The primary goals of our rules revision are:

1) Make the rules shorter.
2) Make the rules more accurate as written.
3) Make the rules clear.

I don't foresee any significant change in how the rules are enforced in practice. This is mostly to make it easier for newer players to digest what was previously a mouthful.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

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valguarnera@carrionfields.com

>* If you have multiple characters, they therefore cannot meet,
>and will have no knowledge of one another. Your characters
>cannot be family relations, recommend one another for cabals,
>etc. See MULTI-CHARRING.

This actually reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask for like a year. Every so often I used to have other players comment about one of my characters while I was playing another. Now, to me, it always seemed like it might me a little odd if you were to respond along the lines of "Who? Never met him", especially if it's someone moderately noticable. Any Immortal comments about the "best handling" of said situation?

If the other character doesn't have a particularly high profile, just pretend it's someone who has never logged on when you're around, or you never talked to.

"I don't really know Straklaw."

If the other character is high enough profile that you'd be expected to hear of them, maybe just make some generic comment, change the topic, etc. It's not that hard to do this without tipping people off. Immortals have to do it all the time when people mention their immortal character in front of one of their mortals.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

Oh, I think I might have met the old woman (or man, depending on char) when I was younger, but I can't remember it too well.

That sort of thing basically stops the conversation going any further into your new character's knowledge of the old one.

>If the other character doesn't have a particularly high
>profile, just pretend it's someone who has never logged on
>when you're around, or you never talked to.

My comment perhaps takes this a bit further afield, but I've thought each character should act as if they have no 'in-game' knowledge that they themselves didn't directly acquire. For instance, the last one I played I acted like I had heard no more than rumors of each cabal until I had actually spoken to someone either in the cabal or it had come up in conversation (despite having played CF since its inception). This extended to knowledge about equipment, preps, etc.. (preps weren't hard to play ignorant about; it'd been a year since my last char and I've never used many of them).

What this extends to is the development of a whole class of players that use extensive in-game knowledge acquired from previous experience (particularly with regards to preps) and are very protective of that knowledge but use it freely themselves. I'm thinking in particular of folks who *plan* on playing an a/b/s invoker rather than playing an invoker who finds out about wands and staves through life experience in-game.

I realize this kind of playing (pretending ignorance) is very hard to pull off and hard to encourage and the only idea I've come up with so far would be a pain to implement I think: make preps that are not sold in stores unique to each character. Meaning, if I wander around and find that really cool staff after adventuring whatever that particular staff does only does that for me (might do something else to another character who found it) or its location occurs more randomly.

(reading this I realize its not very clear but the idea is that preps would be tagged to a particular character and other characters would either find nothing in the same spot or a prep that had a different effect on them)

The overall effect I'm striving for here is to reduce passage of in-game knowledge about where to find the very special things (and questy things) from one character to another simply because the same person plays them.

*dons asbestos underwear*
Flame on!
Trouble (just this old guy who's been here off and on forever it seems)

Yes, it annoys me to hear a level 30 char saying he's going to do the XXXXX quest in an area that he couldn't possibly have looked around, because he'd die and not be able to return as a ghost.

On the other hand, I expect someone that used to be a pirate (role) to know how to find the sea from Galadon.

You're forgetting about the all-important fun stick.

CF strives to be as realistic as possible, yet still be a fun game to play.

It is just a game, after all. The stuff you mentioned doesn't really hurt the atmosphere (assuming the person is still RPing), and doesn't cause other player's to stop having fun. So what's the reason to change it?

What you are forgetting is your character doesn't start out of the womb. Most characters start as a young adult, so you can assume your character learned of many a thing prior to beginning adventuring.

from one of the people I am trying to 'hook'