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(09-30-2013, 04:29 PM)DAISHI Wrote: The context for this is several people I've been around that RP their internal thoughts and I'm not sure if they understand that I can't react to those. This just happened in the last hour in fact. The post is just a sort of public statement for RPers. If you're RPing internal thoughts, others around you won't necessarily react to you or your mood in the way you want them to unless you actually act it out rather than emote everything as an internalization. Which has previously led to some asking why others seem to be ignoring what they're RPing.
(09-30-2013, 04:15 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:Glad you mentioned metagaming, that's one of the big principles of the hting.(09-30-2013, 04:01 PM)IncubusManatee Wrote:(09-30-2013, 03:53 PM)DAISHI Wrote: When you emote that you're feeling lost, I can't acknowledge it because it's internal to you.
Isn't this just common sense?
Well... there's a variety of points of view on this, I've found.
Personally, I don't emote anything about my character's internal state unless it would be obvious to an onlooker from her actual actions ("L'yhta's tail rises, peeking out from behind her shoulder in interest"); I prefer to show, not tell, as much as possible. Since my character's not a mind-reader, like DAISHI, I also don't respond to people's emotes of internal state unless, again, it'd be obvious to my not especially socially perceptive character.
Throwing out thoughts and beliefs that characters aren't privy to doesn't really help RP very much, IMO, because they can't be responded to ICly without metagaming. It can come off as needless emote showboating or even trollish if your inner monologue is disparaging of another character, as they can't respond to it ICly and just have to "take it." If you need to let a person in on what's going on with your character to help with RP, an OOC tell is probably the better way to do it as there's no question of etiquette at that point.
Instead of getting upset, have you tried sending them a tell? Â Amazing how much OOC communication helps. Â They could still be learning how to RP or may not know the right way.
I admit I fall into doing it sometimes, mainly as I am used to RP on forums for many many years. But I guess I've also taught myself how to "look past" and realize when a person just wants to RP but might not know how to "fit in".