[Discuss] Role Play Island.

[Timothy Collett]

On Sep 4, 2006, at 3:20 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

>> having your gold stolen by a judge without any role play.
>
> Silence can be RP. Prehaps it was well RPed within the realm, the
> infiltrator doesn't know what the reasons were, he just knows he was
> robbed.

That only works if the silence is RPed.  It's really not hard:

You awaken to see the impassive face of the Judge, flanked by three  
burly guards.  He gestures to them, and two of them grab you, while  
the third rifles through your pockets, taking every gold coin he can  
find.  Then, without a word, they all leave, locking the door again  
behind them.

> Some people like to give out OOC information in their RP, others
> don't. I don't think anyone should be forced to do anything other than
> IC RP.

Except that that's what the FEI was *designed* around.  Its original  
charter was to have *nothing* significant done without consistent RP  
backing it up--relationship changes, judge actions, infiltrator  
actions, *everything* was supposed to be RPed publicly, at least to  
some degree.  It worked for a while, and it was great.

That all fell apart when people started arriving with a powergaming  
mentality, and Tom refused to set up a RP police with the power to  
stop them taking over.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners  
corrupted from infancy and then punish them for those crimes to which  
their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded but  
that you first make thieves and then punish them?"
-Thomas More