Iskander:
some people like anonymity... unless the players personality shines through, for every character, part of the game is not knowing who they are, cos people tend to treat players differently, than characters. i know the Gm knows what I mean.
Sure. I can see that.
There are specific arguments to be made for
and against it.
Myself? I repeatedly name out who I'm playing (Jareth, Jednesa, Stenet, Ulo - evileeyore on the GURPS forums, the Player behind the characters). If someone decides they hate
my style and want nothing to do with me, then they know what characters of mine to avoid. I'm all for it.
I hope I differentiate characters enough that if someone gets upset over one, it isn't a problem with the others (see Grend, Oren, Jin*)... but... if someone identifies a problem they have with me, the Player, something endemic to
my style, I am okay with them not wanting to associate. Likewise, if I discover a thing I know will cause issues for me*, then I'd like to be able to avoid associating in the future.
However, I'll accept the "rules of anonymity" to cover others (note, the only 'pestering' I've ever done was short lived and in good humour)... if those are actually in place. I don't know, our Narrator has been vague on that in the past.
* Not so much calling out that he had a problematic style, but rather that he had a
distinct style. One which was aggressive about displaying his character's worst flaws, which is great in many roleplaying settings. I stand with it!
However... in a 'team-focused' play (like DF) it's... a bit not-so-good when those flaws are ones that will cause friction
between the characters. Friction enough to maybe cause characters to come to blows. Which is against the OOC rules (intra-party combat has it's place, that place is in the Arena).
I have a ... "no retreat, no surrender" type of personality. Each of my characters would have reacted strongly to his (much as pretty much everyone did). In some cases that could have lead to or prompted character combat (as you, Iksander, know well).
So ... I got lucky and never ended up in a party with him (I was avoiding it only in that I avoided creating a Sahud facing character for the Sahudese thread).
Just as I'll deliberately avoid having Ulo and Christine ever meet up. Not I have a problem with Christine's Player (they are doing a wonderful job!) but because I wouldn't even check Ulo's disads, it would be all attack-attack-attack-attack-attack until one of them was dead. At least until this situation get's resolved in some manner. Probably using talking. And Diplomacy. And economics. And no where near enough blue-haired fire wizard elves in pools of acid conflict resolution strategies.