Alright, with Winger’s permission I’d like to discuss something which I feel is going to become rampant as time goes on.
Quite the bulky bit of info, no? A post with a bulky amount of meat attached to it. Minces words to make for more reading, generally good writing, a post which fills itself with content. I wonder what the response to this will be.
One, uh… One sentence. Which gets to the point as quickly as possible and leaves no room for building or meat. We’re eating only potato chips tonight.
And this is hardly reserved to just Blackbelt or just Callen. Not even just to this RP. You’ll find this sort of posting everywhere on the message boards, but the difference between here and everywhere else is that Ghid happens to be here and to be involved. A good GM (I will assume Winger is one for argument’s sake) isn’t going to honor this style of ‘get everything done in the quickest, most efficient, and least detailed manner possible, while also making the character look effortlessly skilled’, instead making these swift instances of pseudo metagaming accomplish next to nothing in terms of progression.
Example of such a theoretical thing occurring with our theoretically good GM:
‘I kill all the things’
‘sorry, no, all the things keep existing and aren’t killed efficiently enough to suddenly solve the problem’
Difficulty and solution. For those who post like this, expect to see more solutions akin to this as time goes on, as Winger’s already responded a good amount of times like this and I doubt situations will radically reinvent themselves on everyone’s parts anytime soon.
So, uh, yeah. It’s more fun for me and everyone involved when you guys fill your posts with meat and your characters with character.
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