(07-30-2013, 03:42 PM)TwinflameP Wrote: Please keep in mind that no matter how much you hate such things, there are those of us who like to RP as doctors, physicians, medical professionals or researchers, or even White Mages that like to RP the process of using magic to heal
Great, so do that! Knock yourself out!
My point is that if you RP that your character is injured/sick/whatever, you're the one that's putting other players into a situation where they need to respond. If the other player thinks it's no big deal and that slapping esuna on their head should do the trick, that's not the other player's fault: They're just applying their understanding of how things work to the situation you initiated.
(07-30-2013, 03:42 PM)TwinflameP Wrote: RP is what you make of it and creativity is in the prose, not the content.
Sure, but not all people find all content appealing. Having your character injured after a battle basically forces everyone else to either ignore it (which is rude), cure it (which you say is rude), or boohoo over the injury (which I find boring). If you're with a group that you know likes to do those sorts of things, then—as I said—go for it. if you try it with a random group of roleplayers though and one of them decides to fix your problem with white magic, that's not them being a bad roleplayer; that's just them considering your leg wound to be curable with white magic, something I consider to be entirely reasonable.
(07-30-2013, 03:42 PM)TwinflameP Wrote: Just please don't get annoyed if you try the same thing with a random group of people and they treat your character like an idiot for casting Esuna and acting like it helped at all.
That's entirely different. Someone using white magic to heal a wound is reasonable to a lot of players. Playing it as if the other person is an idiot for playing their character that way is just plain obnoxious and shoving an OOC disagreement into an IC context. If you don't like how they're playing it, just politely excuse yourself. That is rule number one.
Finally, please keep in mind that I was responding to someone who said they "hate" when people play a certain way. My point is only that there are people who feel the exact opposite way which I demonstrated by explaining how I personally feel (e.g. that I find it boring and that using white magic is perfectly reasonable). Why you chose to take offense to this I've no idea.
