Please don't be offended OOC by IC personalities/behaviours

[twidget658]

The evil/mean acts of my pc in NO way reflect who I am behind the keyboard. I volunteer with the youth in my community as a soccer referee and football coach. I volunteer at the local hospital and I'm a waiting for medical school to start. I spend my free time helping others and giving back.
 
 The time I spend in the game is my creative RP/acting side that has nothing to do with my real life.

 
 Drizzlin, I think some of my post was misunderstood by most (probably the way I worded it and the way others interpreted it). I was not referring to you are all. I have spoke to you and yours in tells before and I realize that there is a huge difference between you and your character. But, the things I mentioned in my post, I have seen, (not by you specifically) that is why I never read CDT's and hardly log into IRC anymore. Hence, the reason I posted it. However, it is not aimed at everyone. If the shoe fits sort of thing. I did not mention any names and will not. Drizzlin, you and yours make an excellent team and I have always enjoyed being in party with you two.
 
 To clarify my previous post and what I was referring to, or at least try...
 
 A new player playing a certain class with a certain alignment...some people going to IRC and complaining about it, complaining or slamming on the way the new character is RPing, new people accidently slightly metagaming or using the a characters name when not introduced and players miss treating them, etc...So it is mostly in tells and IRC and less in journals. I probably should have left journals out, but it has happened there.
 
 Ever received a tell that was meant for someone else? You may be surpised what some characters say about others.

[J-ser]

Especially with the race limits on towns. I saw an orc in the middle of Hempstead, just standing around a group of five people or so. I saw him later, and confronted him (IC) about the town, its laws, and then made sure he left. I didn't send a tell, but I didn't sense hostility.

[AeonBlues]

In any case, yep, I hope people aren't offended OOC by IC personalities - especially when it comes to things like druidic dogma. You can *really* smell some people's political bents through RP and when that starts happening, well, that's bad.

Mostly it comes up when Nye cops his "I don't care if you die." attitude.  I don't want to get into details, but it generally pertains to characters he doesn't know very well, thus getting a bad first impression.  But hey, a character with a CHA of 8 should get bad first impressions.

AeonBlues

[lonnarin]

The evil/mean acts of my pc in NO way reflect who I am behind the keyboard. I volunteer with the youth in my community as a soccer referee and football coach.

I don't know... all of my football coaches were decidedly Lawful Evil...

[Drizzlin]

Especially with the race limits on towns. I saw an orc in the middle of Hempstead, just standing around a group of five people or so. I saw him later, and confronted him (IC) about the town, its laws, and then made sure he left. I didn't send a tell, but I didn't sense hostility.

It is still very hard, to near impossible for a monster race to NOT go to hempstead.  Fort Vehl does not have crafting halls. I know that you are saying they are RPing, rather than using the crafting halls, but my point is simple. Until crafting halls are placed in Vehl, I can not, for one second, expect monster races to avoid Hempsted.

Monster races still have to use the boats in hempsted to get around as well.

[Filatus]

It is still very hard, to near impossible for a monster race to NOT go to hempstead.  Fort Vehl does not have crafting halls. I know that you are saying they are RPing, rather than using the crafting halls, but my point is simple. Until crafting halls are placed in Vehl, I can not, for one second, expect monster races to avoid Hempsted.

Monster races still have to use the boats in hempsted to get around as well.

Ehm... there are crafting halls in Vehl.

The problem is rather that nobody even bothers to make the effort to go there and find them.

[Acacea]

This was stated the last time it was brought up as an argument as well.

[Makashi]

I wonder how many people think I'm like Gork ooc then.....*counts the bodies around him* Oh.

[kuchida]

Just out of curiosity if Hempstead was the only town that didn't allow monsters..  Not that it affects me but I was wondering.

I assume Mariners Hold would allow them (and there is a crafting hall there too of course..) just because it's not really possible to get to Alindor without passing through there..

And Prantz seems like it shouldn't but that would also be terribly inconvenient to say the least..

And finally are the docks of Hempstead off limits to them? As in if they were taking a boat from Vehl to Leringard, I assume they would be allowed a few moments to change ships..

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

It isn't that it's off-limits. It's just that it's not a very healthy place to be if you're not one of the "civilized" races.

[Hotaru]

Crafting Halls in Vehl are in the main part of town east of the bank and south of the armor, weapon, and clothing shops. >_>;  i honestly prefer the crafting halls in Vehl ... no one is there... it's nice and quiet...

What really gets under my skin is people that let's say... gets killed by an IC evil alignment player then switches to another of their characters of equal or higher level to confront the evil player... that really annoys me... not only did the instance not happen to the character switched to... unless RP is involved that character has no business confronting the evil character... i.e.  Killed character = Little brother  Character switched to = Big Brother  even then... still no business confronting the evil one. Thus they take it OOCly and go for the vengeance path. which leads to the dark side man! (doh... +2 points to my geek skill...)

[Interia_Discordius]

Has this happened? Usually I see people keep disputes among their characters and not multiple ones...

[Acacea]

I know that's a common practice in MMORPGs, but if it's occurring here that's an issue, heh.

[Tanman]

I would like this bump this post again because it has been mentioned to me on a number of occasions that it's easier to play "Happy Families" where every race such as Dark Elves, Orcs, Half Giants and Dwarves, Elves are friendly to each other because of mainly OOC reasons....

a)they feel bad doing something to said character because the player behind it is their friend.

b) that OOC arguments may occur. . . and things get out of control.

I would like to iterate again a common theme that has been said before in this thread...that is what a player is and a character is are two different things.  

I have seen players that do some abrupt changes to their characters because at the end of the day they want to get along.

Lastly, I would like to say something for people to consider. It is a bit of ftopic but is a consequence of what happens when players do play "Happy Families" because of the OOC reasons I have listed above.

 When one plays in this manner, I find it sad, because people like EdtheKet and his team, the Project team  has been a tremendous amount of work put into the manual...and making it on screen fleshing out the details.

By not Roleplaying IC the general description of races, acknowledging what is in the handbook or in LORE, I personally think it is a kind of a slap in the face to the team who have worked so hard to make Layonara the way it is.

[Drizzlin]

Ehm... there are crafting halls in Vehl.

The problem is rather that nobody even bothers to make the effort to go there and find them.

There still are not any advanced crafting halls in vehl. Sorry to hash this up so late, but I knew about the normal ones and meant the advanced ones way back when I said this.