[Discuss] Role Play Island.

[Timothy Collett]

On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:46 PM, bpratt wrote:
> 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.

That is *EXACTLY* the problem.

Anyone who can't bring themselves to post private conversations or  
their characters' private thoughts doesn't understand the rules of RP  
enough to realize that anyone who tries to use that against them can,  
at least by the rules of FEI, be found guilty of OOC cheating.  That  
would lead me to suspect that they, themselves, would be just as  
willing to use such postings.

YES, BattleMaster is a GAME.  A game we are supposed to be playing  
with FRIENDS.  I view the FEI as one huge collective novel, that  
we're all *supposed* to be contributing to.  But if you keep all your  
RP to yourself, you're not contributing, you're just leaching, and,  
to some degree, powergaming.

And finally, if your plans can't survive the other players finding  
out about them OOC, they're probably not very good plans to begin  
with.  You need to make sure you have not *one* path that leads to  
victory, but *all* paths in order to have a winning strategy.

Oh, and drix, don't top post.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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