On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Rokenn Swiftsong wrote:
> From: "Rokenn Swiftsong" <rokenn@...>
> > >
> > > As always, over guildsay and all, Every lvl 50 or so where
> > > there to try to take a piece of her. Not only they did no
> > > amage, But she was calling over the "Power of Innoruuk" to
> > > insta-kill them... Not nice to see lvl 50 drop in one cast.
> >
> >What's not nice is the uppity high level players trying to
> >ruin something that Verant is trying to do for the rest of
> >the players. Everyone complains about no quests and no
> >'ongoing' story lines - yet when Verant tries to add them
> >in there's someone that tries to ruin it - so they take
> >care of the problem the only way they can.
>
> True, but creating unkillable NPC also stifles RP'ing as well. If a High
> Elf Paladin or for that matter a Wood Elf Bard were to come across a being
> claiming to be the Daughter of the foul god that killed the Elven King and
> Queen and created the foul race of the Teir'dal they would be betraying
> there own heritage by not attempting to slay her. If players are able to
> slay gods on their own turf they should be able to slay a god's
> avatar/messenger/etc on the mortal plain.
If you recall Brian Hook's first long public post after
joining EQ, he ranted a bit about how he put together a GM
quest for level 17-25 folks in Butcherblock, and a bunch of
level 50s came and killed him. You're correct in that for RP
purposes, the daughter of a god probably should've been at
least level 50. But because she was green to them, I'd assume
the quest was tailored for people of lower level. If they've
made it so GM-run NPCs can insta-kill anyone who cons them as
green, I'd have to say that's a brilliant solution to this
type of problem.
Personally I think how you behave in situations like this
really says a lot about you as a person. If you see a GM run
quest where the GM-run NPC is green to you, do you (A) Kill
him to see what kewl lewt he has, or (B) let the people for
whom the quest was designed play it out? For that matter, if
you're camping a mob that's way green to you for the item, and
an approriate level group comes wanting to camp it, do you
willingly yield?
Btw, what does this have to do with bards?
--
John H. Kim
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