"What AMP is all about"
The Anti Munch Project is all about role-play awareness. With the onset of poorly skilled role-players growing larger all the time, we need this thread to show them where they are going wrong. AMP lists first the types of role-player, and then the various types of Muncher/Godmoder/Godmodder.
Types of Role Players
n00b: This type of roleplayer is so disgraceful that they don't even deserve to be bolded in this list of roleplayer types. They are the epitome of stupidity. When you see one, you should either simply ignore them, or find some way to make your computer explode so you don't have to be sucked into the vortex of their stupidity. To be perfectly frank, all n00bs should be forced by Moderators to wear something to identify them. But as that can not be done, here are some ways to tell them apart from other roleplayers. They can not type. They use text speak and other shorthand forms of typing. And they absolutely refuse to refer to logic when referring to roleplaying situations. I would say that they are almost as intelligent as a dolphin, but that would be mean to the dolphins.
An example of a n00b post. >.>
Random n00b I found who is worthless
u think ur better than me? *punchs u*
Newbie: A Newbie is a roleplayer who is just starting out his text based roleplaying career here on Gaia. Someone who does not know how to roleplay, but is striving to better their roleplaying. Sometimes they are confused with n00bs, but there is a big difference. Newbs are generally intelligent, or at least trying to become better. Their description is smaller because they actually deserve respect as they care enough to really try.
Egotists: These people are at first sight, good rp'ers. but after watching them role play for a time, you will come to notice that no one ever seems to be able to prove them wrong. And not because they are necessarily smarter than anyone around, but because they are to stubborn and bullheaded to realize that they have been making any mistakes. These roleplayers are merely a single step above n00bs.
Literates: These roleplayers deserve the utmost regard, and the greatest respect from everyone. Meeting one should be considered a blessing. Roleplaying with a literate is what makes roleplaying actually worth your time.
Anti-Munchers Project
Aimbotters
An aimbotter is a role player who has ridiculously unrealistic accuracy and unsurprisingly never misses (or almost never.) This is not only limited to firearms but also to any projectile such as mystically throwing a shard of metal into someones ear lobe from a few hundred meters off.
Billy: My two pet huming birds fly around me.
Ben: From a hundred metres away I shoot behind my back with a 9mm pistol and one of the hummingbirds heads fly off, I then spin around a peg my gun directly into the other bird.
Godmoders
The most annoying role playing crime, the player who thinks he is a God, he either never takes a hit, or when he does takes zero damage. They also tend to incorporate many other AMP violating things, which is just modey.
Billy: I slash at your neck with my battle axe.
Ben: The axe breaks in half on my seemingly normal neck. And I do not receive a scratch.
IDKFA-ers
IDKFA- ers are basically spies with totally unrealistic gadgets or items on their body or person, which are also unrelated to the character, such as a laser pen on Solid Snake. Or James Bond and a condom.
Billy: I raise a gun to your forehead.
Ben: I tap my watch and it turns into a magnet which pulls your gun right out of your hand before a laser cannon emerges from my sunglasses along with two tactical nukes.
Twinks
Sometimes allowed in certain RPs. If the RP isn't specifically about invincible deities and such, a simple rule is that if the strengths aren't counterbalanced with relatively equivalent weaknesses (or if the reasoning behind the phenomenal cosmic powers isn't eloquently and appropriately explained), you're dealing with a Twink.
Billy: Having knocked you down, I give you my hand to help you to your feet.
Ben: My skin turns you to stone.
Min-Maxers
Basically the same as a twink but tends to incorporate many more powers as opposed to the twinks token super unstoppable power, and also has usually one (sometimes more) token weakness.
Billy: After you beating me to a pulp with your super magic armour I ask you what weakness's it has.
Ben: Uhh, if you hit both armpits at the same time with a wet towel.
Miss Cleos
Using out of character knowledge in a role play, sons of bitches. These are especially frowned upon.
Billy: (( My character is secretly a fire mage even though he shows no sign of it in his appearance. ))
Ben: Turns on a high pressured hose. "Die you fire b***h!"
McFlys
Mcfly as in the movie back to the future! That should explain itself XD
Billy: Now that your force field is down I can run inside your base!
Ben: Um.... um.... there is also a super secret second force field that is twice as strong as the last one! I didn't say anything about it before or even mention anything like it because it was so secret, not because I just made it up!
Hi-Jackers
They interfere with things that only the creator of the thread should be capable of usually to do with the environment, for instance self destructing a base, only the leader should have such permission and codes. 'Tis a no no.
Billy: "My bar has been sieged by evil ninjas!"
Ben: Presses a self destruct button that I always knew was hidden under the painting of an orange.
Billy: ((There is no self destruct button!!))
Puppetmasters
Dictating what another persons character does or how they react, extremely irritating.
Billy: I walk into the room and sit down at the bar.
Ben: I smash you in the head with a bottle and you run screaming from the room before falling down the stairs and killing yourself.
Daydreamers
Billy: I sit down under a tree.
Ben: I sit next to Billy under a tree. My knee scuffed jeans gently padded down on the lofty grass at the bottom of the old oak tree, whose barks was a very light brown. My beige shirt which had a faint rip at the bottom left corner gently swayed in the breeze of a north easterly wind. This reminded me of how when I we were young boys we used to play together. Oh, those were the days, we never had a care in the world, except for when Bradley got the chicken pox and we thought we would turn into chickens! Oh how red my face was when I realised that we wouldn't after all.
Overly long posts about nothing. That have no reason to be that long.
Prosecutors
Basically the largest idiot in a place, who accuses others of breaking AMP rules when they are. Guilty.
Billy: I slash at you as hard as I can with my sword.
Ben: I catch your sword and snap it in half before punching you in the face causing your nose to bleed.
Billy: ((You can't just catch my sword and make me bleed like that!))
Ben: ((Yes I can! You can't swing a sword without moving forward and everybody knows that I'm uber strong and can snap swords, so you were always going to get punched, and if you think you could have moved that quickly you would be godmodding! n00b!! ))
Shoe elves
A form of puppet mastery that usually involves the lack of another characters role players presence, it is not a very common problem. And usually only a bit of a joke.
Billy: ((I have to go eat dinner. See you guys later!))
Ben: Notcing that Billy stopped moving I walk up to him and shave off both his eyebrows before taking off his clothes and taking numerous photos which I send to playgirl.
Revisionists
Someone who's alters and RP to suit their needs, usually when they don't like the RP itself.
Billy: Considering this is a Medieval RP, I take my time as my illiterate and somewhat retarded peasant, wandering around the town boredly.
Ben: Not particuarly liking the looks of this RP, I decide to spice things up a bit by deploying my Iron Maiden robots, giant metal skull crushing machines of doom, which incinerate all in their path!
Billy: (( This is a MEDIEVAL RP! ))
Ben: (( Not any more b***h. ))
Speedhackers
Someone who does far to much in a single post, most in fight posts should only consist of a couple seconds. Otherwise its almost verging into puppetmastery with the lack of the other characters reaction.
Billy: I shoot at you twice with still six bullets remaining in my gun.
Ben: I jump behind a table to escape your shots, and then I get back up and calmly make a cup of tea before walking up to you and slapping you in the face.
Oxymoron's
A character that is basically the opposite of itself, and therefore extremely unlikely to exist. Such as a pacifist priest warlord. They just don't make sense.
Billy: In this roleplay based in 1840, Texas, I am a cowboy.
Ben: I am a young boy who was trained in Tibet in the ancient art of Kung Jujitsu and also how to shoot every kind of gun there is. And I ride up to you on a motorbike.
Baghdad Bobbits
Puppetmasters and aimbotters combine to form an insta-kill style of role play.
Billy: I look up at the stars.
Ben: I run up to you and grab your hand pulling you over before stabbing you several times in the spine with a large fork.
Hives
So named after such things as the xenomorphs from Aliens, the Klendathu bugs from Star ship Troopers, and the teeming hoards they generally are. These hoards are always fearless, will battle until dead, and quite often have some excessive weapons and/or armour. Basically, it's the guys who have too many NPCs.
Billy: I wait in the meadow for my opponent to arrive.
Ben: I see Billy and then whistle and seven thousand of my super ninja warriors appear from the shadows to kill you.
Gaseous Snakes
A character that apparently was everywhere in the past and did everything possible that could benefit themselves.
Billy: I run through the forest, weaving and cutting through trees.
Ben: You fall down a pit I dug earlier knowing exactly where you would run.
Zoicite
The people who alter their character as needed for the situation.
Billy: After revealing your true vampire form I stab at your heart with a wooden stake.
Ben: The stake hits a my chest and splinters because I am also a robot!
NIMBY
The people who quite readily attack others' threads, but then stop all attacks on their own thread.
Billy: "You burnt down my bar now its time for you to pay!"
Ben: My hundred auto turrects activate, as well as a magical pulse that paralyses all living things. As you stand in the middle of a highly dangerous mine field.
or
Ben: -Deletes post-
Trinity
The knowledge downloaders, the omniscience wizards. Those people who never learned anything but know everything.
Billy: After a life being brought up hunting with my father I can use a knife and shoot quite well.
Ben: Growing up alone I became tough. Now I know twenty martial arts and how to fly a helicopter even though your the first person I've ever met.
Quakers
Remember the gun room from the Matrix, its like that. But in someones pocket.
Billy: At the sight of the full moon I turn into a werewolf and charge at you howling for blood.
Ben: Even though I was swimming and in just a towel, I pull a gun loaded with a silver bullet out from undre my towel and shoot at your chest.
Ghosts
Those characters which mysteriously appear in different areas with no explanation due to poor writing.
Billy: Sitting on the roof as everyone else sits inside I sigh thinking about my dead father.
Ben: I hear Billy sigh and ask him if he is alright and pat him on the back.
Billy: ((Dude you were just inside. A whole story was blocking us. ))
Auto-Hitters
Aimbotter and puppet master mixed to make a person who tells you how he hit you and how his hit connected, it is sometimes allowed.
Billy: I take a swing at you with a bat.
Ben: I grab the bat from your hands, spin around and smash your knee caps backwards.
