@Wretched said:
Not that Ernies own tactics weren't polarizing.
You also tended to limit your eye-rolling when people didn't act intimidated, though I did give you a hard time for the whole concept. Maybe I shouldn't have, but especially after the introduction of "Truth & Lies" it became a process of turning possible avenues of drama into mush.
"Are you a Loyalist? Are you planning harm on anyone in the Freehold? Okay, done." We needed a scene for this because why? It's called "The Welcome Wagon" on The Reach, and I encourage people to skip it entirely unless they want the RP, which is a good reason to have scenes, but many Fear Wardens (HM) and many Welcome Wagoneers (TR) used it as an excuse to show off.
The show-off was a huge turn-off for many players, and became a chore that must be survived for them.
For those who don't know, the Changeling power "Truth & Lies" (or sight of truth & lies or something close to that) would allow you to detect lies at a 100% rate. There was a drawback, but it might as well have been "your nose gets clogged up" for as inconvenient as it was.
Liane/VASpider (aka Atlantis @ The Reach) overdid what was already practice designed to kill creativity, but I really blame Truth & Lies.
We've been promised "no goblin contracts" in Wild Hunt Chronicles, and it can't happen soon enough for me just to kill that damned power.