(04-26-2015, 11:05 AM)SessionZero Wrote: If I'm going to be fighting with someone who I am not familiar with on an OOC level, I insist on using rolls to determine the outcome. If the other person cannot agree to such, I do not engage them IC. I either find a way to avoid the confrontation, or I just excuse myself abruptly from the RP.
This, I've had and seen far too many bad experiences with combat RP back on SWTOR to ever trust someone I'm unfamiliar with to use the honor system properly. Far too many people use RP as a means of inflating their own egos, and while I'm not saying I don't in some ways do that because it's the trap of engaging in this form of interaction in the first place, I really have a hard time trusting people especially when their character is ICly considered to be fairly powerful. Far too many of my old friends were either run ramshod over or told their character was 'killed' because some asshole in the community got it into their head to fight them and force a win. Sometimes without any consent from my friends to even fight in the first place. There were entire player groups who min-maxed the ever loving fuck out of their characters, taking traits and aspects that made them almost invincible and then expected you to just lay down quietly as they curb stomped a character who ICly should have at least been somewhat of a match for them.
As such I really don't put up with it anymore. If someone wants to fight my characters and I'm unfamiliar with them, I use the roll system and set out rules to what they can and cannot do to my characters as a precaution. However - with that said - once I know them all that falls to the wayside. Want to permanently maim my character? Go ahead! Beat them to within an inch of their life? YES PLEASE! I purposefully play weaker characters because I find them more compelling on a personal level to write, I'm not going to fudge their chances in a proper fight for anything. However, I must first know the other person isn't going to essentially go 'lol I see your attack but I have super duper indestructible armor that you can only craft one day every thousand years, so it does absolutely nothing to me trolololo', before I default to the honor system.
