Why I no longer play Armageddon

RRR was the last guy I needed to conceal my identity on behalf of. So expect to see grammar, a keyboard that doesn't have dodgy "i", "e", and "shift" keys, and a conspicuous absence of sentences beginning with a conjunction. I mean, unless I randomly decide to go retro.

I have it on good authority he's at least reading them.

Possibly. I'm debating it. the funny thing is, as I've read more and more of Nyr's posts, it occurred to me that hiding my typing style might be pointless because his sentence structure is so similar to mine.

Yeah, RogueRougeRanger was Drageon, the rotund, tons of fun man. (I'm bad at recalling sdescs.) RR's characters were always my favorite to henchman for, dating way back.

I'm also bad with names. This is known.

It's when excellent players and leaders like Red Ranger quit, and share their reasons and grievances in a very cogent fashion, that it makes me hope that it might shake things up staff side. Maybe not at the top, but in the pillars. You would have to be completely out of touch to find anything positive in pushing good people away over petty, meaningless things. 

They have to realize that the more they take away the player's capacity to have any meaningful agency in the game world, the more they stifle interest in their own game. Because we're there ultimately, to tell our own stories too.

I interacted with Dragean on my last serious character. I'd made an independent bard in Tuluk, as in not part of the Circle. Was doing card tricks and other random shit in bars using the pickpocket skillset, and at one point I sang one song in the Sanctuary (an anti-Allanak one) after which people hilariously got offended because the song was slightly raunchy. They acted like I'd walked into a Victorian stately home and sung Fuck You Gently or something. The song merely mentioned a southern noble liking elves.

Pretty much immediately after that, I start getting Wayed by some Circle NPC telling me to join them or else. After singing one song, not even for money. I was like, wtf? My character concept is specifically a non-circle bard. I wasn't even calling myself a bard, but of course anyone who expresses themselves in any musical way in Tuluk is immediately a bard. I'd made sure to check the documentation and it said "many bards end up joining the Poets' Circle," which to me does not mean "every single person instantaneously joins the Circle after singing their first song in public." So I ignored the NPC for a while.

Somewhere around this time, I became a partizan of Dragean who liked my character for being outside the mould, I guess. I'd sung another song or two, not really very controversial but more kinda comedic and cheeky. I was also doing card tricks and telling jokes. The ridiculous NPC bard keeps contacting me on a daily basis over the course of a week, basically escalating his threats until it's "join or die." It was so retardedly out of proportion and blatantly just a case of picking on the one person who isn't conforming. Note that no PC bards had made any kind of fuzz or brought up needing to join.

So that last time, when it turned into direct death threats, I wished up to point out that the documentation specifically states that joining the Circle isn't required. I get some typical snarky Nyr answer that I can't remember now, and I point out the problem with animating NPCs to threaten PCs into doing something that isn't even backed up by the documentation. He then started going on about my skill twinking because I'd been using the pickpocket skills for card tricks, and he hamfistedly steered the conversation towards his goal of storing my character.

That was the last time I took the game seriously. I believe I ranted a bit about staff in PMs to RR, and have never logged into the GDB since. The few characters I've made since then have been brief throwaways, the game being tangibly deader each time.

Yep, I'm happy to take PMs.