-Softly clears throat- Now, I've role-played all of these (stopped mainly with the animals, though still role-play warrior cats) and had different experiences. My opinions on them are kinda complex, though I'll try to simple it down to a more understanding level as I tend to complicate things sometimes.
Prides are alright, I suppose. I would never join a "ranked" one that calls themselves realistic, especially not with Luryes (she's too old and grumpy for all that). They do leave you alone, even whenever you "enter their territory" - unless they're role-playing a little too far, which is something they tend to do.
Now, a lot of the lion characters are a plain slate of browns (which is considered unrealistic, which is one reason I stopped even looking for one for Lur), sometimes they have faint markings on their paws or something hardly noticeable - but I was called "highly unrealistic" for using MassMarkings' Merle to make Lur look older and aged, not to mention that Lur is maned. Ironically, I was called unrealistic by a dark, chocolate brown "queen" lioness with more items on her than a prop comedian uses props, and I'm not going to even bring up her eyes.
Now, I'm not trying to be rude, but I really don't like joining lion role-plays with anything I listed above - only pure realism, with the exception of talking or something slightly off from realistic, lion role-plays are something I can handle.
I role-play wolves a lot more than I do lions, and I practically know the system in and out of a lot of packs already - without even looking over their website. I don't, personally, like to join them, despite all my wolf characters, because of my boiling hatred for wolfspeak (why is it still going around? It's been roughly more than two years; I thought it'd just be a fad) and highly unrealistic tendencies that most packs expect.
My character (whom I sadly stopped using) Delathan was in over four different packs that were strictly ranked, wolfspeakers (I felt like I wasn't describing or role-playing very well, but I also felt smarter than them at the same time), etc. I didn't stay with them because I didn't like it. That's all I have to say for packs right now.
Warrior Cats: I used to rp WC's on other games, but later quit because of how stupid it's gotten. It's like every single friggin' cat has to have powers from Starclan, or be Fire/Tigerstar's long lost kit. Same rivals thing from wolf packs. Oh, and another thing. Every cat has to have names like Darkfang or Demonclaw (cats don't even know what demons are) and have the same black or neon orange pelts. ALso backstories, every cat seems to have a tragic backstory in which they were born rogues and they were abandoned and they killed their family for vengeance, and joined a clan, became deputy, and killed the leader to take their place. MAKES. ME. SICK! *chucks fire extinguishers at some random Firestar wannabe*
Ew. I'm really picky with my warriors role-play (I currently have one still going on, I started it yesterday ouo) and I have to say that it's mainly the mapless warriors' role-plays with names with "Dogbreathe" or "Ironfang" or something even more ridiculous.
You may be thinking, if you have a character named like that,
"Wolfie, we name our cats that because it sounds cool." Yeah, sure, it does sound cool, it really does, but then you go and join a realistic Clan. Again, you might be thinking,
"But! We have a perfect reason to join a realistic Clan - I'm realistic!" Yeah, your character
looks realistic, but it's not. Your character's name is unrealistic and ridiculous - the only way you could have "Death" or "Broken" in your name is if you get renamed, which takes a whole ceremony.
Sorry about that, I went off as well. -Small sigh-
But, yeah, I'm really picky on my warrior groups.
-Wolfie