I understand that - in order to model real life personal interactions as closely as possible, there is no reason that OOC considerations should come into whether or not one character helps another.
However, people larp in order to have fun (I will leave considerations of larping to get away from real life as they aren't exactly relevant here). Some people will find fun in the playing of someone else, with other concerns, responsibilities and problems, and how they approach them. Dealing with e.g. a difficult patrol colleague in a fantasy world has a whole different set of connotations to dealing with a difficult work colleague in real life, and this is, I believe, what you would suggest your characters give you. Are you sure everyone else has the same opinion? Are you sure everyone else wants to have IC concerns that they IC may not want but have to deal with?
Quite possibly they should. I'm probably one of those that think they ought to. I'm not for one second saying that the people who reached out to Nimbus don't. Right now, however, no-one has a right to force another to have these concerns if they don't want them. That's what I felt Nimbus was doing, what I felt certain individuals may feel inclied to complain over, and why I wasn't a hundred percent happy with how things worked on Sunday.
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Date: 2006-10-02 04:57 pm (UTC)However, people larp in order to have fun (I will leave considerations of larping to get away from real life as they aren't exactly relevant here). Some people will find fun in the playing of someone else, with other concerns, responsibilities and problems, and how they approach them. Dealing with e.g. a difficult patrol colleague in a fantasy world has a whole different set of connotations to dealing with a difficult work colleague in real life, and this is, I believe, what you would suggest your characters give you. Are you sure everyone else has the same opinion? Are you sure everyone else wants to have IC concerns that they IC may not want but have to deal with?
Quite possibly they should. I'm probably one of those that think they ought to. I'm not for one second saying that the people who reached out to Nimbus don't. Right now, however, no-one has a right to force another to have these concerns if they don't want them. That's what I felt Nimbus was doing, what I felt certain individuals may feel inclied to complain over, and why I wasn't a hundred percent happy with how things worked on Sunday.