Posted by An Immortal, answering despite the pointlessness of it(IMM) on June 24, 2000 at 09:34:05:
In Reply to: He knows the rules very well. posted by Radakh on June 24, 2000 at 08:49:53:
> He knows the rules and yet chooses to break them or bend them
> at every opportunity. His past actions I'm sure came into play
> so he was toast from the start. My question is, why even bother
> to put the time into a character who's name you know will be under
> scrutiny from day one.
The reason it makes no sense is because he had no intention in following through on the character. The name was lame, his description bordered on illiteracy and his role had two lines: "DESTRUCTION" and "of other people of course". That's not a character you plan on keeping. He's probably more amazed that he lasted as long as he did and is happy to make any stink about it he can. Which is none... because who cares?
If his two friends are smart they'll take the hints they've been not-so-subtly given and split up. Although I understand that each smug character now spends countless hours practicing against the Barovian wraiths, for (red aura) smug1 to approach (red aura) smug2 in the wraith forest and say "we might as well join up, eh?" (and not even get it out before the smug2 has grouped him) is about as weak an attempt at following the role-playing rules as I can think of.
All of that just smacks of "delete me at your leisure so I have something to complain about later."