[1 Admin Crimson @chaos-barragan Keymaster]

We all love to roleplay/writing collaboratively, it’s why we’re here! but like any hobby, there’s some things we dislike about it.

I was having a conversation with @melpomene on Discord about my dislike of character sheets, and it inspired this idea.

 

What are some things about the world of roleplaying that you dislike?

 

I’ll start with the aforementioned character sheets.  I get why people like them, but I personally find them to restrict that initial burst of imagination that comes with the start of a new story. I get why you need them in tabletop games, where you have to keep track of a dozen things that will affect future rolls and stats, but in a story, a collaborative story, they feel cold and impersonal.

 

Give me a snapshot of your character instead. Don’t tell me their age, height, weight, and snippet of their history. Instead, show me a moment in their life that illustrates who this character is. Focus on a flaw, a strength, their love of chocolate. Anything that gives this character and the story to come some life.

 

Anyway, i’m not here to tell you character sheets are wrong and my way is the right way, just a personal pet peeve.

[3 Kaziel @plagg Participant]

I honestly love character sheets, but I also want a visual image of the character, for referencing. I also hate when people give you a character sheet to follow and won’t let you make your own, some are just so short and don’t have enough details. I also really hate it when people kinda steal the ideas from the other people with what their characters are doing, in a old roleplay I was in two of the characters where getting married and having a child, the other two characters owned by someone else kept trying to kill off both characters and crash the wedding without approval from the others, like yes, I get drama but please ask people before killing off their characters or doing something really rude. then in OOC they would talk about k!lling children (in person) and would compare me and my roleplay partner to the children. I really hate it when anger was taken out on the roleplay OOC in the group. The person was really rude and kept trying to kill off all my characters and over all made the group really annoyed of them. Then them and another would fake a mental disorder I have for attention, it’s just rude. And then they would start calling me nicknames that I only let a friend call me and they would start going into details of what they want to do with a roleplay partner (in person) and it was making all of us uncomfortable and they wouldn’t stop. Then the roleplay got shut down because they started looking at CHILDREN.  They we’re getting rude about it when I said it wasn’t okay and thats p3d0ph!l@. I just don’t like how people would be really rude in OOC and do really gross stuff. Sorry this became a rage.

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