Roleplaying 101

[Judging__Eagle]

Pallies getting drunk, and whoring, is not against anything in the Paladin's code. At all.

Well... the mistake that people make is that they often "write shit up"; that "makes no fucking sense", when you read the actual rules of the game.

Case in point:

Someone, for a LARP, wrote up a race of "wolf people".

In the "description" of the race; they talk about how these caninoids have "shamans" who pick up the current System's version of "Psychic" powers (the Psychic system being a list of 36 powers; each of which provides 1 Psychic "State"; using most Psychic abilities requres the user to 'expend' a state; it's basically the "synergy" system; where it can be used to buff any sort of character concept; specifically since it has the most obvious buff ability in the game).

That's all cool and all, except that the same write up states that these wolf-people also pay double for buying Psychic abilities.

At a larp, where character points are scarce, those two statements are retarded. You always want a powerful character, b/c if not, you die (or just fall down a lot, and other people have to heal you).

No one actually makes a character that buys any ability for double the cost. If anything, people base the race of their character around whichever race gives them the most benefits, and then they try to synergize their races bennies.

Basically, the race write up is retarded, as it doesn't reflect what any sane player would do.

Even the crazy good RPers wouldn't touch that sort of shit with a stick.

The people who don't want to do magic powahs (or alchemy or psychic) often play Orcs (this system lets them buy "more damage" skills with their weapons at 1/2 cost).

The people who want to play "mages", play an Elf, and be done with it.

The people playing Humans want to mix shit up and synergize combat and casting and roll 'some' form of Gish; or make a Psychic Warrior.

No one actually says "gee... I want to make an Orc mage"; aside from a very narrow percentage looking to get a very specific low-end power. Like one person, ever, has said that they were considering getting mage training on their Orc; and they haven't even gone through with it yet.

Heck, there are obvious rules in the game that can be used to explain the setting's history.

At one point, I asked if it was Fauns, Halfings or Dwarves that taught the Human Emperor about magic.

People looked at me funny for a second; and one of them actually was stupid enough to say "what about elves?"

Which would be impossible in this setting. The rules clearly say "elves can learn any spells they want, and train in any magic that they want; without a teacher. However, they don't actually train in magic, it comes to them naturally. They cannot teach other people any of their magical skills or spells". So, elves are mages, by being alive. They can't teach someone how to use magic the way that they do though.

It's stuff like that in the rules, that has massive impacts on the game setting.

Elves are magical; but no one seeks an elf wizard to teach them anything. You look for a Dwarf, Human, Faun, Halfing to teach you how to do magic. On the other hand, the Elf can teach you how to do anything else.

Rules affect setting, a lot.