For a little bit of background, my friend (who I will call Alpha) and I help run a very small RP site. One member (who I will call Member) is a real life friend of hers who can be a little . . . ah, annoying. But honestly, I don't mind her most of the time. She's not exactly on the same level in terms of RPing as our other members, so my friend and I alternate between having little training 'threads' with her every once in a while and offering her pointers. She works hard on improving for a bit, and then just . . . stops.


( cut because this is fairly long )

I'm a big MUCK player, I LOVE playing on MUCKS, but I haven't really found one that suits the way I'd like to play, and, once again, I trotted onto the MU connector, and began looking around.

( And then I found exactly what I was looking for... )

Sumup: I feel like I've taken over someone else's baby, but it's only to breathe life into a place again. I don't want to be a Wizard, but I'm willing to try, but feeling a bit like a dick because of it.

Reminded by below post, here we have elaboration on the rule that drove almost literally everyone out of an old chat.

The guiding philosophy of these rules is this: People can, and will, say whatever they want. That is one of the most important principles of freedom in the modern world: The right to say what you believe.
The other side of that freedom is the responsibility to yourself, the responsibility to control your own emotions, whether or not you take offense to what someone says. If you disagree with something, you can still resist the urge to take offense. If someone says something cruel to you, you can take no offense and therefore grant that person's statement no power over you.
That makes life tougher, but definitely much better if you enjoy freedom. If you want thought police or someone to slap you on the wrist when you say something someone doesn't agree with, you should go somewhere else.

This is not a rule. It's a coward's way out of taking responsibility for their own property.

dear you-

just because i don't want to hook up my male pup with your male pup, it doesn't mean i'm homophobic. first of all, please try to remember something: my pup is fourteen. your guy is 26. just... no. also? my character is literally a sociopathic megalomaniac who is fixated on one person. your pup? not that person. my character gets annoyed easily and i've been raining him in.

please, for the sake of your pup- please stop.

I had a feeling that this wasn't going to work out, New Guy, but I wasn't expecting things to explode like they did.

( This got a little long )

TL:DR
My table top group have been playing WoD for years and know all of the rules and settings. A New Guy tries to join the game at the worst possible time, thinks we have been playing our long-established characters wrong and argues about it with us. He also is rude behind people's backs. It doesn’t go well for him.

Dear RL Gaming Companion,

I put a lot of work into this setting, please stop trying to shoehorn in random bullshit from other settings, especially stuff that's derivative and poorly done. Begging me to allow elves, for no real reason other than 'elves are awesome', is annoying, I pointed out beforehand that there aren't elves, dwarves, hobbits and the standard fantasy ensemble don't exist, in setting. Trying to insist that your character should totally be allowed swords as their only weapon during the equivalent of World War 1 is impressively ignorant, especially since you are playing a character who is part of the military. I'm not going to allow pact magic with demons to create warlocks with ineffable powers, since literally none of those things exist, in setting. In a world where magic is intrinsically linked to how society works asking for a 'minor change' of 'completely overhauling the magic system so you can make a furry' is not going to happen.

And then yelling about how this isn't 'epic scale enough' when no-one else in the group is complaining about flying biplanes into combat magically-engineered flying monsters above a continent sized dragon being 'not epic enough in scale' isn't going to endear you to me. Demanding hippogriffs be added to the ranks of lightning moths, translucent rocs that are near invisible in most conditions, dragon-likes with machine guns grown into their torsos, and buoyant hippos with artillery pieces mounted on their backs without a good reason (and a clear role in warfare) isn't going to work, especially if everyone else thinks that they're more boring than the exploding, flying artillery hippos.

If you want to play generic european fantasy adventure 43, you could have chosen to DM, I didn't volunteer here. Since you were one of the people who nominated me, and no-one else has a problem with my setting, kindly shut the fuck up.

I'll admit to probably being a bit angrier than I should be here, but seriously.

Dear new player,

Yes, sometimes when I run Maid RPG oneshots, I let players in my group pick fandom characters to play if they feel like it. This doesn't mean they're any more powerful than your OC Maid, stats-wise. Everyone rolls their stats in exactly the same manner and gets only one special ability from the book. We're houseruling a lot of stuff already, so getting to pick the specialties instead of random rolling is something everyone gets to do. Including you and your OC Maid.

We might have a Grell and a Madoka and a Rarity and other such folk in the game as player characters but your OC Maid is just as capable of saving the day or causing shenanigans as they are. These oneshots are very chaotic and light and a lot of handwaving happens, but they make for good comedy breaks between more story-intensive full-force OC driven campaigns.

What makes this story a suck is that you spent the whole session whining and being IC passive-aggressive about how unfair allowing fandom characters is instead of actually playing your own shiny character doing awesome things, even when everyone at the table were trying to encourage you to join in both IC and OOC.

I just wanted everyone to have fun. :/

Sincerely,
Sealed Sock

Dear Would-Be Moderators and RP Admins of IJ:

Please STOP blatantly ripping off popular TV shows and making carbon copies of the factions, plots, and characters therein and pretending that these are your original ideas.

I have seen so-called "original sci fi" rps with so-called "original alien races" which were nothing more than 1:1 rip offs of Mass Effect alien races, just with different names and sexy, human PBs.

I've seen blatant rip offs of Sons of Anarchy, Boardwalk Empire, and Game of Thrones. Amongst others.

Enough's enough. RP the source material and allow OCs, or actually use your brain and think of something a little less obviously ripped off.

Plagiarism. It isn't cool.

They are part of a ton of other games, and roleplay a lot. I am not a priority, I understand that.

Despite that ... I know they're online with nothing to do, and I've been waiting (starving really) for some tags that have been left open for a while now, but they're not responding.

I don't know whether they're just not interested in continuing the logs I've started, or if they just don't like writing with me, or if I scared them off because I kept asking when they'd be available to tag again (if I don't initiate it, then nothing will happen).

I want to ask them, but I'm a rather brash person so I don't really know how to phrase it without seeming really rude, as if I want to hog all their time. Not to mention that they're simply not online (well, they are, just not on chat) for me to even voice said concerns ... is it really that bad to hope for some replies out of them? Especially since we agreed to plot together with our characters. Even as I write this I know they're online doing nothing, but replying seems to be out of the question.

I'm very new to RP, is it the norm to reply back whenever you feel like it ... ?