<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=291898.msg14341547#msg14341547">Quote from: Autocad on 17-08-2018, 08:44:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>I'm not expecting you to change your ruling at this point. But since you asked, I'll answer. </strong><br/><br/>Because this rule determines whether we can cast spells or not. Which for casters is a Pretty Big Deal.<br/><br/>Your rule was pretty simple at first. "You're in prison and you don't have resources and casters are killed on casting, don't cast spells guys."<br/><br/>A couple horn blasts and a few soldiers walking around later, everyone is casting spells like there's no tomorrow. <br/><br/>If the inmates were this trigger happy, they wouldn't have survived a month, let alone years. Phantom is gonna say something, right? Nope, cast away! <br/><br/>Then since casting spells is apparently fine now, since everyone apparently has prison sleep and prison spellbooks and prison material components and prison holy symbols, can the witches join the fun as well, maybe with some of them prison familiars? <br/><br/>Nope, screw witches, and how dare you ask for clarification and make me angry Autocad! <br/><br/>Feels a bit personal at this point.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>1.  First, I was pretty upfront with the rule prior to you making a character that would be impacted by the rule.  I did not force you to create a witch.<br/><br/>2.  My issue with your questions was that it was obvious that you had an ulterior motive for them.  Instead of being forthright about your legitimate concerns, you took a really indirect and passive aggressive route to get there.  It was like you were trying to make me solve a geometric proof, guiding me step by step.  Just tell me your concerns.  Don’t make me restate the rules I laid out just so that you can say, “see?”<br/><br/>3.  People did flip out with minimal information in a way that I thought was somewhat out of character.  Some characters did make huge leaps in reasoning.  I haven’t penalized anyone for being meta, though, because I don’t want to pick fights with people about what their characters would do in those circumstances.  Characters are villains.  With a broad stroke, I would describe them all as being crazy.  How would I know what sets them off?  What makes them flip?  The characters aren’t logical, so why would I expect for them to act logically?  Arguing about it would ultimately be a waste of my time.<br/><br/>4.  The real reason why I’ve allowed spellcasting is because I just assumed people were following the rules I laid out.  None of the character sheets have been audited.  I would be hard pressed to tell you what classes anyone took.  I know Chant is a spiritualist, but I don’t know what that does.  I don’t know who is casting what and how.  I expect players to govern themselves.<br/><br/>Since you have an issue with people not following the rules, I am open to your suggestions for dealing with such issues without disturbing the play of the game.<br/><br/>(sent from my phone)