Speaking personally... I'm just not crazy about the direction James is taking his character, that's all. For most of the game's run, there was always sniping and conflict between Janis and Jarrith, which was fine. It got to be a bit much at times, as I'm sure James could get just as annoyed with what I would post as Jarrith as I would with him... but we were able to "live and let live".
The problem I have now is that Janis is on a slippery slope to NPCdom, James know out-of-game that she is on a slippery slope to NPCdom, and James continues to play her almost as if he fully intends her to slip into NPCdom. It's no longer Janis vs Jarrith with everyone else playing mediator and being able to laugh it off, it's Janis vs the party entirely. It seems as though there's not a single thing any character can do or say that Janis won't turn about into some slight against her. The way James is writing her... we can never win with her. We will always be an annoying burden, and dealing with her will always be a chore.
And honestly... I just don't want to roleplay that anymore. It's tiresome. I was kind of hoping that over the past year we'd start coming together as a group as the characters spent more time with each other, came to more of an understanding, learned to live and laugh with each other's foibles... but if anything, the party is now even more split than they were at the beginning. I'm not blameless in this regard, as whenver James would post a snipe, I'd turn around and return the volley. But I'm just tired of it all don't want to play it that way anymore since it's obvious there's never going to be a resolution. There's no "Top Gun Maverick/Iceman finally settling their differences" event happening. It'll only end when one of the characters kills the others.
So it's not simply a matter of removing the taint mechanic from the game... it all comes down to how James chooses to roleplay his character. If he wants to stay his course because he finds exploring her descent into madness to be an interesting roleplay challenge... that's fine. I have no problem with that... I'll just play another character that is okay with her the way she is. Quite frankly I'd find it refreshing to play a character on the same side as Janis for once (assuming of course he doesn't have her turn against the new character as well).
The other option is to assume that Janis becoming an NPC is a fait accompli, because we all know that because Janis refuses to have a Remove Curse spell cast on her, eventually Janis WILL fail a control roll and become a werewolf NPC. It'll happen sooner or later. And at that point it'll be James' choice whether to create and play a new character. And if that's the case, I just want to jump to that point... because I just don't want to roleplay against the character anymore.
Anyway, that's my stance at this point in time.
The problem I have now is that Janis is on a slippery slope to NPCdom, James know out-of-game that she is on a slippery slope to NPCdom, and James continues to play her almost as if he fully intends her to slip into NPCdom. It's no longer Janis vs Jarrith with everyone else playing mediator and being able to laugh it off, it's Janis vs the party entirely. It seems as though there's not a single thing any character can do or say that Janis won't turn about into some slight against her. The way James is writing her... we can never win with her. We will always be an annoying burden, and dealing with her will always be a chore.
And honestly... I just don't want to roleplay that anymore. It's tiresome. I was kind of hoping that over the past year we'd start coming together as a group as the characters spent more time with each other, came to more of an understanding, learned to live and laugh with each other's foibles... but if anything, the party is now even more split than they were at the beginning. I'm not blameless in this regard, as whenver James would post a snipe, I'd turn around and return the volley. But I'm just tired of it all don't want to play it that way anymore since it's obvious there's never going to be a resolution. There's no "Top Gun Maverick/Iceman finally settling their differences" event happening. It'll only end when one of the characters kills the others.
So it's not simply a matter of removing the taint mechanic from the game... it all comes down to how James chooses to roleplay his character. If he wants to stay his course because he finds exploring her descent into madness to be an interesting roleplay challenge... that's fine. I have no problem with that... I'll just play another character that is okay with her the way she is. Quite frankly I'd find it refreshing to play a character on the same side as Janis for once (assuming of course he doesn't have her turn against the new character as well).
The other option is to assume that Janis becoming an NPC is a fait accompli, because we all know that because Janis refuses to have a Remove Curse spell cast on her, eventually Janis WILL fail a control roll and become a werewolf NPC. It'll happen sooner or later. And at that point it'll be James' choice whether to create and play a new character. And if that's the case, I just want to jump to that point... because I just don't want to roleplay against the character anymore.
Anyway, that's my stance at this point in time.
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