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Re: GENERAL DWRP QUESTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

based off what i see from people expressing this issue, it's less being "difficult to tag", and more a matter of split-second confusion scrolling past on a meme or smth and recognizing the character in the icon...only to realize it's not actually that character being played

presumably the effect hits more people when the character's more popular, which is why the advice is usually about picking less popular pbs. and tbf i've also sometimes seen people complain about the use of an obscure character too, because it got their hopes up that somebody was actually playing from that obscure canon they love and it, again, turned out not being that character

so either way somebody might fuss. but by rule of likelihood, yeah, you're apt to confuse more people using dean winchester's face from supernatural. probably wouldn't put me off from tagging personally if the guy seems neat otherwise. but if any other scruffy white dude would work for this character, i'd kinda wonder why you didn't just forego that confusion window entirely and just pick somebody slightly less everywhere in fandom?

like it's already gonna be an uphill battle for you to sell your obscure book character to passing players as it is...no need to make things more difficult for yourself than they need to be if you can help it idk

Re: GENERAL DWRP QUESTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

I think I might have played myself by going for the Dean Winchester example. I am having "do I use this person for this character"-style quandary, but I would say the exposure level would be more like... Karl Urban in his role as Skurge, maybe? Orlando Bloom as Will Turner?

But mainly I'm wondering where the line is for people I might one day tag, re: a non-immersion breaking PB, since this is likely a situation I'll keep bumping up against. Thanks for your feedback! 😊