Re: the responsea, Its probably because your examples make it sound like attacking is a bad RP choice, i.e. what sorta maniac attacks a none hostile mountain lion, vs what sorta person spends time trying to converse with Azragul the Flesh Ripper, renowned ripper of fleshes who for whatever reason isnt speaking to you right now when you ask what he's up to.KeldonDonovans wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:35 pmI keep getting responses that basically say "No, cause it'd be reasonable to attack in this situation, because look at this logic!"
I must be relaying my point incorrectly. Because I am specifically trying to say go ahead and attack, -IF- it is what your character would do. Saying "Look at all this logic" shows me that you believe that that is what your character would do, you don't even have to explain it to me. I believe you. I'm just saying don't decide to PvP them because you think they are trying to rules-lawyer their way out of a confrontation. PvP them if it is what your character would do.
And in case it wasn't clear that time, here is one more for the people in the back:
-If you PVP them because it is what your character would do -> Congrats, you've acted in character.
-If you PVP them because you (the player) want to impose a penalty on the target for some perceived OOC slight -> That is bad. Don't.
If you're playing someone who, realistically has fought and killed 100s of goblins/kobolds/drow even maybe, its a little odd to suddenly speak to them but like you say you bend the RP to accomodate.
But you gotta treat the monster as a monster at the end of the day, its not a mountain lion or a german. And it probably isnt Drizzt.