A short rant

[Rouves Hawke]

YES! A rant I say! I do believe I've become spoiled with my RP over the years. I ran into this person who has no brain. I'm thoroughly convinced. Hardly any creativity at all!

The task at hand was to come up with his characters Motives, Strengths, Weaknesses and Misc items such as Quirks(likes/dislikes? Just other random stuff of note)... after 3 hours of getting nowhere I ended up re-writing a bunch of his stuff, despite my resolve to make him do it himself... how else will he learn? But alas, I'm forced to RP with him because in this game, I'm a Jedi Knight, assigned to him, and he's my padawan *sadface* I've been robbed of good RP! However! *jumps into a nearby phonebooth and comes out as a super hero* I will persevere!... maybe.

Its amazing how incredibly infuriating it is to run into someone who cant write worth a d**n, after being around people who think about everything, analyze, write, create... and are random and inspirational... but this guy... OMG!!! The entire time, I was thinking of interesting ways to torture his char... so bored with his easy distractions and lack of participation. I do believe I might suggest he get booted from the Jedi thing, since Jedi(in this game) are held to a HIGHER standard of RP.

He did mention one thing. I rewrote one of his 'motives' and made it to sound like he would more often than not, like to resolve things peacefully, instead of resorting to killing someone(though he would kill, if it were absolutely nessecary)... and he says "Actually. Jedi kill all the time." and it got me thinking. He's right! I cant even count how many times I've seen Jedi cut down stormtrooper after stormtrooper without a second thought, but of course, that's the faceless mask of the iron fist empire!!! Loyalty till death! *mocks popping to attention and a salute*

DUH. Of course they killed off the troopers! And only in situations where they didn't have a choice, and the troopers wouldn't give up. Though... sometimes I wish they did smoke them all. Ya know how many times I got shot in the back on Jedi Academy after pulling a troopers blaster? They put up their hands, I dont cut them down... then the sneaky bastards run off and pick up a different blaster so they can peg me in the back later!... really now.

With that I end my rant! (even though I have much more to rant about) and ask you... what do you think?

I now know how much I really do appreciate you guys and the minds that you have!

[Jos Nelsh]

Feb 25, 2009 7:55:09 GMT 1 Rouves Hawke said:

Ya know how many times I got shot in the back on Jedi Academy after pulling a troopers blaster? They put up their hands, I dont cut them down... then the sneaky bastards run off and pick up a different blaster so they can peg me in the back later!... really now.

HAHA! Really? They do that? I can't really remember what the stormies do in JA. In JO, I always pull their weapons in that swamp level, it's really funny how they're running around with their hands in the air.

It's extra hilarious if they surrender when you don't even pull their weapon. I think that happens sometimes when you kill several of them at once with great display of Force... they just surrender out of fear.. hahaha.

Anyway... I know what you mean. Some people... you wonder why they are into RP at all.

I used to do a lot of tabletop RPG (AD&D - Forgotten Realms), and one time we hooked up with this new group of players we'd met somewhere. We agreed to play a campaign together, and so we arranged for a first session at their place. Me and my friends had put a lot of thought into our characters, and so we had developed personality quirks, voices, etc.

So we start playing and it's a total disaster. The other guys had also been playing for years, but there was no way you could tell.

Me and my friends were really roleplaying, you know, actually acting out a character like you would in a play or a movie. We were in a creative mood and really played off of each other. To our amazement, the other guys just sat there snickering and barely able to control their laughter. (Note that these were grown-ups, well in their twenties). At some point it felt offensive. So we stopped and said 'Let's see how you guys play then!'

So then they start 'playing' and all they do is talk about their character in the third person, in their own voice, like this:

"My character walks up to the guard and since he has (*glances at character sheet*) glibness, he persuades the guard to open the gate."

(If you're roleplaying, you should actually speak the dialogue, in character, and you'd actually have to act out the glibness in order to make a succesful attempt.)

Anyway, the way they acted was totally out of character, and their characters themselves actually made no sense whatsoever. They were just a bunch of traits and powers they'd picked and put together just for the stats, rather than characters that would realistically walk around in the world we were playing in.

The worst thing was that they were a bunch of super-duper ultra nerds who seemed to know all the rulebooks by heart, and how to take maximum advantage of manipulating various statistics.

But a bit of creativity? Nooooooooooooo

Actually a bit of roleplaying, since we were playing, you know, an RPG? No, that idea was hilarious to them.

Needless to say that was a one time occasion.

[Mereel Ma'viin]

Ah, man, I know that feeling Although, I will admit, in my case it's not exactly the same thing...

This guy I know wants to get into roleplaying, and he asked my advice about creating a character. I obliged, offered suggestions on personality, background, etc. He took my suggestions and put together the beginnings of a fairly good character. Next thing I knew, he'd discarded the whole thing and was calling on my help again.

So, I sighed to myself and helped him make a new character. And ended up right back where I'd started from. And again.

The whole thing finally did get worked out, and he now does have a character that he's more or less satisfied with. The problem in this case wasn't so much a lack of creativity as an excess of it, but frustrating nonetheless.

You're right, though, Hawke. The experience gave me a new appreciation for the excellent roleplayers that I've had the privilege to work with for the past...what, four years now? ;D

[Jos Nelsh]

Although I wouldn't recommend re-reading the first chapter of our RP.

We sucked when we started out! ;D

I was embarassed to read some of my old stuff. But then if you look at our later stuff... some of it is brilliant! I've often re-read some pages of the latest chapters, just because I liked it so much.

[Mereel Ma'viin]

Yeah, it's definitely been a learning experience But hey, if we hadn't been willing to be awful when we started out, we'd never have gotten this good at it ;D

[ORJ_Pyro]

And some of us are still at a loss to what makes good RP. (Myself)

And seriously what happened to the old boards?

P.S. and Hawke where is this RP your at? I need some RP.