All of this shit is collectively why I stopped trying to participate in FG&RP. I remember one game of mine that I dropped like a box of burning coals after I made the mistake of giving my players agency in creating their character and got back a coinflip decision between a furry Marty Stu with powers that were apparently whatever the person who designed (and I use that word loosely) it wanted and a munchkined to hell and back dictator of the equivalent of a city-state. Those when I'd pretty clearly set things up for a fun low-level sword-and-sorcery sort of adventure. 
I don't think it's just my perception, either; a year or three ago I distinctly remember there being more quality games and almost none of the one-line spam "roleplay".
I wanted to attack this post, because I run furry characters a lot and didn't like them being badmouthed, so I spent about 20 minutes hunting down the game Dice was talking about, and found it...
Certain people need to learn that if they want to run an unusual character or race that they need to describe all the things a character normally is described by,
and every last one of those racial properties in full detail, preferably including the game-stats, the in-setting reasoning for why and how it works, and what it looks/sounds like when it is in use. The more hard facts the better. Trying to slip in "do whatever I want as a racial ability" is wrong, and that looks like it's pretty much exactly what happened there. (Hijack a teleportation spell as a low level character as an
unlisted racial?!?!? really?!?)
also, be honest, you were updating the thing, though you were a little dickish about it, just people stopped posting except the person who designed the character that won the coin-flip, and people generally don't update suggestion games that only have one person posting.
that kind of situation is why I don't play suggestion games much anymore (with a couple exceptions), I refuse to field anything weird without talking it through with the GM in detail so we can avoid having "but it should(n't) be able to do that" discussions. And you can't do that without several back and forth walls of text. and said walls of text and detailed discussion is preeeeeeeeettty much impossible to have with a group of people that vote on everything together instead of with a single person.
Which means what I want is generally off the table.
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There's a lot of reasons I spend more time in RtD than FG&RP, come to think of it. Having one person per character is a big one though.
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