(10-02-2013, 11:02 PM)Illira Wrote:(10-02-2013, 09:55 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Well, no. Â It's called "you don't bring it up during the RP." Â Not every single RP scene has to be focused around the central storyline of the game. Â :-\ Â A lot of stuff is completely mundane, and there's no guarantee that every character will have participated in the storyline events, even if their story is currently taking place after the end of the main questline.
While I do agree that much RP shouldn't and doesn't necessarily interact directly with the "official main storyline", it is important, especially in scenarios such the RP of Garlean Supporters to know where your character, and micro-canon reside in context to it. As it effects the atmosphere and general lore used within the RP. I haven't finished through to cap yet, so I don't know the what happens and what the state of the world is at "end-game" yet. Spoilers are fine, honestly 80% of the storyline is pretty bland, but RPing a Garlean supporter when the Empire is being pushed back is potentially a very different thing than win they are the overbearing aggressors.Â
That goes beyond, just not 'bringing it up during RP'. Because its not about your character at every given moment. Its about the state of the world at large and the subsequent fallout of that.Â
Anyway, Theodric, like the my compatriots, Ildur and Naunet, I''d be happy to work on Pro-Garlean RP with you. My main, Illira, is a staunch supporter of the Empire.
You're right, it is completely different for the person roleplaying that character. Â I was more trying to address the idea that somehow, if you are in a different timeline from someone else, you can't interact. Â If JoeBob hasn't seen the end of the story, and is playing a loyal Gridanian, he can't interact with FredSpy because FredSpy has finished the Storyline and is playing a Garlean spy with the end events of the storyline factored in. Â I don't think its that cut or dry.
(10-03-2013, 01:01 AM)Naunet Wrote: I've always treated story lead-up during a patch as the "current" situation, but whatever "end boss" there is in the patch, he or she or it doesn't actually die or resolve something or whatever until the next patch hits. Ragnaros wasn't beaten back until the next tier released. The Lich King wasn't defeated and summarily usurped until the day the Cataclysm patch hit. Each of the dragons in Rift were not officially dead until the next patch. Shandra Manaya did not truly die until the Alliance patch launched. But all the events and dungeons and various plotsy whatnots leading up to those moments are either in some vague "process" of happening or have already happened (depending on the thing).
It's what the RP communities I've been involved with in the past seem to have settled upon, and I think it's a pretty good rule as far as RP goes.
That's actually what I've always done, too. Â Especially since the follow-up patch tends to have the "mopping-up" portion of the fallout from the previous patch. Â I mean, most of the time. Â Blizzard isn't always so good about addressing those loose ends, but they've gotten better recently.
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