Shattered Kingdoms

Hah, yeah, I remember three would do [REDACTED] like that, like when somebody was 'pregnant' in the mud, he'd log on and kick them in the stomach a few times.

They never RPed out the situation though. Pretty poor if you ask me.

If you'll remember correctly I said OOCly that I'd never liked your character after you'd made some foolish excuses as to why you were sending people visions via tells and CB. You made some remark that I shouldn't judge and hadn't seen you RP enough or some such nonsense.

*insert tasteless comment about catfights*

Not the appropriate venue for this type of thing.

I was trying to point that out more subtly.

I could argue more, but Baldwama and Mot are right. this is getting nowhere fast.

Heh. How can you tell someone's hair color, if they're wearing a helmet? How can you tell if someone's slim, or chubby, or trim, if they're decked out in full plate mail? Or even in some cases, their GENDER for that matter?

If you wanna be nazis, the only real adjs there should be are maybe "tall" and "short." But obviously, that would be kinda [REDACTED].

Another wonderful SK-ism: If a lanky male half-elf yells out "HELP!" while I'm walking through Teron, how do I know he's lanky? Or that he's even a half-elf, and not a human, or an elf, or even a centaur? Under that logic we should probably make yells always be "A woman yells" or "A man yells", unless you've greeted the person and are thus familiar with their voice.

But that would be kind of annoying too.


Anyway as people have said... adjs like "mysterious" that are simply an opinion, or adjs like "smiling" that state a constant state of being, etc., are the ones you should avoid the most.

Disguise offers more leeway with permanent states, IMO, since the thing wears off and it's just you faking it.

I guess my opinion on adjectives is a little different.



The first and cardinal rule of good adjective-picking is that the adjective should be physical. References to mental attributes don't serve very well in an introductory context. Omniscient, amiable, jolly, onerous are all nice because they're farily unique, but they still refer to mental attributes, or attributes that only reveals itself through interaction. Calm, gentle, observant, halcyon (although I love that word ) don't really work either, because they are related to a particular action.

That said, I don't have a problem with adjectives such as stunning or plain. Plain is just... average. Of height, weight, looks. Average. Stunning, handsome, beautiful, sensual... Well yes, perhaps they do assume opinion of physical appearance, but its not something that destroys the interaction, or goes as far as becoming really invasive in its 'assumptions' on my behalf as opposite player. If these words aren't allowed, we get in trouble. After all, a burly man may not seem burly at all to a giant. A chubby gnome may seem tiny to a centaur, a lanky or slim human overweight to an elf.

As for eyes, I honestly don't really care. Yes, I can't see their eyes when they sleep, but then I also can't see their body types usually, hidden beneath numerous robes and jewlery. One of the things often taught to new builders is that descriptions of eyes have to be followed with a "when open". I hate it, it often ruins the flow, and the same can be said with every position of a character. "When facing you, when standing up, when sleeping, when eating, when existing!"

Id say the help adjective file says it pretty good already. Keep it physical, and you should be ok.

Yea, I agree. The most appropriate ones are based off of a physical attribute including eye-color. I don't know about those that are naysayers towards it but, like someone else pointed out, the armor in the game could technically cover every single physical feature aside from short/tall. If the head covering doesn't completely cover the eyes nor it is dark the average person can determine eye color from about 25ft or less

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You can have smiling if you're roleplaying the joker....