Avatar RP IV, Discussion IV: GM Iron-fistiness!

[Arhra]

Starting with the most important issue, as others have already told you Hawk, an action like that is quite unacceptable. Firstly, you said the effect of someone else's attack with little explanation of why that might be so and more importantly, something like eye tearing is completely inappropriate. That kind of thing with how it was done is just plain godmodding.

Since you are quite new here, I won't go so far to count it as the one chance for such things that I'm giving in this RP. However, that section of the post is now removed from continuity.

I'll now pull out a definition for godmodding for your edification. I do so enjoy quoting myself after all. Exact definitions tend to vary from person to person.

Originally Posted by The Arhra Dictionary Definition of Godmodding

The purest definition of godmodding is controlling the actions of other characters. Now, this is only really godmodding if they take excessive liberties with it - some small amount of including actions of other characters is often necessary to write a post or make it more interesting. As long as what they do is reasonable, respectful and well written, its fine. It is essentially the declaration of an powerful effect without giving others a chance to respond that is the bad part.

Anything that makes your character invulnerable/unstoppable is also god modding. This is the aspect of god modding I am concerned about in this RP. It is really not very interesting if there's no challenge for the characters. Thus, godmodding is always a bad thing.

There's also the factors of how much effort is behind a character's actions. Obviously a character burning all their power on some big attack will be able to get something a bit more intimidating and powerful than endless lobbing of fireballs or whatever. Essentialy, often effort = power, though its best not to over rely on that. There's the effect of descriptiveness too - obviously a well written, well described action would be taken more seriously than 'I cast a spell'.

In other news, to remove the mystery of how Bruticus somehow managed to stop a spell earlier by shooting it once and for all, see his 'Solves Problems With Violence' ability.

Of course, don't go too excessive with this (see Newb's suggestion from the last discussion thread), but it is intended to be able to solve certain conundrums that are usually not stopped in such a way. My latest post for example. While I think of it, yes, with the blast shield down.

Finally, I should remind people of this seeing how several haven't mentioned anything about it. You either have horrible things happening to you because of the food or you have horrible things happening to you because the entire jungle is trying to kill you.