Going through some of the rules I noticed something that kind of stood out as always being problematic when it came to RP.
That being announcing yourself OOC. Whether you want to admit or deny it, whenever you are doing something hidden, such as sneaking and you have to tell people that you are there it will more or less be an OOC-meta game thing that will cause people to act differently. I've been playing NWN since 2002 and on plenty of servers where rules like this were a thing and it ultimately caused a HEAP of OOC-metagaming behavior.
While two friends might be hidden down an alleyway talking about mugging someone, if you have to announce yourself in damn near every case, they characters will stop acting as they naturally would. I've seen it happen way to many times for anyone to convince me otherwise--as a player and as a DM.
Is this still enforced or an old rule that just never made it to being cleaned out?
That being announcing yourself OOC. Whether you want to admit or deny it, whenever you are doing something hidden, such as sneaking and you have to tell people that you are there it will more or less be an OOC-meta game thing that will cause people to act differently. I've been playing NWN since 2002 and on plenty of servers where rules like this were a thing and it ultimately caused a HEAP of OOC-metagaming behavior.
While two friends might be hidden down an alleyway talking about mugging someone, if you have to announce yourself in damn near every case, they characters will stop acting as they naturally would. I've seen it happen way to many times for anyone to convince me otherwise--as a player and as a DM.
Is this still enforced or an old rule that just never made it to being cleaned out?