My "pet Peeve" In Massivecraft Roleplay

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Can some staff member make a "beautiful" or "poetic" rating up in here?
 
Almost all of my characters have been unique, and based very little off of anything, if at all. The only exception being my forst, who was pretty much Aragorn from LOTR, but different backstory, personality, looks, etc. He was still pretty cringey though...

Otherwise, I've made almost all of my chars from scratch. Benedict being an exception in that his name is a mashup of two characters in a little known book, along with his Barony. His name was where it ended though. All my characters started as a concept that I wanted to roleplay, and a character was built around it, with highly unique names most of the time. Nobody in anything was ever named Herran, Alfonso, or I'rieth.

This is the part where I say about how I learned really fast and had a great start, but honestly... My first three were Aragorn, that char's mentor/unknown brother, and both of their unknown father/king. R I P. Then I had the Chi'ien-ji... We're not even gonna go there...
 
Gabauchi said:
A character shouldn't be ripped out of another work or narrative, but instead be representative of what you as a person have seen and felt, they should represent a shard of yourself, an amalgamation of your perceptions and experiences.
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I agree that players should not try to directly copy other works, but I disagree with the statement that characters should represent yourself. You are playing a character created by you, not the person you see in the mirror.
If you represent your characters views and perspectives based off of your own inclinations, you are roleplaying wrong in its entirety.
 
pokyug said:
I agree that players should not try to directly copy other works, but I disagree with the statement that characters should represent yourself. You are playing a character created by you, not the person you see in the mirror.
If you represent your characters views and perspectives based off of your own inclinations, you are roleplaying wrong in its entirety.
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I do beleive that every chracters holds a basis to a certain degree of the player who play's it.
I'm taking myself as example here, but You'l never see me playing a char that is directly the oposite of my moral compass. They will follow it alway's to a certain degree.
They're not me, but they stil posses a part of me.
Do you think this is wrong?
 
krios41 said:
I do beleive that every chracters holds a basis to a certain degree of the player who play's it.
I'm taking myself as example here, but You'l never see me playing a char that is directly the oposite of my moral compass. They will follow it alway's to a certain degree.
They're not me, but they stil posses a part of me.
Do you think this is wrong?
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My main, Conf, is basically me as far as personality and morals go. He has evolved over time in ways I have not- because hes been through shit I have not and hopefully wont ever have to go through (dakkar vampires jesus christ) , but the template is me. It just makes him easier to roleplay, I don't have to sit back and try too hard to get into character, even if its 3am I know what he would do.
 
I don't really see that your characters really follow your own morals... I've had characters kill orphans en mass, torture people for money, commit acts of Arson, and try to get people arrested because they were Slizzar and ugly.

On a more relative note, I've seen people roleplaying people directly from The Ranger's Apprentice book series. They even were a ranger from whatever kingdom in the book. I noticed this when another person pointed it out, since I've not read the books. Mostly I wouldn't recognize people playing as someone since I pretty much hate modern pop culture. There was a person roleplaying as Dan Middleton once, though. That's DanTDM's real name...
 
Legoclub22 said:
I don't really see that your characters really follow your own morals... I've had characters kill orphans en mass, torture people for money, commit acts of Arson, and try to get people arrested because they were Slizzar and ugly.

On a more relative note, I've seen people roleplaying people directly from The Ranger's Apprentice book series. They even were a ranger from whatever kingdom in the book. I noticed this when another person pointed it out, since I've not read the books. Mostly I wouldn't recognize people playing as someone since I pretty much hate modern pop culture. There was a person roleplaying as Dan Middleton once, though. That's DanTDM's real name...
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Yeah I remember back when I first read the rangers apprentice series and I remember seeing characters pop up EVERYWHERE and once I realized that was happening I changed up my character (anyone from a long time ago?) Shikia Lynn Shred. She was pretty well with a bow and used knives for up close fighting but was mostly awful at hand to hand.

But even now as I'm revamping that character, making it so much more better than she was before. In fact the whole family is getting rewritten and I'll probably be posting a family thread at some point. (Not nobles)
 
krios41 said:
I do beleive that every chracters holds a basis to a certain degree of the player who play's it.
I'm taking myself as example here, but You'l never see me playing a char that is directly the oposite of my moral compass. They will follow it alway's to a certain degree.
They're not me, but they stil posses a part of me.
Do you think this is wrong?
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The whole point of playing as a character... is to play as that character.... not to play as yourself. If you are posed with an obstacle IC, and you ask yourself how you'd act, then your not doing it right. If you ask yourself how your character would act in that situation then you are roleplaying correctly.
I'll leave it up to you to decide if your roleplay is being done as your character or as yourself.
 
pokyug said:
The whole point of playing as a character... is to play as that character.... not to play as yourself. If you are posed with an obstacle IC, and you ask yourself how you'd act, then your not doing it right. If you ask yourself how your character would act in that situation then you are roleplaying correctly.
I'll leave it up to you to decide if your roleplay is being done as your character or as yourself.
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How someone chooses to make their character is their own business, and if they make a character that is very similar to them, then so be it. There is nothing wrong with it. But we are discussing people who didn't make their characters, they stole them. And again, if thats how they want to do, then so be it. But most of us won't interact with them, nor do we need to.
 
pokyug said:
Regardless if it's ok to make a character similar to yourself, it is still bad taste.
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That seems to be your opinion, and while it is very much valid, I disagree. People who create these characters tend to be newer players, because it is generally easier to do so. If you continue to enjoy playing as this character, then I don't see the problem. How are you even supposed to know that the character is based off of them? You have no way of knowing unless you personally know them, and therefore, it honestly makes no difference. What this thread is referring to is people who make carbon copies of anime characters, and we can all see that.
 
Cescre said:
If you're playing a character based of yourself, is it even considered roleplay?
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I think what we all need to remember is that we are a bunch of nerds on computers, playing Minecraft to replace the lack of socialization that we so desperately want in real life. If playing a similar character is what makes you happy, then you do you.
 
To keep it all the way real, why does it matter if someone RP's as a character that is similar to them? You (as both a character, and a person) will never know unless you are told. So why does someone else actions (that would not have bothered or annoyed you otherwise) become so agitating because you know that they based the character off of themselves?
 
Kidspair said:
To keep it all the way real, why does it matter if someone RP's as a character that is similar to them? You (as both a character, and a person) will never know unless you are told. So why does someone else actions (that would not have bothered or annoyed you otherwise) become so agitating because you know that they based the character off of themselves?
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^ this. Also like I said above, just because your character starts off a lot like you IRL, they will change slowly over time. Conf started off as basically just me, mainly for simplicity sake because I'm busy a lot, and I didnt have time to push into making an entirely different character. Also its easier to roleplay at 3 am -which I end up doing often- if I dont have to sit and try to consider how my character would react. I instinctively know "Ims stab this dude omfg" XD
 

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