(09-21-2015, 12:21 PM)Kage Wrote: To be honest, this apparent need of "would" etc seems like it is a need stemming from metamodding. The entire need of tactical checkmating just seems like a lot of needing to have a forceful OOC player writing to force such and such IC consequences.
I don't know, that's just my opinion of what I'm reading. Then again, I'm also not in the mood to roleplay with people who would randomly want to cut off my character's head so that might be it. Any other time it is someone sending me a tell or PM saying "Are you ok with your character being kidnapped in public?" or "Are you ok with this possible consequence?"
Well, I suppose I'm not so guarded as an RPer. Â Like I said, a LOT of people don't adapt to the scene they're in; I try to do so. Â If my character says something and someone tries to cut their head off, I pride myself on not making my first reaction an OOC reaction. Â Sure, some people might try to troll you, but the amount of people randomly decapitating people in any scenario is fairly low. Â Almost suspiciously low if you consider many of our characters raised their in-game levels by randomly cutting the heads off of pretty much anything that got in their way.
But then, I've done a lot and seen a lot, and I feel it's a poor reflection on me if I immediately judge people by some sort of reaction. Â Plenty of my best RP friends did things that, I suppose, a lot of people just wrote off as horrific:
(09-21-2015, 12:44 PM)Verad Wrote:(09-21-2015, 10:39 AM)Ignacius Wrote: I'm sure the former roleplaying userbase of Yahoo IM's roleplaying forums appreciate your generalization based on the manner they mutually and often respectably handled combat with strangers with no dice pools present or mutual backstory.
As a fellow member of that former community, trust me, we were grognard assholes, and so were the people you played with.
The ability to effectively handle a bad technique does not mean the technique is not bad. It just means you were really good at something bad.
My reaction to someone who got into a fight with me without asking my permission first wasn't, "They're an asshole." Â Nor were they assholes for trying to kill my character. Â I made probably the best thread of my life on Yahoo IM with very few character deaths (right up until the end) despite being completely open to the public.
In short, my world's full of a lot less "assholes" because I would never presume to judge anyone on that ground. Â I don't have the right; the people I met there were perfectly good roleplayers. Â I certainly feel it would be judgmental to say, "I'm in this open RP forum, you did something a way I don't like it, therefore YOU are the horrible person."
It's open RP. Â If every altercation doesn't require a break for you to formally complain in OOC about format, you have to learn how to RP with people. Â Yes, that means being careful about how you write things, but apparently, that broadened the base of people I could play with. Â I wasn't actually aware of how many until this moment, but I've never really contemplated how lucky I am that I seem to be able to enter more scenarios with fewer problems and play with more people effectively.
I've certainly not had cause to call many people I'd met on Yahoo assholes and, assuming I met the same people these folks did and without usually killing people in threads, I came out of a scenario where people were disgusted by the people around them with a good reputation and a great group of regular roleplayers.
It's certainly put a smile on our faces. Â I passed this thread around to the old community members I talked to in order to get their opinions.
