Experiences People who take RP far too seriously

Coco Adel

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So we all take RP in different degrees of seriousness but for the most part, we all agree that it's not that serious. Most of us, anyway, but here I would like to hear your experiences on people who may have been taking RP just a bit too seriously.

Mine was not on this site it was on G+ before it went down, there was a guy on there who fancied himself the ultimate role player who couldn't be beaten when really all he did was God Mod and refuse to admit defeat until people just left. If the power had Omni in front of it, he had it despite these powers being against the rules in certain communities. Especially the one where he was a mainstay. So he just sounds like a bratty cheater right now right?

Well, that's not where it ended, this guy got into a roleplay relationship and treated it like he and the girl were actually married and would get super jealous and pissed off if she talked to other guys to RP. He even went on this whole "exposure" campaign to out her as a cheater, providing screenshots of her doing relationships with other guys in other RP communities just for fun. He was taking this far more seriously than she was who initially thought they were just a couple in the one community. However, it doesn't end there. This guy apparently dropped out of school so he could stay home and RP more. We thought he was joking at first, but soon we realized he was telling the truth. We all found this to be stupid but he insisted he was dedicated to RP and didn't want to waste his time on things that weren't important to him so he dropped out. I was mostly surprised his parents actually went for that shit.

We tried to explain to him he couldn't live with his parents forever and if he didn't graduate it would be hard for him to find a good job and he wouldn't be able to pay for internet to RP in the first place, but he never changed his mind as far as I saw. Anyway he took RP so seriously that he eventually was pretty much at war with every other roleplayer on G+ over stupid stuff like this.
 
I wonder how his 'roleplay career' is working out for him.
Either his parents are still putting up with him, made him go back to school or they didn't put up with it and kicked him out, either way, I don't think it's going well.
 
this guy got into a roleplay relationship and treated it like he and the girl were actually married and would get super jealous and pissed off if she talked to other guys to RP. He even went on this whole "exposure" campaign to out her as a cheater
There are no amount of words in any order that I could think of to explain the level of clownery this is.
I.... will be legitimately horrified if anyone can beat that story.
Exactly the worst I got is a guy who felt like making a single typo made you a bad role player.
 
I wonder how his 'roleplay career' is working out for him.

Same.


My own story comes from my days in high school. I had a group of friends that got together every Friday night at a local pizza place that closed at 2 AM and played DnD 3.5. One friend said another friend of his would like to join us. Now, this friend was DMing, and we knew he was feeling burnt out. One of us offered to run a new game to have this new player join in and give the DM a break. The DM said no, his friend was going to take over the current game as the new DM...

The quality of our sessions went downhill pretty quickly. Mostly because the New DM introduced a new villain that he described as a misunderstood anti-hero mind-flayer. He would give long expositions about what the mind-flayer was doing far away from where the party was located. One week I had work one Friday and couldn't make it and told the group to use my character as a heal bot in fights. The new DM took that session to KILL my character off-screen away from the party when no one was thinking about my character because they were out of combat. When they tried to pull my character into a fight for heals, the DM just said they couldn't because my character was dead, and no, you can't just go to the church to get him resurrected by a higher level cleric.

We tried to continue to play, but he continued to make the game miserable by whining about how we couldn't appreciate his beautiful, emo, misunderstood character that went around the countryside to kill babies. We all started meeting elsewhere on Friday nights and started a new game.

BTW, three of us went to one high school. Another three went to another school, and the new DM went to a different school. So having to give up an excellent central meetup location was a bummer.
 
I would too but I'd settle for hearing something less severe. It's not a contest.
Ack, it might not be a contest but everything I could mention seems insignificant in comparison. Before I read I was going to mention a situation where a person insisted on near constant communication and was way, way, WAY, too tied up in their own character (like getting angry when someone didn't like their character IC or acting as though they themselves had succeeded at some monumental task when their character managed something clever). That barely holds a candle to someone literally dropping out of school to "RP Full Time" though.
 
I got you, bro. There was a point and time, someone literally tried to hack me because I wasn't replying as often as they liked. This person was needy and constantly bombarded me with messages if I didn't reply immediately after they did. I tried to be understanding, explain I had other things going on, but I'd reply when I can.

That day I got a notification saying someone tried to sign in to my google account in a state I lived miles away from, so obviously, I blocked it. The entire time I didn't reply right away I seemed to be getting more and more notifications about someone in that same state trying to get in. Now his person liked to talk OOC and I knew this person lived in that state but I said...Nah, no one is that desperate for an RP reply.

Strangely when I replied to this person non-stop because I had the time, no attempts happened, but every time I got busy, here come the attempts. At some point, I put two and two together and figured out this psycho was trying to hack me to see what I was doing that kept me too busy to reply to them. Needless to say, I reported them to the site I was on at the time and called the fucking cops.
 
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I got you, bro. There a point and time, someone literally tried to hack me because I wasn't replying as often as they liked. This person was needy and constantly bombarded me with messages if I didn't reply immediately after they did. I tried to be understanding, explain I had other things going on, but I'd reply when I can.

That day I got a notification saying someone tried to sign in to my google account in a state I lived miles away from, so obviously, I blocked it. The entire time I didn't reply right away I seemed to be getting more and more notifications about someone in that same state trying to get in. Now his person liked to talk OOC and I knew this person lived in that state but I said...Nah, no one is that desperate for an RP reply.

Strangely when I replied to this person non-stop because I had the time, no attempts happened, but every time I got busy, here come the attempts. At some point, I put two and two together and figured out this psycho was trying to hack me to see what I was doing that kept me too busy to reply to them. Needless to say, I reported them to the site I was one and called the fucking cops.
Wow, my mans was wild but I don't think he actually hacked anyone.
 
Same.


My own story comes from my days in high school. I had a group of friends that got together every Friday night at a local pizza place that closed at 2 AM and played DnD 3.5. One friend said another friend of his would like to join us. Now, this friend was DMing, and we knew he was feeling burnt out. One of us offered to run a new game to have this new player join in and give the DM a break. The DM said no, his friend was going to take over the current game as the new DM...

The quality of our sessions went downhill pretty quickly. Mostly because the New DM introduced a new villain that he described as a misunderstood anti-hero mind-flayer. He would give long expositions about what the mind-flayer was doing far away from where the party was located. One week I had work one Friday and couldn't make it and told the group to use my character as a heal bot in fights. The new DM took that session to KILL my character off-screen away from the party when no one was thinking about my character because they were out of combat. When they tried to pull my character into a fight for heals, the DM just said they couldn't because my character was dead, and no, you can't just go to the church to get him resurrected by a higher level cleric.

We tried to continue to play, but he continued to make the game miserable by whining about how we couldn't appreciate his beautiful, emo, misunderstood character that went around the countryside to kill babies. We all started meeting elsewhere on Friday nights and started a new game.

BTW, three of us went to one high school. Another three went to another school, and the new DM went to a different school. So having to give up an excellent central meetup location was a bummer.
I've dealt with people like that, I feel your pain and even more becasue you had to deal with him IRL
Ack, it might not be a contest but everything I could mention seems insignificant in comparison. Before I read I was going to mention a situation where a person insisted on near-constant communication and was way, way, WAY, too tied up in their own character (like getting angry when someone didn't like their character IC or acting as though they themselves had succeeded at some monumental task when their character managed something clever). That barely holds a candle to someone literally dropping out of school to "RP Full Time" though.
Maybe not but that's still super annoying.
 
The notion that any individual would abandon their school or their place of work for the sake of devoting time to engaging in fictitious scenarios is considerably disturbing. What's more, the individual appeared to have some difficulty distinguishing those ficticious scenarios from reality. Hopefully this individual, whoever they are, has received some form of help.
 
The notion that any individual would abandon their school or their place of work for the sake of devoting time to engaging in fictitious scenarios is considerably disturbing. What's more, the individual appeared to have some difficulty distinguishing those fictitious scenarios from reality. Hopefully, this individual, whoever they are, has received some form of help.
I agree it's part off the reason I'm surprised his parents went for it.
 
[forgive me if some things don’t make sense, it’s a hard story to tell without details !!]
one of my worst experiences was... here, actually. i met this guy who was interested in rping (he seemed rather new) and treated me as a teacher. now, i was okay with that, i’m always eager to help, and if i get a cool rp out of it that’s just a bonus! but within the rp things got really... odd. he was oddly formal and eloquent with how he spoke (in an uncomfortable way, yanno?) and he treated his character as better than my own, insisting that i change parts of her naturally distant personality in order for them to be a better couple.
and,,, god it gets worse lol. he got like ... personally offended over some of the things my character did/said, and at one point messaged me about it ooc, being aggressive that my character wasn’t being affectionate enough. i told him to chill out, and naturally began to distance myself because i was So Fucking Uncomfortable with that, and he compared me to my own character at one point,,??? “you left me alone. just like [character name] :(.” i booked it from there. he messaged me on rpn saying he saw me online the next day,,, and i ended up blocking him.
sorry for the long read, it just still makes me super uncomfortable to this day
 
[forgive me if some things don’t make sense, it’s a hard story to tell without details !!]
one of my worst experiences was... here, actually. i met this guy who was interested in rping (he seemed rather new) and treated me as a teacher. now, i was okay with that, i’m always eager to help, and if i get a cool rp out of it that’s just a bonus! but within the rp things got really... odd. he was oddly formal and eloquent with how he spoke (in an uncomfortable way, yanno?) and he treated his character as better than my own, insisting that i change parts of her naturally distant personality in order for them to be a better couple.
and,,, god it gets worse lol. he got like ... personally offended over some of the things my character did/said, and at one point messaged me about it ooc, being aggressive that my character wasn’t being affectionate enough. i told him to chill out, and naturally began to distance myself because i was So Fucking Uncomfortable with that, and he compared me to my own character at one point,,??? “you left me alone. just like [character name] :(.” i booked it from there. he messaged me on rpn saying he saw me online the next day,,, and i ended up blocking him.
sorry for the long read, it just still makes me super uncomfortable to this day
Oh, you're fine, but that sounds super creepy, I went through something similar it was a guy who after finding out I was black from a post I made (no pics mind you) made it a point to tell me how sexy he thought black girls were and asked if I would change my character to being black. I only didn't have a black character because at the time I found it super hard to find any face claims I liked of black characters that were not Yoruichi at the time. Still, I found it weird that suddenly he wanted my character to be black. I did only because he miraculously had some pictures I actually liked, but then it got weird because he constantly kept bringing up her skin color in RP and would make sure to mention the contrast between my and his character's skin color, so I had to nope out of there.
 
Oh, you're fine, but that sounds super creepy, I went through something similar it was a guy who after finding out I was black from a post I made (no pics mind you) made it a point to tell me how sexy he thought black girls were and asked if I would change my character to being black. I only didn't have a black character because at the time I found it super hard to find any face claims I liked of black characters that were not Yoruichi at the time. Still, I found it weird that suddenly he wanted my character to be black. I did only because he miraculously had some pictures I actually liked, but then it got weird because he constantly kept bringing up her skin color in RP and would make sure to mention the contrast between my and his character's skin color, so I had to nope out of there.
my entire body just receded into itself i cringed so hard
 
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Sorry that you had to go through that. Sometimes the best part about writing relationships is writing the development. It sounded like he just wanted to skip that part and didn't quite have the separation of self and character down yet.

I could be over simplifying this, but again hard to say much without more details. I totally understand why you don't want to say more.
 
Christ...

All I have is a handful of partners who made me feel like I was filling out a job application to RP with them (one of them actually contacting ME after reading MY search thread and then aptly criticizing my plots and writing style). And people who get way too into their characters and hating if people felt anything other than pity or love for them. Unless they were supposed to be evil, I suppose, but even then they had to see the character as stunningly beautiful and only hate them insomuch as they were evil or wanted them for themselves.

And then I would get bullied for not making the RP precisely to their liking.

But.... But this seems very minuscule to that.
 
Christ...

All I have is a handful of partners who made me feel like I was filling out a job application to RP with them (one of them actually contacting ME after reading MY search thread and then aptly criticizing my plots and writing style). And people who get way too into their characters and hating if people felt anything other than pity or love for them. Unless they were supposed to be evil, I suppose, but even then they had to see the character as stunningly beautiful and only hate them insomuch as they were evil or wanted them for themselves.

And then I would get bullied for not making the RP precisely to their liking.

But.... But this seems very minuscule to that.
Maybe but treating RP like a job interview and criticizing people as if you are their employer is still pretty mental
 
Gonna be toxic and call out a RP that's in progress right now. There's one up in the group section that has a literal job application to join. It also has a three week probation period where you have to hangout in the discord OOC and (more or less) pass a friendship test. After you get vibe-checked for 21 days you earn the right to submit a character. Also has "mandatory fun" group chat gatherings that have to be attended or you get kicked if the rules are enforced as presented. Plus the characters you can make are all pre-made with only some things under your control. The actual application itself requires shit like your race & gender and you need to put an E-Signature at the end. Js they need to chill out.

If the GM of that RP sees this I'm sorry if I offend you. You seem to have a lot of work invested in the lore and the thread you have is well made. Impressive stuff no doubt, but your process for player induction and some of your rules are very overbearing. I understand that members flaking is a problem but at a certain point you need to roll the dice, accept the risk of people leaving and work around those who do. Putting up all these high entry barriers is way over the top.
 
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OK, I have a dumpster fire story of my own.

Basically, in one of my old RP communities, there was this guy who fell in love with a girl. She rejected him because, upon him sending her his photos, she judged he wasn't her type. The guy proceeded to create like five or six different accounts, gave them all an elaborate backstory (they were all friends and/or related to one another) and proceeded to flirt with her both in and out of character. I could see from a mile away that it was him, mainly because a) his writing style was really bizarre (capitalizing seemingly random words, extremely long sentences that really should have been paragraphs, etc.), b) all of them obviously tried to woo that one girl, c) the backstories were like something out of bad anime and not something you'd expect from real people. One of his 'selves', for example, was a sixteen year old cancer patient with an abusive family who got adopted by her rich friend's parents only to end up in a moral dilemma: can she now start a romantic relationship with her 'sister' or would it be incestuous? (Yes, he really expected us to believe that.)

I played along with it for a while because it was funny, but then he started getting more and more possessive of that girl and stalking her everywhere and being jealous of her other RP partners. That was when I told him that we all knew his 'friends' were all just him, and he disappeared off the site because of the shame.

... oh, and the girl proceeded to fall in love with me for some reason, supposedly because of that one time I played her love interest and ended up being too good at it.

Man, my teenage years were wild.
 
🤔 I had a lot of fun with people who were too invested. I tend to not give a shit about people who don't care and have no standards at all. Using not taking the rp seriously as a shield for their own lack of effort lol.

but that's just me. It's been years since I found someone who cared enough to try.
 

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