Roleplaying Peeves

[Mood]

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[Is Friday]

New peeve: Using The Way to bypass language boundaries. I will do so when the other player starts, but it just seems so much like cheating to me.  :x

[Cerelum]

Agreed.

The way should be in whatever language they speak, cause I for one think in english.  So if the way really existed, I would think someone from another country who spoke a totally different language, would think in that totally different language.

I speak Korea, German and English.  But english is my main language and that's what I think in, unless of course I'm speaking one of the other two or thinking about one of the other two, then it goes through my mind in Korean or German.

Maybe I'm just weird...

[NoteworthyFellow]

I'm not so sure about that.  I gather that the Way is supposed to be in the language of thought, not necessarily the language in which you think; you're not sending words, you're sending mental impulses that the other person's brain translates into words.  It's a more basic level of communication than verbalized speech: you're sending the impulses that your brain translates as speech, not the speech itself.

In this way (and I gather that this is how the Way is meant to be interpreted, or it would be in a spoken language by now), it would be plenty RP appropriate to bypass language barriers with the Way.  Might seem a little OOC or twinkish to do so, but it fits just fine as long as there's an IC motivation.

[brytta.leofa]

A favorite use of the way (which I've really only seen once): magickal thought translation, but with stilted grammar and idioms.

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The claw-marked elf sends to you,
 "I see you, weak-foot female.  You are short like a child, but your ribs are large and cause me to be thirsty."

[ale six]

My peeve: emo. I'm getting really tired of emo characters. Leave that shit in Canada where it belongs.

[Briarfox]

Emo and virgins.

[Rhyden]

My virginity is a black
Death-river that crawls like
Nothingness over my hatred for life.

[Zoltan]

Desolation, oppression, blacky blacked-out blackness that's black

I trudge in the Highlord Tek's
Shadow (dark... uh, blackidity)
But He can never understand my lamentable plight
To be by a gith raiding party ganked
To be a twenty year old Bynner that's never kanked

em cuts himself with ~dagger.

[Marauder Moe]

Damnit.  I am so bitter that my mul poet post fell off the OOC board into oblivion. :x

I may have to recreate it.

[Agent_137]

people who OOC to correct a typo that i could just have well figured out on my own.

if it's so bad you have to OOC over, just re-send the line corrected and i'll get the point without your emoticons showing up in the BRIGHT BLUE that i highlight all OOC stuff with.

[jstorrie]

People who won't let me reasonably indulge my deep, personal need for Cool Items and newly-branched skills.

[Cerelum]

People who scan and hunt, hide and sneak everywhere, just cause they want to gain skill, but without any emotes or reasoning behind it.

I personally will just wait for someone to leave a location, and hunt them to see where they are going, that way at least I'm hunting for a reason, not just to see my own footprints.

I personally will only scan when entering an area that I plan on resting, to make sure nobody is hiding in the shadows.

What I'm getting at is.  Have a fucking reason you're using your skills other then bullshit just to branch whatever comes after hunt and scan.

A few players have been pissing me off with this lately.

[Lizzie]

Cerelum, I could agree with you on hide and hunt. But not on scan. Scan lasts a duration, and then it "shuts off." The players are probably just making sure that their characters are still scanning. Because there's no way for a player to know if their "scan" is running or not, unless someone hidden happens to be in the same room and they happen to see them. And that isn't guaranteed even if the scan is running.

[Simple]

If i was a sneaky character, i would practice me hide and sneak all the time.
Same way a warrior spars. Training at something makes you better at it.
So whats wrong with that?

It's hardly spamming.

[Agent_137]

If i was a sneaky character, i would practice me hide and sneak all the time.
Same way a warrior spars. Training at something makes you better at it.
So whats wrong with that?

It's hardly spamming.

warriors don't spar all the time.

that's what's wrong with that.

it's ok if you take a morning to "train" your sneaking.

but if you sneak everywhere with no good reason, then that's when you ought to get slapped with a skill cap

[Stroker]

People who scan and hunt, hide and sneak everywhere, just cause they want to gain skill, but without any emotes or reasoning behind it.

I personally will just wait for someone to leave a location, and hunt them to see where they are going, that way at least I'm hunting for a reason, not just to see my own footprints.

I personally will only scan when entering an area that I plan on resting, to make sure nobody is hiding in the shadows.

What I'm getting at is. Have a fucking reason you're using your skills other then bullshit just to branch whatever comes after hunt and scan.

A few players have been pissing me off with this lately.

They could have a reason for that...

[Stroker]

but if you sneak everywhere with no good reason, then that's when you ought to get slapped with a skill cap

Remaining unnoticed is a good reason.

[Coat of Arms]

Who tries to remain unnoticed their entire lives? There are people who literally never toggle sneak off; or elves who never move ten feet without running there, which I find equally peculiar.

[Simple]

Okay. I see what you meant. I didn't mean -never- turning it off. Whenever I have played sneaky types I do it on occasion practicing, round the bazaar or back streets, not all the time. I don't want people to know that I'm a sneaky type.

[Good Gortok]

PEEVES:

People who contact you just to get your sdesc and nothing else. This is usually pretty obvious.

People who will go out of their way to take a look at any hooded person - equally obvious.

People who wear something in every single wear location just to have a long equipment list. Does your character really need a scrap of cloth around each ankle, a sandcloth wrap on their forearms, scars on both shoulders, and two large dangling earrings to accompany their fighting gear?

people who can't bother with capitalization and punctuation

People who exhibit below average roleplay with a karma character. I know karma isn't all about how well you portray a character, but sometimes it's just sad to see a really poor player and you're about to offer them OOC help when you notice a gem around their neck.

People who ignore the non-PC world around them: eating their own travel cake while sitting at a bar, pick locks in front of NPCs, loot corpses in front of the NPC soldier who just killed them, toggle run or sneak to get past a guard who just stopped them, etc.

People who do everything within the power of the code to get out of a threatening situation, even if it defies all logic and realism. How did your near-death character break free of subdue and sprint three miles across the city again?

[Only He Stands There]

People who wear something in every single wear location just to have a long equipment list. Does your character really need a scrap of cloth around each ankle, a sandcloth wrap on their forearms, scars on both shoulders, and two large dangling earrings to accompany their fighting gear?

I disagree to an extent. Some people wear lots of gear, and it's perfectly suitable for them to - but those of you with five rings on each hand and no reason to have them... bah.

[flurry]

Biggest peeves: Power-playing and the "if the code lets me do it, it's fine" attitude.

[BlackMagic0]

People who wear something in every single wear location just to have a long equipment list. Does your character really need a scrap of cloth around each ankle, a sandcloth wrap on their forearms, scars on both shoulders, and two large dangling earrings to accompany their fighting gear?

I disagree to an extent. Some people wear lots of gear, and it's perfectly suitable for them to - but those of you with five rings on each hand and no reason to have them... bah.

I disgree also.. What if someone is a soldier, I've seen people with huge lists, that have nothing but armor, and maybe a ring, a earring, and a tattoo or two..  I think its just their character's style they are bringing out.
Also if they are nomadic, and running around with something covering all their body isn't that bad, These sandstorms are nasty.

But my biggest peeve, is when your RP'ing with someone and suddenly they go AFK without telling you, so you sit there picking your ass for five minutes before they return. xD Damn smokers.  :wink:

People who contact you just to get your sdesc and nothing else. This is usually pretty obvious.
My peeve too...

Another peeve is when people use your sdesc to describe you to a templar, etc.. BAH!

[Fathi]

People who RP with other people and automatically assume the worst about the other person's RP and OOC motivations.