Post by DM Maleficent's Kiss on Dec 20, 2018 2:28:41 GMT -5
Part of the problem outside of mechanical advantages is that when your characters know each other or are able to interact with each other, the player potentially has an advantage on information at the RP level over other players who are only focusing on one character. Examples of this include characters being members of the same family, close childhood friends, or other things such as one character is in Valkur's Roar and the other is in Greatgaunt(aka the PLAYER is in two areas at once). Other examples could even be quest related such as a player who is very involved in a DM run plot(think McGuffin's VR plot and the political tensions)and is playing two characters in the mix. This usually isn't done maliciously or with the intention of even having an advantage, it usually just happens innocently because of the fact that one player is playing two characters(or more) in which they are vested. Also, while it's not against the rules to play sisters, brothers, cousins, best friends, etc, of a character, playing them at the same time and place(or even different places) is where the issues of unfair advantage can spring up.
This is a rule the team has decided to go forward with and sometimes things have to change to keep things balanced and move forward. Dual boxing is also a fairly standard rule in most communities, the fact that FRC has had no hard rule on it this long is somewhat of an oversight on our part. The team realized this and moved forward with the change for the benefit of the community in an effort to keep as level a playing field as possible.
This is a rule the team has decided to go forward with and sometimes things have to change to keep things balanced and move forward. Dual boxing is also a fairly standard rule in most communities, the fact that FRC has had no hard rule on it this long is somewhat of an oversight on our part. The team realized this and moved forward with the change for the benefit of the community in an effort to keep as level a playing field as possible.
