Why - Removes another potential for subconscious metagaming when looking at characters in disguises and more realistically portrays another character's IC status/health/HP.
Thoughts?
Why - Removes another potential for subconscious metagaming when looking at characters in disguises and more realistically portrays another character's IC status/health/HP.
Thoughts?
Same thing.
There's an option for concealing your power level in disguise. @holdback. That said, I think disguise offering some latent ability to do this could be worth exploring. I don't think this is a big deal out-of-disguise.
Knowing that somebody is healthier than average ultimately tells you very, very little except if it's being used to meta-identify them.
However, the suggestion to conceal your health by holding back shouldn't be necessary.
I've been saying A LOT lately that players who guess which of the 40 possible player-run characters they know about is involved with something are often WRONG, not that that excuses the small-world metagaming but it highlights the flip side too: Players who believe that they are the victim of someone else's small-world metagaming are also wrong a lot.
The frequency with which people on both sides of this are wrong influences the seriousness with which I take any and all @ideas related to reducing metagaming potential with new code.
Hiding the "condition" is a good idea just because of the nature of disguise (you can't tell what they look like, how are you supposed to know how magnificent their condition is), not because of some perception that people are abusing it.
Hiding the "condition" is a good idea just because of the nature of disguise (you can't tell what they look like, how are you supposed to know how magnificent their condition is),
I like that.
I think it makes sense for me to look at someone and not know if they are in magnificent health or not (unless of course they are gangly or really tall and buff, however, that is more muscle mass as opposed to endurance and health).
However, the suggestion to conceal your health by holding back shouldn't be necessary.'
Yep, no disagreement here. @holdback is a dangerous to use command in general. I'm not suggesting it be used as an alternative to a change, but as a path somebody may want to consider when weighing the risks in the meantime.
It makes sense to me that disguises should hide condition. I don't hold any preconception that people are abusing it in its current state, only that there's a possibility, and it'd make sense for that information to not be present at all.