On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 John.Curry@... wrote:

> not have friends who offer. But I always turn it down. If you twink a
> character, you are giving them something, but you are also taking something
> even more valuable away from them. The wonderfull experience of leveling on
> their own. And knowing that thay can look at their inventory and remember
> all of the wonderfull adventures spent on getting the wonderfull items.

But getting items is not as glorious and fun as you make it out to
be, at least, not very often. The message boards are filled with rants of
"I went to so and so dungeon, and right before I killed this monster, some
level 40 invisible magician ran by us and stole my kill". Do you really
want your second character, or your friends, to go through the same system
of camping hours on end and dealing with kill stealers that you did?
It's something ingrained in human nature to try and make the lives
of our family and friends easier, to save them the hardships that we had
to go through. To me, the "fun" in everquest is the interaction between
you and your friends, going in a group to kill monsters to learn new
skills and new spells. Going through a dungeon to get items is nice and
all, but when the items in question are ones in which you have to deal
with people who's sole purpose seem to deprive other people of their fun,
by farming the items for ebay, or kill stealing them items for themselves,
I for one wouldn't want to go through that experience any more than I have
to, nor would I want to put anyone else through it.

Miriana Windryder