Shattered Kingdoms

I would say that cookie-cutter characters are good for the mud, yes, and that having a large population of wacko characters is indeed a bad thing, but honestly, they're both just as boring. I've tried both, and in both cases my RP just went down the drain.

Actually Syn, I see no reason why you couldn't do this, so long as you were RPing to your alignment. A grey-aura character in the Talons, for example, might very well be open to bribes to reduce jail times, etc. As others are saying, though, if you get caught by another PC just be prepared to face the music, no?

Ryochi did a decent job of this, I think - least from what I saw.

pudgy

griffon RP is as healthy as the adepts.

I've run a moderately corrupt official with great success, even making tribunal leader. He just has to be corrupt in ways that make sense for the organization.

People being able to see alignments with magic is a natural part of SK. You're not going to be able to get into an organization that you're clearly not cut out for. That doesn't mean you have to hold your organization's interests paramount.

As for imms getting involved, that usually requires a major breach of your organization's charter. Most tribunals have at least titular NPC leaders to deal with. But RP the interaction well, and you can go quite far.

*snickers*

Arsilan was leader and DESPITE how 'corrupt' he seemed to be, the IMMs did nothing but change the help file for his alignment. He was an absolute Tyrant in the eyes of many with how he led the Peacekeepers.

Aelraen was a leader and despite how many people objected to the way he did things, they still respected him. He ran Ayamao and the Guardians how he saw fit. People objected. IMMs did not touch it.

Rinn, when I started playing, was a Peacekeeper who did something so outrageous, the Peacekeepers revolted against her. A new leader was named.

There was a Guardian who was doing things that required a change in the help VOWS section. This was a leader, ordering NPCs to do things they should not be doing.

You can be corrupt but be ready to accept the consequences, which can range from being overthrown, to tarnished, to deleted.

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I remember when I started, I was talking with witherwood one time and he filled me in on this story of an old character. Never mudsexxed with the character, but the character had a string of mistresses who did not know about each other. Once they found out about the others, oh did he have hell to pay!

You cannot have a female character that uses her feminine wiles on men without being accused of mudsex and the playerbase absolutely trying to destroy the character. That is just stupid. You can play someone who seduces people without ever having to act out the sex or even having sex. Many women have done it. It is possible in RL but not here.

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It is hard to have a character that fits an arch-type people don't want to see/deal with.

Yet these types of people exist more than some of the others we see.

The same background stories, over and over and over again gets old. *yawns*

In a sense, you need a cookie-cutter character but without the playbase bashing them.

Anyone remember the sylvar priest Celunduil? He was an arrogant, stuck up sylvar elf. He refused to acknowledge half-elves, he refused to interact with them, he was a purist and he knew it.

With one character, I hated that man. Wanted nothing more than to punch him in the face.

With Lirimaer, I got to see another side to him. I enjoyed seeing the depth of the character.

I think all people have at some time or another judged on the surface of a character without interacting more in depth. It is interesting to see characters from different angles and points of view.

Omg Celunduil. The bastard was so arrogant, so proud, so rigid, so elven, but so smart and funny at the same time with his bitter tongue (when you weren't the target of his comments of course). I think the best elven rp I have seen. Is his player still playing?

Yeah because RPing a surrender when you're being slaughtered on a daily basis is completely outrageous and unheard of. But...anyways!

When you play to your alignment half the time you're being told oocly that "you're doing it wrong". When you play as you think your character would react you get ooc "you're doing it wrong". RP the way you wish as a character and who gives a shite about what others think.

As long as you aren't literally ruining the game for other people by going out of your way to spam pk someone for "not playing right" I think it's your decision to make. If xxx tells you that you're doing it wrong, kindly tell them to roll their own whateverthefuckyouhappentobe and play it their way and to leave you alone.

I have not ever played a light-aura character without getting bitched at for breaking alignment by other players.

Naturally, I killed them for their impudence!