Yeaaaaah. [snrks] This is why I've only played in one (non-freeform) game with a GM I wasn't even passingly familiar with beforehand -- and, ah, that game went the worst of any game I've ever been in. (Including the mediocre survival-horror-fantasy game, where most of the players had a lot of fun even if the GM and various observers and one of the other players hated all our concepts and the executions thereof. [coughs]) If I trust the GM to at least give me a fair hearing when I raise a problem, it's okay whether or not all the expectations are spelled out in detail in advance. If I don't... they need to be, and I'm still iffy about it.
I think she's more irritated with the argument that high odds of character death == actively limiting options instead of expanding them or being neutral, actually. But yeah, I have to say the "kill or be killed == majority of this game's concept" phrasing put me right off that person's game when I went to the userinfo, even though the idea of giant human chessgames appealed. [snrks]
(Actually, especially in a LJ game, although that's tangential to the overall argument of "is character death an annoyance or an essential risk". Dude. LJ GAME. It's not even like a MU*, where you can at least re@name your character when it dies. If you're making journals for the RP at all, they're either going to be hideously generic or hideously confusing, unless you're making a new journal every time someone dies and that sucks to do on LJ. ("Um, Player1? Why is your journal for the giggling homicidal maniac Black King's Knight full of entries about breeding rabbits?" "Huh? --oh, right! Remember the White Rook's Pawn from awhile back? He died last Wednesday. I reapped as this guy, and didn't delete the old entries when I redid the journal, 'cause, archives!" "...uh-huh...")
I mean, sure, most of the RP is supposed to happen over IM, so they could just be expecting OOC journals to friend and use the comm, but they do already have a black_npc or something like that, which implies that they plan to run a normal-ish LJgame, and, uh. [snrks] Anyway. </tangent> [grins])
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I think she's more irritated with the argument that high odds of character death == actively limiting options instead of expanding them or being neutral, actually. But yeah, I have to say the "kill or be killed == majority of this game's concept" phrasing put me right off that person's game when I went to the userinfo, even though the idea of giant human chessgames appealed. [snrks]
(Actually, especially in a LJ game, although that's tangential to the overall argument of "is character death an annoyance or an essential risk". Dude. LJ GAME. It's not even like a MU*, where you can at least re@name your character when it dies. If you're making journals for the RP at all, they're either going to be hideously generic or hideously confusing, unless you're making a new journal every time someone dies and that sucks to do on LJ. ("Um, Player1? Why is your journal for the giggling homicidal maniac Black King's Knight full of entries about breeding rabbits?" "Huh? --oh, right! Remember the White Rook's Pawn from awhile back? He died last Wednesday. I reapped as this guy, and didn't delete the old entries when I redid the journal, 'cause, archives!" "...uh-huh...")
I mean, sure, most of the RP is supposed to happen over IM, so they could just be expecting OOC journals to friend and use the comm, but they do already have a