Oskar Helvig Wrote:Quote:I also don't mind when people add a little to Lore such as later-patch stuff because 1) it will become Lore in the future and 2) It doesn't break the existing lore. In fact, i don't mind players adding their own ideas too, as long as it doesn't go over the top, like "I am an angel of death sent down by the twelve!". Sure you are. "I am an alien invader from another planet!" Uh.....huh.....
Agreed with ya on the later part of what you said, but the earlier seems off to me, primarily because while we are aware that certain aspects of the game will be released, we know little/nothing about them at the moment. Thus a character portraying an unknown 'thing' that wasn't released may misrepresent it, or RP it differently than when it actually is and the real lore comes out. There are ways to bypass this as well, but this point stands.
And as far as 'right' and 'wrong' goes, and I wasn't referring strictly to RP, I see as "there is no right and wrong - just opinions" as a lazy cop out of actually defending your views against opposing ideas. It feels comfy to believe that, it does, but don't go around saying it around the Philosophy department.
I respect your opinion Oskar, but saying it's a lazy cop out just because people are open-minded is...meh.. I dunno how to put it, but it makes you look as if you haven't really understood what this thread is all about.
You may think that you are right about what you say, because, as far as I know, you're part of a heavy rp ls, which I respect, but you have to try and see it from other people's perspective.
There are no fixed Rules for Roleplaying on the internet, except for the obvious one's I listed (and those I may have forgot). It's not like a pen and paper game (which I also played a lot in the past btw.), things are in motion and perhaps that's what makes it so interesting. Even after 12 or even more years of RP-Experience I still learn new things about it everyday. As for the Lore: I agree with you on some parts, but you can't foresee anything that happens or could happen, but then again if anyone would just stick completely to the little bit of lore we have, then don't you think it might get boring after a while? Not only that, but don't you think having too much boundaries in an fantasy world (i.e: the rp we do) would get boring after a while? For me it would be like watching a soap-opera, if I want to watch that I can just jump into the real life, it would be the same.
Think about Ultima Online and about how little lore was given there (and I don't count the Single Player Games as lore btw.). Ultima Online quite literally said: Everyone has his own individual story, everyone can be a hero, go out there and write your own story. I think that message was even integrated into the intro if I remember correctly, so if you really want to stick to some "right" or "wrong" RP rules for online RPG's, then you should stick to the game that pretty much started the whole RP Scene for gamers.
Don't take this personally, I respect your opinion and I respect you as a Roleplayer, but I think it's wrong of you to say it's a cop out. I will just say it once more, we have so many different players, from different countries, coming from different games, young or old. There is no "right" or "wrong" in rp except for a few No-go's, there are just different perspectives. =3
PS: I don't want to support Lore-bending and personally I prefer to stick to Ingame-Lore aswell, I just see nothing wrong in changing minor things or adding little things that don't break actual lore but expands it instead.
