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tbh this is why I feel like a lot of OC RPers just need to sit down and write short fiction about their world, get it out of their system

meanwhile i feel like a lot of people just don't want to read in the reading hobby. maybe i'm the oddball here but i'm not against reading a character sheet that's a bit wordy because i play a lot of tabletops. walls of text don't necessarily put me off if the information's presented in an organized way

as a dm i'd rather get someone who writes a bit too much about their oc than the weekly warrior who ticked the gender/class/race boxes yet left the background blank

nayrt i absolutely don't mind reading when i already have some degree of investment in the oc. but if i'm trying to make a decision of whether to tag them in a meme? i want the elevator pitch upfront.

i enjoy reading [author i like] because they tell interesting stories with characters who are fun to read about

i don't really feel like diving into a wall of text just so i can play with yet another modelface urban fantasy oc (or yet another boring shonen protag, or yet another brooding action hero, or yet another quippy MCU character)

dwrp is like emergency medicine, give me the facts as succinctly as possible so we can get to work

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the whole 'don't want to read in the reading hobby' argument has never carried water because yes, we all like to read. but that doesn't mean I'll read a dry contract or instruction manual the same way i will an intriguing novel. it's all about appropriate presentation.

i don't think anyone is really against too much information on a profile, just make it digestible. don't make it mandatory to read 2,000 words before play, get me interested first.

no one's saying you can't have an elevator pitch and a 'read more' detailed profile too. but when you're not at the part where you're engaging in the writing hobby together, you can't be asking people to care enough to read a novel about what may end up being an unappealing character prospect.

ayrt, and as a dwrp mod the largest amount of revisions/rejections I handed out to OCs were because of basic chronology issues or an obvious contradiction, usually because they had so much tl;dr bloat that they didn't realize their 'weak, cowardly, and scared of fighting' OC had to make their first kill at age 3 if they're 18 at the time of the app

I'll read every last bit of it if I'm invested or if I have to (modding) but some people really could benefit from paring down and hammering out those basic issues, and sometimes that means writing a 20 page fic set in your world to get the worldbuilding fun out of your system

like how everyone took you saying 'a bit wordy' as 'pages and pages of bloat'

no one said that.

are you okay? do you need someone to talk to?

i think you need to go back to wankgate since you keep being needlessly hostile all over this thread

there is no wankgate :)

also i haven't been? not even sure who you think i am, because i was replying to a shitstirring aggressive anon?

so it's really annoying? when you write like this? this annoying inflection? turning everything into a question?

They werent? Doing that? The first question mark was expressing bafflement at you misconstruing their statements? And the second one was an actual question?

anon they were referring to

don't bother anon- it's a shit stirrer, i assume one of the people mods mentioned as spamming threads with wg style crap

isn't that this entire thread though? unless people start specifying word counts or giving examples who the hell knows what 'a bit wordy' or 'bloat' could mean, we could all be bitching about the exact same thing or talking about two completely and totally different things

I like to read

I don't want to read 2000 words of background starting with your character's parents' conceptions and the specific details of the rules of your special magic system that would never make it to the final cut of your currently unpublished book when I'm deciding whether or not to tag you for the first time

this. i love reading that kind of stuff for an oc i've already been tagging with and have gotten invested/interested in. but if i'm just looking to see whether i think our characters could have an interesting thread together, i just want an elevator pitch. keep it short and sweet.

exactly. the reality is i don't really care to know the nitty gritty about your original or canon character unless we have deep cr, and we're not getting anywhere near that if i can't wrap my head around them to tag in. make it easy for me, or get used to the tag-out life.

liking to read doesn't mean one should like to read everything

wordy character sheets are dry and tedious

triggered lots of people with this one

In DWRP, you're not a DM. You're a fellow player who wants to be an equal participant in the thread instead of an NPC for someone to be awesome at. That's the difference, hope it helps.

Yes, because anon saying they're a tabletop DM means they approach DWRP exactly like tabletop. It's not like an important DM skill is being aware of your location and audience.

I know wankgate closed but take this attitude elsewhere.

i'm okay with wordier character pages because i'm a tabletop dm and used to that sort of thing ≠ i approach dwrping exactly like tabletop rping

hope this helps

it's not a pertinent or relevant difference to this conversation

hope this helps

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