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(03-20-2015, 03:10 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:(03-20-2015, 02:54 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: The reason I'd asked was to demonstrate. I have no ownership over Nat's characters (her "brands" so to speak) but I've got free reign to ask to use them if needed. That still doesn't give me permission to do anything outlandish with them, the question isn't "Hey Nat, can I borrow Eva for a while?" I can't come back later and explain that the road was icy and Eva's in a snowbank somewhere.
Roleplayers shared the world we're all in on a direct level. In world RP, we don't even really have NPCs or anything. I think the fear of being a Sue or godmoding comes from wanting the relative power level to not lean too far in one writer's direction, outside of course of events where you effectively give consent to be there. If I sign up for a snowball fight, I should expect that other writers are going to enact snowballs on me.
Edit: I suppose I should have told her that.
That is a good point Warren. I suppose then it relies on the tact of the person playing the 'mary sue'.
I sort of advise alts for that sort of high powered RP anyway. Being a dragon or a noble or something is cool, but it locks you out of all the day to day, teaparty and dagger RP.
Yeah, precisely. I'm fairly confident saying that the RPC doesn't really have many true "Sue" type characters. I think a large portion of it, actually, comes from just being naive enough to think that a character who is super good at everything, is friends with everyone, and has only convenient weaknesses is functionally a fun or good character for other people to play with. It's not fun to be telling a sleuthing story only for Superman to show up having already caught the thieves, or to be telling a combat story and have Supes throw everyone into the sun, or be telling a dramatic story and have Superman come up and immediately solve everything.
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