alright people, I've sat back and all I've heard was a lot of crying about how characters interact through OOC. First off, we should all make things a lot easier by playing characters IC only and keeping the OOC to msn or inside another chat room. I've recently been alienated complete, thrown down and felt so worthless I took a break because I some how got involved in some private rp session I didn't know anything about. I think we all need to understand something. Characters are the characters. We role play them different. for you to express any OOC concern toward a character is so outragious, it ruins role playing, for not only that person, but for a lot of the people around them. I understand private rping, and stuff, look thats all fine and dandy, private role playing, or private storylines, but I do believe what ever is brought into the PUBLIC chat rooms should be made public, and if your character is so insecure about talking in public what the story line has, then I believe they shouldn't be there. Instead you should be on countless different sites or Messangers fixing your private role playing, I do believe though, and this is just my belief, that the only way we can function is keep OOC away from IC, seperate them, and seriously if you can't then maybe you should take a look at yourselves and realize perhaps your own story line you want to interact on the site isn't made for the site. Thats a major problem I believe. After all, enworld is about interaction and fun. I understand some people want private rping experience, or private storylines, they can go do that themselves, but that doesn't mean that when your on the site you should alienate your character away from other characters, hell I was thinking of just making a few characters from the settings and have them naturally react.
My second point is pretty much, there are some realistic things you should keep in mind about life when your role play. Remember two things, there is some one behind the character, and we all have feelings attached and they can be hurt, but some of those players need to grow up, while some of those players and I'm speaking to a VERY VERY wide group of you guys need to stop critizing peoples characters because you don't agree with them, Oh lord how I've heard SO MUCH squabling about so many players characters back and forth OOC, its just flipping crazy. In my opinion, if you don't like the character because of what the character is thats fine, but that doesn't mean you should literally ignore the character, harass the player, make fun of the character, or in any means degrade the character or the player in any OOC fashon. I'm gunna use some examples here to maybe tie this all together cos I am a wee bit dazed after this. Callista's player understands what condition her character is in, and with all the quarkey stuff you see around, I think it almost makes the best descion by not bringing her around without her husband, thats keeping it realistic. Fatora(charm) has her character pretty much keep a very public image, while maintaining a very private story line, which she has done many times over to work by keeping anything on the chat involve people and interacting with them in a public sense, while making sure what private story line has to happen is going to happen in a private manner, with the players she wants involved in, by inviting them, because they best fit the plot perhaps. Doesn't mean that your not a good player...it means your character just doesn't fit the plot is all. Titus's player will tell you if something is wrong and explain to you what bothers him about how its going on, via if the story line is getting to silly, or the atmosphere has become one of more OOC jibberish, but he'll explain, which if your character acts silly or goofy, then perhaps he would annoy titus, but Titus's player explains a bit of the character and how he interacts, which is a great thing. Again that doesn't mean that your character or your playing skills aren't good, it means that your character just doesn't fit the atmosphere at all. So pretty much they've kept OOC and IC seperate, explaing why, which isn't a bad thing at all, while they've maintained their characters integrity IC. I think we should all try to take lessons from some of these players aswell as others, figuring out how to cordinate OOC to make sure the players feelings aren't so offended, while keeping the IC stabilized, and please just use common sense. If your character isn't liked by another it probably has nothing to do with you and mostly something to do with the characters interactions and intentions at the scene, now if your alienated OOC, the best thing to do is to talk it out with them, and if they are to stubborn to talk it out, then they aren't worth your time. I always find talking with some one can get the problems solved the fastest.
My second point is pretty much, there are some realistic things you should keep in mind about life when your role play. Remember two things, there is some one behind the character, and we all have feelings attached and they can be hurt, but some of those players need to grow up, while some of those players and I'm speaking to a VERY VERY wide group of you guys need to stop critizing peoples characters because you don't agree with them, Oh lord how I've heard SO MUCH squabling about so many players characters back and forth OOC, its just flipping crazy. In my opinion, if you don't like the character because of what the character is thats fine, but that doesn't mean you should literally ignore the character, harass the player, make fun of the character, or in any means degrade the character or the player in any OOC fashon. I'm gunna use some examples here to maybe tie this all together cos I am a wee bit dazed after this. Callista's player understands what condition her character is in, and with all the quarkey stuff you see around, I think it almost makes the best descion by not bringing her around without her husband, thats keeping it realistic. Fatora(charm) has her character pretty much keep a very public image, while maintaining a very private story line, which she has done many times over to work by keeping anything on the chat involve people and interacting with them in a public sense, while making sure what private story line has to happen is going to happen in a private manner, with the players she wants involved in, by inviting them, because they best fit the plot perhaps. Doesn't mean that your not a good player...it means your character just doesn't fit the plot is all. Titus's player will tell you if something is wrong and explain to you what bothers him about how its going on, via if the story line is getting to silly, or the atmosphere has become one of more OOC jibberish, but he'll explain, which if your character acts silly or goofy, then perhaps he would annoy titus, but Titus's player explains a bit of the character and how he interacts, which is a great thing. Again that doesn't mean that your character or your playing skills aren't good, it means that your character just doesn't fit the atmosphere at all. So pretty much they've kept OOC and IC seperate, explaing why, which isn't a bad thing at all, while they've maintained their characters integrity IC. I think we should all try to take lessons from some of these players aswell as others, figuring out how to cordinate OOC to make sure the players feelings aren't so offended, while keeping the IC stabilized, and please just use common sense. If your character isn't liked by another it probably has nothing to do with you and mostly something to do with the characters interactions and intentions at the scene, now if your alienated OOC, the best thing to do is to talk it out with them, and if they are to stubborn to talk it out, then they aren't worth your time. I always find talking with some one can get the problems solved the fastest.
