(04-22-2020, 05:21 PM)Atara Themis Said: I'm more likely to sell it it's discussed with me and that's as far as I'll go into it. I prefer anything involving my character to be discussed with me. It's courtesy among roleplayers/handlers everywhere and should be the first thing a person does before submitting a segment that involves highly sensitive subject matter.

I like continuity between stories, so no I won't dismiss aspects of your character even if they are unbelievable.

Just running around writing aimlessly writing backstage attacks to puff your own character without consulting anyone is honestly beyond cowardly, disrespectful, and also kills stories.

Bottom line, communication should happen first. You never know. That attack might could have been more and people are more likely to play along when they are included.

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're saying. It sounds like you're describing a system that's more angle or pre-planned across the board...?

The thing is, if you don't like things to happen to your character, there is a counter attack option. The only time to complain about an attack is if you sent in a counter attack the correct way but your counter got totally ignored despite matching the right criteria. Instead of utilizing that option, though, you're taking a stance BEYOND just no selling or shitting on something: You're attacking the handler for submitting attacks and you're calling them cowardly, disrespectful, and claiming IT is what kills stories? Can you give me an example of when somebody keeping their character active on a show somehow killed somebody's story? At what point does activity become cowardice? It's possible I'm misunderstanding you... but by your standards, the attack AND counter attack links all may as well just be removed from the site, correct? Am I understanding that right?

While I don't agree with what I think you're saying, I think you probably DO have the right to that stance based on the rules of the fed, and I personally don't think you should be forced into a position where you need to work with people who send in attacks on the fly and don't get pre-approval, etc, if you don't want to. That's part of the purpose of this thread, that people will have a better feel of who they'll run into possible issues with VS who they will have success working with, without walking on eggshells and without expecting to be attacked as a handler. In the end I would hope all the feedback in this thread would make the XWF a better "play pen" for us all as we have a clearer idea of peoples preferences. After all, we're all just hanging out playing with our action figures, and should all be able to have fun.