Talk:Grand Alliance Piracy Act/@comment-26318945-20151226070405/@comment-7263041-20151226093653

In many cases, NPCs have to sign documents, and that's perfectly acceptable honestly. The idea that you can't speak for NPCs as part of character / organizational development is... rather mixed I suppose. On the one hand, if you outlaw it entirely and say that it's too bold / should be looked down on / ignored then you're basically stopping any RP that includes written correspondance or legal documentation from high ranking NPCs like Varian Wrynn or Mathias Shaw, which for certain RP scenes (especially military or legal scenes) is going to hurt.

On the other hand, you also can't say 'it's completely okay' because then you're going to have people abuse it, by claiming the King signed a warrant, or the King promoted an individual to a high rank outside of currently RPed channels. (He who must not be named comes to mind when he used the King to skip around the Council of Bishops punishment)

So look at it on a case by case basis. If it furthers the RP as a whole, and doesn't really look like it could be percieved as abuse of power, let it go. If it comes across as abuse of power, then take further action, even if it is nothing more than ignoring that detail within the RP.