Jan 14, 2020, 11:01 PM

I think a lot of people love doing horrible things to their PCs so that others will pay attention to them. Sometimes it's not entirely clear where the line of compelling/annoying is.

Like I think almost everyone but the person who generates it eventually grows tired of the PC that is constantly needing to be rescued from kidnappers/rapists/assassins every week. And a lot of people get tired of the being a total unrelenting jerk ic for Reasons You Should Unravel (but forget about reciprocal play)?

But when you are talking about stuff like trauma, ect, you do run into people's leeriness about whether you are a sane person to play or with or running into RL discomfort/distaste. And if you are not very attuned to reading the room you can get in real trouble real quick.

I have to have trauma or some kind of major flaw in all my PCs to find then interesting. I dont think everyone has to be this way but it's just who I am as a storyteller/RPer. How much I play it depends on whether or not I am able to tell if the other person will enjoy it, or at least be open to it. It might be that some who have RPed with me on some PCs have the impression that I don't have interest in those things because I have not gotten a read to find out if it would be welcome or not.

There are very few off topic RP subjects for me; I admit that I do not do age play or pedophilia ever. (Though I have had PCs that were involved in child marriage or who were abused as kids that is background only and never explicitly talked about). Literally nothing else bothers me. I may not alwats choose to engage in onscreen acting out of other stuff depending on the PC, player, or game rules, but I have no problems with people who do and arent forcing it on others.

And I've met a ton of people who do the same, they just arent infamous because they dont need to shove people's faces in it indiscriminately. I am always grateful when I find those folks and they often fuel my creativity and have sustained my interest in mushing this whole time. I suspect there are more people out there that I sadly miss because i am reserved about expressing RP prefs in an audience I dont know yet, but that's no one's fault but mine for taking a safer route maybe.