(08-08-2013, 05:42 PM)Adelpha Wrote: Probably depends a lot on whether you want your character to have legitimate supernatural foresight, or just be a traditional cold-reader.

If the former, it could lead to very interesting RP if you do some research ahead of time to get familiar with the character that you'd be reading. You'd be unable to make a reading about that character's private thoughts unless that player was willing to OOCly give you some info to go on, but then that makes it feel a lot less exciting when someone receives a good reading. I'd be a little curious about whether such a thing is justifiable from a lore perspective (especially what potential cans of worms someone with future sight could open up), but there's so much supernatural stuff in the game's story nowadays that I imagine that you might be able to get away with it as long as you don't use those powers to metagame.

If the latter, it could also be interesting, but I'd personally find it draining to play a charlatan for a long period of time. 

(08-08-2013, 05:48 PM)Felix Sideris Wrote: I think it would be awesome to do a similar kind of thing, but I'm not psychic.. So how would I fake it? XD Heck I'd be willing to look at legitimate stuff psychics do to give readings if it means I'd be able to role play something unique and interesting.

(08-08-2013, 05:51 PM)Myxie Tryxle Wrote: The main risk with this idea is you'd be walking the razor's edge when it comes to meta-gaming.  That may be fine if you have a certain linkshell in mind for the character and work out the details with the leaders or if you communicate ahead of time with individuals how it works.  If you go with someone who truly has the gift of clairvoyance, it could be a valuable and interesting RP tool if used correctly, but the potential for accusations of god-moding and metagaming are quite high, depending on your audience.  If you're a cold-reading charlatan, that should be less difficult.  That sort of thing happens all the time in real life.

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(08-08-2013, 05:48 PM)Felix Sideris Wrote: I think it would be awesome to do a similar kind of thing, but I'm not psychic.. So how would I fake it? XD Heck I'd be willing to look at legitimate stuff psychics do to give readings if it means I'd be able to role play something unique and interesting.

In my mind, all psychics are fakes.  Should be easy to fake faking it.  I've actually lost friends in real life over this type of argument, so I'll just provide you with this link to an article about Cold Reading if you'd like to look behind the curtain.  If you'd rather remain blissful about the mystical idea of psychics and reading the future, I don't suggest looking further.  Ignorance is most definitely bliss when it comes to real world "psychic powers."

(08-08-2013, 06:26 PM)Eva Wrote: I have a lot of experience with tarot myself and thought about doing something similar in line with the whole 'Priestess of Nymeia' sort of thing - predicting fate, seeing the pattern in the Spinner's tapestry, etc.  I've just been very hesitant to inject tarot into actual lore like that because there's really no basis for it, so I've kind of gone the route of the wise woman instead.  Eva left off in 1.0 believing certain things and having faith in certain things and when these events were realized some might regard her as a sort of "seer" or such.  Or maybe it was all a coincidence.  I kind of like that ambiguity angle.

But I agree, RPing any kind of a 'psychic', 'empath', or someone who should have some sort of unnatural sense is kind of a no-no in my opinion.  I'm all right if someone takes cues from things and a character draws natural conclusions, but I will be put off if someone ever sent me a /tell and said, "My character is an empath so she would know how your character feels right now, so tell me if she's really happy or if she's putting on a false happy face."

TL;DR:  I think it's creative and a wonderful character idea - up until the point where it could encroach on another character via metagame/godmode.

(08-08-2013, 06:48 PM)Ildur Wrote: The only way a fortune teller can be fun for both parties (i.e. the teller and the client) is if you go for cold/warm reading. Not because the alternative is 'meta-gamey' or anything, but because the roleplaying of the reading would become kind of meaningless: you will be repeating what the other told you but in some convoluted way.

You could also cheat miserably and read people's bio's if you find them in the wiki and use cold/warm reading techniques to camouflage your cheating. But as I just said, that's cheating.