Forum RP - It's made of fail too!
So we've seen plenty of bad RSPs. We've also had lots of Wikicrap. We get a lot of Fanfics too. Oh, and then there's the terrible fanart, and licenced media like comics, novels and stoof. Now I'm going to add a new genre of crap to our record: Forum RP.
An anonymous minion linked me to a WoW RP forum, stating that "I'd find some good stuff in there". With a mixture of trepidation and excitement, I clicked the link. I was not dissapointed.
For starters, it labels itself as "Warcraft Alternate Universe", which is pretty much a red light warning right there and then. But, brave evil overlord that I am, I bravely plunged headlong into the chracter bios, as I figured that they would be the best places to find the premium crap. I was not dissapointed.
For starters, we have a Human Warlock with a novel-sized backstory which seemed to be an excercise in generic Mary Sue crap. I say seemed, as I fell asleep during it. She did get kidnapped and presumably toe-raped by Orcs tough, which adds to the Sueishness. As an alternative, how about we have the the Grand Marshall of the Alliance, apparently.
Meanwhile, we have a Night Elf Paladin who has been training to be a warrior all his life. Look for the obvious flaws in this premise. Alternatively, have two samples of our old favourte lore-crusher, Night Elves born in Darnassus. To prove that the suck is equally distributed, there's the obligitory Tauren born in Thunder Bluff, naturally.
Naturally, all the other Horde Chracters are Blood Elves, and they're all special snowflakes too.
But then, Scourge Happens, and boy does it happen. Meet Arthas' Most Loyal Death Knight Cammander who helped Arthas kill his fater. Those are not my typoes, for once. Also, there's a Half-Elf Death Knight which is pretty Sterotype sue in and of itself.
And there's still more! A Horribly tortured, horribly scarred Half-High, Half-Blood Elf!. A Half-Blood, Half-Night Elf Warlock Demon Hunter who is a member of Organization XIII! A Blood Elf Pirate Assasin who was sold into slavery and prostitution! A Female Nelf raised in a lost trabe and trained form birth to be a Druid! I'm so excited I could throw up!
I didn't look at the actual RP threads. I don't think my Brane could take it. The chracter profiles alone were an epic epic collection of fail right there and then, so I doubt that i could take the horror of actual RP by such a blizzard of special snowflakes.
An anonymous minion linked me to a WoW RP forum, stating that "I'd find some good stuff in there". With a mixture of trepidation and excitement, I clicked the link. I was not dissapointed.
For starters, it labels itself as "Warcraft Alternate Universe", which is pretty much a red light warning right there and then. But, brave evil overlord that I am, I bravely plunged headlong into the chracter bios, as I figured that they would be the best places to find the premium crap. I was not dissapointed.
For starters, we have a Human Warlock with a novel-sized backstory which seemed to be an excercise in generic Mary Sue crap. I say seemed, as I fell asleep during it. She did get kidnapped and presumably toe-raped by Orcs tough, which adds to the Sueishness. As an alternative, how about we have the the Grand Marshall of the Alliance, apparently.
Meanwhile, we have a Night Elf Paladin who has been training to be a warrior all his life. Look for the obvious flaws in this premise. Alternatively, have two samples of our old favourte lore-crusher, Night Elves born in Darnassus. To prove that the suck is equally distributed, there's the obligitory Tauren born in Thunder Bluff, naturally.
Naturally, all the other Horde Chracters are Blood Elves, and they're all special snowflakes too.
But then, Scourge Happens, and boy does it happen. Meet Arthas' Most Loyal Death Knight Cammander who helped Arthas kill his fater. Those are not my typoes, for once. Also, there's a Half-Elf Death Knight which is pretty Sterotype sue in and of itself.
And there's still more! A Horribly tortured, horribly scarred Half-High, Half-Blood Elf!. A Half-Blood, Half-Night Elf Warlock Demon Hunter who is a member of Organization XIII! A Blood Elf Pirate Assasin who was sold into slavery and prostitution! A Female Nelf raised in a lost trabe and trained form birth to be a Druid! I'm so excited I could throw up!
I didn't look at the actual RP threads. I don't think my Brane could take it. The chracter profiles alone were an epic epic collection of fail right there and then, so I doubt that i could take the horror of actual RP by such a blizzard of special snowflakes.