Seeing cool new characters that look like they might be fun to RP with but not wanting to instantly PM them and come off creepy/overexcited/stalkery/etc.

So even if @De-Villefort is right and all genres except for sci-fi and cyberpunk are filled with nothing but bad terrible people…

So what?

Sometimes it’s fun to play the villain. Do you think that any actor that gets the role of a villainous type absolutely hates their job while doing so? Do you think Alan Rickman or Christopher Lee cried in anguish every morning they woke up before going off to play their various famous villainous roles?

hi I’m new to the clique. what time are our weekly meetings on who to dogpile that week? I’m also signing on up bringing cups and ice.

@ten You can tell my em dashes are legit because I always use them — incorrectly.

I like a good meowdy

@Cygnus I want conflict to come from the environment and NPCs. I don’t want to worry about my character getting ganked because another player thinks it’s fun.

If I want PVP, I’ll boot up Rivals or something similar.

Conspiracy theory time.

What if Ganymede wanted to end MSB ALL ALONG?! Her RL has gotten so busy that she couldn’t control MSB with so many members as it was but didn’t want to let go of her online authoritah so she hired someone that she knew would be divisive and would let to at least half of the members would be banned or leave on their own so she wouldn’t have to do so much work but still appear cool calm collected catbot (BECAUSE THAT PERSONALITY IS SO FUNNY!) and it worked out enough because she’s cold emotionless lawyer who doesn’t have time for FEELINGS and admitting to making a mistake is a fate far worse than DEATH!

pls feel free to ignore this message, brought to you by bored people at work sitting in boring meetings and already mentally clocked out for the 4-day weekend.

@KarmaBum said in Bannings:

Also that Derp is a misogynist prick who lacks the self-awareness to realize he’s the problem, not all of us.

Derp is the embodiment of ‘she shouldn’t have been wearing that dress’.

@hellfrog What do you expect from a forum run by a dude that has said in threads regarding similar topics that “maybe she shouldn’t have gone down that alley” and other such gross things?

@MisterBoring I heard along the grapevine that there was some behind the scenes troubles too. What exactly it was, I do not know. But, at least a small handful of staff left because of it.

This game seems to have been all but completely abandoned by staff and players.

It was fun while it lasted but seemed to suffer from revolving door of staff and then piling multiple spheres on the replacement staff.

I am friendly but I don’t have friends really or join games with groups of people. If I recognize someone from a previous game that I enjoyed RP with, I’ll wave and smile and hope to RP with them again.

As a ‘lone wolf’ type, I heavily rely on people breaking away from their friend groups to RP with me (or let me in on the RP with those groups).

Do I expect it though? No.

If I can’t find RP on a game, I’ll just leave without a fuss and find somewhere else.

What about using ChatGPT to try and improve your creative writing?

Can this be separated into a Gatty vs Gashly thread or something? The only way that this is connected to Retro anymore is that Gatty plays a werewolf there.

People like unique and interesting characters.

People don’t like players with main character syndrome.

@Cygnus, my guy/gal/person… It’s very much not the concept itself that was the issue. Heck, there is a whole bloodline in NWOD that is basically kinfolk vampires. It was the way you apparently insisted on needing to be The Chosen One in not only one but TWO spheres and seem to have thrown tantrums when people didn’t fawn over how special and amazing your character was.

Like seriously, just read over your PRP pitch and tell me how that’s not your one last attempt to show that your character’s body was SO BAD ASS and your character’s spirit was SO SPECIALS.

I particularly enjoyed the “cool” PRP they wanted to run was based entirely around their Mary Sue character to further show off how bad ass and needed they were.

@Hobbie said in pvp vs pvp:

@Jennkryst Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this hobby dies in our lifetime but if/when it does, we hopefully all have some fond memories.

Movie theaters are going to die in our lifetime.

MUs definitely will.

But roleplay itself will live on forever.