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      jcbjcb13 last edited by

      What Kinda Lore do you think you need to have any knowledge of this at all?

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      • Delanish
        Delanish last edited by

        could you explain this better? What are you referring to far away countries, other Planes of existence? I really not sure what you mean by the term "Far realms"

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        • The Count of Depths
          The Count of Depths last edited by

          The characters in game know nothing about the Far Realm. Possibly a very restricted group of knowledgeable lore seekers may know something, but those would be NPCs

          The Lovecraftphiliac

          Muse: "I have boobs and a vagina"
          Muse: "I trump your scripting skills"

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            Yavamaya last edited by

            In PnP, with the sole exception of the Alienist class, I tend to run the Far Realm as epic-level lore.

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              Gimpatronic last edited by

              @The:

              The characters in game know nothing about the Far Realm. Possibly a very restricted group of knowledgeable lore seekers may know something, but those would be NPCs

              You could try finding these lore seekers, and find out about the far realm by returning thier book of life, the multiverse and everything, that a mad gnome stole though.

              FREE MY SISTER OR I DESTROY EVERYTHING!

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                Fireblood last edited by

                @Gimpatronic:

                @The:

                The characters in game know nothing about the Far Realm. Possibly a very restricted group of knowledgeable lore seekers may know something, but those would be NPCs

                You could try finding these lore seekers, and find out about the far realm by returning thier book of life, the multiverse and everything, that a mad gnome stole though.

                Seems a little odd to go looking for someone who can tell you of the Far Realms if you've never heard of any Far Realms and nobody you've ever met has ever heard of the Far Realms, so you don't even know such a term as 'far realms' means something, though.

                Gwarn Fireblood (Dead) - Good riddance.
                Akmin Iras-Elmith (Dead) - Skill Focus (Bluff) will get ya far, and then it'll get ya killed.
                Burt the Digger - Heavily armored Stormtrooper kitten.

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                  Gimpatronic last edited by

                  Ikul and his negativity once more.

                  Yes, but you dont go aearching for far realms information. You go searching for great lore keepers who maybe, just maybe, know something about other worlds and places no one else does. Curiosity, adventure. Ya know.

                  FREE MY SISTER OR I DESTROY EVERYTHING!

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                    games last edited by

                    Yes, metagaming, just at the OOC level instead of IC level.

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                      Gimpatronic last edited by

                      I call it fun. Potato, potarto.

                      Wanted to find out about the planes with Novo, part of the concept. Didnt know jack all at the start, ended up writing a book. Went out looking for portals and stuff.

                      FREE MY SISTER OR I DESTROY EVERYTHING!

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                        Dark last edited by

                        @jcbjcb13:

                        What Kinda Lore do you think you need to have any knowledge of this at all?

                        Mate, just thinking of stuff like this should get your ball rolling.

                        Best wishes with what might be.

                        I Promise To Tell The Truth,
                        The Whole Truth,
                        And Nothing Like The Truth.

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                          WildCard last edited by

                          I want #AlienInvasion to come to CoA. Please?

                          @BG:

                          > Lose, win, don't mean shit. You think you're gonna tell your grandchildren that you were this super awesome blackguard/assassin who crushed everyone who stood against him for 3 months? You think they'd give a shit?

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                            Gimpatronic last edited by

                            Fish

                            FREE MY SISTER OR I DESTROY EVERYTHING!

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                            • ArchAngel_G
                              ArchAngel_G last edited by

                              @games:

                              Yes, metagaming, just at the OOC level instead of IC level.

                              This

                              "Life is a game that is meant to be played."
                              "Anything which lessens our distress at being surrounded by chaos gives us pleasure." - Anthony Storr
                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk56VxaeqEQ&feature=related

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                              • toportime
                                toportime last edited by

                                @Gimpatronic:

                                Ikul and his negativity once more.

                                Yes, but you dont go aearching for far realms information. You go searching for great lore keepers who maybe, just maybe, know something about other worlds and places no one else does. Curiosity, adventure. Ya know.
                                @ArchAngel_G:

                                @games:

                                Yes, metagaming, just at the OOC level instead of IC level.

                                This

                                So you are saying every young kid who looks up at the stars and imagines that there may be other life out there are all OOC metagamers if they play a char with the same ambitions? Try to think outside of the box a bit.

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                                • The Count of Depths
                                  The Count of Depths last edited by

                                  They can imagine there's life out there. They cannot know it comes from Alpha Centauri.

                                  The Lovecraftphiliac

                                  Muse: "I have boobs and a vagina"
                                  Muse: "I trump your scripting skills"

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                                    Fireblood last edited by

                                    @toportime:

                                    @Gimpatronic:

                                    Ikul and his negativity once more.

                                    Yes, but you dont go aearching for far realms information. You go searching for great lore keepers who maybe, just maybe, know something about other worlds and places no one else does. Curiosity, adventure. Ya know.
                                    @ArchAngel_G:

                                    @games:

                                    Yes, metagaming, just at the OOC level instead of IC level.

                                    This

                                    So you are saying every young kid who looks up at the stars and imagines that there may be other life out there are all OOC metagamers if they play a char with the same ambitions? Try to think outside of the box a bit.

                                    This is not someone looking out to the stars and imagining life.

                                    This is someone looking out through the very fabric of space-time into the multiverse, then looking out through whatever fabric that is made of and imagining there's life in a place outside of it that only a handful of minds in the entirely world can even imagine.
                                    Stars, you can at least see. This would not just be thinking outside of the box… this would be thinking outside of the box in which the box is in which the box is.

                                    Gwarn Fireblood (Dead) - Good riddance.
                                    Akmin Iras-Elmith (Dead) - Skill Focus (Bluff) will get ya far, and then it'll get ya killed.
                                    Burt the Digger - Heavily armored Stormtrooper kitten.

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                                      games last edited by

                                      Heres a example of what I mean by OOC player metagaming as opposed to IC metagaming, as it seems to have not been understood.

                                      Theres a couple people from a "bad neighborhhod"
                                      My character has seen server messages so-and-so used XYZ powers.
                                      And I've seen "so and so said in language XYZ" messag

                                      I could decide for some reason I want my character to know where they are form.
                                      So I could google their powers, and find out where their are from and then decide I wanted to for some reason learn about that place… and then having done so, be able to IC recognize these people.

                                      Or perhaps do it via the langauge the server told me I recognized - Although, as the only being I've talked with that I knew was from there spoke in common I can't see that my charcater actually recognized the language.

                                      So, yes I could OOC device some reasons and means of my character finding out this information IC. But why would my character have taken this path, other than to find this information that it doesn't know exists ?

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                                      • toportime
                                        toportime last edited by

                                        @games:

                                        Heres a example of what I mean by OOC player metagaming as opposed to IC metagaming, as it seems to have not been understood.

                                        Theres a couple people from a "bad neighborhhod"
                                        My character has seen server messages so-and-so used XYZ powers.
                                        And I've seen "so and so said in language XYZ" messag

                                        I could decide for some reason I want my character to know where they are form.
                                        So I could google their powers, and find out where their are from and then decide I wanted to for some reason learn about that place… and then having done so, be able to IC recognize these people.

                                        Or perhaps do it via the langauge the server told me I recognized - Although, as the only being I've talked with that I knew was from there spoke in common I can't see that my charcater actually recognized the language.

                                        So, yes I could OOC device some reasons and means of my character finding out this information IC. But why would my character have taken this path, other than to find this information that it doesn't know exists ?

                                        With this example, I see IC information being acted on OOCly, you could "research" those powers IC rather than Online, the server is "what you see, you get" so you recognized that power somehow.. and if you overheard the language and identified it, perhaps you heard it before and could ask around yet again ICly to find out what lands it is from.

                                        The only OOC "metagaming" you posted what deciding to do all that research online instead of IC..

                                        To me metagaming is like this: say you are playing a fighter with zero lore and zero spellcraft, yet a wizard casts an "unkown" spell on your blade, you decide to "examine" the blade and see it now has a +2 enhancement bonus… so your fighter says "You just cast greater magic weapon right!".

                                        That is using OOC knowledge ICly, i.e. metagaming

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                                        • ArchAngel_G
                                          ArchAngel_G last edited by

                                          Meta gaming is acting on, in any way, information known to you, but not to your character.

                                          If your character is interested in other realms, secret lore, and planes you may find some interesting adventure, but it is ultimately up to a DM whether you come accross anything like the Shadow Weave, Far Realm, or another Netherese Enclave (Opus). You are not going to find, IC, any information on this stuff without there help.

                                          Trying to manipulate the situation of what you know OOC so you can take advantage of it IC is meta gaming. Simple

                                          PS. I played a character I had expressed OOC to DMs about the city Opus. Origionaly I was told it did not exist, but later on IC began to discover its existance. The big difference is I did not go looking for "secret lore about lost cities" or even planar lore. The DM exposed me to it as part of a plot and my character knew next to nothing about it.

                                          "Life is a game that is meant to be played."
                                          "Anything which lessens our distress at being surrounded by chaos gives us pleasure." - Anthony Storr
                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk56VxaeqEQ&feature=related

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                                          • The Abbot of Dognlin
                                            The Abbot of Dognlin last edited by

                                            Thanks, ArchAngel, That was well put together.

                                            If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the croud, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

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