[Slydria]

I feel lately we've been getting many new or fairly new players who have a poor understanding on the roleplaying standards we have here and often divulge in making the ridiculous happen.

Just to give you a taste of what I've had to deal with in the past couple of days, first, I had a situation in which a Hyattr laid an egg, gave birth to a what was basically a teenager in appearance and it was all done without a male involved in the birth.

Then during sorting that out, I had to deal with an aggressive individual who was rather upset that their character (a female Doriad) could not impregnate other females. They tried to argue they could do such because 'magic' exists and because supposedly another character used 'breast enlargement pills'. And after being told that they cannot several times, they threw a tantrum and made their exit.

Then today, I've had someone with this troubling description that sounds more like the beginning of a terrible fanfiction.


While it seems painfully obvious that this is poor roleplay, it mustn't be so obvious to them.

Unfortunately, it can be rather difficult to explain to them why this is. "That's not how things work here, please change it" is usually met with resistance. "But someone else was doing X, why can't I do Y?" or "Geez, ruin my fun why don't you?"

I think something that could help this issue is a much more comprehensive roleplaying guide because the one we have now is rather bare: http://sl2.wikia.com/wiki/Roleplay_Guide

Anyway, I felt I just needed to vent about this topic because it's getting on my nerves and this kind of thing just leads to a cycle of poor roleplayers encouraging poor roleplay leading to more poor roleplayers while the better roleplayers get fed up and distance themselves or quit altogether.