Dealing with 'Godmodders'

[RJ]

Its a rant, but its also a question of help, so here goes;

I made friends with this girl on the net and whenever we talk it ends up turning into some sort of weird RP. She writes a lot of Pokemon stories on Fanfiction.net and has her own Pokemon RPG forum. Anyway, in these little 'RPs' we have, she RPs as a godmodder. She doesn't know it though, I even doubt she knows what a godmodder is. But no matter what happens in our RPs, I have practically never 'hurt' her. I like to RP to give people options in their reactions, thats just my style, but hers is totally opposite. She tells me whats happened to me, and I just hate it! She leaves me with no room to move basically. She makes up all these weird powers and that. In one RP I turned myself into air (long story) and even then she somehow practically killed me.

I'm gonna end up blowing my stack with her. I've given her so many subtle hints about it, but she's either ignoring it or has no idea what I'm trying to say. I hate having to be angry with people and telling them off, but I'm so close to. Whenever I get into a really tough situation with her, I just say I have to go. I had to just a few minutes ago when I was having a great RP with Tomi, and she totally wrecked the whole thing because it got me so angry.
Alright, rantish thing over. I just wanna know how to deal with her.

[Deleted]

Well, not that I'm good with dealing with people, because I'm not, but my mom is, and I think this is what she'd say... feel free not to take my advice, though.
Maybe you should just be straight with her, and, very politely, explain what a godmoder is, and that you would really appreciate if she would not control your characters. Then add a Thankyou at the end.
That's what I'd do... if I managed to control my urge to blow up first.

[jeska]

There are a couple of different ways to deal with stupid godmoders. When this happened to me last year I decided to do something about it. Thankfully it worked, so I'll tell you what I did. It might work for you. When y'all are rping & she godmodes "Bob knocks Jim onto the ground, breaking his leg" (Okay, so I'm not feeling very creative at the moment ) you could reply with something like "Jim dodges the hit, returning with a blow of his own." It's a little more subtle than outright telling her, but if you just ignore the godmoding like that then sometimes they will get the hint. You could also godmode right back, and when she complains tell her thats what she has been doing. If nothing works then I would calmly explain to her (when she godmodes) that that is called godmoding & you would appreciate it if she stops. All three of those have worked for me at different times, so I hope they help you out should you choose to use them. ^^ Good luck!

[Killix]

Oooh I hate when people do that XD

I'd do what the others suggested and tell her what "godmodding" is and that it's not a very polite thing in the RPing world and is in fact, very rude to control someone's character.

[Deleted]

Get someone else to tell her. Not outright, but like slip a link to an RP tutorial site or something into the conversation. She cant miss the point if its so obvious.

[Deleted]

Godmoding is why I like systematic RPGs. You can't godmode without breaking the rules of the system.

Then again, systems can get overly complicated and hard to maintain. My RPG site almost died out because of that. People were never on at the same time to fight (in system battles, it's best when everyone is on at once), and the fight lasted an entire 2 months or so. I finally just said what happened since that what was going to happen anyways.

Now we're freestyling, but we'll probably go back to systemized if we can get a database.

[KariOhki]

Ooo, a godmodder. I dealt with one of them that used all these Digimon in a Digimon RP I was in, and gave them all these powers that they couldn't have in the first place, plus added in new ones, and wouldn't let them get hurt.

Anyway, what my friend and I did was we told the person outright to stop using so many characters and making them so powerful. So I think you should tell her that she is godmodding, and if she asks you what that is and/or denies it, give her a link to an RP guideline site. Good luck ^^

[ecicca]

Maybe you should invite one of us into a RP with her and we'll tell her what she's doing if you can't. Or just say 'Please do not godmod'

[RJ]

I like your idea Ami, that could work, but nobody is ever really on at the same time apart from Tomi.

[RJ]

Okay, here's what happened. I just got fed up...

[RJ] I love YOU Rei-sama!!! *snuggles* says:
Hey Fiery, I've been wanting to say something before, but do you know what a godmodder is? I didn't want to say anything before 'cause it might hurt your feelings, but just, its a bit difficult to RP with someone so powerful and that

(she still thinks we're RPing here)

Forget it! All hope is lost! says:
I don't think you're hurting her feelings.

[RJ] I love YOU Rei-sama!!! *snuggles* says:
I'm just not used to your style of RPing I guess you can say.

Forget it! All hope is lost! says:
*Laughs* Neither am I. *She stops laughing as she nearly falls off* Eek! *The beast she's riding on flies at a slightly slower pace* *The yellow-green eyed beast up front growls in a sort of agreeing way* Dra! *He nods his head*

[RJ] I love YOU Rei-sama!!! *snuggles* says:
Not everyone is as powerful as you, and just feels a little unfair at times

Forget it! All hope is lost! says:
*Blinks and stares up at Culbo with eyes of regret*

[RJ] I love YOU Rei-sama!!! *snuggles* says:
I'm sorry, but I've just been finding it so hard and that.

Forget it! All hope is lost! says:
Fiery didn't choose to be like this. All she ever wanted was to be a nomral teenager, but then she found a way to make her new self into something even better.

[RJ] I love YOU Rei-sama!!! *snuggles* says:
But not everybody is like a god

Forget it! All hope is lost! says:
Neither is she. She's just as normal as you are.

[RJ] I love YOU Rei-sama!!! *snuggles* says:
Um... anyway, here's the meaning for godmodding;
Godmoding comes in many forms. Godmoding ranges from doing auto hits/kills on another person's character to refusing to take a hit from another character.

Forget it! All hope is lost! says:
*Blinks and stares at Fiery* How can you refuse when you are powerful then your opponent? And why would anyone allow themselves to be harmed?

[RJ] I love YOU Rei-sama!!! *snuggles* says:
That's just the way you RP, people get hurt even if you don't want to be

Forget it! All hope is lost! says:
No one never wants to be hurt, but you can only stop that in certain ways.

And thats where I left, since it was 1am in the morning at the time I hope this goes okay...