Recent content by Umbrie

i base my characters real age on the complexity of the feats i want them to have achieved, and i base their apparent age on the aesthetic i want to portray. this generally means i can play small statured characters who are extremely over the hill but can pass for extremely young. this generally...

using a silver weapon against a werewolf is not cheating. and it isn't exploiting a loophole. using fire against a hydra or troll also isn't cheating. roleplaying is writing a story, acting and playing a game at the same time. the game aspect of dice rollers balances encounters around the fact...

that would be annoying. but roleplay is the only activity where game masters discourage players from becoming familiar with the mechanics. many games expect you to grow in familiarity with the mechanics and use the mechanics of the game to leverage the best possible mechanical advantage. only in...

i guess i come from a different circle and was taught a different definition,

using out of character knowledge to give yourself a disadvantage is just as metagamey as using it to give yourself an advantage. in fact, every player informed decision has to be agreed upon on a meta level. if you design a barbarian character because the group needs a tank. it is still a...

metagaming is the act of making an action or decision that is informed on the player level rather than the character level. such as having a social contract as players. not everybody has common sense, and some characters are intentionally designed to be monkey wrenches intended to derail a game...

i'm not very original with characters, i have rather tightly defined archetypes i stick to and recycle that aren't even that creatively named, i have a Shadow Faerie named Umbrie and a fire Faerie named Pyrus. those are clearly overused names.

i found that a lot of roleplayers, especially inexperienced ones or simply those who wish to establish a particular brand, often adopt what is called a persona. a persona is often a flagship of the roleplayer's personal brand, being the person the roleplayer wishes they were. the thing is the...

there are some good cases of metagaming in a tabletop roleplay. working together to make a party of characters that won't try to kill each other, such as making the assassin a reformed agent seeking redemption by the paladins hands or making the necromancer a white necromancer focused on healing...

it only counts as absurd if the one subject they are a prodigy in is so extremely complicated or so far above extreme real world top experts. there is a difference between a physics prodigy who really knows her physics and a physics prodigy for the era that outclasses somebody like Steven...

i would like to suggest or bring up the concept of the "Absurdly Skilled Child Prodigy." the absurdly skilled child prodigy, whether an actual child or somebody with a childish mindset, literally has access to multiple decades worth of skills above his or her mental age and usually without a...

Mary Sue NPCs are just as bad as Mary Sue PCs.

teenage characters can be interesting in a not school based setting. a lot of Shonen Protagonists are Teenagers.

speaking of bullies, i was harassed by the bullies for being the one girl in my class that had to sit on a copy of the pacific bell yellow pages to see the blackboard in addition to wearing glasses and sitting in the front row. but they didn't realize i was intentionally researching weaknesses...

reminds me of all the times other players at tabletop groups tried to use permanent duration spells to mess with the proportions and features of my asexual small statured women to turn them into thier ideal busty hourglass built red haired curvy maid seductress, when i played an asexual...