A Question on Characters
A Question on Characters
In WoD/RotS there was a lot of characters. It got to the point where I had no idea who was who anymore. And with so many characters, I had to write huge posts to ensure I didn't neglect anyone, and I still did. (Eleredar, Dagger, Terra.) Others have plenty of characters and quite a few end up forgotten.
However, in TotH, while slower paced, I've noticed something. I know who every single character is. Each person has 3, 4 at most as opposed to RotS/WoD's 7+ characters for some people. It doesn't get as confusing in TotH. Only one char was ever neglected in its 100+ pages, and that was mine.
So this is my question. Is it a good idea to consider placing a character limit in a RP? Should we do that for our upcoming RPs? Or do you feel you have a right to do as you please and that this breaches your fairness and right to RP.
(This is, at this point, all discussion. Nothing is being put into place. I am just honestly curious.)
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The biggest problem, I would say, would be how insanely difficult it would be for a person new to the roleplay to remember all these characters and who they belong to. I'd certainly feel overwhelmed.
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*Looks around, then hides because she's the only one against this idea*
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And Kam does raise a good point. Anyone new would be thrown off by the fact that there's a million and one different characters going around and you have no idea what to make of them. These days, I have no idea who's paired with a mate, who's family, etc in the pokemon RP, for example.
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Exactly. Like.. The characters I'm definitely using next RP? Ghost, Rust, Phantom.. Any other Eeveelution-Rampardos hybrids that pop up... So I may end up going over the limit if we had one. That would totally kill the plans I had XDrubybeam wrote:In my opinion theres rewards on either sides: someone may have to use over the limit of characters, therefor the limit may be bad, however it does clear up some of the confusion, but it also takes away some of the characters you may need
How about instead of a limit, we just try and cut down on the characters we have? So we won't have as many, but we won't be limited on how many we can have. It'd be hard to resist bringing in even more characters for some of us, since there wouldn't be a limit, but I think it might work out better if we do it this way. Besides, I'm sure most of us have quite a few characters we want to bring back in the next big RP.. But what about the new characters we want to have? Like.. Let's say.. There was a limit of... 5 characters per person. That'd leave me with.. No new characters to have, since I'd have five (Ghost, Rust, Phantom and the two that I'm planning to introduce soon. Yay moar eggs!). I wouldn't be able to have any new characters, which isn't really fair.
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The thing is, new characters aren't really needed. Condensing eight+ characters into three would make for less characters, sure, but it would really make the RP easier for everyone, and tbh a lot of characters are just copies of earlier characters that no longer get RPed. Basically, I'm talking about recycling, and really, having a new character for every idea you want to happen isn't really that fun, having it happen to the ones you already have however is.rubybeam wrote:In my opinion theres rewards on either sides: someone may have to use over the limit of characters, therefor the limit may be bad, however it does clear up some of the confusion, but it also takes away some of the characters you may need
Not a personal attack, just my opinion. The pokemon RPs have far too many characters overall, and it just gets really confusing.
EDIT: And it's not unfair to anyone, it's to increase the quality of RP. RPing against fourteen characters you don't know isn't fun. Senna, if you wanted to bring in more new characters, couldn't you just drop one of the old ones?
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Except that sometimes new characters ARE needed. We need villainous characters. The bad guys. Meaning, some of us will indeed need new characters.Saturo wrote:The thing is, new characters aren't really needed. Condensing eight+ characters into three would make for less characters, sure, but it would really make the RP easier for everyone, and tbh a lot of characters are just copies of earlier characters that no longer get RPed. Basically, I'm talking about recycling, and really, having a new character for every idea you want to happen isn't really that fun, having it happen to the ones you already have however is.rubybeam wrote:In my opinion theres rewards on either sides: someone may have to use over the limit of characters, therefor the limit may be bad, however it does clear up some of the confusion, but it also takes away some of the characters you may need
Not a personal attack, just my opinion. The pokemon RPs have far too many characters overall, and it just gets really confusing.
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Secondly, adding input. I think five characters is a good limit, though. Sure, for people who have had 5+, that's unfair...But let's say there's 7 RPers. Every person has 5 characters. That's 35 different characters to keep track of, remember who is who, who is in what family, etc. While difficult to keep track of...Imagine if some of those people had 7 characters. Or nine. Or 12.
And eventually it gets silly. I mean. I have a few characters planned for the next one. Nightmare, a bad guy, Sol (Who doesn't count. Explanation later.) and Lyra. That's four characters. Three if you don't count Sol.
I can understand having characters you don't want to let go, but sometimes you -do- have to pick and choose.
Same with Sat. No attacks on anyone, just being vague and voicing my thoughts.
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I'm going to have more, I admit. Most of them are side characters, ones that may or may not play a role. My mains will be Buzzard, Lark and my new villain character - Summer too, if all goes as planned.
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.. Urgh, I had a lot more to say about this idea in real life.. But I can't remember any of it >.<
Edit: Also, no offense, but to be perfectly honest... I don't really want to be in a RP where I'm limited to a certain amount of characters. I just don't. Merr.
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Oh, and why would that be? Oh, maybe because YOU AREN'T EVEN IN THE STINKIN' RP!! Of course you don't know half my characters!Saturo wrote:I have no idea who half your characters are
*Nods* Yeah, as much as I love the Pokemon RP.. And Moonlost's idea for the plot.. If there's going to be a limit on characters, I'm not sure if I'll be joining the next one.rubybeam wrote:I'm going to agree wityh senna and lupis here I mean I can understand limits with smaller rps but like the larger ones we have here..i'm sorry just no. for me it ruins the fun so yeah if theres a character limit i'm sorry i'm not joining
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