“Uh... hello. My name is Stone...”
Monotoneus chorus responds “Hi Stone...”
“And I... am a worldbuilder. I know no one wants to read all 500 pages but the lore of this small specifc culture subgroup is super important! And even though they died out centuries before the time of the roleplay...
I gotta agree with you...
Senseless age-gates don’t make sense to me either. Is there some unspoken rule that as soon as you turn 18, you can write with anyone 17 or younger? ERP is against the site rules (ha, shameless plug), so there shouldn’t be any reason to have “for obvious reasons” as...
Let’s see... I try to keep an open mind but these things are just a nope for me:
Lack of grammar: I understand that it’s a common aesthetic to not use grammar or capitalization when talking OOC, but it’s an instant turn off for me. It makes reading the thread and random chatter difficult, and...
Let’s see if I can get this thread back on topic.
Personally, I feel it depends on the roleplay. I have both written oneliners to lovely posts exceeding 4K words and take me multiple days to write with various people and didn’t enjoy the roleplay any less. If I have a world I want to develop...
Inner monologue is normally done alongside an action or expression while relying on it specially wouldn't work, which is why I had section 5 directly after it. So if the character wants to gripe internally about the lack of tacos while giving everyone else death-glares, that's perfectly fine.
Stone's Comprehensive "WTF is detail" GuideIt's all too frequent that I see people say something along the lines of:
“I don't know how to add detail.”
Which commonly means, I don't know how to make my post longer than a few sentences. Now that necessarily isn't a bad thing. Some people prefer...
Well it's not so much meta gaming as it is just the sense of a stranger. If you met someone and already know everything about them, how do you authentically get to know them and develop a relationship?
I think my phone borked xP I had meant to have it mean that, if all that is upfront and out there on the sheet, then what's t learn in the RP later on? You need something to learn and develop throughout a roleplay and with all that set in stone... the character can't grow, bend, or breath.
Now... this came to me somewhat randomly after looking around for a little bit of time. When are character sheets detailed to the right amount or unnecessarily so?
Yes there are different opinions on this, and yes it does depend upon the RP, but simply, I've seen a multitude of different sheets...
As the title states, I want to discuss the tragic and broken characters.
What do I mean by this? Well, it should be simple. I mean characters that have any of these aspects/traits such as:
Tragic past (such as drugs, abuse, and other such horrible things.)
Mental Instability (Mental disorders...