Manipulative Characters

So, here's a few fun facts i've learned over the years.

*Social Manipulation of your character tends to instill resentment.

*Magical Manipulation of your character tends to do the same to a greater degree.

*Playing Manipulative characters, no matter how high your charisma is, IC or OOC, is still going to get you resented. So if you're going to play characters like this, it's a fact you're going to have to accept and deal with.

*Playing With Manipulative characters is going to result in an occasional lack of clarity in both parties. Regardless of the player's intents in a scene.

Dealing with all this is a headache for everyone if it travels into OOC territory. So, if you play, or play with these characters, these are the rules.

*Keep IC IC at all times, and always have an in character reason for your actions that is proportionate to the offense. That way crazy threats are not made over small issues, and crazy reactions are not present for small manipulations, and no one can be accused of metagaming.

*This does not mean that things will always go as planned, quite the contrary. You push someone and they will still react to defend themselves against a percieved threat. Please keep the size of the percieved threat somewhere near where the actual threat was, and make threats somewhere near the right size in proportion to the offense. Every character will react differently according to their background, just Try.

*If you suspect OOC problems are the root cause, step out of your character's headspace and back off. If you can't back off, or they persue you, get a ST.

These rules remove 70% of the problems involved in this dynamic, and the other 30% tends to get escalated.