OOC Discussion 6
Warpriest is unplayable (as cleric and inquisitor) because RAW it needs a deity - they are only allowed to choose domains without a deity *with gm permission*... which is always a 'no', as you have red and bold and underlined in character creation... but deities are not in approved sources and as you last said, they are for fluff/roleplaying info only. So by your own house rules, you cannot play them.
After pointing out that there was a(seemingly by your last post, unintended) ban of base classes, I tried to give you a simple cut-and-paste rule for allowing them (with an addendum for favored weapons if you wanted it), and said I was willing to take the bp penalty for contacting you to have you consider making some copy pasta of it so they were playable for everyone. You said you wouldn't consider it and you slapped me with a penalty.
Regarding the penalty - you said in the original democratic arena thread that we'd be allowed to contact you should a miracle happen and you have more time and return. Then, you delete that thread, post that you're here and more available, but we're still running democratically. (And apparently modify the challenges format thread to let us know that even though you said you were here, we shouldn't contact you - would have been nice to have that in a direct post, rather than just modified in somewhere else when you made a change.) So sure, I guess I should have re-read the challenge format post, to see if it had been modified to determine whether I should try to help you fix the game. My bad.
Regarding being upset - it's not the penalty I'm upset over. In the opening of the post, I offered to pay that penalty for you to consider fixing a game issue - I was happy to pay bp to improve the game for everybody. It's that you didn't even care enough to read the problem or the fix, and assessed the penalty anyway.
Regarding the democratic solution - you could have also said that you would like to see us doing that for seen house rule issues. I assumed that trying to get other players to see that you had made an oversight in the rules was *way* more disrespectful than contacting you, and not just saying 'here's a problem, spend your time to fix it' but 'here's a problem, I've invested the time in trying to fix it for you, would you even consider it as a solution'.
Regarding your 'not seeing any posts where you cuss me out' - of course you don't, because you modified them out afterwards. Modifying your posts for more moderate does not undo the verbal, though. It may make it easier for you to feel good about yourself afterwards, but that's between you and your conscience.
Regarding the avoiding interacting with you - that's what I'm doing, permanently.
Happy new year, Latro, Grunyar, and everyone else. I wish you all the best in 2016.
EDIT, so the players can democratically maybe get divine prep casters after I'm gone:
The gist was a house rule line approving domain choices without needing GM permission, but only allowing alignment domains if the character has that alignment. I had also worked out a favored-weapon-by-alignment chart, with an addition that a player could instead choose a weapon that their race gave them proficiency with. That way favored weapons could be used also, but without requiring a GM to go look up canon deities.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:55, Mon 28 Dec 2015.
