(07-30-2013, 05:30 PM)Miss Marigold Wrote: 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.
Mostly I used your own words, so you can't really complain about my tone. Also, if you were attempting to respond only to the one person, you overstepped that by speaking in far broader strokes. Essentially, whether you meant to or not, you said things that were insulting to all people who disagree with you. What you're trying to say will always be overwritten by what you actually say.
Anyway, I'm not trying to imply that healing magic is totally bunk. Of course I'm not, and there are a lot of minor injuries that a White Mage can make go away in their entirety with a wave of a staff. There are other injuries and illness that may take longer to cure but can still be taken care of with magic. There are still other injuries that cannot be fixed with magic alone, but instead require a mix of magical and traditional medicine. Yet others cannot be helped by magic and must be seen to by exclusively non-magical intervention.
You are of course free to disagree, and politely excuse yourself from RP with people who do not see magic as being as effective as you would like it to be, just as they are free to step away from RP with you. However, it would be kind of sad if you had to step away from so much RP, as I think most people are not going to be stubborn about this point and will likely allow themselves to fall into a point in between, where the magic heals significantly but they still require natural recovery.
Incidentally, my rule number one for RP is: Respect the RP of others at least as much as you respect your own, if not more.
So it's not like I'm going to disrespect your choice to RP magic as a cure-all, especially if your friends and regular group go along with that. However, I think if you're super stubborn about it, you're going to miss out on RPing with lots of people. You're cutting yourself off from lots of plots, many interesting scenes, and in some cases, entire characters and Linkshells that rely on a less extreme viewpoint in order to function.
We all have our headcanons. They don't always agree. Reconciliation is necessary in order to RP with folk. So if you're rolling your eyes at people who RP differently than you do, but in a way that they enjoy, you're not really showing a large part of the community the respect they deserve. Especially if your character "disinterestedly casts an esuna" and then you expect them to just go along with that no matter what they wanted to RP.
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