your mother can name the model, then it's too popular.
60. People who play the same character in different forums, kingdoms or lands and state that they are "different" in each. "That's my UV Lilibet, she's with James, and now my UPoR Lilibet she's with Charlie."
61. Being told that your character is "unfriendly" or "racist" or anything else about one's character that makes them who they are, and that we should change them.Yeah she's racist... she's an elf.
62. People who steal other people's SL, profile, concepts.
63. People that are too lazy to read a charter, and instead ask someone "How much hp do you need with 4d88 for an AA?".... Look it up people! And related, people that assume that I (emma mun) have the entire forum web site memorized.
64. There are, usually, only four corners in any given room. Kinda odd when you got 8 folks all in the shadows of a corner. Must be crowded.
65. Never using the front door of an inn!