I've written a lot of big armored characters in my time, and so has Flashhelix, and he's more than right in saying nobody has to be intimidated by you. At the same time, I am all to aware of the frustrations of every other character deciding they're not intimidated in the least bit by someone four feet taller than them in full plate with a weapon that is actually bigger than they are.
I used to actively test this sort of thing on Ivolle, since he was quite a miserable arrogant sack of shit, and the shortest of Norn, he'd actively pick on others considerably smaller than him. Thing was that most people decided someone two-three feet taller was no threat, because they simply knew I couldn't do anything to them IC. However, as the character grew himself a reputation, and I got friends, more and more people came to realize that not roleplaying fear was just sorta shitting on all the other people who had, and those people in turn were angered by those who didn't and thus I noticed more people did it.
Interesting for sure, but really nobody has any obligation to roleplay fear, that being said, Ivolle was scared of all sorts of shit.
Lightning, spoons, mages of all sorts, his family, his brothers, loyalty, cellars, dungeons, chains, etc.
While it's annoying yeah, you've sort've just gotta let the community scold them into learning that they can't be immune to every kind of fear, there's no fun in roleplaying a character who has no fear, because you don't empathize with them! I mean, say they get into a fight, you're going to be rooting against them because they're such an arrogant fuck you sorta wanna see them fail so you can see how they actually /take/ failure.Â
tldr, expect this to happen a lot, but realize that eventually the community will sorta teach that person better (hopefully).
I used to actively test this sort of thing on Ivolle, since he was quite a miserable arrogant sack of shit, and the shortest of Norn, he'd actively pick on others considerably smaller than him. Thing was that most people decided someone two-three feet taller was no threat, because they simply knew I couldn't do anything to them IC. However, as the character grew himself a reputation, and I got friends, more and more people came to realize that not roleplaying fear was just sorta shitting on all the other people who had, and those people in turn were angered by those who didn't and thus I noticed more people did it.
Interesting for sure, but really nobody has any obligation to roleplay fear, that being said, Ivolle was scared of all sorts of shit.
Lightning, spoons, mages of all sorts, his family, his brothers, loyalty, cellars, dungeons, chains, etc.
While it's annoying yeah, you've sort've just gotta let the community scold them into learning that they can't be immune to every kind of fear, there's no fun in roleplaying a character who has no fear, because you don't empathize with them! I mean, say they get into a fight, you're going to be rooting against them because they're such an arrogant fuck you sorta wanna see them fail so you can see how they actually /take/ failure.Â
tldr, expect this to happen a lot, but realize that eventually the community will sorta teach that person better (hopefully).
