@ghost said in Social Systems:
PLAYING THE PLAYER
This is when people make their RP decisions poker-style based on what they know about the OOC person or their likes/dislikes. It's a form of metagaming that is hard to catch and even harder to convince players to stop doing.
Sure, I understand your point. And I see why you'd think social rolls would alter this. And I agree that it would.
But, to my point, so what?
If a player doesn't want to go along with my PC's suggestion to theirs to do something, that's fine. I'm okay with that. I can lay out why, reasonably and accurately. And their PC may roll to see if mine is lying or being disingenuous, and that check would come up negative; in Vampire, lying is stupid because it is so easy to detect.
My remedy: remove that player's PC from the political arena.
If we are gaming, and we are playing a political game like vampire, then you must know -- you must realize -- that everything that happens around my PC is likely according to some sort of plan. This is because you are actively losing in politics if you cannot predict what will happen next. Players like me -- Lisse24, Caryatid -- enjoy the interaction, the meddling, and the positioning because that's what Vampire is about. And setting yourself up where you cannot lose is less about power and stats than it is, simply, about positioning.
I'd really like to play this game. A lot.
Instead, we have people using Dominate to blood-bond neonates into divulging secrets of blood sorcery for the purpose of growing magic dicks.
Like, seriously, I have that power so that no one can accuse me of trying to get it from someone else. Like, fuck y'all, I have a futanari penis omgsoecchiheehee.
