Dec 9, 2019, 4:44 PM

@faraday said in Armageddon MUD:

While I agree with you that it's ultimately subjective, I think your example misses the mark a bit. As @L-B-Heuschkel points out, you're describing an ICly harsh environment. That says nothing about the OOC atmosphere.

Sorry, maybe I was missing what I was trying to say:

In this instance, the judgment against the players would be OOC because they are embracing one of those uncomfortable topics (slavery/abuse/loss of agency/whatever) that many people like to set up as 'you are a reprehensible person OOC if you support or engage in this behavior, even IC'. Once upon a time, we had very clear lines between the IC and the OOC, but those started to bleed ages and ages.

And thus, there's no clear line on what is or is not objectively terrible or permissible because it's all pretty damn dependent.

Like you replied later, the key is expectations -- letting people know what they're getting into, and getting their agreement.