You don't need to change your name.

We're not being invaded, we just had a small influx of people since last night who have to register to be able to post their questions about what happened to Seed .

And even if we are, why are you worrying, Sandling? If it gets too bad we can always just ban everyone like we ban just about 10 spambots each day .

We're having people over on Wednesday. We -could- possibly reschedule that, but I'd really rather not.

(And I'm also having lunch with someone that afternoon, so if we play during the evening I won't be worth much).

(updated my char profile, and I'm vain enough to bump the thread so next time everyone will know to see a new Ishi when they 'look' at her )

Saturday for me too.

I only ever heard the elitist thing from other RPers. So, by RPers about other RPers. So I didn't count it in the general misconceptions about RPers. I didn't know non-RPers also said that about RPers.

She means she wants to know that, in the epic story (that the book is based on, as well as the film) who did the hero of that story kill?

Ok, I want the name of the film, the names of the two actors, and the final decision on the name of the baby, plus all the previous possibilities for its name.

A barrel!  :mrgreen:

I just don't know why people think they need to look beautiful to have a non-average char. By the whole nature of what you're doing you know you're char isn't going to end up average anyways, even if they are average in all ways that they can be (looks, skills, personality, etc). They are going to be in a non-average situation and lots of non-average stuff will be happening to them.  And in most of those games they are outright super-powerful to begin with (everyone's a hero in most MMOs).
And besides, when all the chars are either stunningly beautiful or hideously ugly, your gorgeous or ugly char will hardly stand out of the crowd anymore! There were so many of the beuatiful chars in WoW that I got really bored with it, and my own regular-looking char actually drew more attention. By that time I had stopped making gorgeous chars for a while already though, so it wasn't even sought-after attention. It did result in many people asking me for RP tips for some reason.

And the looking beautiful and the overly dramatic stuff happening to their char fails to make their chars more interesting, it's usually just annoying.

I think people do need to forget about / stop thinking constantly about having to portray a different gender, when they want to play a char of the other gender.
I think the identification problems also stem from that in part: people think too much about now being a different gender. I see a lot of people having "Oh my god I need to portray someone of a different genderthan me, gotta act girly, gotta act GIRLY!" type reactions. Not to mention that their idea of what acting girly/being a woman means is usually the kind of stuff that makes you wince when you have to watch it (stereotyping etc). (same goes for women playing men, only that happens a lot less often).
I don't usually play a male char, but when I do, I just play a personality, I would do very little, possibly nothing, different than when I play a female char (possibly apart from the sexual orientation of the char, I would probably make a male char attracted to female chars, not other male chars. Or maybe not, but with so many RPers still shying away from (male)  gay relationships in RP, even though they should be able to separate RP frpom RL better than that (:P), my char would likely be destned to a lonely life, and I would feel so sad for it).

I also think a lot of those lesbian relationships come from those male players assuming that the other female char is RL female, no matter that their own char isn't either, and that it's much more likely that the other female char is RL male too. Not (just) that they want to live out some fantasy. You see it so often, them finding out after a while that the other player was also male, and the relationship getting quickly broken off. And also in female/male RP relationships, the RL male player asking you for your gender, because they don't want to RP a relationship with a char if the player behind it is male.

And to the seducing of a female char by a friend, are you sure it was cybering he was after?
I would make a distinction between people after cybersex, and an IC relationship progressing from fairytale-romance-no-sex-involved to one where sex is a part of it. Not everyone does RP sex, but then you can just talk to the player of the char that your char is involved with and get both your standpoints clear on it. If one of the two doesn't do RP sex, you can always just imply that the chars are having sex without playing it out.

I wouldn't count a dramaqueen as a stereotype of a female character, because it can be for either sex, and it is more like a problem with a certain player. No matter what char they play (can be a realistic char mostly too), they will seek attention, will always need more heroic deeds, more tragic tragedies, the worstest butcherings in their past, etc, than anyone around them.
I count it as something that falls under more of a player-thing, like those players that insist on telling their char's whole life story when they first meet you, or the ones talking in Ye Olde English, because they think that is what RP is.

I knew probably the worst The Victim stereotype I have ever seen, anywhere, when I was playing WoW, but she was not a drama-seeker at all (He I mean, really, because guess what? Male player ).
And I also knew a terrible dramaqueen in WoW who played a very non-stereotypical character.

And it doesn't have to be intertwined with the victim, but perhaps the people who are dramaqueens often end up stereotyping their female chars that way?

And I do count it as slipping up for me, because it happens when I don't want it to, and I feel unsatisfied about it afterwards.

A lot of it is my opinion, but I didn't just make it all up. There are a million articles about this subject already, so I didn't really do anything ground-breaking (:P), but I did verify what I wrote apart from the stuff that is just highly dependent on someone's opinions.

And then of course there is all the stuff I can take straight from personal experience, also on the mistaken side . I'm not guilt-free when it comes to RPing something at least close to a stereotype .

Well, if you can opt for going solo, and you weren't going in there to find RP anyways, you might as well give it a try, right?

Even if you don't have to play with others, they can still bother you though. I don't know if the game is PvP heavy, but if the community is very bad there might be a lot of gankers.