Someone wrote in [community profile] rpanons 2016-01-06 07:00 pm (UTC)

Re: Confessions

I'm sick of the typical interactions panfandoms tend to result in (explaining world differences, adjusting to new technology, explaining different species and time periods, etc) and I'm sick of the "everyone thrown into a new world and they have to get used to it" style of play. Throwing a giant mish-mash of characters together is just w style of game I'm not really into anymore; I like starting off with established relations and not having to have the time period/world differences talk with every new character mine meets if they happen to be an alien or from the 1500s or something.

I guess that means I'm mostly sick of panfandom JAMJARS and I would love more AU games. However even then I'm a little sick of castmates and enabling and all that stuff, and trying to incorporate a huge range of characters into a single cohesive world. For example, I played in a panfandom AU and would have loved having siblings for my character to play off of. However, he has canon siblings and even in AU games it's generally expected that canon families will remain the same in case a castmate apps. So being a lone canon warrior in an AU game generally results in a ton of handwaved behind the scenes relations because no one is playing those characters.

Single fandom games can have that problem too but there is only one cast to app into so it isn't that exaggerated. With OC games anyone can app a relation at any time and you don't have to wait for someone to come along and play from your canon.

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