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Fallfest was a few days ago, which is a chat bringing all different types of online roleplayers together. In a chat titled
Mary Sue - Model Citizen or Menace to Society? by Sal Taybrim, people were asked to define what a
Mary Sue character is. (more…)...
This article was written for us by Marian Brock Andersen.
So it's a pet peeve of mine, the whole
Mary Sue / Gary Stue classifications that people throw around like its some horrible disease.
“Did you see the game.. yeah… totally they got the
Mary Sue.”
We see it all the time, no “
Mary Sue /...
We use the term
Mary Sue a lot in roleplaying. That's because it can be a huge problem with one character trying to hog the limelight more than others. A
Mary Sue typically is too "perfect". They're either unrealistically skilled for their age, or just freakishly talented at exactly whatever needs...
There's an ongoing debate about the term
Mary Sue, and what it means in the literary world. In roleplaying, we know that
Mary Sue characters can ruin a game for others, but in a novel surely it's okay for a protagonist to hog the limelight and display all the characteristics of a typical
Mary Sue,...
This article was written by Jenn Lyons, and originally published on the blog 'Rewriting
Mary Sues', I'm republishing it here with permission because I thought it was relevent to roleplayers.
I hate
Mary Sues.
It’s not, however, for the reason that you might think. We’ve all encountered
Mary...
This post was written by Andrew Facemire who runs the USS Excalibur RP.
Recently, like earlier this week, while reading some of the great work David has been doing with role playing here at OngoingWorlds, I was reminded of my own dealings with various godmoders and
Mary Sues over the years....
This was originally posted by Steven Savage on his blog, but has allowed me to republish it here as I think it’s useful for roleplayers! This is part of Steven’s Way With Worlds series of articles. -David
NOTE: I am addressing
Mary Sues in this column, which often involves questions of...
It's a common problem, someone joins your game with a character that's far too overpowered, or way too "awesome" (or so the writer says). They're a
Mary Sue (Or a Marty Stu, or whatever - there's actually loads of names for the same thing. Click here for an article explaining the different different...
I linked to an article making the case that the Doctor and Sherlock are
Mary Sues on our Facebook page yesterday and the reaction was mixed, so I thought it be worth sharing here to guage opinion and perhaps discuss.
I can see where the author is coming from. Both characters are awesome, perhaps...
We’ve talked about
Mary Sues a lot in the RP community. That’s because we always have to deal with them as they infiltrate our ranks as Jedi or Starfleet officers, or any other field you want to name. For the most part we’ve gotten used to spotting
Sues, but that’s because the
Sues have a tendency...
