Supernatural Roleplaying

Elements of paranormal, superhuman, or supernatural fantasy in TSRP have been roleplayed on many occasions in various servers throughout the game's history: the exact nature of these roleplays a subject of much controversy, especially on those servers that do not condone such activity among their players.
==Server-Sponsored==
Server-sponsored Supernatural roleplaying, not including those elements of Science Fiction that have become so common in servers like Mobius or H9, are not actually uncommon. Examples stretch back into Classic RP, from Vampires and Werewolves to the undead, magic, and some more strange, inexplicable fantasies. On the official Fisk City server supernatural roleplay was accepted, everything from cults to vampires were RPed in the secrecy, as it was a requirement both OOC and IC that this type of role play did not occur openly. In late 2010 and early to mid 2011, some Apollo RP modders experimented with a 'Vampire Mod.' The mod itself was initially developed by mod-machine Spunky (author of Car Mod, Weather Mod and other well known ARP mods) exclusively for Mobius, but has since been publically released, and implimented on the newest (as of 7/17, 2011) incarnation of RealRP to mixed community response.
Generally, however, roleplayers have gone underground, so to speak, in realistic roleplaying settings to RP the paranormal and the occult.
==Non-Server Sponsored==
In X-Factor and HarbuWare servers, players often experimented with the supernatural, with or without admin or community consent, in and amongst themselves. Some, throughout TSRP's history, have quietly alluded to some supernatural element about themselves without coming out of the supernatural closet,
'Furries,' while not necessarily supernatural in and of themselves by their own definition, are unnatural in their anthropomorphic qualities. The most blatant example would be Nix Isia, a self-professed planar being supposedly from another dimension, who RP'd him(or her)self as such.
In another community, a player once demanded that he be able to roleplay a Phoenix, and, upon his death, rise again. He was denied this privelige, but soon after being Character-Killed, did it anyway-- he was banned shortly thereafter.
==Allegations of Powergaming==
While it may be good, private fun for some, Supernatural Roleplaying, when applied to others, has a tendency to cause the cry of 'Powergaming' to come up, for understandable reasons. If the community does not accept one character's otherworldly powers, which can range on into nigh immortal beings that claim themselves untouchable, then claiming to be able to deflect bullets or mind-control other players can be taboo, and can earn many a ban for powergaming in most realism-minded servers.
==General Occultism==
While not necessarily supernatural in the abilities brought about, the player Psalms was said to frequently carry out cultish rituals in the seclusion of dark basements or secret meetingplaces involving blood oaths, Tarot Cards, and "black magic," though it is generally believed that this was roleplayed as superstition, rather than supernatural, the defining point being that he never claimed to have extraordinary powers beyond his secret society.
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