[Discuss] "roleplaying island"

[James]

Matt Runyon wrote:
>
> I like the idea of roleplaying police, personally...
>
> But the problem with the buy title issue is that our CHARACTERS (or, 
> at least the ones "in the know" who will proceed to inform the rest of 
> everyone) know that there is one and only one way that person could 
> have grabbed the title without being appointed by someone.  Someone 
> before suggested converting it to having a claim on the region, which 
> makes a great deal more sense, especially if we get random claims 
> popping up as well (especially in, say, the region with your family 
> mansion, or that you've been a Knight in).
> We know OOC it's forged.  But is it really unreasonable to assume our 
> characters aren't idiots, and recognize the facts of the matter?
>
>
An exert of a message sent by Tom to our realm "/It would be obvious if 
documents were forged /

No, it would not. The very nature of (good) forgeries is that it is *not 
obvious* that it is a forgery. There are enough famous paintings who 
were in a museum for many years before it was discovered they were forged."

And he is absolutely right.  Role playing is about being able to 
separate yourself from a character.