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    In your own words, what is powergaming, and why should it be avoided in roleplay?: Always emoting actions to be within the capabilities of your character if involving just yourself. For example, knowing the realistic length and height an average human could jump, to avoid acting as if they can jump huge chasms like it's normal. Likewise, if the action involves another player, such as moving to touch their face, then emoting it as an 'attempt' gives them plenty of time to react to accept or move away like they would naturally be able to do as if it were real life.
    In your own words, what is metagaming, and why should it be avoided in roleplay?: It makes roleplay unenjoyable when a character knows information they shouldn't and wouldn't, just because the player themselves knows such things. For example, a peasant with no education wouldn't be able to weigh in on the debates of philosophers, so the player who might be able to has to understand that and not go out of character for who they are playing. Likewise, another example is if an event has been planned OOC by people and only heir characters would know, then someone inserting their character or acting as if they would know without actualy hearing anything IC would disrupt the roleplay because it's unrealistic and only uses knowledge gained OOC.
    Status: Accepted

Character Name: Trent Jenson
Character Race: Human
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 22
Physical Description: Tall (6ft), athletic figure with a handsome, boyish face. Dull blue eyes and dirty blonde hair that is wavy and free. Blue sailors coat & white top.
Roleplay Scenario:

Your character has just arrived in a swampy, dim town. As they look around, their gaze is met with shacks and cabins. It smells of rotted wood and wet moss. They duck and step into a tattered tent, illuminated by a series of candles suspended in the air. At the back of the tent, an old hag raises her head, “What brings you to this dingy town? She begins, then pauses to study your face—”Ah, it’s you. I’ve been expecting you. Sit,” she gestures at a cushion, “Tell me your story.”

((How do you respond?))

 

Trent inspected the room as he stepped into it, not letting his facial features betray anything of what he thought as he did so, locking eyes with the hag as she caught sight of him and appeared to recognise him to some degree, which was odd considering he was certain he hadn't visited such a place before. Perking a brow with question and giving a slight smile, he found the command to simply talk to her an interesting one, and one that he wasn't going to turn down, considering he loved to make sure people knew who he was. Moving to the chair, he pulled it out and casually lowered into it, sitting in a very relaxed position with his legs wide and an arm over the back of it, continuing to gaze at the woman as he spoke "Expecting me? How interesting! I'll amuse your request, because I love to educate those on my reputation. Needless to say, you probably know my name then- Trent Jenson- but you clearly need more than that so allow me to excite you with my story!" By now, he was grinning widely, and began relaying his 'story' from his childhood and his upbringing, to his relationships, and then more importantly his feats as a sailor and privateer/pirate, explaining how he only tended to target the wealthy and those that 'deserved' it. Each event was told with several large words and exaggerations as he really emphasised making it a 'story' and not a simple telling of history. The telling of the story started with his childhood, explaining how his mother disappeared at an early age and how he was raised by his father and nanny from then on. The story then went on to detail how growing up was mainly spent being trained by his father in the ways of basic combat, and 'knightly' behaviours with the intention on making him follow in his footsteps, despite being retired and with little money to his name. However, as Trent was very happy to explain, he didn't wait for that part to happen and swiftly made off with what little funds he had to afford a ship with a crew of friends made during his time sneaking out at night to mingle with more 'common' folk by the docks. This, of course, is where he picked up how to sail and later put these skills to use in his privateering, borderline pirating life, allowing him to create a rather notorious name for himself about his ship the 'Devil's Rose'. Once on this part of his life, he re-told several adventures, including various times he had to fend off and deal with sea monsters of varying descriptions.

Eventually, the blond man began to wrap up his tale of his life, having almost stood up several times during the time to highlight the magnitude of his tales. Now sitting forward with hands on his knees, he flashed the same confident, charming smile that he had possessed from the start and even gave the hag a wink "So... Was that what you were expecting? I usually charge an awful lot for such a vivid retelling of my time in this realm." 

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Changed Status to Under Review

 

Hi there! As you can see, your app is almost ready! Just a few changes you need to make, but don’t worry - you are doing great!

 

-Your Roleplay Scenario & Backstory states that you are (royalty/nobility/notable/well-known/ too wealthy), please remember you’ve been a background character up until this point. Once accepted, You’ll be the main character in your own story. 

- please mention a little more of your backstory, even if your character doesn't speak on it

 

You’ll be given 48 hours to correct the changes above. Once you are done correcting, please contact me!

My discord is smol_bean ! If you don’t have discord, please message me on the forums!

If you need to contact me, or need help,  you can join the LotC Discord here :Discord

If you still need help, make sure to check the wiki! WIKI

Lastly  is a link to the new player hub! : New Player Hub

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Hi there, as you can see, you have been accepted onto the server! Well done on your application, you’re 

doing great! Welcome to the wonderful community of LotC!

To get started, The server IP is mc.lotc.co The server is 1.21.5

To get started, I suggest going to tutorial island or do; /creq Can a Wilven come assist me?

 

Here are some links to help you start out! x3

https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Settlement_Guides

https://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/index.php?title=Nations_and_Major_Charters

 

 If you need help, Feel free to contact me via the forums or my discord smol_bean . I’m often online, so you can message me with /msg Smol_bean0  to find me in game. If I’m not around You can always do /creq with your questions or you can also use the LotC Discord which is right here! : Discord

Lastly, here is the new player hub, I recommend you look over it!

New player hub

Have fun role playing! :D

 

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