@Pavel said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:
@hellfrog said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:
yeah applications are to tell you about the player more than the character, I think. "Name a non-fictional woman that is smarter than you’ would be a perfect application prompt.
Faraday and Cobalt. Next question.
you’re in, buddy!
yeah applications are to tell you about the player more than the character, I think. "Name a non-fictional woman that is smarter than you’ would be a perfect application prompt.
@Yam I think you hit on something I found really significant in my time in the mines. Don’t leave it to your players to enforce your theme, if it matters to you.
web based is so nice. telnet travels on the devil’s whispers
no, I was just high and only half-reading, replying to a post from 12 years ago
@helvetica i was trying to respond to yam, not throw strays at you! sorry bb
@RightMeow IS it important? I have fielded dozens of ‘why don’t more people want to rp with me’ type questions. I have never fielded "I am not having fun, how can I have fun?’
To answer seriously, I’m somewhere with Sao and Yam. I’d love to always have a scene setting idea, but that’s not me. What I CAN try to do is engage and respond to whatever my scene partner is putting out there. Try to find something about them or what they are doing to be genuinely interested in. I like to ask questions IC that inspire/require character building - that’s probably not fun for EVERYONE but it does work.
dragon riders but instead of being cool and fighting each other they are kind of like lawnmowers burning caustic braum hair out of the atmosphere iirc and also if the dragons have sex their riders have sex
@helvetica I watched serial experiments lain and even sitting through it couldn’t spoil the plot for me
wtf did I watch
wow wow
wonder where they are from? what happened in the mushing world
@catzilla like the wife who asked her husband to pack her work lunch and he gave her his chipotle leftovers and a BAG OF DOG FOOD like
IDK, to me ‘bleed’ is letting your (the player’s) emotional read on situations to color your character’s actions. It’s not a problem if your character’s emotions bleed into you, that’s - as pointed out- the expected outcome. That’s what makes the hobby addicting.
The issue is when you are making things weird with your character reactions due to your ooc read on situations.
Look. I absolutely believe that there have been occasions where player/s decide to be mean on purpose in order to drive someone else away. I am SURE it has happened. I am also 100% sure that it doesn’t happen even half as often as people assume it is happening to them. The vast majority of people who step on your feelings are not doing it ‘on purpose’. They aren’t even thinking about you.
@Gashlycrumb said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that most players who respond badly to bad stuff happening to their PCs have had experiences of unfair non-interactive bad stuff being used to shut them out of the game.
And much like unhealed people entering the dating pool before they are ready, it is their responsibility to work that out so it isn’t causing them to lash out at others.