Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
RPing for Dummies, Abridged:
RULD NUMBER ONE: unless it has been established beforehand that it is permitted, god-modding (or writing the outcome of your actions without giving your opponent fair opportunity to respond) is not allowed. FORBIDDEN, I tell you!!!
EXAMPLE 1: Taking Virgil's dog. I mean, you just up and TOOK her!! No fighting over her, no giving the dog a choice, just taking her.
EXAMPLE 2: Taking our anchor, then nullifying all of our efforts to reclaim/retcon it by writing ex post facto reversals.
RULE NUMBER TWO: Traditionally speaking, only one ex post facto reversal per action. For example, my writing that you took a styrofoam anchor instead of the real one was an ex post facto reversal (i.e., "retcon"). The second ex post facto reversal was your nullifying my post by saying that you took the real anchor and we still had the styrofoam one. RPers generally try to minimize retcons (usually doing them only for sake of either humor or continuing a preset storyline, only one of which is valid here), and to only do one at a time. Otherwise, things tend to degenerate into retcon battles with people nullifying each other's posts with gradually more and more absurd continuities.
More editions to come! ;)