>Or, wherein I try to get a roleplaying discussion going.

Hiya Nep! I'll contribute!

>
>1) "-est ever" type declarations in player descriptions. CF
>is going on nine years old, and over that span of time I
>shudder to think how many times I've witnessed the the
>strongest or biggest giant that I've ever seen, ugliest orc
>that I've ever seen, or most beautiful elf with the largest
>breasts that I've ever seen.

I try to keep my character descs to the purely physical, i.e. what you see. I try to keep it situationally neutral, so I don't put in the desc what my character is doing beyond if I can help it (they're not standing around with heroic awareness if were just slept... etc.)
This seems to solve the problem you're mentioning here. It's my hope that if others want to find out more, they'll interact with me.


>3) Characters that can quote their cabal/religion's helpfile
>very nicely, but falter quickly when a discussion/argument
>meanders away from it.

I try to talk to applicants a lot, I find this is an issue with them maybe 30%-50% of the time. I think I'm just getting lucky lately.

>5) Players who try to bring the concept of game balance into
>the game.

I'm fortunate that I never have run into this yet, or if I did it was years ago and I don't remember.

>6) Players who are only capable of playing one type of
>character.

You know, I normally find that my characters bounce from one extreme to the next. If I just played a OE character, I make a CG... and so on. The only align I almost never play is CE. CE just doesn't fit into my head. I enjoy making characters that are really, really, not the usual thing when I can cook such a concept up.


>7) The amazing halting role.

I've been bad about this at times, only updating my role every two weeks or so. I keep forgetting to "get around to it".

>9) Players who don't think very hard about the implications
>of their character's beliefs/roleplay, especially when it
>comes to choices in who to kill or what gear to wear.

I deal with this by basically treating NPC's as PC's. So, if I'm playing a good character, if I request an item, I usually give them the item I was using instead, if I had anything. Sometimes I request from neutral mobs, knowing they'll attack, just to "give them a chance", but other times I'm really mad and well...


>If you're a Sylvan, and your character believes that
>conjurers/necromancers/etc. are bad mojo, what are you doing
>conjuring elementals with certain objects, or wearing the
>gauntlets of living flesh? How is conjuring demons bad, but
>wearing artifacts obviously containing entrapped demons all
>right? I don't care how many hit points or damroll
>they give you, that's weak.

This just gets strange sometimes. For example, the bracelet of charms. Unless it was changed recently, I still can't figure out why it doesn't have a magic aura. I agree on the conjuring staff especially, but other objects are harder to call at times.


>10) Recently mentioned in another thread: Characters that
>attempt to speak completely or mostly in a 'different
>language' drive me freakin' nuts. The odd one word here or
>there for flavor? That I have no problem with, especially if
>it's for a concept that doesn't really exist in
>English/common. To try to explain what I mean poorly with
>real-world examples, words like 'karma', 'machismo', or
>'bushido' might succinctly refer to non-Anglo-Saxon-ish
>background concepts.

At times I've played characters that didn't really understand common or never learned it properly. Some of these characters eventually learned to speak properly as they advanced in the lore skill (as Sabiene did). Are you referring to mangled english or actually using non-english words to an extent that there literally is no way to know what a person is saying?


>That's enough for a start. Chime in and/or nitpick away!

I used myself and my playing style as examples since it was a convenient way for me to talk about this, but I'm wondering how others do things too