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[Cheops]

Originally Posted by Butz

Game Mechanics Vs. Roleplaying

the comic is an example of bad rp, not how rp and gm are incompatible

[Butz]

Originally Posted by Cheops

the comic is an example of bad rp, not how rp and gm are incompatible

You don't understand. The Zormite in that comic is a Professional Soldier, while the Drow is a Citizen. By all roleplaying accounts, the Soldier should wipe the floor with the citizen. However, all the Drow has to do is pull out his trusty Flame Ice Dagger of OMFG + 6 (Improved 11/14), etc, and the Level 3 player of the professional soldier is gone in a poof.

[Cheops]

Originally Posted by Butz

You don't understand. The Zormite in that comic is a Professional Soldier, while the Drow is a Citizen. By all roleplaying accounts, the Soldier should wipe the floor with the citizen. However, all the Drow has to do is pull out his trusty Flame Ice Dagger of OMFG + 6 (Improved 11/14), etc, and the Level 3 player of the professional soldier is gone in a poof.

So then, either: the professional soldier should work towards being on more equal footing with the citizen, or he shouldn't be a professional soldier. In the same way there are GM powerplayers there are also RP powerplayers who believe they should be invulnerable or habe special privileges and rights because of their character's RP. Personally, I believe GM is much more objective than the patched and disjointed RP histories most people come up with, so to RP properly it should be based on something more tangible that actually makes use of the game engine---otherwise, why not just make a p&p GK game or something?

To me, the use of an "overpowered" item to kill someone in one swipe is just as bad as assuming that just because someone was given a certain rank they should be able to "wipe the floor with" another player.

But this has all been said before, we keep treading the same ground over and over and arguments seem to me more like cyclical time in a Gabriel GarcÃ*a Márquez novel than actual progress.

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Originally Posted by Cheops

So then, either: the professional soldier should work towards being on more equal footing with the citizen, or he shouldn't be a professional soldier. In the same way there are GM powerplayers there are also RP powerplayers who believe they should be invulnerable or habe special privileges and rights because of their character's RP. Personally, I believe GM is much more objective than the patched and disjointed RP histories most people come up with, so to RP properly it should be based on something more tangible that actually makes use of the game engine---otherwise, why not just make a p&p GK game or something?

To me, the use of an "overpowered" item to kill someone in one swipe is just as bad as assuming that just because someone was given a certain rank they should be able to "wipe the floor with" another player.

But this has all been said before, we keep treading the same ground over and over and arguments seem to me more like cyclical time in a Gabriel GarcÃ*a Márquez novel than actual progress.

Are you suggesting that roleplaying should be selective? As in a person should not be able to roleplay what he/she wants --that is within reason--... but instead what their level dictates?