[Discuss] Dwilight, SMA and Powergaming

[John P. Murphy]

On May 21, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Tessa wrote:

> I don't claim to know anything about the actual situation (I don't  
> even
> have a character on Dwilight), but it brings my thoughts back to a
> discussion we had on this list a while ago. When we set a goal (like
> joining B to make walking from A to C easier) *then* come up with a
> roleplay to justify it, even though there is an "IC reason", it feels
> like we're losing something important. Like maybe we're missing the
> point.

To a certain extent, we're never going to get away from it.  We  
frequently have legitimate OOC needs that we want to bring into the  
game: parking a character in the capital while I go on vacation, for  
example, or switch class to bureaucrat because I can't log in that  
often.  I'd rather that people take the time and effort to roleplay  
it and come up with IC reasons than to just do it and not think about  
it.

John