(09-21-2015, 04:22 PM)Ignacius Wrote: If I wrote my criminal poorly, and no one believed me or took me seriously, that's my fault. Â If I can't also write combat well, that's also my fault if I use combat well. Â If I couldn't, it may have limited the amount of people I could play with because I might have retconned and blisted anyone who wouldn't fight outside those terms.
I, however, can do it. Â Regardless of what you think of people who would use it, it's a proven commodity and has worked for a great many roleplayers. Â In the same thread where people are insulting people behind their back for using "would" too often, I'd say poor writing during combat isn't proportionally worse.
If you find nothing of value in it at all, that's fine. Â It would hardly seem fair to call people who are taking cues in combat from wording to not be roleplaying, but if you insist on it, then there really is nothing to debate. Â You've already disenfranchised the entire concept.
That's not at all what we're discussing. This is:
(09-21-2015, 10:58 AM)Ignacius Wrote: Yet, according to the sentence, Ignacius only tried to swing at Ziggy's neck; that example leaves no room to not continue doing it. That may sound petty to you, someone may say "you know what I meant", but the other person only has to say, "But you didn't write what you mean, then." And this is a stranger who, one would think, thinks he has as much right to cut off Ignacius's arm as he does to lose his head. In the end, only the wording matters.
Ignoring intent due to the writing posted, regardless of understanding. ESPECIALLY if you're acknowledging the articulation wasn't there, but are punishing them for it anyway. And since you're very staunchly anti-OOC communication, you won't even allow for the discussion to clarify by the sounds of it (Edited for snarky tone) it's possible the other person would have no idea what they did "wrong." You're, in effect, saying that you can treat anyone however you like so long as you, the writer, can find holes in their post, regardless of what the character intent is. After all, if they're not a good writer, it's their fault!
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