I'm not gonna lie, the prosey bit in the DK's description is pretty well done, and pretty heavy with the visuals. It just ... doesn't really belong -there-. It kind of ... with the drawing ... and it being on a black background (due to the way MRP works) ... it reminds me sorta of the old AoL profiles where people would pseudo-hack the default layout to just display white or grey dark-as-the-pit-of-my-tortured-soul text on a black background and the link to a picture. (And I know this because mine used to display Invictus and whatever drawing I'd done of my RP character that thankfully are all dead links now.) Oh. Fond memories.
The "I'll be sweet as pie to you if you're nice to my DK buddies" kind of made my eyes cross, though.
Oh yeah, that's a phenomenal bit of prose. It just... isn't your character's visual description. AT ALL.
Move that prose to the History tab, put a decent physical description in the Description tab, and completely kill all the useless wanky metadata in the History tab, and it would actually be pretty damn cool.
Sure, it's eye-rolling to some people ("use some creativity!" or whatever), but a simple "WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET" or some variant thereof in the appearance tab would be suitable. Hell, leave the link there! I actually dig the drawing.
I can see where he might just want the visual impact of the prose, and that some people don't use MRP or have unchecked the "see biographical information" box in MRP's settings to hide the second tab, but ... :| I dunno. I'm torn. I really like the prose, but it's just making me make annoyed burbling sounds over the vague pretension. I sound a bit like a flustered pudding about to boil over.
I'll admit that I didn't mind the part in his appearance tag... it would've been great in his history tag and all that. I mostly rolled my eyes because of his gracious warning that he won't kill people's characters without permission and that he considers hurting his frands permission. Mmhm.
Yeah, it totally would work better in the history tab. I mean, it's great that he's ostensibly playing a night elf DK who looks as his model depicts without any other extraneous bullshit and that putting "he looks just as you see him" is kind of "nnnnehhhh" to some people ... but ... urgh.
As to the frens thing, yyyeeeah. It's great that you're hep to the basic courtesy rules of RP and interacting with other people and RP conflict, but, c'mon dude. I've never actually seen the male version of "she's a total passive wallflowr, but turns into a raging evil bitch if you hurt her friends, rawr!" trope.
The "I'll be sweet as pie to you if you're nice to my DK buddies" kind of made my eyes cross, though.
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Move that prose to the History tab, put a decent physical description in the Description tab, and completely kill all the useless wanky metadata in the History tab, and it would actually be pretty damn cool.
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I can see where he might just want the visual impact of the prose, and that some people don't use MRP or have unchecked the "see biographical information" box in MRP's settings to hide the second tab, but ... :| I dunno. I'm torn. I really like the prose, but it's just making me make annoyed burbling sounds over the vague pretension. I sound a bit like a flustered pudding about to boil over.
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As to the frens thing, yyyeeeah. It's great that you're hep to the basic courtesy rules of RP and interacting with other people and RP conflict, but, c'mon dude. I've never actually seen the male version of "she's a total passive wallflowr, but turns into a raging evil bitch if you hurt her friends, rawr!" trope.
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