I personally believe it started in combat oriented Rp, where players did not want to seem like they were forcing a sequence by extending the hand of God into the Rp, and then out of habit it started bleeding into all of their rp like a nervous twitch.
I didnt start doing it myself until I saw it done repeatedly, since usually you can write around things in a way so that its open ended without stating the full effect of what happens. Lately thought it is somewhat harder not to do it, since I see like....almost everyone I rp with do it.
But yes, I think at this point its just a cautious form of Rping so that the "GOD MODE" finger isnt pointed at someone like a really bad day in Salem.
I didnt start doing it myself until I saw it done repeatedly, since usually you can write around things in a way so that its open ended without stating the full effect of what happens. Lately thought it is somewhat harder not to do it, since I see like....almost everyone I rp with do it.
But yes, I think at this point its just a cautious form of Rping so that the "GOD MODE" finger isnt pointed at someone like a really bad day in Salem.