(08-06-2015, 04:13 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: This got touched on in a Thread That Shan't Be Named and I wanted to see if we can flesh this out a little bit. Specifically, this line of dialogue:
Quote:I see that, personally, as imprinting one's own subjective suspension of disbelief onto someone else's character. That's godmodding.
That's a two-way street, though. Two people are fighting one another. One is super over the top, complete with Tekken-style air juggling. The other is a gritty, super-duper-realism fighter. Who should be deferring to who, exactly? There's two suspensions of disbelief going on here: The air-fighter believes that they're capable of flying combat, and the gritty person believes that's absurd.
So if the over-the-top style attempts to uppercut the gritty style into the sun, which result should be permitted? Does the gritty person godmode a result by only allowing themselves to be hit and nothing else? Does the over-the-top person godmode by forcing the other person to deal with cartoon physics?
Second point/question: If dice are involved, and these two go through the same thing, what should happen? If the over-the-top person wins the roll, is it godmoding to have the gritty person take the hit but not accentuate the giant reaction? If the gritty person wins the defense and choose to block, is it unfair of them to not go flying from the force of things?
Opinions? Thoughts? Work-arounds?
The fundamental problem here is that this type of god-modding is relative to the style of RP at hand. Â You're basically thrust into a dilemma where someone -has- to godmode to retain continuity with their character's roleplay norms and styles. Â This is sad because OOC disposition has clearly impacted the RP by this point. Â Â
If the roleplayers are skilled (and polite), they should recognize the dilemma and react accordingly by meeting somewhere in the middle. Â It is the least of all evils. SSJ 40K Goku should probably find some sort of plot device or motivation to tone his attacks down to a palatable level. Â Ser Gritty-Mc'ParryaLot should realize that he is fighting an agile, bouncy opponent and react accordingly by upping the intensity or turtleling to an appropriate level. Â The RP'ers must meet in the middle - or it's just going to be a lop-sided, boring e-peen fest, flopping between various levels of toxic denial. This applies with and without dice.Â
Ideally, RP'ers should not find themselves forced into this dilemma before a fight breaks out. Basic physics and assumptions should be plain and understood on the front end.
