I know our guild is always happy to have new additions on E'ci. Given the
number of bards on E'ci though, you'll have lots of competition! Not all
our guild members are RP'ers by nature, but almost all will fall into line
when the real RP'ers start spouting off in character. We've converted a few
totally anti-RP computer gamers into joining our pen&paper rpg groups and
they love it!
Kitasi is generally fairly irritated by beggars as well. I don't mind the
occasional, can anyone spare some extra food and water? or can anyone spare
some bone chips? that I hear, but the incessant Have you got any cool stuff
I can have?'s get to me. I told the last guy who said that, "No, sorry
friend. I just gave my last cool item to that poor little mute girl over
there, she works so hard and no one ever pays her any attention." I then
pointed to the newbie halfling I had drive-by twinked with a FS scimitar.
She must have thanked me at least a dozen times since she still had her
starting short sword. Needless to say the guy was not amused. In fact he
didn't even get it, roleplaying was totally beyond him.
Kitasi Faegehearper
"I'm not really the Devil's Advocate, but I play one on E'ci"
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Costlow [mailto:
atlatyl@...]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 8:24 AM
To:
eqbards@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [eqbards] new guild and new server?
You have a point about anti-RP stuff in the game. It
is a different environment altogether from what we
consider traditional RP environment. That said, I
find that my characters develop a personality of their
own after a time. Terrok, my druid is kind of dour
and a bit of a hardass. As an officer in the guild,
he enforces some of the rules others fear to mention.
He is not well liked.
My shaman, Fenryr always "throws a small sack of bones
on the ground and studies them carefully" when asked
for a SOW. The spirits may require a gift for his
magic to work -- it might be a bone chip, it might be
a bottle of kalish and it might be free...but the
price is the price and the spirits can't be denied;-)
Tyunes on the other hand is just a happy guy. He
sings to passers by and usually has something good to
say.
All my characters have a thing about beggars. I think
begging takes away from the game. Terrok and Fenryr
never give anything away, Tyunes likes to surprise
young bards with hand-me-down items. Ask and you
won't get. Offer to buy or just be polite and Tyunes
will normally help out.
--- Elijah Meeker <
emeeker@...> wrote:
> I have pondered what I see as an anti-RP pressure in
> EQ a lot. I think it is
> because the game itself requires so much logistics
> discussion. Logistics can
> be diffcult enough when you are exchanging raw data
> much less gussying it
> up, and so people tend to be dirrect, which tends
> to sound pretty OOC.
> Guildsay also breaks the RP framework, because there
> is no premise at all of
> sharing a physical (okay virtual Phisical) location.
> How do you RP for more
> than a short span when one person is in the Field of
> bone as an Iksar and
> another in LGuk as a High Elf? Then add that the
> High Elf wants the Iksar
> player to quit playing a secondary and come help...
> Not that it isn't
> possible to counter the effect, just that it is hard
> work.
>
>
> Tszaaz
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
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