Rules vary from group to group, and person to person. What goes well with one group/person won't always go over well with others. Communication and knowing your environment are key.
/t [[Hey, are you okay with me picking your pocket?]]
If they say no, I don't do it. If they say yes, I let them decide if they catch me in the act, and if I'm not caught they decide what I get away with.Â
But running up and just ganking someone's shirt, shoes, and wallet? Nah, that's not going to fly with most people.
That being said... I still highly advise against having a character along those lines.
In the case of someone just randomly walking up to you and emoting that they kill/rape your character... just ignore it. It's probably someone trolling.
Swearing... It happens. It's against the ToS, but it happens. I had questions about it myself, and my take from the discussion was that most people agree that when you hit the point where you're being excessive for no reason other to be excessive, you're crossing a line.
Coffee... well, it seems there WERE coffee beans in the game at one point, but have since been removed. A purist could probably argue that if the item doesn't exist/isn't referenced in the game, it doesn't exist at all. I say that coffee is a common enough drink and various real-life cultures created coffee-like drinks from various sources (beans, bark, seeds, etc), so I don't see a problem emoting that you've gone and got yourself a cup of coffee.Â
And I don't think there'd be a problem with sherbet either; all you need to make that is sugar, cream, and whatever fruit juice you want to use, toss that in a can/jar that you can seal up, then put that in a larger can/jar that's full of ice and rock salt (or ice shards, I suppose), then take twenty minutes rolling that back and forth across the floor. Utterly do-able in the context of the game... but, again, a purist might argue against it.
I personally go on the idea that, if I can find the ingredients in-game and the "tech" to make such a food is reasonably around/suits the setting and time period, it's fair game.Â
Quote:Is thievery even a thing? Walking up and saying "X steals X shirt." do they literally have to take said shirt off?ÂThe group I RP with mostly, I'm pretty much free to pickpocket from them whenever I feel the want to. They're also just as free to catch me whenever they want. Would I freely pickpocket another player that I randomly encounter? Not without asking OOCly first, and I keep it simple.
/t [[Hey, are you okay with me picking your pocket?]]
If they say no, I don't do it. If they say yes, I let them decide if they catch me in the act, and if I'm not caught they decide what I get away with.Â
But running up and just ganking someone's shirt, shoes, and wallet? Nah, that's not going to fly with most people.
Quote:I got to thinking about this when I read in the handbook about RPing as a murderer and people not liking when their character is killed, well if the murderer or anything like that say a rapist. Comes up to a PC and says, "X rapes X", or "X kills X" with no agreement of the RPer  being affected, is that character now terminated? can they no longer RP that character? Or is it generally accepted that something like that is bullshit and shouldn't count?ÂMurder and rape... if you're dead-set on being a murderer or a rapist, it's best that you keep such actions targeted on NPC's you made up. Murder, because (realistically) you're forcing another character out of RP. Rape because... it's messy and hits a LOT of really touchy subjects, both ICly and OOCly. Not to say that I haven't seen both happen (murder in the case of one character was doing a perma-retire... the rape one, it was coordinated with OOC volunteering on victim's parts, and did have a storyline purpose), they just require a LOT of OOC discussion and, again, can turn messy very quickly.
That being said... I still highly advise against having a character along those lines.
In the case of someone just randomly walking up to you and emoting that they kill/rape your character... just ignore it. It's probably someone trolling.
Quote:Other things like swearing, how much is acceptable? Are any words basically forbidden? That kind of thing.
Swearing... It happens. It's against the ToS, but it happens. I had questions about it myself, and my take from the discussion was that most people agree that when you hit the point where you're being excessive for no reason other to be excessive, you're crossing a line.
Quote:More rules I just thought up, things like coffee, or chocolate, if they are mentioned in the game then cool beans but what about things that aren't mentioned? Like eating Sherbet Lemons, just a sweet but is it weird to have them in the game?ÂThere is chocolate (made from kuruku beans, which are basically just renamed cocoa pods). The Valentine's/Valentione's event was based on trading chocolates.
Coffee... well, it seems there WERE coffee beans in the game at one point, but have since been removed. A purist could probably argue that if the item doesn't exist/isn't referenced in the game, it doesn't exist at all. I say that coffee is a common enough drink and various real-life cultures created coffee-like drinks from various sources (beans, bark, seeds, etc), so I don't see a problem emoting that you've gone and got yourself a cup of coffee.Â
And I don't think there'd be a problem with sherbet either; all you need to make that is sugar, cream, and whatever fruit juice you want to use, toss that in a can/jar that you can seal up, then put that in a larger can/jar that's full of ice and rock salt (or ice shards, I suppose), then take twenty minutes rolling that back and forth across the floor. Utterly do-able in the context of the game... but, again, a purist might argue against it.
I personally go on the idea that, if I can find the ingredients in-game and the "tech" to make such a food is reasonably around/suits the setting and time period, it's fair game.Â
Quote:Character capabilities? I understand you can't god-mod but what about smaller scale abilities? Stupid things like breaking walls with your fist or whatever is that seen as kinda stupid?I'd OOCly roll my eyes at breaking a wall with one's fist (unless it was a paper wall, or a thin drywall-equivalent one). A stone wall... I'd argue that only a Monk has a chance of doing that. I tend to like a bit of realism in stuff like that, but that can change from group to group.
