OOC Knowledge, Skills and Metagaming

[gbbishop]

Sometimes I enjoy reactions to my shifting and sometimes it's a big pain in the arse. ESPECIALLY when someone makes a canned reaction. If you are not going to react IC and be genuine, why bother.

For my part I also tend to take my abilities for granted and shift with out thinking... both ic an ooc :/

further more my companions who know of my abilities constantly chide and quip... it's fun and gives the character more pizzaz and flavor.

We do play in a fantasy setting... but with out knowledge skills or personal (ic) experience, our charaters dont know that a dragon can just pop out of the sky. So a little more wonder and mystery would be good for EVERYONE.

its more fun to find the answers than to know them already!

GOOD POST! I, for one, will do my best to improve myself in this area.

[Ghostman]

That pic is totally awesome. *yoink*!

Hahaha...

*Edit*: A quick note on reactions to shifting...Zim has seen so many druids shifting forms so many times, I've been RPing him as being a bit jaded. You couldn't really tell what Mozgul would turn up as, for instance, so he's sort of used to it...at least, that's the way I've been playing him.

[Urithrand]

On the note of shapeshifting:

Shapeshifting is an unpleasant experience. In 2e D&D you had to roll a precentile dice every time you polymorphed into anything, and if you failed, you died. The same roll was required for ressurrection, 3.5e really takes it easy on you.

If I see any more duids tra-la-la-ing from form to form to form as though it was as simple as changing a hat, I'm going to smite them. In the kindest possible way

[Verrath]

I whole-heartedly agree.

Even for a MOMF, while they feel at home in any given shape, the process of shifting is probably akin to giving birth to a baby that is about the same size as yourself.

And from what gather by reading various FR novels, there is not only the risk of dying, but also that of losing yourself forever in the form you take, forgetting that you ever had another.

I admit I get slightly put off at the sheer number of hops from shape to shape I see sometimes. I also like to think about it as private - like changing your undies in front of people. Annie doesn't do it in front of anyone but her husband if she can help it But this is just me.

*cough* a bit OT to this thread pershaps, but yeah.