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« on: May 16, 2005, 07:25:00 am »
Teletubbies is really quite cool, specially when you're very, very drunk or out of your head in another way -.^
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« on: May 16, 2005, 07:23:00 am »
wewt ^^ Have fun!
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« on: May 16, 2005, 03:00:00 am »
I've been using chat logging for months already and look what I've ended up with!  Now that's what I call a log!
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« on: May 16, 2005, 02:55:00 am »
Yes, you all seem like a nice bunch.
I can hardly wait for you to get me killed in a quest :p
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« on: May 16, 2005, 02:52:00 am »
Tinkywinky, Lala, Dipsy, Po. Telly tubbies~ Telly tubbies~ *looks around* what?! Etinfall - 5/14/2005 10:05 AM
ok, it has been 45 seconds and still no help. Please... You need more gay George
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« on: May 15, 2005, 11:15:00 am »
Darkness isn't something you can change the radius of I'm afraid... It's just on or off -.-
The problem I see is: Once you've perceived the stealthy character with true sight on and you've checked that he's using stealth mode, how do you make it show the effect you want on the stealthed character without forcing the effect on everyone else who can see him (including himself)?
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« on: May 15, 2005, 10:43:00 am »
You can script it to hover over another player when used. Scrying is possible, but I'll have to look up / create the script if you really want it.
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« on: May 15, 2005, 08:36:00 am »
Reventage - 5/14/2005 4:26 PM
Just remember to get the character approved before you start playing. Yes mother :p
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« on: May 15, 2005, 08:15:00 am »
I think this is the case for any server:
RPing shouldn't be a way to level up. Rewarding role play with exp is like creating a second form of powergaming to some and a meaningless figure to others.
If you really want to reward those that RP well, you'll give them access to special areas, items, abilities (scrying, tracking and divining for example) and anything else that will add immersion into the world. I'm not sure if you do this kind of thing already, in fact you probably do, but if you do then I'm agreeing that it's a better reward than exp.
As an example, a wizard who has taken the school of magic 'divination' should be able to find something like a hag's crystal ball, which would allow them to view others via scrying (don't know if you have scrying or not on Layonara). If you already have the option to scry, the ball could perhaps penetrate some weaker protections against scrying. A more simple example would be a paladin going on a holy quest for their god and recieving a special, holy sword at the end of it instead of 500 exp.
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« on: May 15, 2005, 08:03:00 am »
Sorry about the good Drow comment. They can be fun to play but what I meant is that I wanted to play an evil Drow...
To the GMs, yes perhaps you're right on me not looking too deeply into the lore but you've got to understand I've been playing servers for short amounts of time and reading rules and lore for long enough to make me want to join up quickly when I find a server that looks like a rare gem. Maybe no evil characters isn't as bad as it first seemed and I could just make a good character? As I said before though, when you first hear a rule like that you think "What in the nine pits of Asmodeus??!" or something along those lines. Any confinement is an offputting thing by its very nature, whether it works out for better or worse.
Well... I might have been a little hasty before in saying I didn't like the server and was going to leave right away, because as you said I shouldn't make generalisations in such a short time. So I'll make a newer, nicer character.
I'd like it if you could forgive me for insulting your server if ever you found my words insulting, because that was not my intent at all. I was merely trying to make a point about how I felt as a new member of this server. So if you'll still accept me after calling you all hateful and unimaginative, I would like to have another shot at creating a character suitable for Layonara... But only because I like everything else about the server so far ^^;
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« on: May 15, 2005, 07:04:00 am »
Alright, so here's the story so far...
My time on NWN over the last month has been spent looking around NWN servers for something that has these qualities:
1) Good role play.
2) The ability to gain levels at a rate of more than 1 level per month.
3) Freedom to create characters I'll find enjoyable.
4) A good world with -hopefully- a good background (FR worlds get a little boring, I like places like Layonara, where you've created it all yourselves)
So I've been searching for a server and I've been looking all round for a good one. I find Layonara right next to Lanthar's Lair on the gamespy list. I was looking at Lanthar's lair and I decided no. No this persistent world has a really bad background story, so I hopped along to Layonara instead. After reading some of the lore I decide I'll make a character and since I like playing Drow, have RPed Drow many times before, I create a drow as my first character (yes, I know, it's a bit typical of a new character to create a Drow but like I said, Drow are something I'm good at RPing).
So I get on the server and am reading the board then I get a /tell from a DM that I should read the rules on evil characters. So I say ok, log off and read them.
"No character can start out evil, but through a long term duration of RP can be shifted towards LE or NE (NE will be rare) but never CE, CE is reserved for NPC’s only."
Now tell me how, how on almighty God's blessed earth are you meant to create a Drow that starts without being evil? Anyone who knows anything about Drow will know that Drow are evil from the moment they're born. Evil to the point that they'll kill their siblings while still in the womb. Now sure if I wanted to make a follower of At'azza, I'd have a character that was chaotic good. But I hate good Drow. I think good Drow are the most pathetically boring things to RP that ever existed.
The fact is that I like playing evil characters and am good at playing evil characters and I even had an idea for how my Drow was going to be evil without getting murdered for being evil but apparently the server rules here state that you have to descend into evil. So with this my first impression of this server is that you're a group of people that hate imaginative, varied role play. It doesn't give me a good impression of the server -.-
You probably already guessed that I'm likely to carry on with my epic quest to find a server that suits me and I'm sorry if any of you took offence to this post. However, the main point of posting this was to let the DMs know that their rulings -have- scared me away from this server before I've even gotten out of the newbie information area. I'm sure you'll continue to do fine anyway because Layonara seems like a thoroughly good server except for that one little snag. I can see the reason for the rule, because many people try and fail to role play evil properly, but restricting evil to NPCs and long term characters means you have a very unvaried amount of evil characters.
Anyway, take it as a rant or me letting off steam for my lack of ability to find a persistent world that suits me, but I guess I needed to say something.
Call it a poem, but it was time it was said.
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