Game rules trump canon? OUTRAGE!!!

[hjsummers]

Here's a case of someone who begs to be allowed to play, reads the rules of the game, accepts the rules in a written statement, and then proceeds to flip out the first time the rules don't suit him. I just do not understand people like this.

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[salem_wikkat]

I was with you until the last line and then it was totally, wait wut?

[sockasockaduck]

IAWTC.

[briarroseblack]

People can be big idiots about their precious canon. For some reason they still join games that are not canon compliant or strike some things from canon. I run into this all the time.

I once had this guy get totally stuck on his character being a rapist in canon. I was 14 and so was my character, so not only was it against the rules, but probably illegal as well. And he just kept repeating, "... but it's CANON!" over and over like a moron.

Your guy sounds like such a winner. Not only did he throw a fit because of supposed crimes against canon, but was he seriously trying to force other players to RP a rape? Even if there were no rules against it, if those people didn't want to play their characters that way, was he still going to throw a fit and claim they were mangling canon? Sheesh.

[hjsummers]

if those people didn't want to play their characters that way, was he still going to throw a fit and claim they were mangling canon?

Yeah, that was his point, I guess. He thought they were out of character and wanted the rules to be dropped so they could be more canon. I'm pretty sure that even without the rules in place, the people I was playing with would not have been cool with rape anyway. But I don't think he thought of that at all. He was just outraged the rules made it impossible to have something happen that he thought was canon.

[asgt]

Once you bend the rules slightly for someone, they start thinking they're so special that none of the rules apply to them.

This. Though, sadly, takes a while for some people myself included to learn.

But daaamn.

[hjsummers]

Apparently yeah. Or at least really wanted to know it had happened.

[volcanflamberg]

Um, no offense but unless there is a clause within the rules that expressly forbids a simple "Fade to Black" in public areas whenever something might just go over the PG-13 limit .... Then both the new player and whoever wrote the bloody rules are guilty of bad play.

If something in canon breaches a set rating for general play, you keep it and pull a "Fade to Black", then pick up after the fade.

The only other time this is to be avoided is when even the thought of such a thing occurring to your character breaches your personal rules/boundaries.

[ianam1983]

Pretty much this. You don't have to twist canon to keep something PG-13, just fade out "inappropriate" parts. Taking villains and saying they can't do certain villainous things is kind of, umm. Well, unnecessary.

However, this still sounds like a case of Captain Douchebag to me.

[hjsummers]

If your villains absolutely need to be rapists to be a villain, maybe they're not creative enough. :-)

[ianam1983]

Of course not. But there's no point beating around the bush if they are the sort to do that, either. It just sounds like we're talking taking hardcore villains here and putting kid gloves on them. That sort of thing rubs me the wrong way. I'm not too keen on seeing rape myself, but if it'd happen according to the situation and the characters, and the parties involved are okay playing it, there's no reason it shouldn't. Like the above said, "fade to black" works just as well in most cases as "This does not happen anywhere EVER in our perfect little universe."

Don't get me wrong, I'm still very much in agreement that this guy was a dickweed and acted inappropriately. Especially since he'd agreed to the rules. And yes, he probably had ulterior motive, i.e. "I want to see teh rapings! WHERE'S MAH RAEP?" It's just that I can see the point that there are legitimate reasons for resenting canon-tweaking censorship and villain-neutering. Not the reasons this guy probably had, though.