Yes! We're finally out of that wretched town.  >:)<br/><br/>I haven't disliked a single IC post yet, so let's keep the momentum going.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Poster's Omniscience vs. Character's knowledge</strong><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Just because someone posts something doesn't always mean your character learns it. The poster learns it, but not the character. Such as, if someone on the other side of the world were destroying a village, how would your character know? He wouldn't. <br/><br/>-Main Character: ''I know who the big bad guy is, what he looks like, and what he's planning, because I watched the intro!'' No, the main character has no clue what's going to happen, doesn't know that their is a big bad guy, and much less knows what he looks like, until the main character sees him. But then he doesn't necessarily know what he's planning.<br/><br/>-A lesser form of this, and a less noticeable one, is irregular behavior. Like making a character go adventuring in an old castle in the middle of nowhere, because it was revealed in an earlier post that it's the hideout of some evil person. (Revealed to the poster, not the character, mind you.)<br/><br/>-The smallest form of this is coincidence. Coincidence is having your character do something else because of a post, but it not being irregular to what the character would do. <br/><br/>-A bigger coincidence would be, a person is sneaking through a castle, then hearing a secret conversation in the castle, which has some very big plot spoilers, as the Roleplayer just happened to be in front of the door.<br/><br/>Of all of these, I can take a few large coincidences, (Not very large, but large) And a lot of small coincidences. But I've seen too many times now the ''Poster knows, so character knows'' incidents. Please tell me if you agree, disagree, or agree with some of it.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Just some RPing food for thought.