Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4782444-20151018124101/@comment-4782444-20151019181032

I was thinking along the lines of...

"You and your band of your kick ass warrior friends are walking along in the Asgarnian forest, when suddenly a strange person approaches. The person reveals himself to be a half demon half Vampyre with full dragon armour and a god sword. Know this isn't a nightmare, it is an encounter with a lorebender/breaker (or a sandbox rp...)".

If you encounter someone whose character has aspects you could find heavily overpowered or impossible due to lore, there are a number of techniques you can try.

1. Don't make assumptions. Maybe it isn't what it looks like, maybe their character is merely deluded and insane, the creator trying to add some humour into the roleplay. Why not get your characters to delve deeper into the other guys appearance and history, this encourages roleplay and can help you build a basis about what you consider wrong about this character. 2. Question the creator. An brief ooc conversation with the creator can yield a number of results. Instead of calling them out as a lorebreaker, why don't you ask questions such as how they believe the character could exist and whether they are aware of the publicly accepted lore about that particular species. The creator might respond positively or negatively but you shouldn't resort to aggressive language. 3. Offer alternatives. The other person might have spent a lot of time and thought into their character and may be reluctant to change it. Try and offer some lore friendly alternatives to their character. This is usually not successful but may lead to their character having a more in depth and lore friendly history that allows them to keep rping as the character they like. 4. Suggest Private/Sandbox RP. It may not be the end for that character, suggest that they might want to save it for a Private RP, and use a more lore friendly character in public. This can also allow them to flex their creative muscles by allowing them to create their own sandbox world. 5. State the facts. If they still havn't budged or accepted your helpful advice. Calmly state the facts. Few people would accept their character in public, these particular parts of your character are what you should change. Ask for his reasons for why he thinks the public should accept his character and try to make him go deeper into his reasoning, explaining how he would be able to explain each part, this is usually a successful way of winning an argument, but not always successful. 6. Ask him to leave. If he refuses to budge on any part of his character and still tries to use it in your roleplay, you can ask him to leave. If the roleplay wasn't started by you, you may want to get the person who did start it to leave. If the lorebreaker was the one who started it you can ask for yourself to leave the rp, you don't really need to ask in that case but it can remind him that less people will be taking part if he continues. 7. Ignore him. Try to ignore him for now, you don't need to add him to the list, however if he starts disrupting your roleplay you should ask him to stop and if he continues add him to the list. From this point, if he continues to try and disrupt your roleplay you should treat him as a troll and respond correctly. Don't resort to using abuse yourself as it only fuels the fire. 8. Report him. The FINAL resort, only to be used in the most extreme of circumstances. Remember this should only be considered if he has made it his goal to ruin your roleplay. If he continues to ruin your time or has resorted to real life threats, racial, sexual or homophobic abuse you have the right to report him. After this point continue to ignore him, if he wasn't on your list before now would be a good time to do so, you have done all you can, do not do anything that could put you in the wrong. In the very extreme case he posts abuse about you on the forums simply ignore it, a Fmod will usually deal with it.

This is probably a terrible guide, as I have never had much success at moderating any argument myself. However it is an example of what I would like to see the guide to look like.

Scenario X Explanation about what is wrong in the scenario. 1. Method 1. Why not do Y? 2. Method 2. Have you tried P? 3. Method 3. You can also try S?