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General Discussion / Character Description
« on: January 07, 2008, 09:20:36 am »
Hmm, had an interesting experience today with a character called (**removed**) I met in Hydlaa. Now I always call people who I have only just met "friend", if I meet them a number of times then I start calling them by name, it seems to me a good compromise between automatically knowing a characters name and never actually having anybody say "Hi, my name is Rumplestiltskin". I do usually look at a chracters description to get an idea of their physical appearance.
When I looked at (**removed**) description it was about 3 A4 pages long, so I didn't read it, it was to much in depth for my roleplay taste. When I called (**removed**) "friend" he was annoyed and said very pointedly, "DON'T CALL ME FRIEND" [read my character description I am a well known evil character]. So of course I apologised for calling him friend and explained that I couldn't know that just from looking at thim. To which he replied that I would have known if I had read his character description.
To me good Roleplay is rather spoiled if everything you need to know about the character is presented as a written biography in his description and reveals details of his past life that you couldn't possibly know at first meeting. If it had been a short description along the lines of "You see a somewhat shady character, his eyes dart about as if watching out for the guards and he regards you in a surly manner" I would have read it and certainly not addressed him as "friend".
So (**removed**), if you read this I hope you understand the reason for my mistake in calling you friend, however merely declaring yourself as a well known evil character in your description doesn't make it immediately obvious to everyone, I am in fact much happier with your first reaction, "DON'T CALL ME FRIEND" was nicely in character and gave me a good idea of your character, having to read 3 pages of text to find out not to call you friend is simply to much to be expected of everyone.
Hmm, perhaps we should have a better way of telling good from evil roleplayers than having to read their full description. How do other people feel about this? have you ever offended an evil player by calling them friend? Should I always call people friend at first no matter what it says in their description, unless it is something that is obvious in the first line of the description?
When I looked at (**removed**) description it was about 3 A4 pages long, so I didn't read it, it was to much in depth for my roleplay taste. When I called (**removed**) "friend" he was annoyed and said very pointedly, "DON'T CALL ME FRIEND" [read my character description I am a well known evil character]. So of course I apologised for calling him friend and explained that I couldn't know that just from looking at thim. To which he replied that I would have known if I had read his character description.
To me good Roleplay is rather spoiled if everything you need to know about the character is presented as a written biography in his description and reveals details of his past life that you couldn't possibly know at first meeting. If it had been a short description along the lines of "You see a somewhat shady character, his eyes dart about as if watching out for the guards and he regards you in a surly manner" I would have read it and certainly not addressed him as "friend".
So (**removed**), if you read this I hope you understand the reason for my mistake in calling you friend, however merely declaring yourself as a well known evil character in your description doesn't make it immediately obvious to everyone, I am in fact much happier with your first reaction, "DON'T CALL ME FRIEND" was nicely in character and gave me a good idea of your character, having to read 3 pages of text to find out not to call you friend is simply to much to be expected of everyone.
Hmm, perhaps we should have a better way of telling good from evil roleplayers than having to read their full description. How do other people feel about this? have you ever offended an evil player by calling them friend? Should I always call people friend at first no matter what it says in their description, unless it is something that is obvious in the first line of the description?