User blog:The Voice/Power Gaming..

.. needs to stop.

Recently certain stories (such as God Complex) have been created by newer members - who want to tell a story, telling a story is not easy when someone decides to invade that story with an attitude of "I'm the most powerful", powerful characters are fine.. just use them properly.. don't just waltz into another persons RP and instantly start dismissing everything they do and make yourself some sort of Superman clone (as in, invincible).

Now before someone comes back with "I'm not invincible, I just have lots of power" etc - that's not the point.. you could be God for all I care, providing you are willing to enter the story and not try and take over (you can argue all you want about not trying to take over but when you force outcomes, you are taking over).

In roleplay its about how you word things, never say "I teleport away and evade your attack" - how do you know this outcome? do you think your opponent is instantly going to fail? well they certainly aren't given much choice if you take control do they? they just have to take it.. like a punch to the chest, it's not clever and it's not fair..

The way you should word it is "I *attempt* to teleport away and evade your attack" - that way the player has a choice on what to do next, remember that your character may be your own creation but when you enter someone else's story your a guest: act accordingly.. don't start power-gaming and showing off how powerful you are.. save that for your own stories..

otherwise we'll just end up with a lot of unfinished stories as people start to get fed up with this sort of thing.