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lonnarin · 10-09-07, 09:55 AM

Forum Name: Lonnarin
Login Name: karma_virus
Age: 26
Sex: Please!
Location: Work
Timezone: EST
NwN Experience: Playing and GMing online since the bloody thing 1st hit the shelves
PnP Experience: since around 12 years of age
Occupation: E-Commerce Guy
Characters Played: Rakish, Farros, Bjornigar, Ogzughimmal, Earl, Kor

What I like to see IG: Vast swarms of players sweeping across the servers in huge warparties, Rael dead, Great Legendary Heroes that put their money where their mouths are to unite and attack Prantz, Impromptu quests about nothing, shennanigans, lots of beer, word puzzles and riddles!, long idle conversations about nothing that come around full circle, RPing heavily and talking between party members while on the road, brownies being chased by house cats, helping legions of clueless newcomers learn the basics of RP and smarter battle tactics so they dont get left behind, passive GMing where they follow you and possess the NPCs that you deal with for a reaction... and who allow the players to set the goals and the pace

What I dislike to see IG: People who squeal "thats not my name! I never told you my name!" when they requested to have that name float above their heads for all of eternity and assume that they are so important that you should remember this with 100% accuracy when they are but one out of the 7,500 members here, grabby munchkins and their forced emotes, quest series that are closed for 8 sessions straight and when you look back on the calandar... there never was even an open session to begin with... it was just impromptued mysteriously over the same 7 people month after month, Excessive CDQ requests for every little tiny thing, GMs who tell you to RP your alignment and absolutely refuse to shift it when your character reaches a turning point of consciousness, people who ignore several pages worth of character threads just because they were all written down in one night and simply reply "this is great, but lets see a month from now" because they are too lazy to read said journal entries taking into account the GAME TIME they cover and simply look at the REAL TIME dates they are posted, people sitting on benches collecting dust and looking down on you for not wanting to spend 4 hours in town walking and talking about the weather like a commoner's grandmother, people who stop every single person who walks by them to demand that they tell them their life story without actually having a situationally significant reason to talk to them in the first place... and getting OOC insulting tells about your RP because you dont stop everything you're doing just to cater to a complete stranger, people who think that playing an evil or neutral female means you have to be incredibly rude and insulting to absolutely everybody they meet, as if all evil was by its very nature raised in a barn, People who claim that every single update "increases roleplay" just to show support when roleplay itself is entirely based upon the people roleplaying their characters and not beholden to changes in the environment... I mean, showing support is good and all... but if I like what the president's doing on foreign policy, I don't claim "oh he's making me skinnier and have nicer hair!" Such things are entirely unrelated via scientific observation.

10-09-07, 09:55 AM	#8
lonnarin Lich Characters Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: On the moon with the rest of the space kitties Posts: 2,279 Thanks: 702 Thanked 604 Times in 261 Posts	Re: You and your Role-Play Forum Name: Lonnarin Login Name: karma_virus Age: 26 Sex: Please! Location: Work Timezone: EST NwN Experience: Playing and GMing online since the bloody thing 1st hit the shelves PnP Experience: since around 12 years of age Occupation: E-Commerce Guy Characters Played: Rakish, Farros, Bjornigar, Ogzughimmal, Earl, Kor What I like to see IG: Vast swarms of players sweeping across the servers in huge warparties, Rael dead, Great Legendary Heroes that put their money where their mouths are to unite and attack Prantz, Impromptu quests about nothing, shennanigans, lots of beer, word puzzles and riddles!, long idle conversations about nothing that come around full circle, RPing heavily and talking between party members while on the road, brownies being chased by house cats, helping legions of clueless newcomers learn the basics of RP and smarter battle tactics so they dont get left behind, passive GMing where they follow you and possess the NPCs that you deal with for a reaction... and who allow the players to set the goals and the pace What I dislike to see IG: People who squeal "thats not my name! I never told you my name!" when they requested to have that name float above their heads for all of eternity and assume that they are so important that you should remember this with 100% accuracy when they are but one out of the 7,500 members here, grabby munchkins and their forced emotes, quest series that are closed for 8 sessions straight and when you look back on the calandar... there never was even an open session to begin with... it was just impromptued mysteriously over the same 7 people month after month, Excessive CDQ requests for every little tiny thing, GMs who tell you to RP your alignment and absolutely refuse to shift it when your character reaches a turning point of consciousness, people who ignore several pages worth of character threads just because they were all written down in one night and simply reply "this is great, but lets see a month from now" because they are too lazy to read said journal entries taking into account the GAME TIME they cover and simply look at the REAL TIME dates they are posted, people sitting on benches collecting dust and looking down on you for not wanting to spend 4 hours in town walking and talking about the weather like a commoner's grandmother, people who stop every single person who walks by them to demand that they tell them their life story without actually having a situationally significant reason to talk to them in the first place... and getting OOC insulting tells about your RP because you dont stop everything you're doing just to cater to a complete stranger, people who think that playing an evil or neutral female means you have to be incredibly rude and insulting to absolutely everybody they meet, as if all evil was by its very nature raised in a barn, People who claim that every single update "increases roleplay" just to show support when roleplay itself is entirely based upon the people roleplaying their characters and not beholden to changes in the environment... I mean, showing support is good and all... but if I like what the president's doing on foreign policy, I don't claim "oh he's making me skinnier and have nicer hair!" Such things are entirely unrelated via scientific observation. __________________ It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Last edited by lonnarin : 10-09-07 at 10:27 AM.