Talk:The Blackest Word

The wiki is generally mostly OOC; there's no reason to have an anonymous user here, because what you say here, as long as it's clearly OOC, can't be used back in the game. AlexTurner 22:23, 13 August 2006 (CEST)

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So you say. But I have already seen many players break this understanding of OOC. Not always by direct desire to "cheat", but by not understanding the full idea on OOC. Its very common for people who are not HUUUUUGE roleplay nerds (like myself who lives for table top RP games) to confuse or not graspe the finer points behind OOC and its limits. meta-gameing is a rampant problem at table top games, even in groups of 8-11 peope...in a group this size, I would rather protect our RP cult by keeping much of its members and workings mysterious.

It also adds to the whole "creepy" side of it all. But I do agree and and understand. You dont HAVE to hide your user name. But I have already had had three in-game players ask one of my other non-cult players about stuff that my charicture has NO idea of...they just assume OOC means hey, its YOU as a player so your charicture gotta know too!

The Blackest Pen

I suppose. I've not had that ever happen to me, but I guess it may be because my two 'good' characters are well known to be, well, good. AlexTurner 02:05, 14 August 2006 (CEST)

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Bingo. My other 2 characters are also huge goody goodies, and I have no reason to play by such secret rules with them. But to limit the desire to meta-game, the evil movement we are building must be more "careful" of people who may succumb to playing unfair to beat these really bad people.

The Blackest Pen

Newspaper

Why not make the Word a newspaper of sorts? ShadowWatcher

I really hope to make it something like that in the future. But right now we are more focusing on getting people together. Its a hard thing to grasp, what we are dong. A guild-ish thing of all collected evils, like a super villan club.

The Blackest Pen

Clans

Make sure you read this section; you will need to be very carefull not to ruin the game for your victims.

Are clans allowed in this game?

My position on clans is very simple. One, it is not illegal to have friends. Two, having fun with friends should not diminish the fun of everyone else. If you want to play with and/or against friends, whether you call it a clan or not, that's fine with me. When whatever your group does wipes out the fun for other players, you'll feel my wrath. This mostly means that it is not ok to take over a realm for your clan. There are always other players around, and I expect you to play nice with them. You can form a guild and use that as your in-game clan representation, as long as other players can join as well (imposing conditions is fine, imposing unrealistic and especially OOC conditions like "must live in our street" is not). You get the idea: As long as your clan does not exclude others from having fun, I'm ok with it.

AlexTurner 15:44, 14 August 2006 (CEST)

Being evil should not diminish the fun of the other players in the game. they shoud be happy their good charcters have something to rail against. --The1exile 15:46, 14 August 2006 (CEST)

Well This is where things are often confused, and I fully think Tom will be the ending voice on this. Alot of people are playing along, the in-game Dogma was made to fully suporrt that rule of Tom's

When the creative minds behind this idea came about, we made sure to make it a fully "evil" in-game RP thing for ALL players. It welcomes everyone (evil usually does), It allows everyone to fight them (or ignore them), and it is really giveing alot of people fun. But its true some players hate it. Its really a in-game plot to promote role play in the realms and maybe bring a new roleplayed religeion in game (if Da Goat was this effective would he be looked at? Surly not..he isnt evil)

I think the majority of people upset with this in-game group take things towards not likeing the "roleplay" aspect, or that they think we cause chaos...both these things are in-game, but they take it out of game.

I fully understand those who don't like it..but honestly I judge it as an in-game evil, annoying as is- it should have to be delt with in-game. As a new movement. As an enemy or friend to each player who wishes to not ignore it.

The group has gotten alot of players to join. Since the group dosn't seem to control or order any single player, it also allows free will. Its really a well designed mechanic that alot of writers got to gether to see what would happen if it was introduced into a cyber world. It would be sad to see all the hard work, and players who enjoy it, removed for putting trust into a roleplay senerio that seeks to be very interesting and fun for all those who enjoy more then the stat-side of Battlemaster.

Brain.

I don't think it should be a problem at this point; but just be carefull not to, say, mass ban every other troopleader. AlexTurner 16:46, 14 August 2006 (CEST)