(06-07-2015, 04:54 PM)Rahal Wrote: Same here Intaki. The problem I have is that a number of people in the RPC bully people over using a meta item to make an IC change to a character that would make sense.
Things you need a Fantasia to change:
So did you character grow a bit? maybe they lost weight? Maybe they got a suntan or picked up some scares? Maybe their faith changed over thier lifetime? Maybe they got into a fight and receives a broken nose? Yeah prepare to get called "bad RPers" and "Lore breakers" by these people.
- Height
- Weight/Muscle Mass
- Chest Size
- Skin Tone
- Scars (Might be able to use the Aestheticician for this)
- Patron Deity
- Nose shape
- Eye Colour (Might be able to use the Aestheticician for this)
I have roleplayed with people who have used fantasia, but agreed never to share the information with my character. We got on fine.Â
The problem is that some people find some things to be so massively world changing, e.g the basic problem with Fantasia has been that it was never represented anywhere else in game. The world would look different if fantasia and/or other shape-changing (to a radical extent) was in common use. I don't find that it's alright for me to invent a new type of shapeshifting magic for example, it's too big of a thing to go and do. Other people have other views on this, and that is fine.
Forcing your views onto someone else, calling them a bad roleplayer for using or even not using fantasia, or any imaginary substitution that isn't mentioned in the lore, is always going to be bad. You would't dream of how many times I've been accused of being some boring ass roleplayer because I didn't want to accept someone else accidentally got fantasia'd into another race. For me, the other way of doing things is not fun, for others my way of doing things is not fun.Â
On top of that, some FC's may have stances on several of these controversies that are around in the lore. Some are fine with IC white mages and others are not. What is true for the FC's I find, is that they tend to be a collection of like-minded individuals, attracted by the same preferences in RP. Most of my discussions about this comes when Kin is rejecting someone that applied, because they do not enjoy things the way we do. In my eyes it's best to not have people in a place where they would not enjoy themselves, but some unfortunately see that as an attack on their abilities.Â
The solution is somewhere around finding mutual respect. Don't call people (or FC's) bullies because they wont accept your fantasia, or something you put in place for it.Â
Different preferences is not an attempt to deliberately be mean. Unless they of course sit down and make a point out of telling you that you're shit, but I'd argue in that case you didn't want to hang about them anyways. Same goes for if they can not discriminate between IC and OOC use of the potion. Bless, I once used it on my Nessa cat to change her tail's fur cause I decided I wanted fluffy and just went on with assuming it was always like that. It's not like anyone noticed either.
