450 Points
  • Gaian 50
  • Statustician 100
  • Member 100
Offline
Obvious Oaf Revised: AMP
Quote from the anti-munch project:
"Oblivious Oaf razz eople who don't explain how what they are using, works. Now this is fine to an extent; you're not expected to know the exact functioning procedure for a gravity-spewing railgun, but at least give a vague idea behind the mechanism. [Suggested by Colonel_Commissar_Gaunt]
A: Hahahahahaha my ultra shield deflects any projectile weapon
B: ((Dude, how does that work? I need some info))
A: ((Ahhhhh uhhhhhh.......it....uses......some.......weird substance......that like...........does.....something......and then it like.....deflects all projectiles! Thats how it works, its not like I never explain my gear its just that I just came up with that explanation now, I mean I just had trouble explaining it."

~*~Obvious Oaf revised~*~


Clairifying Obvious Oaf: What is obvious oaf exactly?

The complaint about obvious oaf and the reason it is
considered godmoding, is because it strips too much
realism from the fantasy for it to be worthwhile.

Obvious oafing does this by giving the godmoder who
is abusing this style of cheating, advantages that
they can not give an explaination of why the
advantages work or exsist, nore an explaination
of why they have them.

The godmoder commiting this act of "creative writing
vandalism" is simply so obssessed with victory over
the threatening situation at hand that they take the
godmoding to the extreme of using advantages
that they think or know can lead them to victory
without knowing a legitimate amount about those
advantages, leaving other role players at a
disadvantage, unable to judge whether the
advantage is being used legally or not, and lack
of information to know of how to oppose the
threat. Needless to say any un-opposable threat,
is godmoding.

Q: When am I being an obvious oaf?

A: You are being a obvious oaf when
you design a source, or a character
that is a source of an advantage, that does
not include an explaination of why the
advantage origionates from anywhere,
(you or something you have) how the
advantages work when used, how they
are triggered into working, and what
the nature(s) of the advantages are.

Q: How do I avoid being an obvious oaf?

A: By taking the time to think about the
reasons why you should be able to get
the advantages you want from a character
or possession a character has, the origion
of the advatages, the nature(s) of the
advantages, like how and why they work,
and how you trigger them into activation.

Q: How do I know when someone else is
being an obvious oaf?

A: You will know when someone else is being
an obvious oaf because they will use advantages
that they know nothing, or not enough about
in terms of why and how they work, and why they
are legally origionating from their character or from
their character's possessions.