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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

would you rather rp with someone with an average writing style, but spot on characterization or someone who delivers amazing tags, yet doesn't have much of a grip on a character's personality?

[(Anonymous)]

It depends if I know the canon — if I do, and assuming 'average' means 'reasonable', then the former, no question. If I don't know the canon, then I'd be happy with the second.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

If I know the canon and the voice is off, no amount of prettying up the writing is going to help that. I won't enjoy tagging with them, because I'll always be noticing how they don't sound like the character.

If I don't know the canon and the writing is engaging, even if someone else tells me the character is off, I don't know how so it doesn't stop me from enjoying tagging with them.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get how tags could qualify as amazing if they don't manage to capture the character's personality, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

This

[(Anonymous)]

the writing could be challenging and engaging enough for people to overlook any characterization flaws they see in a character they know something about, for example.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

characterization > everything

[(Anonymous)]

Characterization and amazing tags pretty much go hand in hand.

But I'd probably go with the amazing tags. Chances are I wouldn't know the canon anyway and I'm tired of players who are great at mimicking their characters' canon mannerisms but can't understand that [...] doesn't fly in RP or are too incompetent to actually pull their character off even though they can tell you exactly what happened in which chapter.

[(Anonymous)]

The first one, definitely.

[(Anonymous)]

What about dialogue? The ability to write good dialogue is an important writing skill, but it's also an important part of capturing a character's voice