I love this game, but...
06-27-2020, 01:15 PM
Okay as my last character was really the only one that had any interactions with demons, the way I'd do it was. I'd ask someone lower RPL with me to make the trip, and any demons we found I'd let them fight. My character was just there as an observer, as the one time I was forced into a fight with a demon it was clear they were still low RPL and I kinda stomped them.
I didn't really feel good afterwards about it, which then made me take up the approach listed above. It actually seemed to work okay! The demons and them would have their fight and then that would be that. We weren't chasing the demons down to try to murder them, just to encourage rp and maybe the starts of a rivalry or something.
My point is sometimes people need to put winning and being the best on the backburner and realize that just stomping out any potentially antagonistic forces will just lead to the stagnation that a lot of people have been frustrated with of late. If you Cap? Don't necessarily act on it! Come up with an IC reason for something to go wrong. Or something. This is an RP game and people are definitely creative enough to come up with ways that even after winning a fight their 'hated' foe could escape in some way. So please at least TRY to do that rather than stomping out antags before they have the chance to get their feet under them...
I didn't really feel good afterwards about it, which then made me take up the approach listed above. It actually seemed to work okay! The demons and them would have their fight and then that would be that. We weren't chasing the demons down to try to murder them, just to encourage rp and maybe the starts of a rivalry or something.
My point is sometimes people need to put winning and being the best on the backburner and realize that just stomping out any potentially antagonistic forces will just lead to the stagnation that a lot of people have been frustrated with of late. If you Cap? Don't necessarily act on it! Come up with an IC reason for something to go wrong. Or something. This is an RP game and people are definitely creative enough to come up with ways that even after winning a fight their 'hated' foe could escape in some way. So please at least TRY to do that rather than stomping out antags before they have the chance to get their feet under them...