I'm sorry, I know people like to draw their characters instead of using outside reference pictures but.
Some people just draw sooo badly. I'd rather have a good written description of the character instead of a terrible drawing as a faceclaim.
For my RP personally, I don't allow FCs of very well known celebrities. It just really takes me out of it to see like Jason Momoa or Scarlet Johansson as a character.
I like to play a lot of brash, bombastic, and charismatic characters that aren't entirely super nice and intelligent, because most RPs I've found are usually missing a personality like that. I've gotten pretty good at it!
This is my biggest annoyance and so SO many people do this! Someone finally said what I've been trying to say in a better way than I could say it:
"I dislike when people have their characters ask multiple things and also respond to multiple things in one post, and then the other character has...
This RP I'm in where no one actually RPs, but they do make new characters every day just to never use them. I've been waiting for a response to my post for a week, and in that time the person I'm waiting on has made 4 new characters and is still trying to think of new ones.
This is actually a really unpopular opinion I've learned. It's really hard to find people that just want to improvise. So many rpers get so excited about plotting instead of actually writing, and I've had people get ANGRY at me for not wanting to plot out a romance in a group RP before the RP...
Ahhhhh very this.
I tend to bullshit most of the sheets (especially the bio) because I want to get them done but also because every time I make a character, when I play them there's so much I want to change later.
I'm a huge fan of character sheets without a personality section or a bio...
Ok I get that you 'have a life', but if you have literally no spare time and are not interested in making time to post - don't join (and especially don't create) a group RP!!!
I'm so tired of trying to accommodate new people in my group RPs when they won't even put in any amount of effort to participate. When someone new puts in the effort to make a profile and talk to us OOC, I'm so excited. I do everything I can to get them started on the story, even so far as to...
This might actually be a popular opinion but it's so common to see him any kind of RP:
I just really dislike the stereotypes commonly given to gay characters where small-statured/pretty/shy=bottom and large/muscular/angry=top.
Homosexuality is already super fetishized in the RP community but...
Those genres have always been popular. Take a look around and see what's there and if you don't see anything you like, make your own RP and maybe others will share your interests. Be the change you want to see in the world.
I don't know if it's the same person doing this everywhere I go but almost every RP with RL face claims has a bodybuilding lesbian character and also one or more viking-looking white dudes (once I saw a RP that had 3 of them and I think two were the same model.) It's not exactly a trope, maybe...
I hate it when I'm rping with someone for a long time and they just don't remember anything that happened in the past. I like to reference past events in my posts sometimes and when they don't get it it's just so lame.
When my partner doesn't remember important events in the past it feels like...
I genuinely feel for you guys but please be up front about this when looking for RPs and try to find someone compatible and okay with this type of cadence.
There are a lot of players that need to be casual and a lot of players that need to write frequently, and both are valid.
There's a need...
I keep getting people into my group RPs that join and just immediately start airing out all of their horrible life story/mental problems/personal stuff to people they don't know. It's so awkward, it screams attention seeker, and it derails the entire ooc until nobody else wants to talk.
Maybe...
What does the ooc activity look like? Do people talk to each other and get along, or is it really quiet? How fast paced is it, do people post a lot in the beginning or is it pretty slow?