Raise The Playable Age of Characters

[Morigung-oog 5697]

yes. let us weed out the child crpers defeating demons at 8

[The King Of The Moon 7016]

33 minutes ago, Travisty said:

don’t think changing that age is all that necessary imo, just play your persona when you feel like playing it. raising it doesn’t change if someones gonna be an annoying ahh kid or a child with Shakespeare esque vocab. people are just gonna run around without an age set for a little longer than they alr do with this one

I think this type of response misses the point a bit.

The problem Unbaed's post seems to be addressing isn't as simple as "being annoying or using Shakespeare vocab is bad".
The problem is that most of the time we have people roleplaying in ways a 5 year old would not or could not logically behave.

In a way, it's powergaming which we as a community have just collectively shrugged at and allowed the nuisance to continue, because with rules as written no mod can realistically enforce "good" vs "bad" child RP on players. The burden of bare minimum RP quality can't be left to staff at all times.

Setting the lower age limit to 10 doesn't stop people being from doing bad roleplay, sure, though it does rid them of the ability to do the most egregious failrp in the first place.
The development difference between a 10 year old and a 5 year old is massive, and whilst 10 year old CRP fleepers aren't ideal either, they're at the very least far more narratively justifiable than 5 year olds acting in ways that should be impossible.

[Slorbin 2932]

1 hour ago, The King Of The Moon said:

Big. Adolescence is the only time you can begin with roleplay worth doing; apprenticeships, cultural integration, even military service. 

Goo-goo ga-ga RP is lame and that's why nobody does it, so the practical (and common) alternative of people doing boy genius RP is incredibly stale and usually contributes nothing but immersion breaks or meme RP.
((Except for that one time I got grandfathered into my own alchemy rewrite as a 9 year old and did canonical Young Sheldon RP.
That was ok and good actually because I say so and RiftBlade thought it was funny at the time!!))

Likewise, there just seems to be needless OOC entitlement and drama that comes with child roleplay.

I've lost count of the amount of times a literal child character has gone on a crime spree or sought to be as annoying as possible in hostile territory, only for the person roleplaying them to crash out and moral posture at consequences from those who haven't bent over backwards to accomodate their (usually satirical) narrative.
It just forces people into uncomfortable places and is immensely disruptive to existing roleplay.



Whilst we're at it let's also ban characters under 16 from stomping around in platemail and diving into CRP stacked with ST mats and potions, please and thank you.

**** do you mean st-approved young Sheldon rp. Did you have the skin and everything 

[Anbennar 2350]

I'll play peoples kids but don't expect me to WANT to play them until they're 16 because I don't wanna have to make a new skin every 3 weeks. 

 

8 minutes ago, Slorbin said:

**** do you mean st-approved young Sheldon rp. Did you have the skin and everything 

 

[Carson 1165]

3 hours ago, winterblood said:

And for anyone who may argue that this is going to shave off even more precious time from RPing human characters.... not really, they live up to like 120 years old but most human players (for some unknown reason) still like to stop RPing them when they reach the harrowing and decrepit age of 35-40 before they make another human

1000000%! I say this as someone who agrees with you, but I think it's also an institutional problem. After a certain point, human RP (at least in the noble courtly sphere) kind of plateaus and encourages you to just recycle for a younger character that can participate in things like social season etc.

[The King Of The Moon 7016]

1 hour ago, Slorbin said:

**** do you mean st-approved young Sheldon rp. Did you have the skin and everything 

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[Chuuwys 502]

i only personally disagree in the sense that i've had some pretty good roleplay with good players here and there who ACTUALLY play their children like children - mispronouncing things, understandably defenseless, dont go wandering off all the time to force story through melodrama. but then i've also seen child characters <16 who speak like they're hot shit, go into CRP they should probably instead be traumatized by and not actively ready to take part in. IDRK why so many people think the most compelling RP for their child character is to hone in on being antisocial or sociopathic, but there we go.

 

otherwise, i agree fully. i think it would be fine to keep it at 5 but we should also be allowed to called out players who play their children like theyre just mini adults and not younger people who dont know much about the world and probably shouldn't be esoteric posting at 11yo past what you'd find on a reddit post

[winterblood 11181]

29 minutes ago, The King Of The Moon said:

: )

 

[KeiaTypeBeat 3276]

Someone tried having me RP a 2 year old - I'm okay if we raise the age to 10 ffs

 

Caveat? Idk ab waiting ten weeks for my kid to be played. 

 

Something to think ab

[truelarper 593]

agreed! alot of people abuse the 5 year old system anyway and rp since they're 1 years old. make it ten. thanks

[AechQQ 104]

33 minutes ago, truelarper said:

agreed! alot of people abuse the 5 year old system anyway and rp since they're 1 years old. make it ten. thanks

Didn’t I watch you 1v2 some Naz mages with a sling on Kusi at age 7

[Chuuwys 502]

11 minutes ago, AechQQ said:

Didn’t I watch you 1v2 some Naz mages with a sling on Kusi at age 7

and travel the world alone or with other kid players at age 12? also yes

[gross 46]

Considering how many people play 6 yos like 12 yos, might as well

[Onnensr 1908]

REDUCE the minimum age of characters!!

 

I AM FETUS GRAAAAAAH

[Suxals 529]

I agree 👍🏻

 

Most children I meet are hardly believable. Either memey RP or geniuses.