Roleplaying decay syndrome

*quoted verbatim from tvtropes*

This decay can take at least five forms:

1. Any tight restrictions will eventually be broken. If it was originally exclusive to female characters, expect it to come up with a flimsy reason to include male characters. Same goes with ethnicity, concept, etc. This can be explained by the fact that once a leader wants to include a friend, he will find a reason to include said friend.

◦ This can, however, sometimes occur in reverse. Whereas revolutionary events and game-wide plots are often triggered by individual members when a group is small and everybody trusts each other not to do anything stupid, as membership and popularity grows that trust is often eliminated by the introduction of disruptive players such as God Modders; as a result, the mods may find themselves imposing tighter and tighter restrictions on what players are allowed to do.

2. Cerebus Syndrome applies here. Regardless how light-hearted the original concept was, expect it to be forgotten as people start role-playing Wangst and/or inserting Token Evil Teammates into groups of previously purely heroic characters. Reverse Cerebus Syndrome is also possible; a game may start out with a serious concept and gradually slip into farce as newer players enter (or the original players stop taking it seriously).

3. If the group was originally a parody, expect it to lose that focus as people start joining it with the misguided notion that it actually believes in what its parodying. If the group originally started out as a parody of Japanese culture and those that want to emulate it, expect people to start joining it out of themisguided notion that it actually is taking it seriously.

It goes on and on....

[url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OpenRoleplayingDecay:qx95nyrw]Source[/url:qx95nyrw]

So...does linking this here mean you think there's some form of decay at AFW?

Also: Damn you for linking TV Tropes! I had plans tonight!

I'm just making fun at the fact that Anime FEMALE wrestling has male (and non-anime) characters...

But most importantly...it was a trap

stop trying to troll people with TVTropes links *swat*

If something stays completely static now and forever, especially when concerned with something as dynamic as roleplaying, then there will be no point in coming to it.

As far as males are concerned, they've never grown out to be too much more than a niche for a few people since I've been here. The X chromosome dominates this board.

Also, I LOVE wangst!

[quote="Kitten":12yzpm4a]I'm just making fun at the fact that Anime FEMALE wrestling has male (and non-anime) characters...