Shift into a dog, house cat, rat, pigeon, ducks, or ox and you should be fine
My point wasn't on how a npc would react. My point is that a Tn, CN, may or may not feel the need to respect that heart felt disposition not to scare towns folks and NE, wouldn't give a pink unicorn right cheek hide, that they would scare people with their summons, they might even get a kick out of it. what we concider ooc common sense about that fact, may not apply in RP, due to the alignment and predisposition of a persona. That is why I suggest that if such points have to be made in a bio from now on, that it be limited to lawful and/or good aligned character. True, the gm don't have much time to patrol that, and this is why there is a feeling that it should be enforced equally throughout all players, but to do so would trunk RP for those chars that does not conform to the "well seen" mold.... But again as I said before, I agree with a lot of things of your post, but with the distinction that it should be lawful and/ or good chars, not all of them.
My point wasn't on how a npc would react. My point is that a Tn, CN, may or may not feel the need to respect that heart felt disposition not to scare towns folks and NE, wouldn't give a pink unicorn right cheek hide, that they would scare people with their summons, they might even get a kick out of it.
It seems like it's once again time to address a commonly recurring issue that could be avoided if all players knew what was expected of them from the start and applied common sense to their role-play time in-game.... My feeling is that if players are confronted with these common sense rules before they enter the world, they'll be more likely to follow them once in play, and thus preserve the feel of immersion in the world of Layonara for themselves, and everyone else.
Nah, then they see the name text over your head and metagame that they know that you're really not a cat. Just watch the people who obsessively chase Grovel in cat form, and ignore the Hlint kitties.