Caffeine Freak
Two Thousand Club
People do things in character sheets and I don't like it.
Things include:
• BBCodes that burn the retinas off the reader. BBCode is very useful for making your posts aesthetically pleasing and for splitting character information into categories. Unfortunately, the majority of people choose to use BBCode as a psychological weapon that causes internal hemorrhaging whenever someone attempts to read what's written because A) The font doesn't match the background and becomes unreadable, B) The chosen style looks horrendous in dark mode, or C) Whoever was typing out (or just pasting) the code forgot to hit preview and half the post is inaccessible because it physically leaves the screen.
• Over-explaining trivial details that will likely have no bearing on the actual RP. The fact that your character "wears black lace-up boots with high heels, ripped red fishnets, a black leather minidress with all this corset stuff on the back and front, matching fishnet armlets, and paints their nails black and puts on TONS of black eyeliner, and has a cool tattoo on the back of their neck and star-shaped birth mark on their left shoulder" or shares a similar contrived description does not help the reader understand anything about said character, and is generally just not very cash money.
• Tragic bios so characters can be edgy rather than having motivation. Dead parents are a classic, the WHO estimates that 90% of teenaged role-play characters have one or more dead parents. This causes them to be bitter and angsty but not have an actual desire to seek revenge or retribution for the loss of their loved ones or have a different sense of self worth or introspection on human life.
• Writing character sheets in first person. Some may refer to them as players with a different writing style but I prefer the term heretics. I believe there is indeed a bible verse that prohibits the creation of character sheets written in first person perspective, but really it's more a matter of human decency.
• Not reading other character sheets in the RP and ending up with characters that are too similar. Oh look we now have ten sneaky ninja thieves in our fantasy RP, what even is character variation?
You do not need to check my profile and tell me that I'm a hypocrite because I am already telling you that I am one.
Thank you and please stop.
Things include:
• BBCodes that burn the retinas off the reader. BBCode is very useful for making your posts aesthetically pleasing and for splitting character information into categories. Unfortunately, the majority of people choose to use BBCode as a psychological weapon that causes internal hemorrhaging whenever someone attempts to read what's written because A) The font doesn't match the background and becomes unreadable, B) The chosen style looks horrendous in dark mode, or C) Whoever was typing out (or just pasting) the code forgot to hit preview and half the post is inaccessible because it physically leaves the screen.
• Over-explaining trivial details that will likely have no bearing on the actual RP. The fact that your character "wears black lace-up boots with high heels, ripped red fishnets, a black leather minidress with all this corset stuff on the back and front, matching fishnet armlets, and paints their nails black and puts on TONS of black eyeliner, and has a cool tattoo on the back of their neck and star-shaped birth mark on their left shoulder" or shares a similar contrived description does not help the reader understand anything about said character, and is generally just not very cash money.
• Tragic bios so characters can be edgy rather than having motivation. Dead parents are a classic, the WHO estimates that 90% of teenaged role-play characters have one or more dead parents. This causes them to be bitter and angsty but not have an actual desire to seek revenge or retribution for the loss of their loved ones or have a different sense of self worth or introspection on human life.
• Writing character sheets in first person. Some may refer to them as players with a different writing style but I prefer the term heretics. I believe there is indeed a bible verse that prohibits the creation of character sheets written in first person perspective, but really it's more a matter of human decency.
• Not reading other character sheets in the RP and ending up with characters that are too similar. Oh look we now have ten sneaky ninja thieves in our fantasy RP, what even is character variation?
You do not need to check my profile and tell me that I'm a hypocrite because I am already telling you that I am one.
Thank you and please stop.