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Layonara is so much more than a game. We started off as a tabletop Dungeons and Dragons campaign more than a decade ago. Since then we have developed into a fantasy world with as much compelling and engrossing detail as you will find anywhere.
Our current showcase is a Neverwinter Nights version of Layonara, where our world comes to life in a finely polished persistent world which you can play free of charge. These forums are set up to support and accentuate our player's experiences, but it goes far beyond that.
After years of passionate effort, our world is so well developed, so detailed, so refined that any of the handbooks, maps, historical accounts, legends, descriptions of artifacts, creature reports, character biographies, short stories, novels, movies and original art which populate these forums can surely serve as resources or inspiration for your own fantasy endeavors, whatever they may be. And our world is endlessly evolving, so resources are frequently added and updated.
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#1 | | Orc of the Black Hand Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Colorado
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|  You and your Role-Play
I saw this done on another server of mine, though it was the DMs posting this so players knew more about them. Here, I think it'd just be cool for everyone to post, just to share more about you.  If it's a bad idea, go ahead and just delete it, if not, if enough people reply ... would be cool to have it stickied. Forum Name: Lydyn Login Name: Lydyn Age: 20 Sex: Male Location: That one place!  Timezone: -7 GMT (Mountian Time) NWN Experience: About 2 years worth of role-playing. Played on Aertheca, A Land of Dark Dreams, The Crimson River, The 3 Kingdoms PnP Experience: None! Except I have over 15 source books. Occupation: Remodeler and Addictee to NwN role-playing. Characters played: Ellena Ste'fesser What I like to see IG: Heart (otherwise explained as the player relating and being able to feel what the character does), patience, respect for other players, creativity, and enjoyment (also spelling and grammar, but I don't hold anyone against it  ). What I dislike to see IG: Metagaming (excluding under the situation of starting role-play for the sake of role-playing), players getting upset, impatience, disrespect for other players.
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10-08-07, 11:56 PM
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#2 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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| Re: You and your Role-Play (Hoping this gets Stickied)
I love this. Forum Name: Stephen_Zuckerman Login Name: Stephen Zuckerman Age: 18 Sex: Male Location: Decatur, Georgia, USA Timezone: GMT-5 (Eastern US) NwN Experience: Two and a half years online; six months at Narc's 3.5 adaption, two years here, with overlap of about six months at Angelina's Island and a beta server called Fraxis. PnP Experience: About four years, mainly as a DM, though I honestly prefer playing. Occupation: I currently sell pizza at Domino's. Characters Played: See a full list here. Currently active are Pyyran Rahth, Ceviren Lightstaff, Xu Lin, and Grok. What I like to see IG: RP. Roleplaying is great, and there are a lot of definitions of it, but... If you see your character as a living, breathing being with thoughts and feelings of their own (who just happens to be fictional), and play accordingly, then that's what I love to see. Characters who can be real to me because they're real to their players. What I dislike to see IG: This one's easy. And long. Foremost is blatant disregard of "common" sense. Being a jerk OOC. Metagaming(!) of any kind (apart from metagaming for the purpose of innocuously starting RP, like going for a drink when you know the tavern's packed). Powergaming without thought to character development. Poor spelling. Use of non-ingame terms (which falls under metagaming, but gr). Why I keep coming back: Because I get more of what I like to see here than I'll ever find elsewhere, and because of the people and characters I'd miss, and who'd miss me.
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10-09-07, 03:12 AM
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#3 | | Orc of the Black Hand Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: My secret. Shh.
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| Re: You and your Role-Play (Hoping this gets Stickied)
Forum Name: Cambo Login Name: The Cambo Age: Eh.. 16.. Sex: M Location: Ehmm, USA all the way! Timezone: Eastern GMT -5 NwN Experience: 1 year and a couple months.. PnP Experience: None Occupation: Applying to work at Domino's for right now. (Heh, wouldja look at that, Steven?) Characters Played: Elb'ren Esta'clyn, Ezekiel Wheatchaff What I like to see IG: Funny RP, RP in general that's really good, but mostly RP unlike the usual. Yknow, unusual RP, RP that's.. different. Cause the same ol' same ol' just gets too same ol' for me sometimes  What I dislike to see IG: Umm.. people that are -absolute- sticklers about the most smallest details of metagaming or RP. I don't do normally do that at all, but in doing something like that during silly, nonsense RP should you be reprimanded for that...?
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10-09-07, 04:12 AM
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#4 | | Lich Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Philadelphia
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| Re: You and your Role-Play (Hoping this gets Stickied)
Forum Name: LynnJuniper
Login Name: ForlornParasite (Don't ask)
Age: 18 (Almost 19!!)
Sex: Female
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Timezone: GMT-5 (Eastern US)
NwN Experience: About a year and 7 months
PnP Experience: Absolutely none, My first Rp experiences were in chat rooms and then later a sort of 'round robin' story telling.
Occupation: College Student Studying Journalism..oh, and I sell video games at GameStop.
Characters Played: Currently: Rhynnala Asantiani, and Velmira Veeto.
What I like to see IG: Roleplaying for the sake of roleplaying, and adventuring for the sake of adventuring and exploring rather than XP gain and CNR/Crafting. I also like to see each character preforming to their fullest extent and thinking outside the box on quests!
What I dislike to see IG: The usual List I suppose: Metagaming, though it doesn't bother me to the point where I'll get overly angry. Oh, and personally: People who are overly caught up in CNR or Powerleveling.
Why I keep coming back: Because of my friends, more than anything else. They make Layonara for me.
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10-09-07, 04:32 AM
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#5 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Estonia, Tallinn
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|  Re: You and your Role-Play (Hoping this gets Stickied)
Forum Name: s0ulz
Login Name: s0ulz
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Timezone: GMT+3
NwN Experience: 3 years of Layonara
PnP Experience: None what-so-ever
Occupation: University Student
Characters Played: Fenrir Thornaxe, Vinden Blackstaff
What I like to see IG: I like to see correctly played alignments and classes. I like to see characters have a personality and play according to it. A sense of humour never hurts either.
What I dislike to see IG: I -hate- lack of puncuation and capitalization. It gives so much if it's done correctly.
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10-09-07, 09:27 AM
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#6 | | Lich Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Jersey (Exit 88)
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| Shiff and his Role-Play (Hope it gets stickied to his forehead)
Forum Name: ShiffDrgnhrt Login Name: ShiffDrgnhrt Age: 19 Sex: M Location: Somewhere between Antarctica and The North Pole *glares at his user profile for giving him away* Timezone: EDT/EST NwN Experience: 10 months PnP Experience: heh, 1 session, ending in the complete Zombification of Faerun (Not My Fault!) Occupation: Student Characters Played: Shiff (Boy wasnt that obvious) Latherian, Nemo What I like to see IG: Good RP, even if that RP involves making my PCs look like fools. I like roleplaying the relationships between characters (not necessary just intimate ones). Also like Role playing combat, since it can make lower level PCs capable of defeating High level ones (but no one ever does that >.<). What I dislike to see IG: Metagaming, though I'm sure I've one it before. Being Evil Heh, its why I play all Good PCs. What else... One thing I really hate... Excluding others from chances to RP or even gain XP, unless there is a good RP reason for it. Like not talking to someone you don't know just because you don't know them, or not inviting someone you have been talking to in RP for the past hour along to some really cool place your other RP buddies just found.
Dark Elves... Definately Dark Elves... They are such nuisances... (<3 you Iceyfire ) Nah DE are cool... Not that it's anyones fault, but I hate lag...
OH! DMs! Especially the ones that give out XP... I hate them, they are so cool it drives me crazy... I mean the nerve of them to reward us players for Role playing well and kicking the butt of their super-villains with their own spawns... I mean they even made me level once! THe NERVE!!! *snickers and runs off with his pet Adult Fire Drake* Luv you guys
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10-09-07, 09:54 AM
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#7 | | World Leader Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Keystone State
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| Re: You and your Role-Play
Forum Name: Honora
Age: 40
Sex: Ladylike (Jen, stop laughing)
Location: Poconos, PA
Timezone: EST
NwN Experience: Since 2003 - all the single player games, and a ton of the best player-made modules.
PnP Experience: Since...oh god...um...1981.
Occupation: Chemist
Characters Played: Honora Tannerson, Corba Tweed
What I like to see IG: Flexibility, a defined character that is separate from the individual playing, someone willing to get to know the player a little (to avoid misunderstandings), and proper grammar and spelling.
What I dislike to see IG: Griefing that hides behind roleplay. Folks who cannot separate themselves from their characters. Glory hogs.
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10-09-07, 09:55 AM
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#8 | | Lich Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: On the moon with the rest of the space kitties
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| 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.
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10-09-07, 09:56 AM
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#9 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Nottingham, England
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| Re: You and Your RP
Forum Name: DMOE Login Name: Morgana Tintagel Age: yeah, right....Like I'm gonna tell you lot Sex: F Location: Nottingham, England Timezone: GMT/BST NwN Experience: 2 years 2 months PnP Experience: 14 years of various systems Occupation: Full time Mother, part time retail assistant Characters Played: Ireth Astendor, Muireann, Silver What I like to see IG: Good RP of course, I also really like to see the effort made to play alignments and deity relations properly, People thinking outside the box, DM's that let them, People having fun! What I dislike to see IG: Metagaming, cliques - as in groups keeping to themselves and not allowing others the chance to join them when it ISN'T based on RP, people ignoring DM's trying to interact with them, disrespectful behaviour again when it is influence by OOC and not simply good RP, people not playing their characters fully or adjusting their character's reaction due to OOC influence and of course, like many others powerlevelling/blatant powerbuilds, people claiming to be a cross between the latest hot super model and Kofi Annan when they have a low Cha
Oh and people picking on me cause I'm dyslexic, can't spell and have bad grammar
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10-09-07, 10:28 AM
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#10 | | Project Writer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Durham .. England
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| Re: You and your Role-Play
Forum Name: LordCove
LoginName: Lord Cove
Age: *something unintelligable*
Sex: All man
Location: Newcastle-way , England
NWN Experience: What-ever my join date says
PnP Experience: What-ever my join date days
Occupation: Car Insurance type guy / Mug
Characters player: Sallaron Tempest / LeFarge ( and a handful of part time others)
What I like to see IG: Good RP... but RP stretched beyond the bashing, saying a few words, bashing, and saying a few words. I love finding people have RP'd "probelms" for their character to deal with... gives them so much more depth. DM's dropping surprises on you whilst your doing the usual day-to-day things.
What I dislike to see IG: Long bashing spree's with minimum RP involved, OOC getting in the way of IC, Power-Builds ( only cause my characters so rubbish though ) , snooty and arrogant clerics , and a long series of 1 rolls.
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10-09-07, 10:31 AM
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#11 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Dec 2006
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| Re: You and your Role-Play
Forum Name: ycleption
Age: between 15 and 50
Sex: male or female or something else
Location: US midwest
Timezone: CST/CDT
NwN Experience: this is my only PW, I've messed around with various modules and stuff.
PnP Experience: I played in 1/2 of a campaign. I stepped in for a missing player one session, and the group decided I played the character better than the original player, and they asked me to stay.
LARP Experience: Played in several large scale white wolf games, one boffer style game, and was AST for a Harry Potter game for a while.
Occupation: Student (law school)
Characters Played: Drexia, Pallena
What I like to see IG: General RP, Small groups bashing while keeping RP in mind, sitting around in towns and RPing, DM quests with lots of RP... um... RP...
What I dislike to see IG: Massive bashing parties who don't stop in-between encounters. Use of OOC terms in-character. Heh, I could probably list a lot of things that bug me, but I don't really see a need to do so :P
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10-09-07, 11:22 AM
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#12 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ohio
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| Re: You and your Role-Play
Forum Name: Interia_Discordius Login Name: Interia_Discordius Age: Sweet Sixteen Sex: Female Location: Ohio, USA... Better known as Your Local Institution Timezone: Eastern US NwN Experience: Lots of years? Probably 5 ish? PnP Experience: 6-7ish Occupation: Student and Published Poet Characters Played: Kinai Ancalime, Amaris A'Iretni, Seidahn Xyvorn, Avaritia Luxur, and Helgha What I like to see IG: A chance for me to actually kill some monsters... I've been roleplaying in Hempstead and around for what feels like months with poor Kinai  She needs action! What I dislike to see IG: Players playing rude characters who like to reflect the attitude OOC as well. It seems to be pretty common through the worlds, at least from my experience.
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10-09-07, 05:42 PM
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#13 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Aurora, Colorado
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| Re: You and your Role-Play
Forum Name: Nyralotep of course Login Name: Same as above Age: Older than Leanthar but younger than Serissa Sex: M Location: Aurora, CO Timezone: MST NwN Experience:5 years give or take PnP Experience: 5 years, a long time ago. Occupation: Windows SA Characters Played: Points to his portrait What I like to see IG: humor! This is what makes things memorable for me. So many people here just keep me rolling. Gravas and Toby are one example, Lonn in whatever character he's playing. Also seeing evil characters be disagreeable. I can't count how many times Darilith has cracked me up in his encounters with me or others. And above all friendliness of the players which is what makes Layo, well Layo. What I dislike to see IG:When I move before my skin loads Most of what I hate...someone playing beyond their abilities. People who ignore that a rogue is present and pull out a pixie to unlock a door or disarm a trap. People who want to be the hero above/at the cost of the party.
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10-09-07, 06:39 PM
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#14 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Re: You and your Role-Play
Forum Name: Pseudonym Login Name: Funnypseudonym Age: 33 Sex: Male ... or, I only vaguely remember. Location: Melbourne, Australia Timezone: AEST NwN Experience: SPM - 3yrs, Layo - 18mths-ish PnP Experience: 20yrs-ish Occupation: Retailer Characters Played: Arkolio de'Averlain, Urhuk Meshanek, Valdemar Harredsunn, Gard Ironjaw, Virtue Kessen, Slessanaa, Sharlenara, Edoine Tenance ... plus any alts! What I like to see IG: Pretty much same as everyone who has commented already. What I dislike to see IG: Pretty much same as everyone who has commented already ... plus statistical improbabilities/impossibilities when crafting. To be honest though, I don't get bothered by very much IG, I play Layo for distraction/relief from things that actually bother me.
@Lydyn - You might be interested in this link.
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