I always treat Security Level as a measure of experience for a hero. It doesn't mean I treat them any different though. If a L50 is acting like a ***** I don't care how many times he's saved the world, I'll react accordingly. I see it as they've been given greater responsibility. I also like to imagine that SL has certain benchmarks. I've talked about getting my flight clearance at L14 and passing my cape exam at L20. There's no hard and fast rule though. Do whatever you're comfortable doing.
Issue 23: All your base are belong to us?
I've personally never let Security Level become a huge RP factor. At times where it bars a hero I'm interacting with access to somewhere, or puts them in a lot of danger, I'll mention it to a degree of their skill in the field rather than a number some guy with metallic forearms says he deserves.
With sidekicking and things, I'll usually quip out something to the tune of, 'Stick by me and I'll keep you on your feet' to a sidekick and the boost of being a sidekick kind of represents me looking after them and taking up most of the work. Same thing with exemplarring, but reverse. It's much harder to roleplay an exemplarship, though in my opinion.
I hope that helped.
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'Stick by me and I'll keep you on your feet'
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Exactly. Make the level difference part of the rp. I'm always being asked for "pointers" in teams with a level difference. Even "Hey buddy, can you meet us in Crey's Folly?" can be rp'd easily.
"You want me to come to Crey's Folley? Wow...City Hall hasn't authorized me for operations in there. As a matter of fact, since they rate my SecLevel at 16, they think I should stay out of Astoria too...I can hit Baumton and Overbrook though!"
Promotions, higher clearance; call it what you will. Work with the mechanics, it's actually pretty easy.
New to this type of role playing I have done a lot of face to face role playing and the general policy is to come to an agreement on something if itÂ’s a fuzzy. So I an asking in a case where the security level of a hero becomes involved how does one role play that. Do we just ignore the security level as some bureaucratic number that has no real bearing on reality? Can his/her security level actually mean some thing, as in he is that much more experienced. Is the best thing just to ignore the level. Someone tell me what the general rule is here?