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[Dustan Hache]

(Sorry, can’t edit your action.)

((This is an extremely bad practice.  Editing actions is essentially just adding the content of a newer post to an older one, which is done to reduce spam and make it easier for the GM to see all actions posted by someone.  Banning edits is saying either A) you want people to post actions over multiple posts, reducing clarity for everyone in the thread, or B) saying that someone isn't allowed to react to a post later than theirs... which incentivises not posting at all in any kind of PvP scenario.

TL;DR, everyone accepts editing actions, and for good reason.))

It's also done to prevent sneaky edit wars that would otherwise go unnoticed. Not everyone is PVP centric. A certain limited amount of editing is okay (eg, fixing mistakes) but it shouldn't be used as a means of responding to other actions. New posts for that.

[BlackPaladin99]

                                        Turn 2

Incinerate everything around me. too many humans, too many things. Let their souls fuel the fires of a hellgate.

Pick up the Blade though. A weapon is always good.

[2]

You summon a small fire that gives some of the adventurers a burn, they shake it off. Disappointing. You do pick up the flesh blade however.




Reality 10/10

I think he was trying to pick my character up. 
The blade has his host use him to slaughter the rest of the humans, reanimating them as undead slaves.

[TricMagic]

                                        Turn 2

Incinerate everything around me. too many humans, too many things. Let their souls fuel the fires of a hellgate.

Pick up the Blade though. A weapon is always good.

[2]

You summon a small fire that gives some of the adventurers a burn, they shake it off. Disappointing. You do pick up the flesh blade however.




Reality 10/10

I think he was trying to pick my character up. 
The blade has his host use him to slaughter the rest of the humans, reanimating them as undead slaves.

Correct. Burn them all to ash. (This will be an interesting adventure.)

[Fluffe9911]

Steve sighs... again
Pick up my arms with my teeth and put em back in the sockets then try to grab my eyes again.


(“I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms. At night, I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep.”)

[Devastator]

Burn them all to ash. (This will be an interesting adventure.)

(Looks like every other adventure to me.)

[Knightwing64]

Burn them all to ash. (This will be an interesting adventure.)

(Looks like every other adventure to me.)

#sad

[Egan_BW]

"Yes, let us flee now for I tire of this game Stupid That Doesn't Mean Me Why must it be so confusing-"
"Never mind that just now, it's not as though I know myself, you can't hear this anyways, it's inaudible."

Hook the Unseen Sword to my belt, as is the style, and hook myself unseen to Susie's belt. We're going on an adventure to a place that's not-here! Or perhaps we already have. Well regardless, don't forget to hilt the

Edit: it's so sad that Steve died of ligma said It (that's an action please process It)

[Egan_BW]

"btw since earlier my second bolded action didn't go through and you don't take edits from now on I'll be sure to simply make a new post and edit the old one to be empty every turn, which I will now start doing with this post."

That's not an action that's just rp

Activate Misfortune and escape through the air ducts.

[Knightwing64]

Uh, you can only do one action. You can incorporate multiple things in that action but please only put one bolded action. It makes it much easier for me.

[Egan_BW]

Okay then. I'll strikethrough the others.

[Knightwing64]

Okay then. I'll strikethrough the others.

Thanks

[Devastator]

We need to deal with the girl in demonskin first.

"Kill the girl in demonskin.  <points out Tim.>  I'll help you."

Engage in combat.  Grab Tim and try to twist her head off.  Channel electricity hopefully destroy her before she burns us all to ashes."

[syvarris]

It's also done to prevent sneaky edit wars that would otherwise go unnoticed. Not everyone is PVP centric. A certain limited amount of editing is okay (eg, fixing mistakes) but it shouldn't be used as a means of responding to other actions. New posts for that.

((I've been doing this for the last eight years, and that is a pretty rare event.  Metagaming based on actions is a problem, sure, but the proper solution isn't banning edits; the proper solution is private messages.  If you just require new posts, that still allows metagaming, in that whoever posts most recently will have the most up-to-date counter.  This advantages people with a lot of free time, or few games, and can therefore check the thread often.  In practice, this is very unusual, since forum games almost always lack the complexity for counter-counter-counters to exist, and those that do typically have actions through PM... but it's the situation you're worried about.

Additionally, banning edits is simply impractical unless the GM has email notifications for every post in the thread, or very actively checks it.  If I want to metagame and edit my action to respond to someone else, I could just... change the action, and not say I changed it.  The only thing that will inform the GM I changed anything is the little "this post was edited" message, which could just as easily be spellchecking.))

Hook the Unseen Sword to my belt, as is the style

"Huh, it's not there... it was there a moment ago?  Weird."

[King Zultan]

"A bunch of weirdos in here, I can't sleep with all this shit going on!"
Locate the exit and leave this place, then discover where I find myself.

[Knightwing64]

"A bunch of weirdos in here, I can't sleep with all this shit going on!"
Locate the exit and leave this place, then discover where I find myself.

When the violent and drunk hobo is debatably the most friendly one that only wants to be left alone