ReverentBlade wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 1:26 pm
Not even the fault of the players that
wear it, really.
Emphasis mine. Respectfully, I disagree entirely. You could not wear it. That's an option. Nothing is forced.
Apparently, this belt is a
Big Deal. So much so that wearing it automatically gives you the epic reputation feat? Winston Churchill is a figure that might qualify for Epic Reputation. Donald Trump, or Cher. Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Mother Theresa, Putin, Stalin. These are the figures you are elevated alongside in the public eye when you acquire "Epic Reputation."
Most likely, wearing this belt wasn't being treated like it bestowed people with an epic reputation, and so the situation was fixed with an observable tag. I would hazard a guess that if as an overall trend people had been putting this in their description when they wore it no one would have wasted the effort on scripting it (there's a lot of other things to do).
Even if you dislike boxing, the names Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, Evander Holyfield, and Muhammed Ali probably mean something to you. If you don't like football, you probably know the names Joe Montana, Troy Aikman, Terrell Owens, or Tom Brady. You might think wrestling is fake garbage, but you've probably heard the names "The Undertaker" or "John Cena" or "The Rock".
It's understandable that not every character will know about it. I applaud anyone who looks at it, goes, "nope, my character knows squat about that," and proceeds to act like it.
But for some surface-based characters who are informed, either through study or through personal experience, seeing that belt is kind of a big deal, and the only thing you have to do to not be seen with it is
take it off.
I actually haven't seen that many people wear it- I think I'm standing at one encounter, presently- and the person who wore it very much wore it as the badge of strength and brutality it was... I wish I could remember that Orog's name, but I'm terrible with underdark names. v.v; The character was well-played, and the player was friendly in tells.
The belt gave me a sense of tension and put me on the edge the whole time, because my character and I understood that character would probably rip several of us in the room in half before we could breathe out of the side of our mouths if they thought they had a reason to.