Re: Part 2 I ran out of characters

Date: 2006-02-04 11:56 am (UTC)
I live in a house with Tim, and he tells me how he's going to change character classes three times over the course of twenty levels in order to do this, that and the other.
I don't do that. I just don't see some of my characters progressing as much as others because I don't see anywhere they can go. The only character I can now see getting near high level is Nimbus, because he doesn't need to have too much backstory. Juilin has no history i.e. he has nothing to make a future out of. Daenaram was going to have a wonderful future, but he died. Vaexarius had a detailed backplot that didn't get in anyone else's way, that I was promised would turn into side plot during a couple of games. He died too.
The only way I know I can play a character that will last is if I play guard spod in walking tank armour, who never does anything, says anything or claims anything that might have anythng to do with anything else whatsoever. If I don't commit suicide from boredom, that is. I find Juilin boring to play, because I'm being so careful not to define anything. It's desperately dry and I don't have a great deal of fun.

If I come out wearing something other than the Tree as an insignia, people will think I'm being a sourpuss. Plus, they will think I am trying to convert them/define them/do my own thing (God forbid). Ergo, he's coming out with mothing. I'll very happily buy one of them, just don't expect me to wear it.

I sat and wrote a story because no-one told me I couldn't. Indeed, everyone sat there idle and probably pointed at laughed, including the GM who should have been doing his job and paying attention. Instead, he waited for three months then waded in and told me to fuck off. Had he said it right at the start, I would have gone somewhere else and those with no inclination to care (i.e. everyone else) wuld have been spared it and I could go off and do my own little thing somewhere the important people wouldn't have to worry about it.

I find playing my characters boring, because of everyone else's desperate desire to be freeform contraining me utterly into doing things I don't want to do. I understand that larp is not always fun, and calls for people to occasionally do things that are difficult, hurtful and a general pain the ass, but I feel as though I'm in solitary confinement at the hands of you people. I can't do anything for fear of others asking me not to afterwards, because there are no rules to say I can't beforehand.

In short, I currently find playing larps to be anything but enjoyable, ergo something has gone wrong.
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