Jan 9, 2015, 10:54 PM

@HelloRaptor said:

If my fun is RPing and you walk into scenes where I am and instead of RPing just slaughter all the things, then you're a dick

Does this work both ways? If you arrive at a scene where slaughtering all the things is about to commence, and figure out a way to resolve it all just through RPing where nothing has to die, are you a dick for pushing your preference and ruining someone else's fun?

It absolutely does.

...wait, isn't looking back in time like a level 2 power? How does that even require twinking? And this example is a huge peeve of mine. Murder mysteries are not generally a good idea when involving people with supernatural powers, because so, so, so many of them will sidestep the point of a murder mystery. Shit, peeking back in time isn't even restricted to Mages. Hell, there more than one M+ type that can do it. A relic can do it. If you want to run a murder mystery, only invite strictly mortal PCs.

Probably, and I agree with this and I'll say it was a poor example of twinking, and more an example of what can happen if you cross-sphere ST and don't really understand all the powers. Though in some cases, getting a couple of ranks of Time Arcana isn't necessarily appropriate depending on your character and then it IS twinking. I have a character who is hopeless at politics. HOPELESS. This is her character. She is terribad. Her politics are 0. I don't think even 1 in politics is right for her right now. Eventually maybe she'll get better - or maybe I'll just always leave her bad at politics and never spend a point in it. Twinking isn't just in how much you spend, it's in why you spend what you do.

3xp is nothing. Spending 3xp to get 1 point in politics could represent the changes she's gone through in working with the people she does. Alternately, 3xp in politics could be representative of my desire to be able to boost stats that roll with politics and never suffer the untrained hit for doing political things and roll like a shiny golden god. One way is twinky, one isn't.

In the end though, I'm not interested in judging people for the size of their sheet - it's all in how you use it. (obligatory: that's what she said)