(01-28-2015, 09:43 PM)Amelia Wrote: I swear. Whenever it comes to lore in this game, I'm constantly getting that over-anxious feeling that I didn't finish my homework or study as much as the next person for the big exam coming up.
To be honest, I think some people (and I know I sure can at times) come off as a lot more confrontational than desired when lore comes up. However, I've rarely if ever seen this come through in game. It's a bit of a difference between theory (discussions on the forum) and practice (actual RP). In theory, everyone would know every bit of lore and apply it to their characters. In practice, there's significant gaps in the lore and enormous grey spaces, and honestly, I think people are largely more interested in the stories and the RP than everything being exactingly correct.
So, I view the forum discussions as attempts to talk out our ideals, but we all have a lot of give and take in our actual RP. I've commented about rules of thumb like the Three Thing Rule before, some have railed against Fantasia, and the battles over Jobs are legendary -- but in reality, I think it's very rare that there's an instance where someone simply Will Not RP over a dispute regarding lore, most people are willing to help out when there are questions, and almost everyone is willing to say, "no biggie" when there's a reasonable deviation from lore (i.e., no X-Men crossover mutant long lost siblings of Hildibrand who are possessed by 9 voidsent who are actually the souls of Allagans who were originally faeries from the World of Darkness but sucked here through the Dark Magic of Heavy Metal
).In short: it's not as bad as it sometimes seems!
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