[Discuss] Role Play Island.

[Lyman Stone]

> Still, I don't agree with complete secrecy.  You need to give other  
> players clues and tools.  When someone keeps a secret, people  
> around him/her notice somethign weird.  When a character doesn't  
> say anything, people normally asume it's their player who is  
> inactive, not the character who is planning something against  
> them.  I've been too innocent, and my characters have suffered for  
> it.  Ah, my poor little characters, having such an naive player  
> unaware of the people against them! :'(
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> That has happened ot me too.  Many people ignore the "What you do  
> not see you do not know" rule of RP.  (And yes, that rule is in the  
> wiki somewhere.)  What's worse, many people ignore it purposefully,  
> as to gain an advantage in the game, and believe you are a fool for  
> stating your character's thoughts.
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> That doesn't work, even if you wanted to.  Nothing ends up as  
> planned in BM.
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> (Postmodernism disagrees with you.  :-P)
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> But let's not ignore what other wrote already, nor write something  
> that doesn't make sense at all.
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I cut out my comments to make this shorter. ;)

My character does not give his enemies tools. Now, on the other hand,  
I, as a player, always leave clues and give foreshadowing.

The problem is that, as of yet, nobody has found any of them yet. Or,  
at least, not enough of them that matter. And I'll let people ponder  
that, lol. Hireshmont has already dropped clues about what his next  
big plot is, and he's really my only character who has anything big  
to hide right now.

As I rule of thumb, I just dont tell my characters' thoughts unless I  
really want to make it clear exactly how he/she is feeling.

No, planning RP doesnt work. But, maybe I have this wrong, it sounds  
like planning RP is what the FEIers want, for RP to be strictly bound  
up and to be "collaborative" in that X people sit down and plan it  
out, then RP it in pre-set plot lines. I'm sure their RP messages are  
very clever and eloquent, but I dont like seeing RP planned.

Well, I have precious little respect for postmodernity, so  
postmodernity can differ all it wants, lol. Each to his own philosophy!

Lastly, write, dont ignore what other people wrote. Build off it,  
throw in unexpected plot twists, grow and develop your character, set  
things up so you dont have a LINEAR course of plot, but more of web,  
a zig zag. Linear plots are great for novels, but for games every  
person has a plot line they will follow, the combination results in a  
tangled mass.... but what a beautiful tangled mass!