(02-11-2015, 10:20 AM)Telluride Wrote:^ This. This, this this. Respect the setting, respect the circumstances, respect the consequences, and respect the players.(02-11-2015, 10:18 AM)Coatleque Wrote:(02-11-2015, 10:13 AM)A Wrote: Me personally, I'd love to knock around a few people while getting my ass handed to me by drunken patrons/city guards!
But when things settle down would you also love to be arrested for disorderly conduct for a day and fined a few hundred gil?
This is the biggest contention with people wanting to involve those who play law enforcement. Â They mostly expect to walk away scot-free once things are finished. Â It is why I try to keep things from turning violent inside the walls, and push people outside so they can beat each other senseless without me having to actually -be- the police.
This, 100%, and exactly.
If you want to have a brawl as part of an open RP area, and not as a privately conducted scenario, but refuse to accept harsh IC consequences, you have no right to expect the player base to respect you.
"Tavern RP" may be boring to many, but refusing to respect that some people do want it, and have a place for it, is a bigger crime than boredom.
On another note, if something DOES go down and consequences loom, try playing them out! Having your character get arrested or fined can branch into more interesting avenues, and serve as wonderful background later down the road. Maybe he/she can't get that job down the line because he brawled in Momodi's place, maybe he's got a bad rep with the Blades now and they're always stink-eyeing him (behind those masks, anyway...).Â
I often find that a lot of people try to start things in taverns because they are 'bored', then refuse to take things past there by sealing off those events in a bubble devoid of consequence. Try playing out the consequences, and you may fight yourself bored less often!
(General 'you' here, to clarify).
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