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Indirik

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Re: Messages and Metagaming
« Reply #15: July 02, 2013, 06:39:02 PM »
Well, one I've heard recently in-game, is the idea that a peasant could have been the one that did the assassination attempt, even though there was only one other noble in the region.
Yes, I've seen this claim, too. The thing is, a peasant has never, in the entire history of BattleMaster, ever been arrested in the process of attacking a noble. It's one of the quirks of the world. Peasants are never implicated in any assaults on nobles. It just doesn't happen. So to adjust your character's thinking to assume that such a thing would require you to RP your character as believing that something that has never, ever happened is a plausible explanation of events. i.e. you're character would have to be a moron.

Or so the argument goes. Again, Bedwyr had some really good arguments for this school of thought.
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