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Might I submit this for consideration Competent flat is the classic Sue. Loser flat is the pity me Sue

I draw literally every "faceclaim" I use, myself. When somebody requires a realistic fc, I will give them one (1) image of a real person, and then probably flood them with my own art, anyway. Because I love to draw, and drawing my characters is instrumental to how I figure out their body...

Hey, I’ve given this exact piece of advice on RPN, before, but I think it applies here. One of my favorite writing professors said this: we all have that little voice that tells us our writing isn’t good enough, that you’re not really a writer, and there’s only one way to make it go away. Keep...

Oh, to be sure. And flash fiction and novel writing are entirely different art forms with different rules, conventions, and constraints. As is writing a short story vs writing a novella, or a novella vs a multi-book series. There are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories to tell, and...

Like, literally, a flash fiction story is usually defined as 500-1000 words. You can contain an entire narrative in that span. A rp reply is not a short story-- it's one moment in time in a much larger story.

That is.... absolutely idiotic. And proof that you can definitely be "literate" and illiterate at the exact same time.

Here's one-- Often times, I find the rpers who give like 2-3 paragraphs are better writers than the ones who give 5-10. Writing for roleplay is meant to have an element of spontaneity. You cannot predict exactly what your partner (or partners) will write, so you cannot predict exactly what...

Ooooo, okay, I'm a bit weird here, because I have favorite tropes and use them and reuse them constantly, but I think the coolest concept I ever had was for one of my first D&D campaigns that I was in. Her name was Eilvyre, and she was a drider. She was also a paladan, oath of devotion. The...

It's a bit different, I suppose, when you're all physically showing up once a week.

It wasn't on RPN, it is actually my weekly in person D&D group. Our first campaign ended after a year and half, the story being told out to its natural ending, and we picked back up with two new campaigns! We're slowly approaching our two year anniversary of playing together as a group.

So many. But, uhhhh, the ones I'm missing most right now are: Her Royal Majesty, Aurora the Queen-- As a general rule, I love playing a queen character whenever I get the chance. There's something about women and power in a historical setting that just gets me going. I love to play queens as...

Yessss! Also, my personal philosophy is that real bravery isn't fearlessness or rushing headlong into bravery, it's being terrified and doing the right thing/the difficult thing/the scary thing anyway, and that's a philosophy that tends to bleed into my characters pretty frequently.

I even left out some of the details, like the fact that Dal has always idolized their mother, and when the twins went to go see her and inform her that their dad is dead, she straight up told Dal that she doesn't love them and they need to move on. And then we discovered that the bard who'd been...

My group always keeps backup characters on hand, because this kind of thing... tends to happen.

I prefer the looming threat of death. In one of my D&D groups, we are in a situation where at least one person is pretty likely to die. Probably my character, Del, or her identical twin, Dal. Let me lay the scene for you. Del and Dal are 14 years old, they grew up in a small town (where the...

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I fully know what character development is. I’m in my third year of studying creative writing at university. But as somebody who is a visual artist as well as a writer, the processes of character design and character development often blur a little. I...

Okay, but the character who sees guilt is so fascinating. Does he, specifically, see what the character should be guilty about, or an actual manifestation of the feeling of guilt? I'd be quite interested to see how he'd respond to, say, a narcissist with very little guilt or remorse versus...

Nobody ever seems to use the character theory prefix, and I really don’t know why. Anyway. It is past midnight, and I can’t stop thinking about , well, a bunch of esoteric character design and development nonsense. If you’ve interacted with me in any capacity on this site, there’s a pretty high...

This exactly! I see rp as an exercise in group storytelling, with a big element of spontaneity and improv, of course, but storytelling, nonetheless. So who wins the fight should be determined by what makes the most narrative sense, and what adds most to the story being told. Who has the most to...

(I don't know what's funnier, how blatantly my point is being misconstrued, how committed FMA is to repeatedly calling me out, or that the fact that they looked at me, RPN user "Laceanddoodles," with the tagline "Your run of the mill Victorian lady" and a literal drawing of a medieval queen as...