(02-06-2015, 05:57 PM)Tiergan Wrote:(02-06-2015, 02:05 PM)Nebbs Wrote:(02-06-2015, 01:50 PM)Aya Wrote:(02-06-2015, 01:45 PM)Tiergan Wrote: I am having trouble understanding what you mean by this. Â Are you saying there is not really an IC because all of our decisions are made OOC and thus all IC actions have the same weight and responsibility as OOC actions? Â Because if so - I STRONGLY disagree and would honestly be really, really unsettled by this line of thinking. Â That is like saying all villainous characters should bear the same kind of OOC weight as if they were commiting a rel crime. Â Or that people in an IC relationship should be just as dedicated to their IC lover as their OOC lover.We have no more responsibility for our character's actions than an actor playing a character, or a writer writing a character's part.
There MUST be a separation or you are doing harm.
Yes what Aya says.Â
If you play an obnoxious character and push it to cause problems, or try to break other characters up.. then say it is not you it is the character.. no dice.
From another angle, RP is a cooperative endeavour in which we are all essentially co-authoring a shared story in real time.
This is more about intent and responsibility to be a positive part of the shared story. And that can equally be a baddie as a goody character and action.
There is an ENORMOUS wealth of difference between someone RPing with you normally and someone using RP as a vehicle to harass other people (ie. Cause problems, break people up with malicious ooc intent.)
They are very very different. Harassment vIa RP is already a form of IC/OOC mixing.
I agree Tiergan, the problem is, how do you recognize when someone is using RP to cause problems?
The reason I ask is because people can lie, and even lie to themselves. I once had someone ICly claim that a specific type of healing was impossible at a certain speed. Their character would not let go of the issue so hard that I went into FC chat, and kindly explained that players in the FC are allowed to determine how effective and how fast healing of injuries will be for their own characters.
I was not upset at the player, but I almost felt the player was trying to force their OOC opinion on healing magic through an IC scene. I said what I said just in case, and to prevent the whole debate about the effect and speed of healing magic from happening OOC (because we know what a can of worms that is). Well, that player got very upset and told me that the opinion is just "legit" for the character.
Fine, I took them at their word and dropped the matter. It's just, the scene was about a plan for an upcoming mission. It wasn't even supposed to be a talk about healing injuries. I know RP is unpredictable, and that is part of the point, but the character was being disruptive. Again, once the player told me it was just IC, I had no issue, and was never mad in the first place. But I did wonder how such a debate contributed to the scene. All it did was drag it out on an issue that would find no resolution.
