Do you role-play in MP games and why or why not?

[Aezeal]

Omnirizon: the king/emperor/pretender didn't want to put signatures on royal decree's this month so he went hunting... all administration had to wait a month

or just the age old excuse: burocracy (?)

I don't consider that a real meta game problem really.. it's what you should expect, or keep in mind at least.

[Omnirizon]

I like it, I like it. The king forgets to sign. His empire his crumbling under corruption as his court picks everything apart out from under him, embezalling(sp?) royal trade goods, filling their own pockets before fleeing to other lands. leaving the peasantry to suffer the burden of an incompetent, irresponsible king.

[Agrajag]

Bureaucracy, Embezzling.
Firefox now comes with a pretty awesome dictionary that automatically checks everything you type in a textbox type field

[Omnirizon]

Agrajag said:
Bureaucracy, Embezzling.
Firefox now comes with a pretty awesome dictionary that automatically checks everything you type in a textbox type field

the logic of the autocorrect on firefox isn't that keen. for the misspelling I had it kept returning "embellishing", with no option in the list of the correct spelling for "embezzling." I tried a couple different words, even using the double "z". The issue, I think, is I had the vowel following the z's, and firefox was getting thrown off by that.

I hate to say it, but the microsoft autocorrect is far superior.

[sector24]

I thought you were roleplaying the Firefox spellchecker.

[AlgaeNymph]

While I don't immerse myself in-character, I try to refer to myself as "we" (as in the nation) and modify my syntax ("we know not" instead of "we do not know").

Although I'm lax with pretender names unless I can think of something better, I did create a great alchemist for MA Ulm named "Le Comte de Saint Germain," and am using a prince of death for LA Ermor named...yes, "Orcus."

[Dedas]

Why can't there be incompetent or just plain dumb rulers?

Good and effective administration might not be present in slothful or turmoil dominion.

When I'm playing a more or less "good" ruler I can find that it serves my purposes (and is thematically right) to just plain stall any deal. Sometimes even seizing the whole shipment without payment from the naive ruler I'm trading with. Perhaps that's what you get for trading with a diabolic demon lord whose rule is based on just corruption and lies.

I will of course face the consequences of that kind action, but it won't be so bad when I'm am mightier than they.

Other times I play a virtuous and humanitarian prince who only think good of everyone and cannot lie or deceive.