Song Druid

I didn't see that post. Still, can't blame anybody for rustled jimmies

Seriously though, please don't put Elder Trees on that. Come talk to me if you are trying to alter them in some way. Being LM doesn't mean you can exclusively change about my own content :/

Take my **** off your revisionable lore >:(

This is misleading. There are many things that detract from RP and no one thing is the cause. Your point about how people RP races is valid. I have a bad taste in my mouth from human roleplay and yet the other day I had meaningful RP with a human that helped me change my perspective. We can make changes a little at a time. I believe these additions are detrimental. Why? Because we have players continuing to branch off into more and more "unique" characters and races and it creates the problem of things being spread too thin. Furthermore I'm a stickler for lore and I'm a stickler for lore that makes sense (for the most part). So this is a personal issue for me as the Druid Loremaster as further additions that meddle with the lore creates more to keep track of and deal with in RP. If we add something in to the lore we have to come up with sensible excuses as to why it didn't exist before and there aren't really many ways to do this. Which brings me to the "fun" aspect. The phrase "make fun, not lore" has always irked me because it misses the point entirely. I don't think we should just pell-mell do whatever we want without thinking about story or lore. This is not a throwaway non-strict canon RP server. It's the opposite and should be treated and respected as such. It is possible to have fun while adhering to existing lore and not breaking it. Adding on to lore that is already fleshed out is complicated and often times is unneccessary, even if it's a good idea (see the previous paragraph). I understand and deeply sympathize with providing good RP to others, at the above post, but I do not think it should be at the expense of lore, and it can be done within our gudielines and regulations quite easily. If lore is not fleshed out I think it's fine to add on to it. When something is fleshed out I do not think something should be added on top of it. Druid lore is extremely fleshed out, as well as nature lore. That makes this lore an uneccessary indulgence and while I appreciate the effort put into it and am not saying it's badly written at all I think there is already a lot under nature lore and I want to focus on working with what we have and not adding more.

I'm sorry, but I can't get behind this. I'm pleased you put this much work into something like this but I don't think it fits in the overall mythos of LotC. As I always say we try and overcomplicate things by adding all this new lore rather than increasing or embelishing what we already have. As someone who is an "authority" on this territory of lore (aka I stamp my feet and shake my fist till I'm sated) I don't think it goes well with what we've already established. Keep writing though! :)