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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7845142" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>First off, a disclaimer: playing at a virtual table is such a foreign (and off-putting) concept to me that in my eyes it might as well not exist as a thing. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> No game at all would be preferable to playing with a "table" of people I'd never actually met, couldn't go down to the pub for a beer with, and didn't know from a hole in the ground.</p><p></p><p>That said, and I seem to keep having to bang this drum, there's a big difference between being inconsiderate player-to-player and inconsiderate character-to-character.</p><p></p><p>If I'm playing a Fighter with an established pattern of having a hair-trigger and violent temper, that the party keep around mostly because he's ace in a fight and fun to hang with when he's not mad, if someone in the party pees him off somehow I'm not going to ask permission at the table before having my Fighter belt the annoyer upside the head. (and even less so if we're running in "if you say it, your character says it" mode! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) It's just gonna happen, and it's then on the rest of the party to respond - in character! - however they will*.</p><p></p><p>Experience tells me the players at the table will be laughing but their PCs most likely won't be. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7845142, member: 29398"] First off, a disclaimer: playing at a virtual table is such a foreign (and off-putting) concept to me that in my eyes it might as well not exist as a thing. :) No game at all would be preferable to playing with a "table" of people I'd never actually met, couldn't go down to the pub for a beer with, and didn't know from a hole in the ground. That said, and I seem to keep having to bang this drum, there's a big difference between being inconsiderate player-to-player and inconsiderate character-to-character. If I'm playing a Fighter with an established pattern of having a hair-trigger and violent temper, that the party keep around mostly because he's ace in a fight and fun to hang with when he's not mad, if someone in the party pees him off somehow I'm not going to ask permission at the table before having my Fighter belt the annoyer upside the head. (and even less so if we're running in "if you say it, your character says it" mode! :) ) It's just gonna happen, and it's then on the rest of the party to respond - in character! - however they will*. Experience tells me the players at the table will be laughing but their PCs most likely won't be. :) [/QUOTE]
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