Line #28 PlayingWith/TheRoleplayer


1	'''Basic Trope''': A player of a tabletop role-playing game likes to tell a story with her characters.
2	* '''Straight''': Susan Tory likes to tell stories with her character, Mary Wizard, as the hero.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Susan pens whole complete [[ElsewhereFic Elsewhere Fics]] for Mary's background story.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Susan Tory just uses Mary as way of wangsting during breaks between Important Story Arcs.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Susan is a novelist and can't resist expanding the backstory of her character as much as possible.
7	** The GM spent much effort on WorldBuilding. Susan finds the setting to be very interesting, and enjoys having her character interact with it.
8	** This is how these guys brainstorm their novels.
9	* '''Inverted''': Susan is a {{Munchkin}} and a HeroicComedicSociopath who couldn't care less about CharacterDevelopment.
10	* '''Subverted''': Susan is thought to be TheRolePlayer by the GM, but ends up being somewhat of TheLoonie...
11	* '''Double Subverted''': ....but that's because she's playing a JokeCharacter, just to prove that she can roleplay any character type.
12	* '''Parodied''': Susan plays her character, Mary Wizard like a parody Mary Sue in a SoBadItsGood fan-fiction.
13	* '''Zig Zagged''': Susan rolls a die before game. If she rolls a 1, Mary Wizard is TooDumbToLive and is played so badly, you'd think she's never cast a spell in her entire life. If she rolls a 6, Mary Wizard is GenreSavvy. If the dice is anywhere in between, Mary Wizard is just [[GenreBlindness blind to the Genre]]. Susan states "Multiple Personality Disorder" if asked about Mary Wizard's weird actions.
14	* '''Averted''': Susan plays her character, Mary Wizard, as a normal wizard with the correct GenreBlindness for the "D&D" game.
15	* '''Enforced''': The Game Master is quite obsessed with the setting and will be the KillerGM toward any character he considers to be a FlatCharacter.
16	* '''Lampshaded''': "Are you going to stop your Ms. Minus act any time soon, Mary?" "I'd rather eat toxic waste then do that."
17	* '''Invoked''': The Game Master asks the Players for five to ten pages of backstories for the characters.
18	* '''Exploited''': The GM is actually a hack storywriter who is somewhat talented at worldbuilding but cannot write characters to save his life. He arranged for an entire group of roleplayers to play his campaign so that he can steal their ideas to write a book.
19	* '''Defied''': ???
20	* '''Discussed''': ???
21	* '''Conversed''': ???
22	* '''Deconstructed''': Susan's love of storytelling bogs down the pace of the game and the GM and other players get irritated at her.
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25	Susan Tory wants you to go to "TheRoleplayer" or she will force you to listen to everything her D&D character, Mary Wizard, did from the first game up to the most recently finished arc-- and she's been playing D&D since TheSeventies.
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27	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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29	%%* '''Implied''': ???
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31	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
32	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
33	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / TheRoleplayer