Quote: I can't tell you how much it drove me nuts in WoW, long after I stopped RPing (so at least I didn't geekrage) to be hearing RP guilds talking about how "well, now that the Lich King is dead," and I'm going "SHUT UP YOU OBNOXIOUS BASTARDS I HAVENT EVEN KILLED HIM YET".
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Anyway. You get the idea. XD
Yeah, that is in interesting problem, but that's why keeping roleplay to smaller groups is a plus. If someone has already taken down the lich king, they're obviously out of your RP scenario, and you can make your character not hear them (because it would be impossible for them to exist). True that RPing canon material (likely) raises this problem routinely, but most of RP is "pretend" anyway, so in that case I would just make those characters not exist to my character within the RP. It can be annoying sometimes, but I think the payoff would be well worth it.
Also, the problem of "Not everyone witnessed cutscene X in the same way," depends on who's RPing in the group. If someone is completely unwilling to compromise the fact that they saw the scene exactly, it should fall on the other members of the group to compensate their storylines appropriately (like you said, perhaps a character was on the lower decks of the ship when the sea monster jumped over, maybe they were in the same storm, maybe they were knocked unconscious and are reluctant to believe the other's story etc.). But that depends on the characters and their players.
So.... anyway, back to my original intention of making this thread. Would anyone want to make a canon-infused RP group (ie. an RP group that uses the canon setting to play off of?)
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