Roleplay Pet Peeves

[sad boy]

People who just up and ghost you. Like, they literally just disappear from whatever medium altogether.
They don't just stop posting to you, you sit and plan an RP, make a few replies, and suddenly they're just
gone from existence. That bugs me way more than people just ditching an RP.

People who play their male characters as basically females with penises. That's not the kind of gay character
I'm interested in playing against - at all. And even when I state this, I'm still approached by the ultra-feminine
character types.

People who always have to have something bad or major happen to their character.​

 

[rae2nerdy]

People who just up and ghost you. Like, they literally just disappear from whatever medium altogether.
They don't just stop posting to you, you sit and plan an RP, make a few replies, and suddenly they're just
gone from existence. That bugs me way more than people just ditching an RP.

People who play their male characters as basically females with penises. That's not the kind of gay character
I'm interested in playing against - at all. And even when I state this, I'm still approached by the ultra-feminine
character types.

People who always have to have something bad or major happen to their character.​

Well in fairness disappearing all together typically means that some real life thing happened.

Like I’ve had people run the gamut from
- in car crash and hospitalized for several months
- death in the family
- computer died
- finals hit and free time vanished
- lost their job and had to find a new one

So yeah if you are quiet literally gone from the site altogether I just assume something is going on in your real life and move on.

Mostly since I’ve had enough people have serious issues come up that I’d feel like a bitch if I was all “ugh so rude your not responding to me” and it turns out your in bed rest from food poisoning or something.

That being said if you are still online and searching for other roleplays and you just randomly decided to stop talking to me. Yeah that’s rude. Doesn’t like bother me personally too much but it is inconsiderate

 

[Damafaud]

Center or right alignment paragraphs for post.

Can't stand it

 

[Sleek]

-Blatantly overpowered characters for the sake of plot, instead of a character written with skill

-Writing less than a paragraph and justifying it with "Quality isn't Quantity"

-Blatantly overpowered characters for the sake of being powerful (AKA Practically an NPC in terms of personality with the arsenal of an AC-130)

-"XP", "OwO", "Sowwy", etc.

 

[Lord Aphrodite]

The fetishation of Korean, or Asian people in general.

Most of the time, people don’t know about Korean or Asian culture, and it’s just not accurate.

 

[Bone2pick]

Interest checks that end with a question mark.

 

[Lord Aphrodite]

When you send someone a message, to see if they’re still interested interested, and they get online, read the message, and don’t reply.

 

[Lina Inverse]

When people constantly posts new interest checks despite already running several rps.

 

[rae2nerdy]

When people constantly posts new interest checks despite already running several rps.

Well in fairness some people just like doing multiple roleplays. As long as they keep up with their current partners or their current partners are okay with it I don’t necessarily see anything wrong with it.

God knows some of the folks on this site have ridiculous amounts of free time. Like legit all day nothing but roleplays.

In that case I imagine variety is nice to keep u from getting bored while the partners that have lives outside of the internet do work/school/irl things.

 

[Ratterlind]

One of my biggest pet peeves is god-modding and it's a great way to insta-kill my interest in something. Not an uncommon pet peeve, but there it is. Metagaming and perfect characters are pretty high up there, too. I come into RP expecting my character to make mistakes and lose sometimes, and it's not fun when the other person is against letting their character do the same.

Other minor pet peeves include using things like "the blonde" or "the tall man" instead of pronouns when our characters already know each other and there's no need to draw attention to the fact that hey, of the two characters in the paragraph who use the same pronouns, the taller one or the blonde one is doing the speaking. He/she/they/etc. aren't bad things to use, just like said isn't. It's distracting when stuff like that is done when it isn't needed.

 

[Tove]

When people constantly posts new interest checks despite already running several rps.

Constantly post interest checks but don't reply to those roleplays they are in, that's annoying. Or, take about a month on responses yet still actively searching for more rps.

 

[FlyingDemon]

-Orphaned characters,
-Romance or sex oriented RPs,
-Fujoshis (no, just no),
-People with a profile full of attack towards another user (reasons or not),
-obvious edited characters posing as "OCs", Tineye exist for that reason.
-Control-freaks.

 

[Melpomene]

Adding on further, because I love stating my pet peeves:

-In both writing and roleplay, when someone claims a character is smart, but the character never does anything to prove that claim.

-I actually don't mind being corrected in most cases and most of the time I'll just go back and fix wherever I messed up. The only time I get frustrated is when the other person has shifted from being helpful to simply being pedantic.

-When a character is simply not interesting.

-And honestly, when there is too much focus on a romance. Though, I don't mind romance and admit it can have some great character interactions and development when implemented, I'm just not gaga for it and shipping my characters with others, lol

 

[Tove]

I have no problem with whatever picture, if you want to use one, you use for your character but please don't put emphasis on what kind of picture I use for my character just because you don't like anime pictures, art, drawn or whatever. Don't force me to use an actor or actress because that's what you prefer. My character=my choice of a picture.

 

[rae2nerdy]

I have no problem with whatever picture, if you want to use one, you use for your character but please don't put emphasis on what kind of picture I use for my character just because you don't like anime pictures, art, drawn or whatever. Don't force me to use an actor or actress because that's what you prefer. My character=my choice of a picture.

Well I mean sometimes it’s a matter of symmetry. It looks weird as hell if Person A used a real photo and person B uses an anime picture.

The visuals don’t match and it breaks the suspension of disbelief. I personally do not feel like the characters are living in the same world. One lives in a realistic world and one lives in a cartoon.

That being the case there is no reason you have to be forced to use something you don’t want. You can always compromise by using a written description.


Lol at first I thought you meant when the person is literally like

You must use an image of Naruto OR Ben Affleck for your character.

Like they basically just hand you a face claim and tell you that’s your character.

That shit is ridiculous.

 

[elytra]

I haven't posted here yet, so pet peeves:

-I love romance, don't get me wrong, but when everything is centered around it, that's not really my sort of thing. We can have a romance PLOT, and it can focus on two characters getting to the point of such, but other things happen in their lives as well? When every reply, even at the BEGINNING, is focused on how much one character loves the other and finds them attractive already, it kinda makes me a little put out. Maybe that's just me.

-When people have obviously not read your thread, at all.

-How focused people are on sex and smut! Chill, please, I just want a fantasy adventure.

-When people are super against side characters. I like to expand the world a little, it helps me to get a feel for it if there's more than just 2 characters and a gaggle of nameless NPCs

I mean, I don't have too many pet peeves, and I'm definitely guilty of some of the ones on here- my forgetful nature, sporadic lifestyle, and social anxiety that stops me from sending a message when its been a while after I discover I've forgotten to reply are all things I'm trying to fix -but when it comes down to it there's definitely a few things that annoy me when doing a thread with someone. It doesn't mean I'll up and leave because of it! It just makes the experience less than enjoyable for me.

 

[Tove]

Well I mean sometimes it’s a matter of symmetry. It looks weird as hell if Person A used a real photo and person B uses an anime picture.

The visuals don’t match and it breaks the suspension of disbelief. I personally do not feel like the characters are living in the same world. One lives in a realistic world and one lives in a cartoon.

That being the case there is no reason you have to be forced to use something you don’t want. You can always compromise by using a written description.


Lol at first I thought you meant when the person is literally like

You must use an image of Naruto OR Ben Affleck for your character.

Like they basically just hand you a face claim and tell you that’s your character.

That shit is ridiculous.

I'm talking about people that won't compromise, that basically if you don't use a certain picture or won't take a description you can't roleplay with them. I'm also talking in general too. It's your character, you should be able to do as you please. I can understand your point to a certain degree.

 

[FlyingDemon]

I haven't posted here yet, so pet peeves:

-How focused people are on sex and smut! Chill, please, I just want a fantasy adventure.

Look like my faith in roleplaying is restored with a bit of hope.

 

[CaptainMcNoob]

Overly complex coding. I mean... come on people. I don't want to have to zoom super into it or copy and paste it into another sheet without the silly font or size just so I can read what in the hell you wrote. I know you like to make it super pretty, but I'd rather read an essay with real substance and some spacing rather then a post someone spent more time coding then writing. Half the interest checks/op's I stop reading because I take one look at the coding and go, "Yeah, I'm not deciphering every post you make, I'll pass."

People who demand that you put thoughts and words in different colors. I just hate how it looks and as I am partly color-blind [Purple Is A Lie], its bloody hard to sometimes match what 'shade' I was from post to post. Its not hard to see the difference between thought and dialogue if you just read it properly instead of browsing the post. [Mind, I usually only browse unless the post is directed at me or I am directing it at them].

Super Spies. You know who you are. You make a character that is a 'spy' or some sort of information specialist and because of that they suddenly know everything ever. Its so dumb. You know, if you want to play a spymaster, that is cool with me, but put effort into discovering things. Spend post establishing the scale of their network don't just go, "Lawls, I know your secret because I am.. the.. secret...finder... person," its annoying and you're the main reason that if I want to do something secret involving another player I PM them and if I want to keep it a secret only mine knows, I PM the GM with the information so they don't think I jumped them with it [but I will hint to more in normal post, gotta lay that groundwork]. If you are willing to lay the ground work and, actually, RP the person finding information, I'll happily PM you so you can either find out the secret or find clues to help really cement that aspect of your character. I love playing ball and working on things with other people, but don't just 'know it cause you do cause reasons'.

Teleporters. Oh my god, do I hate people that give their people teleportation. I don't mind ritual teleportation or ones with a lot of rules, now when I say rules, I mean, "Can only teleport to places they've been before... and they need a magical 'anchor' in the spot to go there with a large magical symbol or rare crystal that isn't easy to find and it takes a lot out of them and they can only teleport themselves," <- I am all for that. Its a neat ability, but when you can just 'teleport' it is so annoying. "Hur, hur, I dodge by teleporting around! What? It is just lazy writing? Whatever, teleport," Or my personal hatred, "I'm the bad guy! And to show how much of a bad guy I am, I am going to teleport around when you try to hit me and spend my entire time monologuing!" Ugh.

Rapid fire post. I know you want to hammer through the dialogue as soon as possible.. but instead of filling the RP with small paragraph posts that have a line of dialogue and nothing else really, go to PM, write it together and then one of you can post it in a large post [or multiple post as time goes on] so that way it reads and flows a hell of a lot better and doesn't overrun the RP.

Instant Romance. I can't explain to you how much I despise these romances. "Oh, my character saw their character, and I, as a writer, like their CS, so I love them!... Oh, and they love me! Now we are in a full-blown, mature romance by page 2!" .... What? Just... what? Where is the drama? The tension? The insecurity? The build-up? The climax? There is none of that because it was rushed through in a post and a half. On this note, I also dislike predetermined romances. Now, I know why they are done, the GM has a plan and a story idea and wants to see it come to life... however, when on paper, two characters seem to have chemistry and work well, this could easily not be the case when the post start to flow. I can't tell you how many RP's I have been in where two characters you would never expect to click so well and have so much chemistry... do and its insane to not allow yourself to experience that and how immensely fun that can be to write just because you want Character A to be with Character Z because..... you want them to. [Although, the instant romance extends to a lot. So many writers want that instant gratification that they won't dare to go for that slow-burn which is sad because that slow-burn relationship will blossom into something wondrous if you have patience and just let it.]

 

[Lina Inverse]

I really hate when people give their characters weaknesses that make no sense. For example, I know a guy gave his character the weakness that his swords dealt practically no damage whatsoever, which made no sense because not only was said character a master swordsman but said swords were also stated to be perfectly crafted. I mean, if you're going to go through the trouble of balancing your character, at least attempt to do so in a way that makes sense.

 

[SandraDeelightful]

I hate characters who've gone through so much trauma and they think that it gives them an excuse to be an unlikabele dick to everyone. Like, there's being bitter, and then there's being a miserable jackass who wants everyone else to be a miserable jackass.

 

[Tove]

I hate characters who've gone through so much trauma and they think that it gives them an excuse to be an unlikabele dick to everyone. Like, there's being bitter, and then there's being a miserable jackass who wants everyone else to be a miserable jackass.

Agreed!

 

[FlyingDemon]

I hate characters who've gone through so much trauma and they think that it gives them an excuse to be an unlikabele dick to everyone. Like, there's being bitter, and then there's being a miserable jackass who wants everyone else to be a miserable jackass.

THANK YOU! seriously, thank you!

 

[rae2nerdy]

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I really hate when people give their characters weaknesses that make no sense. For example, I know a guy gave his character the weakness that his swords dealt practically no damage whatsoever, which made no sense because not only was said character a master swordsman but said swords were also stated to be perfectly crafted. I mean, if you're going to go through the trouble of balancing your character, at least attempt to do so in a way that makes sense.

Or where they try to make a personality trait their flaw.

My character is invulnerable but his weakness is that he's antisocial. I'm like being antisocial isn't going to stop him from punching through someone's spine.

 

[SandraDeelightful]

I also hate female character who think that they're strong because they're tough and kick ass and look down on anything traditionally feminine.