Comments | bad_rpers_suck: On age and ability.

sagelylegs in bad_rpers_suck

On age and ability.

Jun 01, 2010 14:31

Reminded last night of a certain trend, I feel it necessary to let something out. I may have voiced such thoughts before, but when one's character is several centuries old, has been active in all that time and is supposed to have all sorts of experiences to draw upon, one should act the part. The average immortal(for lack of a better word) that I'd ( Read more... )

how not to roleplay, dumbass, mary sue, characterization fail

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beardedtroll June 2 2010, 07:34:27 UTC

but falling back and telling me that I SHOULDN'T gain ground just because they're OH SO MUCH OLDER...

"Yeah, well now you're facing the unbridled power of raw Rock'n'Roll, grandpa."

sagelylegs June 2 2010, 08:20:25 UTC

I'd just like to take this moment to say: damn you. I've always wanted to defeat my enemies in a game using the power of rock, but it's just so hard to make it compelling in text. ^^

beardedtroll June 2 2010, 09:52:03 UTC

Come vampires, highlanders
throughout the land
don't criticize
what you can't understand.

The cyborgs and hackers
are beyond your command,
your genre is
rapidly agin'.

Please get out of the new one
if you can't lend a hand
For the times they are a-changin'

harleyquinn1517 June 3 2010, 00:48:48 UTC

I usually get around this by having the character be from a world with different time (one year for them is twenty-something years for us) so those characters still have a normal amount of experience (unless they get mixed into our world. Then things get tricky ( ... )