Worst Roleplaying Experience?

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[Primal Conundrum]

Well, it's not the worst thing, but it's a shitty thing.


A few weeks ago, I bailed on an RP I was trying to set up on another site. Though there was interest for the RP and several people had made characters, it was around then that I was beginning to realize that the people on that site just make characters that, by and large, I hate and don't want to play with. I didn't want to ruin the RP for everyone though, especially when a lot of people seemed quite into it, and so instead I handed the thing over to my co-GM.


Now, I check back on it like once a week or so. I'm glad to see that (the heavily modified bastard offspring of) my idea is giving people enjoyment, but I'm more sure than ever that I made the right choice in leaving. I think there's only one character in the RP that I wouldn't have rejected myself, all the rest just make me wanna grind my teeth.


To give an idea of the caliber of player being dealt with, while discussing character creation, one of them mentioned, and I quote, "I hope the backstory isn't important, kinda having some issues thinking about a good one that fits the char~".


Personally, I'm not entirely clear on how you arrive at a character without having any idea of the backstory. Then again, I'm also not entirely clear how someone can be told like fifteen FUCKING TIMES that Orcs in this setting don't talk like WH40k Orks but still insist on speaking that way—but there was a player like that, too.


So, every week or so I go and see what gross permutation has been foisted upon my poor world. Someday I'll get a chance to run it the way I wanted it to be run. Someday I'll get players that aren't trash. Someday.

 

[Ecstasyia]

[QUOTE="Primal Conundrum]Well, it's not the worst thing, but it's a shitty thing.
A few weeks ago, I bailed on an RP I was trying to set up on another site. Though there was interest for the RP and several people had made characters, it was around then that I was beginning to realize that the people on that site just make characters that, by and large, I hate and don't want to play with. I didn't want to ruin the RP for everyone though, especially when a lot of people seemed quite into it, and so instead I handed the thing over to my co-GM.


Now, I check back on it like once a week or so. I'm glad to see that (the heavily modified bastard offspring of) my idea is giving people enjoyment, but I'm more sure than ever that I made the right choice in leaving. I think there's only one character in the RP that I wouldn't have rejected myself, all the rest just make me wanna grind my teeth.


To give an idea of the caliber of player being dealt with, while discussing character creation, one of them mentioned, and I quote, "I hope the backstory isn't important, kinda having some issues thinking about a good one that fits the char~".


Personally, I'm not entirely clear on how you arrive at a character without having any idea of the backstory. Then again, I'm also not entirely clear how someone can be told like fifteen FUCKING TIMES that Orcs in this setting don't talk like WH40k Orks but still insist on speaking that way—but there was a player like that, too.


So, every week or so I go and see what gross permutation has been foisted upon my poor world. Someday I'll get a chance to run it the way I wanted it to be run. Someday I'll get players that aren't trash. Someday.

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tbh if you bailed you really had no say, unless the co-GM let you back in

 

[Primal Conundrum]

tbh if you bailed you really had no say, unless the co-GM let you back in

I know. That's why I left. I have no say, and I relinquished any say that I had because it would result in more people being happy if I wasn't in the RP. I hate what they're doing to my world, but I chose to pass on ownership of the RP rather than simply close it.


I am glad that I made people happy. I would make the same decision again. That doesn't mean I have to like what they're doing to my world. And so, I will sit here on a different site and vent about it so that they can have fun without me ruining it.


I'm not trying to change that RP. I'm not even trying to influence that RP. I'm not trying to have a say. I think you misunderstood what I was venting about.

 

[ApfelSeine]

[QUOTE="Primal Conundrum]I know. That's why I left. I have no say, and I relinquished any say that I had because it would result in more people being happy if I wasn't in the RP. I hate what they're doing to my world, but I chose to pass on ownership of the RP rather than simply close it.
I am glad that I made people happy. I would make the same decision again. That doesn't mean I have to like what they're doing to my world. And so, I will sit here on a different site and vent about it so that they can have fun without me ruining it.


I'm not trying to change that RP. I'm not even trying to influence that RP. I'm not trying to have a say. I think you misunderstood what I was venting about.

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I think that was a really great thing that you did by backing down from your rp, and it's good that you chose something off site to vent about so that no one will know what you're referring to and everyone can stay blissfully unaware and keep having their fun. It can be really frustrating to inadvertently attract players who don't take your world seriously. Especially because that often means that players browsing through who would take it seriously end up passing to avoid dealing with the those players. But it isn't as though those players are bad people or don't deserve to have fun. A lot of people don't acknowledge that, and I think it's really great that you stepped back to let them continue having fun, even though must have been really disappointing for you. Rather than fighting with the players or giving them a hard time, you let them make the rp something that they would enjoy and moved on to things that better suited your tastes. That's the mature thing to do, and something that's not often seen in my experience. (I have many a tale of GMs being rude to their players, though almost none of which are from this site which is good )


I hope that you get your chance to run your rp the way you want to and have lots of serious players I'm sure that after some time around getting to know various rpers, you'll eventually accumulate your ideal crew.

 

[Gradous13]

So my worst experience? Probably the past year in all honesty. Its been really hard on my RP mind set with whats been going on cause I am always looking for RPs and joining them but they die almost immediately. Even if they have everything well thought out, not just the GM but the RPers too. I feel cursed, like every RP I join will die. FFS They never get passed the 6th page! I am really unsure about the one I am apart of now because people are still interested but the GM has been absent for over a week even though he has been on the site itself. I've sent a PM but never got a response... Its really sucks cause I give my characters life and really put my mind into them.... I dunno man...

 

[Kenjinx]

So my worst experience? Probably the past year in all honesty. Its been really hard on my RP mind set with whats been going on cause I am always looking for RPs and joining them but they die almost immediately. Even if they have everything well thought out, not just the GM but the RPers too. I feel cursed, like every RP I join will die. FFS They never get passed the 6th page! I am really unsure about the one I am apart of now because people are still interested but the GM has been absent for over a week even though he has been on the site itself. I've sent a PM but never got a response... Its really sucks cause I give my characters life and really put my mind into them.... I dunno man...

The same thing seems to happen to me in every RP I join.


As far as my worst roleplaying experience, that's a tough one. Back a couple of years ago, I spent days following along with a terribly written special snowflake's storyline and trying to write my way around it just to see what happened. I think the character died two or three times within three days along with demonic possessions, serving different dark lords, and finally resurrecting as some kind of undead "demon knight". My character was a rookie paladin who was trying to fix all of these problems (and get his money back that had been stolen) so it didn't help when the person started trying to shoehorn a romance plot. Finally, I decided I'd had enough fun with it so my friend came and bailed me out by beating the snowflake at their own game, in character. Hard to say for sure if it's my worst roleplay experience, because sometimes I think the absurdity of it all made it one of the best. I had a chuckle whenever I saw the same exact person with the same character about a year later, doing the same routine.

 

[Ryik]

"You shouldn't get invested into this roleplay, it's going to die soon."


The roleplay in question had several active posters, and only seemed to be ending because the RP creator said it was going to because they wanted everyone involved to focus on a different roleplay they wanted to make.

 

[Coco Adel]

My worst role playing experience, that's a hard one, I've had about three that I think tie for first place. Hmm, but I think if I had to choose one it would have to have been my first Naruto RP. I had this, let's call him a rival. He waited until I made my character sheet and then made a character specifically to counter mine or at least he thought he did, and then he could constantly kept updating his character to combat mine. However; even doing all of that he still couldn't beat me so he started to God Mod.


Then would be the time I wanted to do an action rp with possibly some romance and the guy turned me into a damsel in distress. The only action in the entire rp was when he killed three bandits that were chasing me and then the rest was straight romance, even though I clearly told him I wanted to be able to fight people too.


Last would be those rps where people just answer with one word like "dodges" like dude how?

 

[Sandertp]

[QUOTE="Ine Kurogane]My worst role playing experience, that's a hard one, I've had about three that I think tie for first place. Hmm, but I think if I had to choose one it would have to have been my first Naruto RP. I had this, let's call him a rival. He waited until I made my character sheet and then made a character specifically to counter mine or at least he thought he did, and then he could constantly kept updating his character to combat mine. However; even doing all of that he still couldn't beat me so he started to God Mod.
Then would be the time I wanted to do an action rp with possibly some romance and the guy turned me into a damsel in distress. The only action in the entire rp was when he killed three bandits that were chasing me and then the rest was straight romance, even though I clearly told him I wanted to be able to fight people too.


Last would be those rps where people just answer with one word like "dodges" like dude how?

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Dude, I'd love to get some tips on how to do action/combat correctly, I do love me some good fight-scenes in my RP's and I personally think I'm fairly ok when it comes to balances and god-modding (I.E. No dodging bullets that are fired right in front of you and no octo-pussing around sharp stabby-things.)

 

[Coco Adel]

Dude, I'd love to get some tips on how to do action/combat correctly, I do love me some good fight-scenes in my RP's and I personally think I'm fairly ok when it comes to balances and god-modding (I.E. No dodging bullets that are fired right in front of you and no octo-pussing around sharp stabby-things.)

Well, it's pretty simple really, it's all about description and making sense, as well as not God Modding in any way. That means no bunnying, no time Modding, auto hit, auto kills or just doing things you know shouldn't be possible, like just saying you dodged something without saying how. He could have a practice battle sometime if you want.

 

[Sandertp]

[QUOTE="Ine Kurogane]Well, it's pretty simple really, it's all about description and making sense, as well as not God Modding in any way. That means no bunnying, no time Modding, auto hit, auto kills or just doing things you know shouldn't be possible, like just saying you dodged something without saying how. He could have a practice battle sometime if you want.

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Heh, I think my balancing difficulties come along when you're dealing with much higher-level characters (I mean I love a good knife-fight, don't get me wrong). Like a heavily trained super strong vampire wielding a halberd or an alien with DBZ levels of fighting capacity and a gun that effectively shoots flashbangs

 

[Coco Adel]

Heh, I think my balancing difficulties come along when you're dealing with much higher-level characters (I mean I love a good knife-fight, don't get me wrong). Like a heavily trained super strong vampire wielding a halberd or an alien with DBZ levels of fighting capacity and a gun that effectively shoots flashbangs

Yeah, those are hard to deal with sometimes, because let's be honest, most of them are super OP, but you should also remember to make sure that your opponent isn't breaking the rules either, because a lot of those OP character having people like to cheat. Not all of them, but a lot that I have run into, but no character is unbeatable, at least they shouldn't be anyway.


I would never tell anyone to make a character just to keep up with everyone else, just make a character you like and develop it, and they should turn out awesome, but don't be naive, we all know most of these people are in it to win so don't go making a Mikasa Ackerman when you know people have Saitama lol

 

[Sandertp]

[QUOTE="Ine Kurogane]Yeah, those are hard to deal with sometimes, because let's be honest, most of them are super OP, but you should also remember to make sure that your opponent isn't breaking the rules either, because a lot of those OP character having people like to cheat. Not all of them, but a lot that I have run into, but no character is unbeatable, at least they shouldn't be anyway.
I would never tell anyone to make a character just to keep up with everyone else, just make a character you like and develop it, and they should turn out awesome, but don't be naive, we all know most of these people are in it to win so don't go making a Mikasa Ackerman when you know people have Saitama lol

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Haha, I know the feel exactly man, but I always think that in case of something like a vampire, pre-planning should be considered as well. Like, plenty humans can kill a vampire if they know a bit of lore! Even most my vampire characters wear armor made out of silver-plates (Which is because of a long silly lore reason involving werewolves and religion), and wield silver-alloy weapons! (Regardless, Saitama could probably eat their weapons like they were Sonic's sword in episode six)

 

[Primal Conundrum]

Ooh, actually, I have a good one about a specific shitty player.


This was back in a multiverse crossover RP, the point was AU versions of canon characters working as dimensional police. That part was all fine.


The problem was the guy who decided to play as Ghost Rider.


Now, the fact that he was playing Ghost Rider wasn't a problem at all—he wasn't even the only Ghost Rider in that RP (though he was the less creative of the two). The problem stemmed from his relentless godmodding and seeming inability to grasp some of the fundamentals of what we were doing. Let me try to paint you a little picture.


The mission starts with our team being dispatched to a pre-contact world to catch a dimension hopping thief. The pre-contact part was important, as part of our job was to maintain the dimensional integrity of such dimensions by not bringing attention to the fact that there are other dimensions or that they can be traveled through. Considering that we had two Ghost Riders, a Mordekaiser, some Skullgirls characters, and a shadowrun-ish dark version of Rarity from MLP, subtlety was already going to be a challenge. Instead of finding some clever way to do it though, Ghost Rider A proceeds to, in ONE POST, drive around the city at impossible speeds, stop about 15 assorted crimes in progress, and then capture and return with the target. In ONE POST.


He would change things a bit if he got called out on it, but he always tried to stay towards the "nonsensically OP" end of the spectrum. He was told in no uncertain terms that he wasn't to finish the mission like that in one damn post, but he kept the whole "saving a bunch of people" thing. On the bright side, that got us a good scene where the Rarity got him to gather the people he helped, and then pointedly robbing those who he saved from robbing, and outright murdering the ones who he had saved the lives of. Unpleasant and bloody, but necessary to leave as little a footprint on that dimension as possible.


The same Ghost Rider kept being shitty in similar ways through the game, until he eventually got kicked out. The final straw was when, after already giving himself a portal gun, he randomly found a dragonball as loot. Off a guy who I think we had literally just dropped a nuke (or the equivalent) on. Basically, the guy just godmodded as much as he could, made as few fixes as he could get away with, and was fucking relentless with giving himself the most powerful items from different series.


He shit up that RP pretty bad. Made for some good stories, though.

 

[Coco Adel]

Haha, I know the feel exactly man, but I always think that in case of something like a vampire, pre-planning should be considered as well. Like, plenty humans can kill a vampire if they know a bit of lore! Even most my vampire characters wear armor made out of silver-plates (Which is because of a long silly lore reason involving werewolves and religion), and wield silver-alloy weapons! (Regardless, Saitama could probably eat their weapons like they were Sonic's sword in episode six)

Yeah, but it depends on which lore of the vampire you’re using because in some lore silver hurts vampires too, in some lore vampires don’t durn in the sunlight but become powerless and weak. I'm more partial to fairies, withces and hellhounds myself, but recently I've gotten into Tarot Mimicry. It's a pretty awesome power, but I'm fair with it.

 

[Sandertp]

[QUOTE="Ine Kurogane]Yeah, but it depends on which lore of the vampire you’re using because in some lore silver hurts vampires too, in some lore vampires don’t durn in the sunlight but become powerless and weak. I'm more partial to fairies, withces and hellhounds myself, but recently I've gotten into Tarot Mimicry. It's a pretty awesome power, but I'm fair with it.

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Ah, I use my own (Sort of) version of vampires, wherein there is a purity system which is based off of how far you are from the original vampire, what this purity system does is make small variances in vampire powers, like how quick or strong they are, how hard they are affected by things like sunlight, water, garlic, wooden stakes, etc. And generally, the stronger your vampire char is when it comes to combat, the more general weaknesses he'll have (Like he can't go swimming because it'll literally rot/burn his flesh to the bone at the same time).

 

[Coco Adel]

Ah, I use my own (Sort of) version of vampires, wherein there is a purity system which is based off of how far you are from the original vampire, what this purity system does is make small variances in vampire powers, like how quick or strong they are, how hard they are affected by things like sunlight, water, garlic, wooden stakes, etc. And generally, the stronger your vampire char is when it comes to combat, the more general weaknesses he'll have (Like he can't go swimming because it'll literally rot/burn his flesh to the bone at the same time).

Hmm, interesting I wasn't aware that water was a vampire weakness to that extent, unless using holy water.

 

[Sandertp]

[QUOTE="Ine Kurogane]Hmm, interesting I wasn't aware that water was a vampire weakness to that extent, unless using holy water.

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Ooooh boy! Let me tell you magnificent stories of corpses getting stabbed with wooden pikes! But really, it depends on how you interpret that vampires cannot cross running water, like bridges over rivers and all that sort When taken to the extreme some vampire will have their hands rot away if they even hold it above a river, not even touching the water surface! (I seriously love lore stuff *^*)

 

[Primal Conundrum]

It's specifically running water that fucks up traditional vampires. A still pond isn't going to faze one, but they wouldn't be able to cross a creek or river.


I have a friend on another site who has done more research on real-world vampire mythology than anyone else I know. He taught me a ton. I mean, I hadn't even realized how much Varney the Vampire had helped shape the modern interpretation of what a vampire is until I started chatting with him.

 

[Coco Adel]

Ooooh boy! Let me tell you magnificent stories of corpses getting stabbed with wooden pikes! But really, it depends on how you interpret that vampires cannot cross running water, like bridges over rivers and all that sort When taken to the extreme some vampire will have their hands rot away if they even hold it above a river, not even touching the water surface! (I seriously love lore stuff *^*)

Me too, I look up Lore stuff all the time

 

[Celestina Willow]

It would probably have to be when I spent all this time writing a detailed starter to begin the plot for a story driven rp that I asked people if they wanted to do it that they said yes to. Then when I posted it and let everyone who said they were interested know I posted it that no one showed up. Meanwhile, they're still doing rps with other people and even starting new ones so pretty much it was just they didn't want to rp with me, but let me believe that they did. Which I thought was very rude and cruel. I mean they could have just said no.

 

[Ryik]

[QUOTE="Celestina Willow]It would probably have to be when I spent all this time writing a detailed starter to begin the plot for a story driven rp that I asked people if they wanted to do it that they said yes to. Then when I posted it and let everyone who said they were interested know I posted it that no one showed up. Meanwhile, they're still doing rps with other people and even starting new ones so pretty much it was just they didn't want to rp with me, but let me believe that they did. Which I thought was very rude and cruel. I mean they could have just said no.

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Oh man, I haaate it when someone "is being nice" by ignoring something instead of being upfront about the problem.


Happens far too often, almost exclusively in an RP-related context.

 

[Celestina Willow]

Oh man, I haaate it when someone "is being nice" by ignoring something instead of being upfront about the problem.
Happens far too often, almost exclusively in an RP-related context.

Me too and I told them, they didn't have tonif they didn't want to but they insisted that they did. Which obviously was not true.

 

[amdreams]

My worst experience would have to be this one time when I used to roleplay on another site. This one person was determined to ship his character with mine, probably because he couldn't land a girl and mine happened to be the only single girl at the time. His godmodding and metagaming aside, his character, G, first started aggressively flirting with my character, M, to which she made it perfectly clear she was not interested and was in fact repulsed by the way he did it. But G wouldn't leave M alone. Everytime she was talking to someone, especially guys, and even my other character, V, G would show up, "whisk" her away with a "Is this guy bothering you?" type of line and then threaten to kill them. And even when M threatened the same to him, because V was a close friend of hers and she didn't appreciate people hurting him, G brushed it off as her "being tsundere". The player spawned random nameless faceless npcs who'd try to kill M only for G to swoop in, kill them all in one post and act like some knight in shining armor, even though M's expressed multiple times that she was no damsel in distress. Everytime M saw G, she ran and he followed. He'd even tried to force himself on her, but a knife to the crotch showed him that she "wasn't ready" for something serious. Everytime I tried to get my characters into some form of plot, G had to take M away for some pointless "romance".


The thing had gotten to the point where, because I made it clear that M would never fall for G, the player started sending me ooc and even private messages about how to win M over. I ignored him but the messages began getting more and more aggressive. I kept ignoring him and sort of faded from the rp until he sent me a pm calling me a colorful array of things. I reported him, M killed herself and V, and I never went back to that site ever again.