Standards for Role Play "Invention"

[worldstrider]

i must have pulled a muscle in my brain because i'm not quite sure what this thread is about. no flamage meant, i'm just a bit confused on the topic

No problem--my kids get mad 'cause I use big words sometime.

The point is when we 'make up' some Freelancer device for our rp--like a planet killer--then 'shoot NY' with it, we are driving over the line with creative freedom.

"Oh, you can't dock NY anymore, Tink blew it up with his planet killer."

Or Tink invents a mind control beam broadcast from Rochester that enslaves all of Sirius. "I must take the money from my cardamine run to Tinkerbell now...all hail..Tinkerbell...*drool*". "Mon-star..serves..Tinkerbell now...all hail Tinkerbell!"

Other things like, my character never dies, he can control Nomads with his thought waves, he's from another dimension and can spy on every human pilot at will from any location--blah, blah, yada, yada.

We have to have good reasons for our "inventions" and make sure they aren't "pulled out of a magician's hat" whenever we feel like it.

Hope that simplifies it.

I posted all this as I have a role play in progress along these lines and have worked hard not to make something for me that's unfair to anyone else or "breaks their game".

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