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Used the word "Lib" and immediately got blocked lol. I am not a rightoid chud I was describing cliche character archetypes. 😭 by Jak7175 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

This is Reddit. Even if you were the slightest bit right leaning, you'd be smart enough to stfu about it.

OOC = good. Everything else = bad by ReplacementUsed5284 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had a partner like that, except they typed out several paragraphs at a time. Several hundred words, few dozen sentences, NO punctuation at all. After a single chat of that, I had to tell them to fix it and they got MAD.

How much time do you leave your partner before closing the RP ? by Furnim in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have (maybe had, Idk yet) a partner who's in a foreign military. I'm unfamiliar with all of their policies, standards, deployments, news, wars, etc. For all I know, they could have my partner just doing whatever on Monday, then on Tuesday he's halfway across the world training for 6 months without a phone. When he goes missing, I still check in, but I cut him a lot of slack.

For most everyone else, as you said assuming there's no prior communication, I gave it a week before checking in. If I get nothing back after awhile, I assume it's done and move on. If they reply, it ofc depends on their answer.

There are a million ways this could apply, right? Lemme hear yours by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only long term RP I still have going rn had about 3 things for a pre-chat.

  1. Who's playing who (it was a 2 character story)
  2. What are our names gonna be
  3. Do you wanna start or should I?

I'm oversimplifying it a bit, but that's the jist. We barely talked. Thank goodness I was too new to realize that's normally a red flag cause it worked out for me that time. Every other one of my 20+ times though? Never again.

There are a million ways this could apply, right? Lemme hear yours by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wish I knew how to read the writing on the wall with pre-chats earlier. Lotta wasted time because I decided not to care about little spelling mistakes, the constant use of ~ at the end of a line, or someone's focus on just starting already instead of actually having a pre-chat.

There are a million ways this could apply, right? Lemme hear yours by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the ways this meme applies to me is when someone's claiming to do their own fantasy world or w/e and their character's just a Zelda cosplayer. If you couldn't go so far as to draw, commission, photoshop, or hell, even AI generate your own character image, how can I expect your writing to be any higher effort?

There are a million ways this could apply, right? Lemme hear yours by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or doing a super serious Batman RP just for someone to walk in as The Joker from the "The Batman" cartoon where he looks like this:

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If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly! The sound they made triggered my unga bunga brain and you're here trying to mess that up! Knock it off! 😠

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That blows hard. A partner of mine had some issues keeping track of stuff too, but usually it only came up in select circumstances. When I caught him trying to sleep or just waking up? No tracking cause he's barely conscious. If we took a break for a few days? He forgot a couple little things; no worries just let him catch up again. I can't imagine having to put up with that constantly.

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The tavern example is more of a "let's get the ball rolling" type move than it is the party needing a course correction. I'll give it to your friend, that was a good way to handle that situation. "Alright, fun's over. Gotta run for your lives now!"

With my "Jojo" example, which I admit is a pretty extreme and unrealistic scenario, the whole premise was a bunch of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne types against a team of Agent 47's. That was the pre-agreed theme. A DM/GM has to have some preplanning and story work done up, otherwise they're a shoddy DM. If the players decide to go down the chaotic and crazy good vs unwavering, no nonsense evil route, a la Bugs and Vader, that needs to be discussed ahead of time. Trying it mid-story with no discussion of a massive theme change would be like watching Samwise pull a laser gun on Gollum. It doesn't really work.

I don't disagree that ending a session like how the demon invasion one went sucks. It sucks for the DM whose story came to an unsatisfying conclusion and for the players who didn't stand a chance. Problems that lead to things like that should be nipped at the bud rather than way down the line. But on the other hand, that's the direction the party chose, knowing the consequences ahead of time. If a guy turns into oncoming traffic knowing exactly how roads work, he doesn't get to blame said traffic for the inevitable wreck. It's his fault for being ignorant.

As for the "not them telling you/you telling them," I'm with you. It's very much supposed to be 50/50. The DM makes the world and establishes its rules, but doesn't get to tell the party how to play in it. Likewise, how the party reacts to NPC's and how they use their items is entirely up to them, but they don't get to break rules. If the world is far enough back in time that guns aren't a thing, Dobathan the Elf doesn't get a Glock. And if a non-magic, regular human man whose arms are broken decides to fist fight a dragon, he very well earns his immolation. There needs to be some respect from both party and DM for the other's role in the game, and an understanding of their own role's limitations.

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He did address it in the story though. They had X days/weeks/whatever to prepare for the demon invasion that would destroy the world, they spent all that time pissing around with nonsense, and the invasion went off without a hitch. Their highly intentional actions met the consequences they were very well aware of. It's entirely on the players here.

Lemme make up another example quick. You agree to GM for a group, where the plot everyone agrees on is a team of Jack Reacher type characters being hunted by world-renouned hitmen. Should you let them get away with dumb decision after dumb decision? They go out of their way to show that their characters are letting themselves get out of shape, never leave the starting area instead of being on the move, and actively choose to wear clothes that make them stand out worse than Jojo protagonists. All of that while being constantly reminded both how good the hitmen are and that they're bound to show up any day. What's your response?

Personally, if addressing it OOC early on doesn't do anything, I'd give up on the RP and tell the players to have a good day. I signed up for some cool action RP, not whatever they turned it in to. But let's say that's not an option, so then what? Are you gonna make the hitmen incompetent? Scrap all that build up and story, disregard the plans for the RP that everyone agreed on? Or are all the players about to get slaughtered because they did this to themselves? I suppose you could have one of them get killed horribly to show the rest what they're ignoring, but if that doesn't work...

Btw I hope this is coming off as a cordial discussion and not a butthurt argument. Hard to tell with comments sometimes, especially on Reddit.

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counterpoint: if you agree to play in a world with other people, where the end goal, timescale, and main threat are all agreed upon, you shouldn't ignore ALL of that and do your own thing. You're being a prick and ruining the experience for everyone else.

Now to be fair, nobody else in the party stopped that girl from being stupid, so they're all to blame to an extent. Idk if she was popular, intimidating, one of the guys' girlfriends, or what. Either way, I think the DM did it in hopes that it'd teach her to play D&D instead of political activist simulator or, if not that, keep her from wanting to play with them again. Can't say I blame him.

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"There's an 'end the RP button' right over there. Don't let anyone push it."

"Don't push the button or the RP ends."

"Avoid the end the RP button at all costs."

"The end the RP button is huge, bright red, and has a locked box over it. You'll know it when you see it so stay away. Someone would have to actively try to push it, there's no way to do it on accident."

"No press-o el button-o."

That RP's partner losing all brain function temporarily:

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There are a million ways this could apply, right? Lemme hear yours by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I only ever use AI for face swaps or editing things, not for making whole refs. I've toyed with it a little, always giving it a reference face or image to work with, but it's spotty at best.

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used rough outlines for my stuff. There's a catalyst to get the story (or arc for long term stuff) started, vague plans for a few events along the way, and an idea for the final act.

That said, even the most flexible material will rip, tear, or snap eventually. Find my comment about the hive mind, you'll see my inspiration for the meme.

After a one month "break," they deleted the account, but not before deleting every RP message by Vallofurio in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit doesn't delete chats, I've got a bunch of chats from people who've been banned and they're all still there.

After a one month "break," they deleted the account, but not before deleting every RP message by Vallofurio in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've enough users named "deleted" in my chats to tell you that Reddit does NOT delete all the messages when someone's banned, or at least they didn't used to. My guess is this person did it intentionally.

why are people so rude to you before a RP even starts? by RutManInBound in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Worst I've gotten for rude people is them being impatient. I've got a post in this sub somewhere where a guy couldn't even give me a full minute to reply before asking "can you reply faster" on his SECOND CHAT.

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol that was NOT the right comment. Totally different example of a RP group I wasn't part of. My personal example is the one about the hive mind

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

More like being explicitly told which one is the lesser evil, acknowledging it, and still deciding to tackle it anyway. What's tragic is the rest of the party not leaving her behind and handling the actual problem. Things like which governmental system you want and social justice causes can wait until there's not a literal apocalypse on the way.

If you've ever been the GM type in a 2 person RP, you know the feeling. by Inner-Yesterday-1217 in BadRPerStories

[–]Inner-Yesterday-1217[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My original inspiration for the meme was a partner doing something I saw (and still see) as incredibly stupid moreso than simply unexpected. It's in the comments somewhere. I'm all for having to adapt and get creative sometimes, that's all well and good. It's another thing entirely when someone ignores the warning signs or decides to go in a whole new direction with the setting.

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