Nyr's Greatest Hits

That's why I specifically said a "corporate psychopath" and not a Batemanesque murderous lunatic. I'm sure you're aware that psychopaths (or whatever it's politically correct to call them these days; it has been some years since my academic days) are disproportionately over-represented in corporate leadership, which shares many functional similarities with MUDs, without necessarily being violent.

Unfortunately, the layman interpretation of the word 'psychopath' is a raving madman who runs around slaughtering people and couldn't possibly be in charge of something and maintain a facade of professional normalcy, which is why it's always brushed off as silly when someone suggests it, thus enabling the abuse. Psychopathy/sociopathy is just a personality disorder that leads to certain behaviours, some of which can exceptionally result in violence if not channeled into some other way of manipulating and exploiting people.

Successful player = murder, corruption, betrayal.

I wasn't particularly serious enough though.

Gary Gygax invented Drow. They've been around in some form ("Dark elves") since first edition back in the 70's. Salvatore no doubt popularized them, and probably even flushed them out quite a bit, but didn't invent them.

The only thing I find really frustrating with Nyr, is when you do something / plan something / work for something. Send in reports. Put in the RP and TIME... Get feedback from staff and its largely positive (They'll be watching you or maybe even a "That sounds awesome! Let us know more!")... More PCs get involved in your something. THEN... Nyr comes in and nixes it all. Completely mitigating the other staff and a few months of RP, not to mention motivation to even play.

That's what bugs me to no end.

I just wonder what those other staff think when that happens. Do they dialogue about it? Do they point out that: "Uh... Nyr, before we shut this PC's plot / RP down, should we reconsider the fact that I and So-and-So gave the player karma for their RP w. this PC... And supported it for a while.", or do they just stfu and do what he says?

purge incoming

On my part at least. I could have stayed another month before leaving. I opted to leave early when the script I wrote to allow pcs custom coded piercings (for gypsies as well as in cities like the custom tattooists, and working like tattoos) was declined but a script for automating spider nests was approved. I managed to get rathustra to agree to be on my side and try to make it happen, then he talked to nyr and said no. So once I finished writing up the 8 noncustom piercings for the gyspy tattooist (funny, that the reason stated was that the script would get no use and favor the gypsies when cities would also get it - you see the piercings city pcs get - none), then put in my notice to leave.