Benleft

I think you’re leaning on the same crutch that many CRP-oriented forum warriors tend to. “Let’s think about the narrative,” is an excuse, plain and simple. Conflict is often, and will remain to be regardless of rule-set, premeditated. Most CRP is a result of one group either finding another, or something of that ilk. But that’s the nature of the server, and that’s fine. The only issue that exists here is a mindset one. W-chasing exists in every niche and community. Redirect your passion towards wiping that tendency out first in yourself, then in those close to you. Cringe Hot Take (Pre-Ownage): But players ought to stop pretending they are creating a “collaborative story”. When you are roleplaying, you can only control your own character. To that extent the only narrative you can truly own is your own. Wondering, “Is this engaging for the other person,” is an admirable thought, but it is not roleplaying. You are an actor, not a director. Act how your character would act, plain and simple. For most (myself included), this is a difficult task, and is where you should start. When you are not roleplaying and break character, use it as a moment of learning and introspection. Why did you break character? How did you break character? How can you learn to better appreciate the conditions in which you broke character? Meta-concerns (“Is PVP suitable here?”) are only worth tackling once you’re able to see where you, and others stumble in conflict. Rulesets do not matter when you taste the beauty of selflessly selfish roleplay. This is the re-education you asked for. Take my words with a grain of salt, most of them are not literal. Not Cringe Opinion (Post-Ownage): It is easy to say "Are-pee is not collaborative. Do better yourself. That is all that matters." But that's cringe. It is all about having fun and always should be. Be considerate and be kind. Do the best you can but not at the expense of others. It doesn't need to be more complicated than that. If we are all kind and do the best we can, mechanical rules can become secondary and enjoyment can come first (with a grain of salt). Rule changes will always happen, but start with yourself.

Because it’s intended use is screwing people over for blanket testing. That knowledge should not be widely accessible. It’s evil and hides in the dark. Kind of like a vampire.

Skull knightlings jaking interlinked. Proddinosaurus interlinked. What has been your most enjoyable moment in roleplay? What was your favorite community tjat you’ve been a part of on LOTC?

No rewrite of blood magic will come quickly. I'd say I'll have one ready in six months if I don't run into crippling roadblocks, but keeping true to the vision Zarsies and Mordu had in mind with my philosophy towards lore is difficult. This bandaid is trying to fix a problem that does not exist. Resticting who can use them does not change the bad qualities of the enchantment. That being said, Ensorcell Material is a poor spell because it gives power increases that cannot be predicted or "played around" which is poor interaction and borders on bad-faith. Below I've attached my lore manifesto and a discussion of why the current state of BM is not particularly helpful for the server. Cheesers disregard.

The story team logo looks beyond goofy. It looks like a hypixel graphic for Skyblock. Road to 500 amiright?

This is a roleplaying server so I hope that it’s not weird to roleplay. That being said I don’t want cooties.

The REAL solution is helping NLs hold themselves to higher standards of roleplay so they can be example for their own communities. Gracefully taking an L with style and epic prose is much cooler than staff-enforced L-taking.

Do not try to turn this server into some paradox-style state management sim. Nations don’t make LOTC tick, players do. Maximize player agency, not that of the OOCly enforced state. Surveys should be run more, but they should be run with great care and from an official station with an official purpose.

I know it's inconvenient, but it isn't that hard to coordinate with ST to oversee these rituals for you. I think instead of this sort of change we could just explain that people should reach out to the jannies for this sort of thing to get the appropriate OSHA approved Green Tag to run your event for you instead of being in ticket hell until Valannor catches you at a good time. The reality of player-administered failures is that rolling anything other than success is an inconvenience tax. You're never going to PK or seriously injure your character when you fail a ritual you run without supervision. There are no consequences beyond wasted invisible mana points (genus), and that is okay for Krillin-level items. Gilding and Engorge are at like a 3000 Dragon Ball Power level, which is a bit below Piccolo (3500). Obviously these items aren't making someone Goku, but they are too impactful to be as uncontrolled as ensorcellments are.

Otoko feels misunderstood and left out. From the far-flung wastes of Siberia, Adria, he practices his Wolf-no-Jutsu to cope with the loss of his one true home.

On a table piled high with unopened envelopes, parcels, and other far less interesting things, an old man wrote a pair of letters by candlelight. The Baron von Distrugere Roland LeGrande

"NOOOOO!!!" Coped an old, bitter man.

"I love spreading misinformation on the inter-city message boards." An old man remarked in passing along the Kingsroad, great joy taken at the moderate amount of tomfoolery undertaken that day.

Making mina anything more than a backdrop will simply take away from the fun of the server in my opinion. Adding more ways to get it and optional avenues to spend it are fun, but "inflation" and "the economy" will never matter. Don't make people worry about their block game wallets please!

"Yooooo!" A Rock-'N-Ronin soul cried out under the full moon's light.

Can I use a demidjinn mart to finally make me happy?

“Surely Borok will stand on in the eternal servitude he promised me and will never betray my kind!” Remarked a Darkspawn of mere middling importance. From the overdone hallowed halls he LARPed in, the thing gave an exaggerated villainous laugh. Unaware as to the going-ons of the spiritual or even the ordinary, The Beast wasted away it’s days and nights playing soldier with the Hexmen of Dun an Ein.

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Being cursed with corcitura is a curse that wracks a character down to the foundation of their soul. It is a sickness that is not designed to be kind. Your character's life should be worse off for becoming one. This kind of weighty consequence only serves to bring the quality of roleplay UP for this piece of lore, though. If a character cannot obtain or practice a piece of lore, that is cool, and you should challenge yourself to play that in a unique and inspired way. Fear, as listed in the redlines, is a wonderful way of doing this. How can you explore this? I believe it is flawed to look at this kind of redline purely in terms of it restricting a character's opportunity. This creates a chance for you to explore how your character's conditions define them and inform their decisions. Roleplay can be fostered because of this redline, and to that extent I see it as a positive contributor to the server. We've already proven that being blanket barred from certain pieces as a result of being a cured Corcitura is not harmful to the greater health of the server. To that extent, live and let be.

There is character development from being forced to sit out for a month. As Tentoa points out, if Siliti use their resources well, they ought to be able to circumvent being put in a boosteel enforced timeout, or at least have the capabilities to prevent it in the first place. The downsides of Siliti regeneration are grueling, but they're still granted unconditional regeneration. Even being put in a coffin is only safe so long as the coffin goes undiscovered. Siliti is a long and troublesome game of months, not days. Taking that away from death just saps the flavor from the whole thing.

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Seer is already accepted. Unless it is undergoing a rewrite or pending shelving (which there is no indication that it is), it will go unchanged. In the words of T5 Methomancer Jesse Pinkman, “Tracking lore is hard to balance and implement, yo. An ability as simple as ‘I can track your cardinal direction by scent, *****!’ Turns into ‘Send me your coords bro, my character has hunting magic. I promise I will not just sprint jump directly to you.’ So like, sensing things allows for the same kind of suspension-of-disbelief breaking events to happen. Relying on a level of OOC communication isn’t really fun and takes the heart and soul out of fun RP, yo. Seer strikes a nice balance that you can RP out with minimal OOC back and forth. The reason seer is broken up into the FA/MA 1 slot/MA 2slot… difference is to ensure that people who aren’t ready for the challenges that MA Seer presents (such as not being a metagaming ****, yo) don’t end up given a really difficult magic and abusing it to hell and back. Plus, I’m a minmaxer and seer kinda blows for CRP, and I can never figure out what Greencorp is saying in their prophecies since half of them are in Glup-Shitto aka blackspeech, so like who really cares, yo.” Thanks for your insight Jesse. I hope a bit of light hearted humor makes that a bit more digestible.

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Do you fear the fish knight?