Dear Super-RP'ers.

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Originally Posted by Dererk

This really happens? Wow IV no words.

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No, it doesn't. But it sure got people to pay attention to the OP, and that's what's important.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

No, it doesn't. But it sure got people to pay attention to the OP, and that's what's important.

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Yes it does. It's extremely rare in my experience, but it does happen.
I've had a df party who were RPing, and would spend more time getting in position for screenshots rather than attacking enemies. When they got what they needed, they dropped.
Behavior like that isn't exclusive to RPers, of course, and this thread could be made about the myriad of rude people that can make a df run unpleasant.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

My point was that those players who do the things the OP described are usually just trolls. They aren't roleplayers. We don't do that. They're trolls who think roleplayers are dumb and who want to use "rp" as an excuse to troll someone's dungeon run.

The text macros aren't really something associated with roleplayers either. The people I've encountered who do that I actually know for a fact to not engage in roleplay. They just do it either because they genuinely think it's cool, or again they're doing it to get a rise out of others they play with.

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This is called the "no true scotsman" fallacy. Your group of role players doesn't do that, because you're considerate and know it's rude, but not everyone out there is as thoughtful as you. Trolling in the guise of RPing, or RPing stupidly, has a very thin line.

You should have regaled that ice mage with a story of the legendary summoner Rydia, who overcame her fear and hatred of fire for the good of her traveling companions.

I like to go into dungeons naked and slow walk to each room.

I never attack, either. Gale is a pacifist.

Best (worst?) ever I had seen was in WoW before loot rules and such. Raid member ninja'd all the loot off Onyxia and said he was RPing a thief. Then hearthstone'd out and quit their guild. Was simultaneously funny and horrible at the same time (even ninja'd the items he couldn't use, his class: Rogue.)

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Originally Posted by Naunet

My point was that those players who do the things the OP described are usually just trolls. They aren't roleplayers. We don't do that. They're trolls who think roleplayers are dumb and who want to use "rp" as an excuse to troll someone's dungeon run.

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Hence why I put "Super-RP'ers" in the title instead of just "RP'ers." I guess "trolling" would've been a better word to chose, but I was caught up with the fact with the response of "I'm RP'ing as..." or "But I'm RP'ing... and still doing x, y, and z" despite not actually caring about the time of the other members of the duty finder party. I completely understand that not all RP'ers do this, but those select few who I've encountered was less then pleasant.

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Originally Posted by Dererk

This really happens? Wow IV no words.

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It happened to a friend, then it happened to me twice within the same week. I'm not here to belittle or berate those select individuals who made poor choices which is why I left out names, but if people don't want to believe what they read then so be it. I will say it is very rare and this doesn't happen often, but it happened to me TWICE! I just decided to put a spin and be playful about it rather than be a complete jerk since I'm not here to complain but to share my experience and how I'm literally baffled by it. I guess you could say its a PSA, but essentially since this is a MMORPG, please be considerate of other people in your party. This game isn't a single player game. It's a Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. A MMORPG.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Sorry. It's just a very common and tired thing to hear from a lot of people who don't care for roleplayers. They pretend we're all ERPers, or we do things like what the OP encountered, or they think all we do is roleplay and are therefor awful at the game... >_< I had a bit of a knee-jerk defensive reaction, especially as a lot of people in this thread seem to be accepting at face-value that the OP's encounters were actual roleplayers.

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Well its easy to get that impression when you go to a couple key waterfalls and hot springs on Balmung.

Naught ALL RPers.

*cants steampunk tophat*