(11-02-2014, 07:47 PM)allgivenover Wrote: My problem with fantasia potions is that if they were any sort of common in the game world then changing your.. well, everything would be something we saw happen all the time. So far it's completely absent from the lore aside from the fact that you can acquire it, use it, and it has flavor text. There is nothing in the world culture that reflects its availability, and this is problematic for me.
(11-02-2014, 09:41 PM)Aya Wrote: Mmmmhmm! I really try to be non-confrontational about it, but I will generally just ignore RP that involves Fantasia potions in any way. As I mentioned in my first post in this thread I just find it utterly immersion breaking, and that it detracts from both my interest in and enjoyment of RP. While that's not intended as an indictment of people who use it in their RP (everyone is entitled to their own idea of enjoyable RP!) that is just how it is for me.
I also make exceptions for people who want a permanent change to their character, though I prefer a better explanation of that than "I drank a potion."
In terms of whether Fantasia Potions really exist in-character, I simply do not accept them as canon. They're a necessary device for the provision of a clearly OOC service, and I do not feel obligated to recognize their existence IC solely because they have flavor text. I understand that some people object to that, but unfortunately we'll just have to agree to disagree :-]
Yeah, these two things, I can get behind.
