Query pertaining to the general rules

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In the general rules, it says:

Powergaming is disallowed in its entirety. Powergaming is forcing your emotes on another character. An example being the emote "John swings his sword at Tom, cutting his arm" where the emote forces the effect on the other player. An acceptable emote would be "John swings his sword at Tom, aiming to cut his arm." since the other player would be able to react to the emote.

Would it be acceptable for Tom to emote the following?: "Tom is cut through the arm and the sword ends up slicing him in half, instantly killing him."

[Desu Vult 35]

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Nothing stopped you from emoting an over the top death of your own. 

 

 

So, i'm no GM, but i'd argue against this. If John simply emoted an attack on Tom's arm, wouldn't it be rather unrealistic for Tom to claim he got cut clean in half? And wouldn't that also go against your other point?* I mean, what if John was trying to take Tom alive?

 

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*However, you cannot force an action on behalf of how the swordsman cuts.

 

 

Lemme give you another example of some actual roleplay I once saw:

Some mate emotes pushing some lady away.

The lady responds with the following:

*gets thrown against the wall, hits head, falls unconscious, bleeds heavily.*

(*alerts every white knight within emote range to come to her aid*)

 

It's certainly possible to 'overplay' an injury to the extreme, even to the victim's own benefit. Sure some folks wouldn't file it under their own personal definition of powergaming, but some would, and at the very least it's unladylike and doesn't convey good family values.
Regardless, if someone ever tries blowing your emotes out of intended proportions like this, simply explain to them in /looc or PMs that they're not being very cash money and ask them to re-emote.
Unless of course in this context John wanted Tom cut in half, then by all means, you do you, ignore everything I just said.

 

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By the way i'm a filthy hypocrite.

 

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You can emote attempting to do things to other characters but you can't emote those things succeeding for them.

 

When its things happening to your own character you can emote whatever you like (within the boundaries of realism/logic)

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Thanks for the replies, I have another question.

 

Let's say there are 3 roleplayers: Fred, Bill, and Igloo.

 

Fred and Bill are roleplaying and Igloo is just aimlessly walking around Vailor.

Fred emotes: "Fred spits into the wind."

and Igloo walks by and does "[!] The spit, after being carried by the wind, lands in Bill's left eye."

 

Would Igloo's uhh... [!] thing be acceptable or not?
(assuming that Igloo does the [!] thing without previously being involved in the RP)

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