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mronimusha wrote:I can see why you'd dislike people controlling a character, but it's a necessary evil in a number of occasions. Take the "werewolves and magic and..." roleplay going - that deathsomething guy has a one line post that's nothing more than a single line of speech. Maybe it's him being a bad writer, which is ably supported by his work in said RP, but I would see nothing wrong with him controlling the character he's talking to by saying that they're just walking. I make this point because on another forum, that's now sadly dead, I had someone bitch at me twice for actions - the first time, he roleplayed hitting me with a fire spell and me being burnt alive, which would presumably be godmodding, then complained when I deflected his spell back at him because it was actually a curse, not a spell, and I was controlling his character. Now, THAT'S crap.
I would say that the best, most effective way to kill a roleplay is to suck at it. I go back to deathsomething again because he irked me in that other thread - not by barrelling in and hurling people into walls, but by having a character who's little more than "roar smash" and not doing anything to alleviate this. It can be little things as well - for instance, the latest post in the Luxembourg thread, someone referred to SWAT-Calibur's character by "Caliber", which a) isn't a correct spelling of any of the forms of the word, and b) isn't the character's name, which really got on my nerves because the Calibur name IS IN THE MEMBER'S BOARD NAME AS WELL.
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mronimusha wrote:I can see why you'd dislike people controlling a character, but it's a necessary evil in a number of occasions. Take the "werewolves and magic and..." roleplay going - that deathsomething guy has a one line post that's nothing more than a single line of speech. Maybe it's him being a bad writer, which is ably supported by his work in said RP, but I would see nothing wrong with him controlling the character he's talking to by saying that they're just walking. I make this point because on another forum, that's now sadly dead, I had someone bitch at me twice for actions - the first time, he roleplayed hitting me with a fire spell and me being burnt alive, which would presumably be godmodding, then complained when I deflected his spell back at him because it was actually a curse, not a spell, and I was controlling his character. Now, THAT'S crap.
I would say that the best, most effective way to kill a roleplay is to suck at it. I go back to deathsomething again because he irked me in that other thread - not by barrelling in and hurling people into walls, but by having a character who's little more than "roar smash" and not doing anything to alleviate this. It can be little things as well - for instance, the latest post in the Luxembourg thread, someone referred to SWAT-Calibur's character by "Caliber", which a) isn't a correct spelling of any of the forms of the word, and b) isn't the character's name, which really got on my nerves because the Calibur name IS IN THE MEMBER'S BOARD NAME AS WELL.
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mronimusha wrote:I tell you something else that I've just realised can be a pretty effective killer - purple prose.
Purple prose is a piece of writing where everything is overly eloquent to the point where it's like the author has written it out normally, then taken a thesaurus and changed any word under three syllables to sound more impressive. I say this because I was reading one of the battles in the tournament - one of the two I'd already seen was VERY prone to this, but I didn't realise the other was just as bad.
Their fight was huge, but not in a good way; I mean, when I write, it's long because there's either a lot of stuff to be described or a lot of story behind it. In this case, it was long because of the vocabulary used. Things like "disadvantageous", which I'm not sure is even a real word, "perspicuous", "tenebrous". I almost stopped reading when one of them used the phrase "his olfactory organs pique at the scent of anticipation". Ignoring that pique isn't used in the right context there, why couldn't he simply have used the word "nose"?
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