Amazing Roleplay, Wonderful Homebrew, Great Ideas
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Amazing Roleplay, Wonderful Homebrew, Great Ideas
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So why am I giving it a one star review? Because I was never able to experience any of this. There are multiple rules, restrictions and bottlenecks that tie you down during character creation. At some point I thought it might be best to simply ask the staff to have them make me a character seeing as everything I suggested was shot down for their restrictions, not to mention I didn't feel welcomed at all. Every time I tried to say hello in general or interact with any conversation I was pretty much ignored. Fun right?
Let’s break down my complaints with this server.
The Unfriendly Atmosphere. The place seems friendly, it seems well loved and everyone seems to get along, which I’m sure they do! But they’ve also probably been there for years. As someone who has just joined I didn’t feel any of that. I felt ignored and brushed aside. It made me quite agitated with the playerbase as a whole. :(
Character Creation. I’ve been doing roleplay for 12 years. Twelve. From Star Wars to Game of Thrones to Fantasy worlds of varying degrees to World of Darkness in all its flavors. I’ve never felt as miserable with character creation as I have with Bloody London. “Hey, can I have this?” “No. Impossible to start with.” “Oh, okay, what about a mortal?” “No. Despite saying we allow mortals, we will tell you no.” I understand this is a vampire server, but if you’re going to allow mortals, allow them? They simply said that my character was unable to interact with any of the Kindred population and have no motive for interacting with them without even asking for what I was planning to do in that regard. Well what about a Sabbat Character? I have an idea that's perfect! Nope. Only if you’ve been roleplaying for two (?) months can you play a sabbat character. Well okay… That was ALL of character creation. I was shut down at every opportunity and it made me genuinely miserable. (they also have a WILD amount of possible characters. I think I saw someone with 10 characters? That’s a lot? How do you keep track of that as a single person? Not a complaint, just wild that many characters are allowed.) Not to mention they use a VERY outdated character sheet (it’s just a PDF of the base character sheet) instead of the google sheets with XP and freebie tracking and calculations all done for you. Very dated, annoying to work with.
The Odd Faceclaim Rules. This was another baffling rule, You are not allowed to use art of another person’s OC that exists anywhere on the internet, forcing you to use Picrew or photos of real life people (something I think is worse than “stealing” another person's OC). I understand it in a way? But for someone with no disposable income I can’t commission a character art every other day, nor do I have the time or learned skill to draw my own characters or teach myself to draw. So…I make a Picrew? Come on now. I do believe this is a personal anger from the Staff team as I’ve never seen such a rule on any other server ever.
The server is filled with these odd little rules everywhere that make character creation a literal headache inducing slog (I literally had a headache making a character!) I’m sure that once you get through character creation the server is great and fun, from what I saw the Roleplay sure looked fun and all of the homebrew work the staff team has done is top tier work, I just couldn’t get through character creation and for that reason I have to say,
Stay away. I cannot recommend this server to anyone.
To the staff reading this, eto bleh? I’m sorry, your work in creating this world is wonderful and the ideas are beautiful (A GARGOYLE PRINCE?! THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL!) but come on. Lighten up a little on your restrictions. I desperately wanted to make a character and enjoy what you had going but as I said earlier I felt that multiple times I would be better off asking you all to make a sheet for me so that it would comply with your rules. I am sorry if I came off as rude to any of you but the character creation process made me cranky as did you constantly telling me no.
Let’s break down my complaints with this server.
The Unfriendly Atmosphere. The place seems friendly, it seems well loved and everyone seems to get along, which I’m sure they do! But they’ve also probably been there for years. As someone who has just joined I didn’t feel any of that. I felt ignored and brushed aside. It made me quite agitated with the playerbase as a whole. :(
Character Creation. I’ve been doing roleplay for 12 years. Twelve. From Star Wars to Game of Thrones to Fantasy worlds of varying degrees to World of Darkness in all its flavors. I’ve never felt as miserable with character creation as I have with Bloody London. “Hey, can I have this?” “No. Impossible to start with.” “Oh, okay, what about a mortal?” “No. Despite saying we allow mortals, we will tell you no.” I understand this is a vampire server, but if you’re going to allow mortals, allow them? They simply said that my character was unable to interact with any of the Kindred population and have no motive for interacting with them without even asking for what I was planning to do in that regard. Well what about a Sabbat Character? I have an idea that's perfect! Nope. Only if you’ve been roleplaying for two (?) months can you play a sabbat character. Well okay… That was ALL of character creation. I was shut down at every opportunity and it made me genuinely miserable. (they also have a WILD amount of possible characters. I think I saw someone with 10 characters? That’s a lot? How do you keep track of that as a single person? Not a complaint, just wild that many characters are allowed.) Not to mention they use a VERY outdated character sheet (it’s just a PDF of the base character sheet) instead of the google sheets with XP and freebie tracking and calculations all done for you. Very dated, annoying to work with.
The Odd Faceclaim Rules. This was another baffling rule, You are not allowed to use art of another person’s OC that exists anywhere on the internet, forcing you to use Picrew or photos of real life people (something I think is worse than “stealing” another person's OC). I understand it in a way? But for someone with no disposable income I can’t commission a character art every other day, nor do I have the time or learned skill to draw my own characters or teach myself to draw. So…I make a Picrew? Come on now. I do believe this is a personal anger from the Staff team as I’ve never seen such a rule on any other server ever.
The server is filled with these odd little rules everywhere that make character creation a literal headache inducing slog (I literally had a headache making a character!) I’m sure that once you get through character creation the server is great and fun, from what I saw the Roleplay sure looked fun and all of the homebrew work the staff team has done is top tier work, I just couldn’t get through character creation and for that reason I have to say,
Stay away. I cannot recommend this server to anyone.
To the staff reading this, eto bleh? I’m sorry, your work in creating this world is wonderful and the ideas are beautiful (A GARGOYLE PRINCE?! THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL!) but come on. Lighten up a little on your restrictions. I desperately wanted to make a character and enjoy what you had going but as I said earlier I felt that multiple times I would be better off asking you all to make a sheet for me so that it would comply with your rules. I am sorry if I came off as rude to any of you but the character creation process made me cranky as did you constantly telling me no.
