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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7301839" data-attributes="member: 6777696">Shidaku, I'm sorry, I did not mean to insult you with pedantics about definitions of murderhobo-ery. Somebody upthread made a comment about &quot;it's not murder if it's done lawfully,&quot; but I don't know that that person was you. Still my reaction to that may have slightly colored my response.I think [MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION] captures my feelings about the term pretty well, so I won't try to restate them. Ultimately, where I think we disagree, is that I believe that the term murderhobo is divorced from the in-character justifications a character might or might not have. It's all about the way the game is played. If the game is just a series of dungeon clearings, the characters are quite possibly murderhobos. It doesn't matter if they behave themselves during the shopping/hook collecting trips back to town, and it doesn't matter if there is an in-fiction justification for every dungeon they clear out.And since I consider the term to be, at worst, a loving insult, I don't really mind having such an un-nuanced definition. I realize that, for some people, murderhobo is a more pointed criticism of bad actors in an RPG, but I don't feel that way. It's just a way of playing the game.&quot;Come, come, Mr. Bond. You enjoy killing just as much as I do.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="redrick, post: 7301839, member: 6777696"] Shidaku, I'm sorry, I did not mean to insult you with pedantics about definitions of murderhobo-ery. Somebody upthread made a comment about "it's not murder if it's done lawfully," but I don't know that that person was you. Still my reaction to that may have slightly colored my response. I think [MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION] captures my feelings about the term pretty well, so I won't try to restate them. Ultimately, where I think we disagree, is that I believe that the term murderhobo is divorced from the in-character justifications a character might or might not have. It's all about the way the game is played. If the game is just a series of dungeon clearings, the characters are quite possibly murderhobos. It doesn't matter if they behave themselves during the shopping/hook collecting trips back to town, and it doesn't matter if there is an in-fiction justification for every dungeon they clear out. And since I consider the term to be, at worst, a loving insult, I don't really mind having such an un-nuanced definition. I realize that, for some people, murderhobo is a more pointed criticism of bad actors in an RPG, but I don't feel that way. It's just a way of playing the game. "Come, come, Mr. Bond. You enjoy killing just as much as I do." [/QUOTE]

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