Roleplaying a Fall

Sakhul · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:11 pm

Big post make hed hurt.

Baldric · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:36 pm

Did a lightie get punished recently for playing outside alignment, or something?

Is there a reason we're having this discussion?

Minette · **Joined:** Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:50 pm **Posts:** 1798

wish grep or someone did tldr sections every time ><

larry/ralance used to do 3 lined summaries, i think it was him

Sakhul · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:21 am

What's tldr?

ObjectivistActivist · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:43 am

Sakhul wrote:

What's tldr?

Laziness and whinning.

Rennus_Dragonsbane · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:50 am

tldr is "too long; didn't read" ie: give us a 10 word or less summary of your PhD thesis on the mechanics of SK and its integration with the playerbase.

Kam · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:14 pm **Posts:** 82

Baldric wrote:

Did a lightie get punished recently for playing outside alignment, or something?

Is there a reason we're having this discussion?

I just wanted to know if it was possible to change alignments. No major punishment or anything.

patrisaurus · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:56 pm

grep wrote:

Allow me to fumble around with wording on this...

When an evil character commits a good act, (s)he is being "clever" and "thinking outside the box." It is almost fashionable, if not popular. But when good characters commit an evil act, they are blemished, and their reputations are sold up the river. It is bad RP.

This interpretation of good and evil obliges good to be a little more stupid and evil to be a little more fun, you know. Whatever happened to the hardcore, Zoroastrian evils I was reminded of when I read all that stuff about Dulrik and Bane before rolling my character?

Or, more acutely: what would it take for a dark aura character to be punished for RP that isn't aligned with her aura?

Lurk lurk. I don't know why I read these boards, I only played this game for like 6 months. When I was playing Arandur my elf paladin this was the most frustrating [REDACTED] thing ever. It's nice to see someone, especially Grep, word this so well. I'd always wondered if he (she? it? confused?) actually got this or not and here he goes wording it better than I could've.

Aneira · **Joined:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:28 am **Posts:** 1538

I dunno, as someone who is seen as playing 'diet coke darkies' I've gotten a lot of slack from other players/characters when I was thought to have been "acting out of alignment". Maybe it's different nowadays.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

Aneira wrote:

I dunno, as someone who is seen as playing 'diet coke darkies' I've gotten a lot of slack from other players/characters when I was thought to have been "acting out of alignment". Maybe it's different nowadays.

That's exactly what I'm getting at. Diet Darkie is EXCITING AND DYNAMIC, but Lightie Lite is punished. Dark is the new Grey, and Light is the new joke.

I will put on my angry apron for a moment here. I try not to do this often.

You people are retartedly trying to discuss and enforce D&D Good when your game plagiarized its alignments from Palladium instead.

Dulrik should add a series of questions to the Halls of Creation such as:

Quote:

You have found an abandoned wallet. Do you (one) keep it or (two) attempt to return it to its original owner?

And then your character's alignment should be assigned.

This kibitzing enforcement approach creates too much work for the staff who should be creating and enhancing roleplay in the game instead of policing it from their inboxes.

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