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Post by moulinous on Feb 19, 2007 15:40:24 GMT -5
i know that several times i have seen players have things like bday partys and such. I remeber a pdk walk, a valentines thingy...heck even a wedding. If you post something somewhere and a baddie takes a crack at you...well, that is with in their right i think. I understand that alot of planning goes into these things...but look at when a president is assisanated...at a party. or when someone is ambushed...because of leaked intell. I think a good rule is life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. Use pms if you do not want to get found out. or make sure everyone knows the event has been hushed up about or not posted on some board somewhere. Getting a tell from someone that hey, i did not want to pvp...well, yes, that is cool, but most of the time a baddie just livens up the party.
anyone else have thoughts on this?
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Post by SlothfulCat on Feb 19, 2007 16:17:55 GMT -5
I'd say its all relative. Summoning up a high level undead and walking into a party with the main guests set to hostile just because you can isnt really something I think anyone will appreciate.
Now a planned encounter where X group hears of Y faction's outing and moves to intercept and RP a conflict... thats alot different.
I remember the first server I DMed on. There was going to be a wedding (the first on the server) between a pair of longtime player's PCs. The staff and 2 "evil" player groups immediately started plotting disrupts for it on private forums. I dont know weither the players got wind of this build up or not but about 4 hours after the post announcing the wedding was made the Lead Admin put a PM on the DM boards asking that the wedding not be crashed. The reason given for asking this was that the player had been playing NWN online since it came out and after I think it was 7 such weddings/major PC events they'd /never/ had one go off without soemoen having a dragon kidnap the bride, a demon eat the priest etc etc etc
Just something to think of. I mean, we can harass each other at any given time.. so we dont necessarily have to take the chance to "liven up" a planned thing, and just catch the bunch the next time.
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Post by moulinous on Feb 19, 2007 17:18:20 GMT -5
yes, but a wedding of two longtime pcs would go off without a hitch because by then even the high level goodies get grudiging respect on both sides.(at least i hope so) I mean, if say Glew married Vind, even ranan would pay his respects to longtime foes. but a valentine party or bday party or such...or a wedding that is planned would be a great oppurtunity to ...lash out if you will. But i agree, it is all realitive. I know that when Ranan wed valla, i knew about OOC but not IG...if i did i would have disruppted, and got whupped, but lol, gotto do what your pc will do.
*grumbles*still cannot believe she married dat toad....
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Post by TermaForever on Feb 19, 2007 17:20:37 GMT -5
On a server I use to play on, my character's wedding was A) improvised suddenly right before a major attack (he and his fiance were both knights) and B) Followed by an evil god doing mean things to her. Granted this was a server where the dms truly reveled in that sort of thing but I know the feeling of 'just once I would like something to NOT have a demi-lich drop in)
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Post by Quadhund/Greenhouse on Feb 19, 2007 19:41:53 GMT -5
So long as the PvP rules are followed, you should expect PvP at anytime. Moulinous has a point, if you did not wish a specific event crashed by enemies, then you should keep it secret, or made known OOC that PvP is not welcome. Players should be respectful of the wishes of others and if it is clearly stated that an event should not involve PvP then other players should respect that.
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Post by ShadowCatJen on Feb 19, 2007 20:31:48 GMT -5
Pretty much what Greenhouse said.
If you plan an event but don't want it to be crashed then do let folks know in an OOC manner. The majority of players here will most certainly listen to that.
However, if you plan an event, expect trouble, and possibly welcome it? Well, that is the way the cookie crumbles.
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Post by DM Hawk on Feb 24, 2007 15:06:27 GMT -5
In the context of RP, so long as characters are acting with informaction they have come by in character its all good. For certain events, like a certain "PDK walk", the information was disbursed in Purple Dragon barracks and in the War Wizard tower. If a character has a tendency to visit these places, notices the gathering information and choose to act, that's totally within character. If a character never visits the interiors of these areas, they wouldn't know unless told by someone who did. My thoughts  |
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Post by Panros on Feb 24, 2007 15:16:59 GMT -5
Just because an event is posted does not mean that your character would learn of it. As Hawkrune explained. It's posted hear for convenience to those whose characters would apply, and only if the character, IG, would have any reason to learn of this would it be okay to attend or crash.
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Post by Quadhund/Greenhouse on Feb 24, 2007 16:38:22 GMT -5
As i stated before, anything posted in a public forum should be treated as public information. If you don't want anyone intruding on your event, either place an ooc statement within the post, or keep it to PMs. Otherwise expect players to drop in.
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