RPing pet hates

[Dreamstalker]

The friend in the Ghostbusters RPG did some godmodding, but we generally ignored it (I think everyone wanted to see how far she would go and how creative we would be in putting a stop to it).

She went into the realm of deus ex machina ridiculousness when one of the canon characters "died". Basically, the Mary Sue Of Doom retconned herself to have Time Lord-like powers (think of how River saved Eleven). When she tried this, the demon jumped to her--an important part of the battle setup that she ignored was that anyone who engaged this entity directly was not to be touched if they were still conscious. He was playing possum knowing that it would try to find a better target (just dumb luck that target was her ...now that I think back on it that setup was the most stupidly obvious thing in the campaign).

She couldn't accuse us of not telling her what was going on (every piece of advice for the encounter was followed except for the one bit in the middle she didn't like). Mary Sue didn't die, but lost all her powers permanently and gained a few flaws...one day she forgot about a major one and her character did die.

The next one she played was surprisingly normal.

[Android Kaeli]

I fully understand that controlling another character is one of the big no-no's of RPing, which is why there are safeguards that I've put up against overcontrol. If there IS overcontrol, then the player[s] would be kicked out and their characters left to do whatever -- I've had to warn a few people to not overcontrol other characters. If another player kills a character that's not their own outside of spawned fodder, that's an automatic kick.

It's what Skunkle mentioned: it is a reaction to something that someone else did and the reaction another character has to it while also keeping the flow of the RP going. It's not like I allow the players to take another player's character away from them or do a free for all for the characters, unless the character owner will be away and says that so and so will be taking over such and such character until further notice.

[Mytical]

When two people work together about a roleplay, and one gives the other permission (ie they have talked/im'd whatever with each other)..then it is fine. If not, then the forum I moderate I WILL go back and delete/edit the post. If it is a forum I do not moderate I will talk to the poster about it, and even go so far (if they won't change it) to make sure others note to ignore it..ie it never happened.

[Hyena Dandy]

I only control someone else's character in a situation where we've discussed what we're doing before-hand. I'll do the same thing in a roleplay, if my friend and I have planned out a sketch (we redo comedy routines with our characters as well as musical numbers) then we'll ignore any attempts by someone else to interfere with the sketch. If the event isn't planned out before-hand, I won't have my character hit someone. I'll have them ATTEMPT to hit someone, and allow that person a chance to dodge it. There are exceptions, but only with people I know really well.

[Dreamstalker]

I'll let the GM take temporary control of my character if it moves the story along and it's something central to the plot that I either forgot to do, or didn't react to/do in time (that isn't dependent on character response).

[Mytical]

A gm/dm should also not take control of characters unless like mentioned above..ie players ok. That is a pet peeve of mine. Who says because there is a noise behind me I automatically turn around? Will I? Most likely, but never assume anything with me. Now if characters are out of control, I might see it, but other then if I am able to dodge/hit/etc something .. a characters actions should be left to the character.

[Hyena Dandy]

I posted this before, but I wanna bring it up again.

Being interrupted. 'Cause last night, I was in an awesome RP on the Lil' Miss Rarity page on Facebook. It was great,and really tense. The storyline we've been running (which is different from the Tumblr) is that their parents won't let her see her sister, and she's sad about it. So one of the other characters, who is an incarnation of death who's fallen in love with Rarity (Fandom RP yay?) has taken the form of a little kid. Sheclaims her parents are away and she needs to stay with Sweetie for some time. It's kinda a tense moment and then this guy just jumps in and makes an ass of himself and I'm like... Dude. Uncalled for.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I will post this, cuz it happened in an RP of mine recently. Said RP is a Streetfighter one, with canon characters only. No fan characters allowed at all; given that the Streetfighter canon has tons of characters, it's hardly an issue, yet this idiot tried to join it with her fan character the other day. -.- The fan character wasn't a Mary Sue, but it is laid down in the rules that fan characters are not allowed, so I was rather annoyed that she'd ignored them. Also, the RP is past fifty pages and I generally don't let new people join after that, as they'll only get lost within the story. She claimed to have read it all, but her post showed clearly that she had not.