What are some things you don't enjoy about roleplaying as much?
Disrespect toRPing involves GP :/
Disrespect tomemberselders.
Oh yeah. In Crossroads, we solved that by delegating the gym leaders to players xD I (the GM) shaped Falkner's and Bugsy's personalities, and once we get to Goldenrod someone else will be the first one to write a post as Whitney and set the tone for how she should be played.One of my biggest peeves in regards to forum roleplaying is NPC inconsistency between players. It's hard for me to get around when each player gives certain NPCs different personalities and speech patterns.
Oh yeah. In Crossroads, we solved that by delegating the gym leaders to players xD I (the GM) shaped Falkner's and Bugsy's personalities, and once we get to Goldenrod someone else will be the first one to write a post as Whitney and set the tone for how she should be played.
In general though, I think this problem is best overcome by having the GM play the "NPCs". It's not always possible, or efficient, but it's the best solution I've found.
One of my biggest peeves in regards to forum roleplaying is NPC inconsistency between players. It's hard for me to get around when each player gives certain NPCs different personalities and speech patterns.
My main gripe is more to do with timezones than anything else. xD
Whenever an RP really kicks up all the action tends to happen when I'm either asleep or working/at school. I can't even count how many times I've checked an RP only to find that all the action was already over and there was no way for my character to have taken part.
It's nobody's fault and it can't be helped, but I would still like to grumble about it. :P
Gimmepie solved this very well by becoming nocturnal
Another is when the [physical] pace of the roleplay is too fast to keep up with; I've been in a couple where the other members would post so quickly that, by the time I'd finally gotten a response ready to submit, there have already been a couple others ahead of me and I'd had to go back and change up my message a bit so that it matches up with the current action. x.x And when I missed a day - or even a few hours - entirely, the others have already cranked out multiple new pages of unread material.
I think a good way to get out of this is to join a roleplay where bigger posts are the norm, as they tend to move slower. In RP's like Gunpowder and Titans, people post around once a week, but a post is a real story, and interaction is dealt with through Joint posting via sites like etherpad. RP's that have shorter posts, and rely on a new post to show interaction, Darker Than It Seems is a good example here, are harder to keep up with. It all boils down to personal preference in the end.
I tend to look for violent, grim, and debauched RP's. More often than not, the stuff I see out there isn't sardonic and/or dark enough for me. All that notwithstanding the issue of plot and setting, of course.
My main gripe is more to do with timezones than anything else. xD
Whenever an RP really kicks up all the action tends to happen when I'm either asleep or working/at school. I can't even count how many times I've checked an RP only to find that all the action was already over and there was no way for my character to have taken part.
It's nobody's fault and it can't be helped, but I would still like to grumble about it. :P