RuneScape Forum Archive | Character Consent.

JerryfromJDQ

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While I don't necessarily agree with the use of certain objects, races, attributes, spells, prayer or curses although they may see use in the RuneScape Lore for the sake of having a well-balanced character and community.

I do agree to some extent the point in which Pyro has made. Back in the olden days of World Forty Two you were required to read up on the Lore and use it to your advantage or fall prey to the excessive Bloodlust of others. Less of a "Play to win" but rather "Get gud to survive" mentality that while harsh, brutal and for the best of times rather unfair it forced you to better your character, yourself and your Role-play to be able to survive in such an environment.

There was no need for character consent as you would have utilised your character's assets effectively in creative, unique and unorthodox strategical manoeuvres to best their opponent in combat and bring them to their knees in a fair battle without the slightest hint of foul play what so ever by writing them into a corner in which they can't get themselves out of.

However to answer one of the points made prior: No Role-play community is perfect. Even in one where character consent is prominent, you will still have Mary Sues regardless.

That is why as a Role-player you must pick and choose your interactions carefully, and when in a public environment where someone unsavoury may approach your own character that can't be helped. Just find a way to politely excuse them without causing too much of a scene to prevent confrontation or maybe provide that Role-player with the proper resources to improve upon their technique.

But that's just my two republican credits on the matter. "

Knowledge is power.

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26-Apr-2017 22:48:16 - Last edited on 26-Apr-2017 22:52:54 by JerryfromJDQ

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2018

Lord Pyro I

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RiDaku said :
Pyro:

Lord Pyro I said :
I seriously question the use of the sign of life to prevent your character's death. Should they be used in RSRP? That's a question up for debate

Also Pyro:

"My self-resurrecting self-insert mary-sue has used the stone of jas and the tower of mah freely and has also directly spoken with Bilrach to learn everything that he would have missed while he was dead and this is all okay because lore xd"

which is it

You set the rules of engagement very clearly when we started rping rid. "I'll use anything that exists in rs lore". So yeah I took a page out of your book and used alittle creative thinking to try and force a confrontation, I never tried to be secretive about it or make it something only available to myself. To be honest I only suggest a debate over the sign of life so that clear rules governing the ease (or difficulty) of their creation and to make everyone aware of their use in RP. "The greatest endeavors are achieved because of their selfless intent"

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26-Apr-2017 22:57:34

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26-Apr-2017 23:05:16

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2011

Lady Airlea

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Lord Pyro I said :
@Croco Because it's fun? Because RP provides the ultimate competitive gaming platform, the one in which you are not limited in the strategies or tactics that you can employ. You can compete in any way you wish and through competitive RP generate stories that to my mind and to many others remain the greatest W42 has ever known. History provides the best stories, the most realistic stories because even with the worst of monsters, the greatest of heros you can see the actual route that made them. A story at it's best gets you emotionally invested and makes your imagination run wild often with how you might've done things differently in the place of the character's. Where plotlines must always be limited to drive the narrative towards its intended ending, you are free to pursue whatever goal comes to mind.

@Nat so to summarise:

1) It's really expensive ensuring that only a privileged few will ever be able to get their hands on them.
2)It's so secret that despite having been in play for 4 years I had never come across this at all

1) Yes. Ekaterina could be a master of water magic by now. She's decent enough. Her focus was divination. And in a fight, a diviner will natrally use diviner-made tools to their advantage. Same as fighting a blacksmith and not expecting their muscles to come into play, or a gymnist and not expecting their flexibilty and speed.
2) *Shrug* Look harder. If it was intended to be this secret trump card to all combat, I'd not post about it on a forum thread. Reason never came up to mention it.

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26-Apr-2017 23:05:44

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26-Apr-2017 23:05:57

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2011

Lady Airlea

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Zrie did bring up a damned good point, too. All these murders happen and nobody ever does an investigation RP.

Criminals don't want to be held accountable for killing around/through consent stuff either. I recall an execution where the guilty pulled a teleport tablet out of their butt (literally) to ensure they could escape character death.

People say they don't care about their characters and that's why they let them go fighting, nit concerned if they die. But a proportion after a murder will not cooperate for an investigation RP or even a proper execution.

Not to mention every assassin, edgelord, and bandit goes to an execution to save the person being executed, to a point where the guard force is unrealistically outnumbered. A manhunt, trial, and execution isn't feasible when, again, the proportion of people who would stab a stranger is far, far higher.

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26-Apr-2017 23:14:54

JerryfromJDQ

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Lady Airlea said :
A manhunt, trial, and execution isn't feasible when, again, the proportion of people who would stab a stranger is far, far higher.

Then I'm afraid that's chalked down to the community's lack of trying in general.

If there is indeed an imbalance of those breaking the law and others trying to keep it then perhaps people should try to generate interest in law Enforcement or Bounty Hunter orders to try balance things out. The only people to blame are the ones not doing anything about it after all.

It all returns centrefold to those that refuse to acknowledge the consequences of their character's actions. Once again, there's little we can do about this kind of Role-players other than avoiding them extensively as one would a Mary Sue.

Perhaps help them by providing them with the proper resources to improve upon their technique otherwise if they refuse to improve they'll find themselves avoided if not mocked and ridiculed by the rest of the world and it's denizens for their unsporting behaviour.

Think of the Role-play Community as a whole as one large Player Owned Kingdom. Just as one would manage the aspects of a Player Owned Kingdom so must the Role-players try to generate Role-play out in the world to balance out aspects of the community as a whole. "

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26-Apr-2017 23:58:15 - Last edited on 27-Apr-2017 00:00:21 by JerryfromJDQ

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27-Apr-2017 00:19:23

Vekon

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Killing a character for no reason other than bloodlust isn't the same of wanting to kill one because they deserve it. Your character can easily become an antagonist in another perspective, and acknowledging that is important. If you want to avoid death because you don't want to die, private RP is an option.

If someone spends time working against your character for the purpose of their own story, then I don't think it's fair to outright deny them that.

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27-Apr-2017 00:36:23

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2021

Kara-Ara

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Given the author of this thread, I'm going to make the above point about bloodlust. If it's an actual reason, and not some half-baked ic excuse like wanting to power his magic through more souls, sure, go for it. I won't stop you, I'll just always prefer being asked what works for me though, because at that point both stories are together and neither is more important. "A silly ***** is what I'm going to call **** jokes from now on."
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27-Apr-2017 00:41:32

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