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Really? What did ye used to do back in the PnP days? 
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Voice comms are useless in an RP environment, Londoner. Kind of immersion breaking when the cute Swedish blonde you're chatting to has the voice of a brickie from Glasgow.
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Really? What did ye used to do back in the PnP days?
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I didn't. CoH is my first RPing experience!
I'd imagine, though, that generally people didn't switch genders... It's a bit immersion breaking afterall!
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Of course, there's always an exception to the rule. Fusebox often says "Damn, I'll just be-ar-be." and I think she's said "I lol'd." once or twice. I know Madame Midknight certainly has, and she's said "Ex Dee!" as an exclaimation of amusement a few times.
"Semi-colon closebracket, baby."
"What?"
"Y'know, the ol' sem-col-clo-bra. Winkie smile?"
"... O-kay."
"Pff. Noob."
Go on. You can just imagine it.
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I didn't. CoH is my first RPing experience!
I'd imagine, though, that generally people didn't switch genders... It's a bit immersion breaking afterall!
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When I was a little girl (about 12/13 years old) and playing PnP Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay with my brothers, several of my characters were male. My favourite was the dwarf Troll/Giant/Dragonslayer...
The Purple Party Pagan of Paragon
Globals: @Morgana Fiolett / @Genevieve Moore
Altoholic with too many characters to count now I have all these shiny servers...
Terrifying as it is that webspeak is beginning to leak into the everyday speech of us gamers, it doesn't necessarily make it believable behaviour for our characters. I don't know how Wolfram or Wavekite would react if someone said "lol" to them in a conversation, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't consider it normal.
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It's not as common, but it still happens. GMs in particular often don't get a choice; if you have any NPCs of the opposite gender, you're going to have to go IC as them at some point. I think the difference is that in PnP games, you're already imagining everything else, so the voices aren't any more of a problem. In CoX, we see the character talking, not the player, and I imagine it would grate a lot more if the two didn't match.
Knights Exemplar: Wolfram, Autumnfox, Starlit Spirit.
Militia: The Portent, Wavekite, Mr. Sandman.
The Cadre: WarpLocke, Zajin.
Numerous others.
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Voice comms are useless in an RP environment, Londoner. Kind of immersion breaking when the cute Swedish blonde you're chatting to has the voice of a brickie from Glasgow.
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Really? What did ye used to do back in the PnP days?
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I didn't. CoH is my first RPing experience!
I'd imagine, though, that generally people didn't switch genders... It's a bit immersion breaking afterall!
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Really? I'd have sworn you'd have been an old skool PnPer FFM.
It was alright for the characters but as the GM/DM there was no choice sometimes but to aim vaguely for an accent and go for it (with thoughts of "Why did I make the chief antagonist a former 18th century East London prostitute turned vampire")
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To my shame, I used to take the Mickey out of the "weirdo's with the dice" at school.
I'm better now, though... And am a quick learner! 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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To my shame, I used to take the Mickey out of the "weirdo's with the dice" at school.
I'm better now, though... And am a quick learner!
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And oddly I don't really get online roleplaying, it seems way too restrictive to me to be shoehorning it into a game (and the game aspect distracts me too much ).
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To my shame, I used to take the Mickey out of the "weirdo's with the dice" at school.
I'm better now, though... And am a quick learner!
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And oddly I don't really get online roleplaying, it seems way too restrictive to me to be shoehorning it into a game (and the game aspect distracts me too much ).
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Yes and no.. In game RPing is a good way to learn, but is a little restrictive. But I do most of mine on IRC these days, which has no limits.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Standard stuff really. Godmoding, improper grammar (though I do occasionally miss a full stop at the end of what I'm typing, slyly ) text and internet speak, TOOLS *brandishes power drill threateningly*, repetitive mispelling beyond a random typo...
People ignoring or being oblivious to what's going on around them and the canon seriously annoy me. I brought up the subject of the Second Rikti War with someone and they were confused IC and OOC. This person, if I recall, had 21+ month veteran rewards and was playing a level 20-something character. If all news of this somehow escaped their minds, I'd understand that (vaguely), but if you simply blank out the events of the world I'll flip. Raaaaaaaaaaawr! 
As was touched upon earlier in the thread, I'm annoyed by end of the world plots slightly because, unless you have a really, REALLY good excuse for being able to destroy the world without anyone paying attention and nothing happening to them anyway (E.G. it was all a parallel dimension which you destroyed in the end!) then the tables are always tilted in favor of the heroes. Predetermining a plot is something that I don't think should ever be done, unless the GM kept a lid on it for plot twists and such. Makes it boring, to be honest.
And although it doesn't annoy me as much as it upsets me, people (who are actually smart, respectable people to my knowledge, I think) telling me outright to delete my characters seriously gets me down. Yes, that has actually happened to me recently. Pretty sure it wasn't a joke, either. I was honestly speechless for a moment when I saw somebody who I've done nothing wrong to say it. Regardless, I'm above naming names, so I'll stop whinging and shut up.[/emo]
On another note, I hate pets. Apart my lurvely fat ginger terrier. The rest of them can burn in hell. Burn I say!
Hey, I was honestly joking with that crack on global, really I was!!! REALLY sorry if I offended you! 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Humour!
Hate, hate, hate, hate it!
@ShadowGhost & @Ghostie
The Grav Mistress, Mistress of Gravity
If you have nothing useful to say, you have two choices: Say something useless or stay quiet.
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Where is you imagination man
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It can only go so far!
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.