Tarkus the dog wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2019 1:29 pm
Roleplay and the mechanics are already so ridiculously intertwined that there's absolutely nothing you could do to make it even worse.
If you're not a shadow mage, why can't you cast an isaac's storm mister wizard?
Hey warlock buddy, I am a monk and I can tell that you are not a monk because I saw you use mind-fog/darkness twice and that is concrete proof that you're a warlock, for this is not something I can replicate. You're a bard, you say? Sing me a song then *smerks*
What is that belt that you are wearing? I recognize it easily. I may only have ever existed inside Nomad during my entire history as a character on Arelith for my only goal here is to do perform illicit activities with my other fellow nobodies, but you sir are an immoral tyrant and I will have nothing to do with you and make sure that everybody else treats you the same way.
10.000 dennari for the terminator vision! Get your own at your local settlement register!
Aha! I knew it. You are indeed evil. My unwavering faith in God and the souls of 300 orcs I've slain this morning grant me this knowledge.
Clearly, these are vampire tracks. You can tell by the lack of logic surrounding them.
What's one more crooked mechanic for a crooked playerbase?
This is off-topic, but this sense of resentment for people playing the game is something I'm on a bit of a crusade against lately.
I'm curious, why exactly, you get to decide that these mechanics are crooked, or that other players are for playing by them?
Warlock Glowy Eyes; you are meant to be playing an
evil NOT GOOD character that people are able to recognize by the use of their fell powers and a mechanically enforced set of glowy eyes that trigger when you want to use said fell powers. You traded something important to some fell entity for power. The drawback is that when you use your fell power, people can tell. This was created into the character design. The Dev's clearly wanted you to
not use your fell powers in front of others if you want to remain a secret.
So why isn't your use of fell power and another player calling you out for it your fault? All you have to do is not use your blast around people that care - calling them crooked players for using this is saying you want to play the warlock class with none of its inherent drawbacks.
Tracks; I could never do it, but there are people who could tell you a set of teenager's tracks from a grown man with a limp's tracks. They can differentiate grizzly bear from brown bear. This is a fantasy world, and some people are meant to be able to tell your human looking tracks are actually vampire tracks (how about the fact that you're a corpse and you smell like one?) You want to play an undead monster, you can be found out like this one. This is not the other player's fault.
You give up part of your soul/mind/sanity to Shar in exchange for more magical power in the magic that is themed around her domains, but give up the ability to produce force missiles of light. There are
multiple methods in the world that are
common occurrence for mages who don't use the shadow weave to communicate with each other, and an established history of Sharrans using corrupting Shadow Magics through enchanted items to do Awful Things.
That belt that you get down there in the underdark? It's not the WWE. It's not an entertainment sport where Luchadores are sacrificing their bodies for the honor of their mask,
it's a slave sport where innocent people are slaughtered and most don't survive die painful deaths. That belt proclaiming you champion doesn't just mark you lucky- it marks you as a brutal, bloodthirsty villain who excelled in that environment. You want to wear it and tell everyone you didn't have a choice? Good luck, but no, they aren't bad people for refusing to believe you, they're
smart.
I'm sorry for using your post, but I've literally seen these complaints from multiple people across the years. They all stem from one source- the player who doesn't want these things outed is gaining a mechanical power boost, and utilizing it- but when someone recognizes it, they want to cry foul. This is wrong- it is your personal choice to utilize these build choices/powers,
and according to the Development Team who coded them and the theme of the world you're playing in, they have drawbacks that
should be acted on by the people around them, which is why the mechanics exist.
TL;DR
For you to call these things "wrong" is to say that the Dev's and the Team are wrong to have put them in there, and that's not your call to make - it was theirs. The thing that is in the wrong is to judge these other people for doing so, rather than blaming yourself for utilizing the thing that got you found out in the first place rather than being secretive and not utilizing those things in public.
The fault lies nowhere else.
Edit: Again, Royal You's, not individual You's.