Author Topic: Clarification on the Ring of True Love (Read 743 times)

Dorganath · « **on:** January 29, 2008, 12:48:52 am »

It's come to the attention of the GM Team that there are some misconceptions and misunderstandings about what RP value and special properties these rings may have.

From the item's description:

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The soulstone of your one true love glows brightly whenever you wear this beautiful ring on your finger.

"On its surface is engraved in flowing script: "Love Eternal"

Light Low (10m) Green

Now, RP-wise, these rings are constructed using imprinted Soul Stones from one's partner set into a gold band. The rings can't actually be made in-game mechanically, but there are various ways to obtain them with GM assistance.

Let me state: there is no objection to characters obtaining these rings for RP purposes.

However, it's come to our attention that players are RPing these rings as imparting additional properties upon the wearers. Most specifically is the ability for one to know or "sense" when their partner, the one who's bound to the stone in the ring, is killed, hurt or in some sort of distress.

This simply is not the case. It has never been the case, and anyone who is RPing this, or any other special properties of such things should not only cease doing so but retroactively remove it from their RP (i.e. Character Development threads).

RPing this kind of "sense" as being imparted through the rings, or more accurately the Soul Stones set into the rings, is dangerously close to telepathy, which was expressly forbidden from RP (and it doesn't exist for PCs anyway) a couple of years ago. Beyond that, Soul Stones themselves simply do not have that sort of property at all.

Now, I'm pretty confident that no one was trying to skirt the rules or invent powers. I'd guess, as most things like this, that someone along the line either assumed or got some incorrect information from somewhere. These things have a way of snowballing, and I'm not going to blame anyone for this at all. But I am asking, on behalf of the GM Team, that this not continue and that it is treated as if it never happened.

These rings are intended, in both IC and OOC senses, to be symbolic gestures for in-game couples. From an IC standpoint, these rings contain an imprint of one's soul within the stone itself. Symbolically, it is like giving a piece of oneself to another as a symbol of love and devotion. This has tremendous RP value, but that is absolutely where it ends.

I do apologize if this impacts anyone's RP thus far. I normally don't like raising barriers, but this is a liberty that should never have been taken. As I said, my purpose is not to point fingers, lay blame or take any sort of action against anyone as a result. I'm simply asking that it stop.

Hellblazer · « **Reply #1 on:** January 29, 2008, 02:26:49 am »

Clarifies a lot thanks.

Stephen_Zuckerman · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2008, 12:08:22 pm »

Thanks both for the info, and for the idea! *skips off with ideas of Pyyran cutting that magically imprinted diamond into a stone for a ring for a certain singing sailor...*

merlin34baseball · « **Reply #3 on:** February 06, 2008, 01:18:51 pm »

So... if someone wants one of these the way to get one would be to contact a GM in game?

Dorganath · « **Reply #4 on:** February 06, 2008, 01:45:54 pm »

Yes. They cannot be made mechanically, but one can RP the process.

Falonthas · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2008, 02:03:02 pm »

this seems so one sided
girl gets ring
guy gets smacked with shovel

how is that fair?

ShiffDrgnhrt · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2008, 02:14:07 pm »

Shiff didnt get hit with a shovel

jrizz · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2008, 02:30:11 pm »

Wren got hit with a shovel! Maybe that is why he never goes home

merlin34baseball · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2008, 02:56:34 pm »

Chaynce got shoveled...... though he's still wondering why.....

Dorganath · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2008, 02:59:45 pm »

Quote from: ShiffDrgnhrt

Shiff didnt get hit with a shovel

No, he got molten gold spilled on his hand.

Falonthas · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2008, 04:52:54 pm »

i hereby volunteer for shovel
concussions go away burns can hurt much longer

Frances · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2008, 10:54:28 am »

Shiff still has scars from that gold, if I recall correctly...

OldBear · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:16:41 pm »

Just for the record, it is my understanding that the shovel announcement that the female is ready to be courted by the male she hits.... is a dwarven custom that has migrated to the masses as most good dwarven customs go. Drinking ale and the telling of tales comes to mind.

//I believe all of us males who have been hit have Scifibarbie to thank!!!

Gulnyr · « **Reply #13 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:40:38 pm »

Quote from: OldBear

... is a dwarven custom that has migrated to the masses as most good dwarven customs go...

If there were an Exaggeration of the Month award, I would nominate this. It's a good one.

ShiffDrgnhrt · « **Reply #14 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:00:51 pm »

Quote from: Frances

Shiff still has scars from that gold, if I recall correctly...

Yup, Left hand I believe. Hand works though. He Made Shiff and Valmara's rings RP-wise in the Beryl Temple before they were Married.

Hellblazer · « **Reply #15 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:31:22 pm »

Quote from: Dorganath

Yes. They cannot be made mechanically, but one can RP the process.

Hum I know that there is the rings of true love ingame (rain and sonya have a pair), and I'm pretty sure I also saw the soul rings. through a quest ran by osx.

Nehetsrev · « **Reply #16 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:38:57 pm »

Quote from: Hellblazer

Hum I know that there is the rings of true love ingame (rain and sonya have a pair), and I'm pretty sure I also saw the soul rings. through a quest ran by osx.

Rings of True Love are the proper name, I believe, and Soul Rings is another name for the same thing. Probably formed because someone remembered that the Rings of True Love contained imprinted soul stones and the phrase came to mind more easilly.

Dorganath · « **Reply #17 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:58:36 pm »

Both are "in-game". Neither is mechanically craftable.

Pseudonym · « **Reply #18 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:05:40 pm »

I submit to our coding staff these rings should, after 10+ years of continual usage, bestow upon wearer the following effects.

* -4 to will (to live) saves
* Continuous confusion (re what we've done wrong)
* (Selective) deafness
* Have the PCs bank account have a 50 true maximum

I'm all for the realism.

PS. The thread was already way off track!

DMOE · « **Reply #19 on:** February 07, 2008, 10:30:04 pm »

Hey! Geldar loves his and he always wins the arguments too!!

*mutters about paladin's, Cha and the 'disappointed' look*