[Discuss] Role Play Island.

[bpratt]

On 9/4/06, w drix <valdrix1975 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> So YOU say.
>
> I am happy with it.  It is MUCH more RP then the other islands, and any
> powergaming is done IC with IC results.  What do you want us to do? write
> out a messege for EVERYONE to see about EVERYTHING?  That is silly and
> unreal.
>
> My chariter will tell the world what he wants them to know when HE wants
> to tell them.
>
> If I am able to wrangle diplomacy around to where there is a war of 6 vs
> 1, Great, you should have done something diffrent I guess.
>


What exactly makes you so sure all powergaming is done IC? What makes you so
defensive? I'm not complaining because there was ANOTHER 6 vs 1 war... my
complaint is how little RP there is around it, especially in the origins.

And the attitude that you can't even roleplay something (say, to the RPG
mailing list) because EVERYONE would see it is an example of the powergaming
attitude in FE. It's why the RP is so dead and stale there. Because everyone
is paranoid that other players are gonna read it and then have their
characters act on it. Because everyone is certain other players are
powergamers, in other words, who can't differentiate between player and
character.

Hence the current problem.
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