I don't believe I ever once said that Fae's post was the best idea she could have gone with. I think the post ideas you suggested definitely would have been the better options, but they weren't what happened and the post is out there.
I have not forgotten that the character I play is only a version of him. He's a shinki, which cuts out a lot of the potential game-breaking aspects of his character, but I still try to play him as accurately as possible. And when it comes to working with castmates and close CR alike, I'm good at running things by them when the situation warrants it.
Still, I don't feel that talking about a character in game ruins the ability to play them. And if it does, certainly not any more than if there had been another player with that character who dropped before they picked them up. They come into the game with pre-determined CR that way. A lot more pre-determined CR that often runs a hell of a lot deeper than one post on the BBS with a second-hand vague account of "this guy is really bad, don't trust him."
I'm sorry for any feelings that got hurt along the way. My opinion on the mater of Terra's post itself has not changed. Although I do see where you and the anon(s) are coming from, I just don't agree that it's necessary to treat everything as if every character not in game will be apped and therefore needs permission to be talked about in a way that the player feels is IC for their character. I know I was definitely more curt than I intended to be in my last comment and I am sincerely sorry for that. I had put the comment out there and wasn't going to play the game of deleted/edited comments to make myself look better, so I let it stand even though I wrote it while not in the best of moods.
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I have not forgotten that the character I play is only a version of him. He's a shinki, which cuts out a lot of the potential game-breaking aspects of his character, but I still try to play him as accurately as possible. And when it comes to working with castmates and close CR alike, I'm good at running things by them when the situation warrants it.
Still, I don't feel that talking about a character in game ruins the ability to play them. And if it does, certainly not any more than if there had been another player with that character who dropped before they picked them up. They come into the game with pre-determined CR that way. A lot more pre-determined CR that often runs a hell of a lot deeper than one post on the BBS with a second-hand vague account of "this guy is really bad, don't trust him."
I'm sorry for any feelings that got hurt along the way. My opinion on the mater of Terra's post itself has not changed. Although I do see where you and the anon(s) are coming from, I just don't agree that it's necessary to treat everything as if every character not in game will be apped and therefore needs permission to be talked about in a way that the player feels is IC for their character. I know I was definitely more curt than I intended to be in my last comment and I am sincerely sorry for that. I had put the comment out there and wasn't going to play the game of deleted/edited comments to make myself look better, so I let it stand even though I wrote it while not in the best of moods.