I feel like If I’ve seen one, “Grizzled Human Mercenary with a dark past” character I have seen them all.
On the flip side I also really get tired of the “SUPER DUPER LIGHT ZEALOT” which would make the Scarlet Crusade blush.
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I am not annoyed with cliches. What annoys me are people who don’t roleplay a character.
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The ERP types get on my nerves at times. I want to use an alt to test something and I get a lot of spam for ERP guilds and I wonder if they even are in that lifestyle.
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Dragons. Is that a cliche? I dislike dragon rpers and those that are half undead half insert race
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The word former.
Everyone has a past (except babies), and everyone evolves over time, but if I received a dollar for every time I saw “Former Shado-pan”, “Former Arch Druid”, “Former Archmage”, or “Former sentinel” I could retire by now.
My demon hunter was previously a priestess, but what is added by writing “Former Priestess of Elune” to her title?
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Dark edgelords who sit in the corner and only talk about darkness and how they have a void lord inside of them and also brood all the time
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Seconded. Which is why Cinderhammer here has a dark past of abuse from Fire Elementals and being forced into service… and is a happy spark of bloodlust, slightly fantasy racist remarks, insult throwing contests and bar brawls.
Because it goes against the grain.
Orc Male Warriors
Human Male Paladins
More often it’s the players than the characters.
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People who play body forms that don’t match the avatar.
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The strong silent type. Nothing against the cliche, but if you’re playing one of these and want to rp one on one, please give your rp partner something to work with or things start to feel really one-sided.
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I’d have to say the Mary Sue/glory hog cliche,so many people fought and died in the battles of the warcraft universe and some attention hungry dingus has to go and give these hard working people a collective slap in the face by being the SOLE hero to do all the things as though everyone else is chopped liver. There’s no real point in making these kind of characters outside of trying to feed an overinflated ego or to try and [Edited by Blizzard] out for attention. Not to mention it’s a pretty lazy approach and makes said roleplayer the Sandra Lee of RP.
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Can’t really say what cliches bother me,especially with the way I play this character. He’s a doctor and a paladin but he’s also a bit of a dude in distress so I’d feel silly if I went on about cliches… ^_^;;
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Er, unless it’s very drastic, that is really an issue though?
I mean, sometimes there’s no match for what you want… For instance my human female is supposed to be short and scrawny, but there’s nothing similar in the game, and the regular human feels way too voluptuous.
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I’m referring to people who roleplay as dragons, block sized bugs, vrykrul, yes, very drastic departures from the avatar they have.
I hate the cliche of vanilla. Where the character is so painfully bland that if your character has any creativity at all, they stick out.
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Ah, gotcha!
I don’t like characters that have huge ties to lore characters, simply because I’ve viewed lore based characters as blizzard’s property. I have not the rights to such characters, nor permission to use them. I may reference their existence, but I do that using already established events around them. Something like acknowledging Kalec being in Dalaran or that Malfurion is a great druid. That is different than saying my druid has studied under Malfurion and goes out to tea with him on the regular.
In life, in rp, in writing, I have a big pet peeve with close minded people, who lack the creative thinking to conceptualize outside the box they are given. These are the nurses that have no foresight or just follow orders unquestioning, the writers that follow a formula, the doctors that just check down the list. A lack of unique thinking creates a world that is sterile. And I hate sterile technique, to be honest. I can do it, I just don’t ever like it. And too much of it can kill people, and kill stories. There is more than one way to solve a problem, and I have to have that mindset to be effective at my job. So. It bleeds into my roleplaying, my novel, and my overall views on writing.
Ah, I missed the mark. When it comes to specific character cliches, I hate seeing the illogical. A master of the arts without adequate story weaving to establish such. It just bothers me a tich. I dislike the overly negative characters, that doom and gloom all the time. But on the flip side, I also dislike the overly peppy, happy, quirky ones as well. I don’t like soldiers as much. There are so many soldiers or ex soldiers. So many. They always seem to be the same stale “I’ve seen war, boi.” too.
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I absolutely don’t want to disparage the way anyone RPs, but it bothers me so much that the uniqueness of my various characters, and the fact that none of them are dirt farmers, is apparently a problem for other people. Bland characters are fine, but it seems like many people who play characters that way take issue with others not being similarly bland.
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The character who has/suddenly has developed some horrible disease (which they have googled up and can recite the technical name, symptoms,etc.) Or had some horrible accident and have some mad scientist/engineer who create artificial mech limbs for them that shoot bullets, fire whatever and you should be in awe, treating them like a China doll or total focus on them in EVERY RP they are involved in.
I agree. Or people who try to be medical without actually understanding a thing about how a body works sans magic, let alone with magic.
Another thing on a similar note. I greatly dislike seeing psych disorders as an RP character. No, OCD doesn’t mean “Oh look at how much I hate germs.” Trust me, I wish it was. “Oh look how ADD I am- squirrel.” Is not ADD. Probably because I personally have forms of both but it bothers me.
One pop culture ADHD case I’ve seen that I’ve actually liked was Pinkie Pie in the new MLP. Granted, I’ve not watched beyond Season 4. But when I watched it, she was so similar to what it truly is, anxiety, depression, and all the bells and whistles that come with the disorder. Twilight had actually believable OCD, again with both the mental and physical aspects that come with it.
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