Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11406405-20130718161341/@comment-11406405-20130719181312

I appreciate your suggestion to bring this to the main forum but honestly I like this relatively private discussion we're having. It prevents trolls and less civil personalities to take part.

To answer your question, I feel that it forces me to have Binor come up with a reason to disregard the legitimacy of a major group of RPers. I mentioned this briefly in the other thread, but essentially if a certain RPer claims to have authority directly derived from an NPC (i.e. player says said NPC actually said "here's all this power, have fun"), which I don't OOCly agree with, then I have to come up with some kind of IC explanation for why Binor won't recognize them.

Admittedly it's easier in the case of the Clergy because they have all kinds of fanonical lore such as the bible of Uther or whatever it is, so Binor simply goes and says "I haven't heard of any of this in the decade I've been a member of the Church, so no thanks" and so he doesn't recognize the Clergy's authority or the Council of Bishops. Which can make for some interesting roleplay when he has to interact with them (see: the bit with Ceylin), but overall the relationship is not a positive one and is derogatory to RP overall.