Another point that I think needs to be brought up. The RP forums are for RPers to get together and share ideas. As an RP community, even if you don't like an idea, you shouldn't tear apart a person from wanting to RP a certain way.
So slavery and torture really rubs you the wrong way when you RP. Fine, you are not required to RP such subjects. However that doesn't mean that you can't participate if the subject matter bothers you. We're all people and I guarantee a majority of us are really good, kind, and decent human beings. You can still participate, if something starts going a way you are uncomfortable with tell them. If they are decent RPers and beings they will stop. If they aren't, they aren't worth RPing with anyways and blacklist them. I would hazard a guess that there isn't a single person on this website who would continue to torture someone in RP if the person says OOC "(Hey I really can't handle this. Can we stop here and just assume XYZ happened? And then continue with the after the fact.)" It's the same concept if you are RPing a serious relationship with someone but you are uncomfortable actually ERPing, then you can use the "Fade to Black". If the person is a good RPer, they will respect your wishes and the RP needs to go no further with that particular subject.
The world is not a nice place in lore, there is examples of slavery and necromancy and probably much more. As fellow RPers we need to respect other RPers even if the direction of their particular story doesn't go down something that we'd normally participate in. You are not required to participate if something like the subject matter bothers you, but if you choose to have a serious discussion with the other RPers so you know what to expect and what you can or can't handle in the RP. There will be ways to work things out if you really want to RP with certain people.
I have done the Fade to Black several times over the course of my RPing. I have this really good friend who certain subjects bothered him in RP and when they came up, he'd just ask if we could stop there and pick up after. Nothing was lost, nothing was missed. We both really enjoyed our RP experiences together and created some amazing RP in the process.
Again we are here to support each other, there's plenty of people on the servers who don't support RPers (apparently there was a fight in shout in one of the main cities last night about how Balmung "isn't an RP server so people shouldn't RP"). So why start those fights here among are selves when we should be supporting each other as RPers.
So slavery and torture really rubs you the wrong way when you RP. Fine, you are not required to RP such subjects. However that doesn't mean that you can't participate if the subject matter bothers you. We're all people and I guarantee a majority of us are really good, kind, and decent human beings. You can still participate, if something starts going a way you are uncomfortable with tell them. If they are decent RPers and beings they will stop. If they aren't, they aren't worth RPing with anyways and blacklist them. I would hazard a guess that there isn't a single person on this website who would continue to torture someone in RP if the person says OOC "(Hey I really can't handle this. Can we stop here and just assume XYZ happened? And then continue with the after the fact.)" It's the same concept if you are RPing a serious relationship with someone but you are uncomfortable actually ERPing, then you can use the "Fade to Black". If the person is a good RPer, they will respect your wishes and the RP needs to go no further with that particular subject.
The world is not a nice place in lore, there is examples of slavery and necromancy and probably much more. As fellow RPers we need to respect other RPers even if the direction of their particular story doesn't go down something that we'd normally participate in. You are not required to participate if something like the subject matter bothers you, but if you choose to have a serious discussion with the other RPers so you know what to expect and what you can or can't handle in the RP. There will be ways to work things out if you really want to RP with certain people.
I have done the Fade to Black several times over the course of my RPing. I have this really good friend who certain subjects bothered him in RP and when they came up, he'd just ask if we could stop there and pick up after. Nothing was lost, nothing was missed. We both really enjoyed our RP experiences together and created some amazing RP in the process.
Again we are here to support each other, there's plenty of people on the servers who don't support RPers (apparently there was a fight in shout in one of the main cities last night about how Balmung "isn't an RP server so people shouldn't RP"). So why start those fights here among are selves when we should be supporting each other as RPers.
