[Discuss] RP Flaming

[Timothy Collett]

On Sep 17, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Kylie wrote:
> Ever been flamed in an RP?
>
> In my realm someone was speaking to his npc captain and critcised
> someone in a way I think was quite nasty.  With a semblance of  
> truth to
> what he was saying it seemed logical but was most certainly incorrect.
>
> When the person in question tried to correct the statements the player
> wrote an ooc message saying 'you can't correct that, its an RP and  
> your
> character doesn't know what he's saying'.
>
> I think RP is being used to condemn and belittle someone without them
> being allowed to defend themselves.  How *should* you react when  
> someone
> does this to you?  Some people are saying to ignore it, that
> inaccuracies in characters opinions of one another make the game fun,
> but that just seems really unfair.

You cannot tell someone that they can't have their character think  
certain things.  If someone roleplays their character thinking  
things, you cannot respond to that directly, because you cannot,  
indeed, have your character "hear" their characters' thoughts.

What you *can* do is roleplay your character thinking sadly about the  
state of things, when people believe X when Y is really the case, and  
other such things...including, as Jonathan said, very unflattering  
things about their characters ;-)

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever  
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--Sebastian, aka Jack, "Comes the Inquisitor"