H'okay.

( I'll refer to her as Destroyer since she breaks anything she so as touches. )

So, I'm in a certain rp, and I like to read all the profiles so that I keep up to date on who's who. When I joined, one of the people had a profile that kinda squicked me, but it wasn't the worst thing I'd seen ( Read more... )

This one took a while to build up.

( How NOT to join a Roleplaying Guild in World of Warcraft. )

Dear multitude of roleplayers wishing to play 'orphans',

Orphanages do not exist in any present day, 'Western' setting. If your character is American or British they will go into a care system. They do not get deposited into a building on the moors, remain there throughout childhood and then get released at the age of eighteen ready to attend ( Read more... )

Why would you name/base your character on the book "A Child Called It"? I'm not saying that you shouldn't make a character who suffered harrowing abuse as a child, but I am saying you should at least have the tact and intelligence to pull it off in a fashion that isn't so tasteless.

( Excerpts from the profile, just in case I'm overreacting about this thing. )

Hi, new poster and recent lurker, so on and so forth. I was directed here by a friend after dealing with a GM suck, which is still incredibly frustrating for me to think about. So, I'm going to do what I do best and vent like crazy.

Warning. This is ridiculously long. I'm sorry.

( I'm going to be honest, here. This is full of crazy. )

I play a weekly D&D game.I am use to the tendency of players to go for overpowered and "awesome". I recently changed groups when I saw I wouldn't be the only girl in it I was ecstatic... was ( Read more... )

( Cut for mild language, and mentions of sex )

Dear X,

You see X your character, Sunshine is what we refer to as a Mary Sue. Mary Sue as defined in Wiki is 'a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as a wish-fulfillment fantasy for the author or reader.'.  Do you know what gave your character away?

Well she is ( Read more... )

I figured you guys'd enjoy this. In this game, there's Fighter Girl.
Fighter Girl is unique in lots of ways that squick me, but my favorite one is how she treats her past.
She murdered her parents in a house fire because daddy was abusive and mommy was crazy. Mentally ill. So nobody saved her, so she murdered them.

( What's the big deal, you say? )