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Post by legendary on Oct 12, 2014 18:45:26 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thinks Raleris was the most boring long-lived PC ever? Top three. Ruke is arguably the least interesting PC in the game and has been for a while. |
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Post by jkarr on Oct 13, 2014 1:40:23 GMT -5
Top three. Ruke is arguably the least interesting PC in the game and has been for a while. nah i gotta give the least interesting spot to ral, its a little more acceptable to be that boring if you werent sponsored into it. from what ive heard ral his first couple of years was just as stale as ppl are putting him out to be now even if he supposedly did attempt stuff later on to spur plots my expectations for a combat leader rpwise do not parallel those for noble leadership, and the fact that those two are even being compared says a shitload more about the noble char (who by the nature of the role relies 90+% on 'flavor' rp and social dynamics) than the combat char |
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Post by delerak on Oct 13, 2014 5:09:33 GMT -5
I almost killed Ruke. He was near death from 3 of my arrows once. sigh.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 12:49:31 GMT -5
Raleris was very well played and was a pretty interesting person. But as it is often the case, you needed some amount of access to him to really know about it. If your exposure to Raleris was limited to sitting in the same tavern as him, then ... yeah. He was boring.
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Post by lyse on Oct 13, 2014 13:30:51 GMT -5
Raleris was very well played and was a pretty interesting person. But as it is often the case, you needed some amount of access to him to really know about it. If your exposure to Raleris was limited to sitting in the same tavern as him, then ... yeah. He was boring. But that's the case with a lot of players. Some characters tell you their whole life story and you pretty much know their whole character in one or two interactions. Some characters are just really wacky and nonsensical and you can tell the player literally says "what kind of weird shit can I pull off today? " and then there are characters that are just douchebags. It really depends on what you like in your RP or what that particular character is. There were some characters mentioned on that Awesome character list I was like "Nuh uh". |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 14:31:10 GMT -5
When a character (and a public leadership figure at that) is around for five RL years and I never saw them do anything remotely interesting in all that time, I think I'm justified in calling them boring. If you need to be close friends with someone before they reveal themselves to be more than a well-dressed corpse, that's on them. Armageddon has always had a lot of PCs like that, especially amongst nobility because they have so little practical reason to exist, but he stands out as the least interesting long-lived character I have ever known of. I simply never witnessed him do anything except sit around and do nothing at all, and that includes a couple of PCs I played in his clan. Never saw the slightest bit of substance to that character.
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Post by drunkendwarf on Oct 13, 2014 16:15:35 GMT -5
Incorrect that Raleris did nothing in those 5 years. I had extensive interaction with him with a character of mine that lived 4 RL years before I finally stored him. I watched that man do some amazing, often times selfless things, in the name of Tuluk. 5 RL years worth of things? Probably not. But given the massive brick wall that is staff preventing you from trying to do anything worthwhile in that mud, it was still pretty impressive what he got done.
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Post by topkekm8s on Oct 13, 2014 16:44:12 GMT -5
having a pc for five years boggles my mind
after a certain point the pc must become a part of your soul. never really played in tuluk but damn, kudos to the guy for that
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Post by BitterFlashback on Oct 13, 2014 16:59:39 GMT -5
He was dull as hell. But he was a good character/roleplayer.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 20:58:44 GMT -5
He was dull as hell. But he was a good character/roleplayer. This. Making a PC which followed the documentation for Winrothol Nobles is going to result in a pc that is not interesting to watch. That doesn't mean it's a bad character, or a bad player in any way. It just means that the documentation produces characters who are boring to watch and, rather than try to make things 'more interesting', he just kept to what he was supposed to be about. |
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Post by jkarr on Oct 13, 2014 21:25:54 GMT -5
so basically qoriya with an eyepatch
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Post by nobody on Oct 13, 2014 23:31:03 GMT -5
What restrictions are put on nobles? Cause it seems they aren't allowed to leave the city unless they have huge escorts of players. You can't really train, so hunting, fighting (which are big parts of the game really) are out. You are just a pure social character. Tuluk does have a very low pop, which makes it hard to do anything socially then. You aren't allowed to do anything illegal unless you go through a Templar (you can strike out without contracts, but isn't Qoriya still about to just kill you still?). Tuluki nobles seem to get bored and store, there is a problem there. What do people think needs to be done to fix this?
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Post by Jeshin on Oct 13, 2014 23:48:53 GMT -5
Nobles can spar with other nobles. Raleris was actually a maxed ranger or warrior and was probably responsible for training the majority of Jihaen templars during his tenure.
Edit: There are rumors Raleris was capable of 1 shotting people with a bow as well.
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Post by nobody on Oct 14, 2014 0:02:45 GMT -5
Yeah, sparring wouldn't be too bad at least, especially when the Templars are active, since the other nobles just haven't stuck, apart from the certain fat Tenneshi (that I liked btw), but is also long gone. It's also a case of having a V8, but only ever staying in 1st gear with only just being able to spar, or apart from the big gap between world RPT's where you might get spam killed by 20 PC's. Do people think nobles should have more freedoms, without admins putting restrictions on them? I guess I am more of a fan of a Knight type noble, than more of the fat social noble.
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Post by Jeshin on Oct 14, 2014 8:37:32 GMT -5
Raleris was a knight noble, as much as a Chosen was permitted to be one. Jihaens can leave the city pretty much as they wish, though I assume staff kind of want them to have a reason. During my tenure in Tuluk there were volunteer patrols which was roughly 2 - 8 commoners with 1 Jihaen and 1 NPC that went out and cleared the grey near the road and lumber town. They also fought bahamet, kryl to the east, and the ocassional rogue gicker. It was basically the prequel to the levies without all the weird tattoo bullshit. It lasted about 6 months?
As to Raleris specifically, he was often let out of the city for serious Kryl hunts and offensives. That is how he lost his eye, kryl spine took it so he was like I'll be damned if any kryl gets my eye! and ate it himself... because logic? Anyway the 2 most famous Raleris all-out fight scenes were probably defending the main gate from Kivn Kif... that crazy sorcs undead army and the assault on the kryl nest where he lost his eye.
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