Diarcesia wrote:One of the old RPs that I'm in is set in 2020 (i.e. now). I plan to continue where I left off as a factbook entry in my perspective, but almost everyone involved is already CTE'd. This almost surely means that some godmodding will happen for narrative purposes. What are your thoughts on this?
Long RPs tend to suffer from this sort of attrition of players.
I think it depends on how strongly related they are to your canon and what the probability of their return is.
And, actually, let me take a step back. In Greater Dienstad, the policy is that you can only "narrate" the IC events of a CTEd player if (a) you had a strong canonical and RPing relationship with that player prior to the CTE and (b) sufficient time has elapsed that it suggests the player isn't returning. There's also as much effort as possible to contact that player or reach an arrangement. For example, when I took over the canon for Nicaro, I talked to the player about it knowing that he was going to not have the time to play NS and would more than likely CTE.
Alternatively, in A Passion Play -- a very old RP, but one that went through this sort of attrition among major contestants -- basically after a long time of waiting for them to return I took over the canon of the players who now had major canonical links with me. I didn't want to lose that canon so I took it over, but only after I want to say 2 OOC years of waiting.
All of this being said, "taking over canon" is contentious. There are people who have zero tolerance for it; players who think that under no circumstances should their canon be co-opted, even if they've CTEd. If a player has expressed that, it must be respected.
I approach it by developing explicit, transparent rules that region members are aware of.
