User blog:Guyviroth/So a rant about Roleplaying.

I've been in a fair number of roleplays in the 14 years I've been doing it, spanning numerous forums on ProBaords, Invisionfree and ZetaBoards. But damn, they weren't anywhere as bad as they are on here. Then again, that's because this wiki has little boundaries and limitations as a whole, and only designated by certain roleplays beforehand. So I'm going to, as the title suggest, rant.

Lack of Visible Character Page

I've seen times when people throw in a random character they thought off the top of their head with no character page. The problem with this is that you can make up anything at any time to get out of otherwise nigh-impossible to avoid situations, and claim it as something they can do. Of course, with no character page, we have to take your word for it, or just throw you out of the roleplay. Problem is that this means you will always do it, and it becomes a horrible habit to break from.

Making Up Powers Not On Your Character Page

Oh yeah, I've seen this. I've seen it a lot on here, especially random mobian people turning Super Saiyan 4 and using a kamehameha despite NO WHERE on their page saying they have saiyan blood or whatever. This is classed as Godmodding; more specific, breaking character boundaries without justification, and making stuff up for your character to have.

Making Stuff Up To Get Out of Otherwise Impossible Scenarios

This happens a lot, and I admit of being guilty of it on numerous occasions back in the days when I was first roleplaying. However, it's really not acceptable. It's happened here, and it's happened recently.

Dodge-spamming

Yes there are times when a dodge is a no-brainer, especially for the more stronger characters. I mean, someone throws a knife at someone who has good eyes and co-ordination, dodging is a given. However, when two people are constantly dodging attacks for ten posts, then you're starting to take the ****. I don't know why some members can take hits and others refuse to, but it's tiring seeing a fight when all the competitors do is trash talk and dodge-spam.

Auto-hitting and Ignoring

This is a two way thing, so it will be considerably long. Auto-hitting is the action of automatically hitting someone with your attacks. Unfortunately, a lot of it is going on in the Championship Tournament of Heroes, and is... disgusting to say the least. However, that leads me to Ignoring/No-Selling/Non-Reactions. This is when you declare you're going to do something, but then your opponent posts nothing to react with it, an example would be this;

P1: *Dashes in close to P2, ducking low and then goes for an uppercut* P2: Ah! Too Fast!

Now P2 didn't post any reaction, or attempt to dodge, block nor counter the attack. This leaves P1 to land a justifiable Auto-Hit. This is the only time when a Auto-hit is allowed, except when grabbing at an oncoming obstacle, including punches and kicks.

Random Carrying of Chaos Emeralds/Other Objects

I see this a lot in tournament roleplays as a "justified" way of characters hitting higher forms in comparison to other characters who need no auxiliary equipment to reach higher forms. This leads to 1) unexplained circumstance in why all characters are carrying chaos emeralds, 2) problems in terms of crossing over different user's universes. The usual solution is to just ban higher forms.

So yeah, I'll probably add more later.