Tuluk, Nub City?

Its poor rp as in how they ignore the world around them and simply skill up. As for the constant emote-less looking, its just annoying.

Tuluk is definitely easier to hunt stuff and live off of it than 'nak when you're a new hunter.

For me, this is an example of where it should be publicly known how skill increases work. People wouldn't go on furry killing frenzies if they knew. From their perspective, they're just trying to become a decent hunter ASAP so they can start roleplaying the role they want already.

It isn't fair to call it 'nub' city.

It is definitely home to a lot of wooden characters and skill first, character later types, but almost all of them don't seem all that new. A lot of the conversations there read like chat room with next to no character injected to anything.

There are some REALLY good characters there, but most just feel like filler and it gets hard to keep an interest in them even when IC my characters might adore them.

All my northern characters got geared to the gills FAST, but ended up in Allanak for some actual characters to socialize with.

Allanak feels design wise like it got left behind while Tuluk feels like the creative jewel of game, but polar opposites when it comes to interaction between characters.

Also too much pretentious horse shit in Tuluk, like you crib notes just to play properly, which is irritating. Good for shut ins, bad for people who just want to log in and play for a couple hours.

And make bards special app because holy christ on a cracker what a bunch of crap most of them are.

edit: haha, wooden characters, I sound like one of those terrible bards

I avoided Tuluk like the plague because holy shit text-based bards that recite songs and describe music to you is just awful

I've wanted to make a bard for a long time, but I haven't because I'm afraid I wouldn't be good at it. I might one of these days. I'd probably spend a good deal of time working out ballads/poems/whatever and the way I want my character portrayed beforehand if I decided to try one though (more so than usual, since in my mind playing a bard would often require playing a role within a role).

So, what is it that you don't like about bards you've seen? What have you liked? And why?

Could you clarify what you said for me, jcarter? Do you think it's impossible for there to be a good bard in a text environment, or are there just specific behaviors that you don't like? For example, would it be more acceptable in your eyes for a bard to recite poetry instead of singing?

Do:

Don't:

• "Describe music to you" -jcarter
  

Thanks for clarifying.

I agree that it's definitely not an ideal medium...I think that the story telling/poetry aspects of being a bard sound feasible, though. But I'm meh about anything involving an instrument.

Edit: I like your skill idea.