(07-07-2016, 09:01 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: How come it always seems a proclamation of player death being an option is always followed by a clarifying statement of why it would be super hard for it to happen to them?
RP communities generally have this peculiar understanding that all conflict must follow a 50-50 routine to avoid OOC conflict or claims of powergaming (even if the odds are completely unbalanced in a realistic and IC perspective), be they in spars, fights, duels to the death, etc.
In the event someone says "I'm going to kill your character for x reasons" a fine majority of people will want to bargain with this person OOCly to give them a potential gap throughout the conflict for their characters to avoid death.
There are cases however where the person who is refusing death is the one being unreasonable, for example this person might have killed x character or committed x atrocity but are refusing any proposed consequence that may occur to their character. A lot of people have this huge habit to void all responsibility for their character's action which defeats the purpose of roleplaying with a dynamic community and also makes character death come off as "unappealing" to some.
(07-07-2016, 09:09 AM)LadyRochester Wrote: I don't want people to think I'm killing off my character without putting any resistance 'for the lulz' which seems to be the impression a lot are getting. I got a PM from a player after I posted this thread where they  claimed  they would want to 'legally kill' my character because of all of her crimes.
Which to me translates to: "I want to kill your character and not suffer any consequences"
Hence the clarification.
I have no idea what they might have sent you exactly, but if this player is willing to kill your character, it would only be normal for them to expect consequences from other player characters in attacking them if the word gets out that they're out to kill you.
The same logic applies to the opposite party, otherwise where's the fun behind a conflict? Problem with that is people always take these things personally and seek to complain when things do not go their way because as you may know it the world revolves around them and them alone.
