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From alien woods in an alien plain a lone elf would mutter a lone word. "Finally."
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What do you find personally fun about lotc nowadays?
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Characters Played by Urahra [Volume 1: 2011-2015]
CosmicWhaleShark replied to Urahra's topic in Characters
Oof, poor Bran, went to all that effort too. -
Characters Played by Urahra [Volume 1: 2011-2015]
CosmicWhaleShark replied to Urahra's topic in Characters
The Volsungs seem to have a habit of dropping Areon, in more ways than one. Way to stick to family traditions. -
Characters Played by Urahra [Volume 1: 2011-2015]
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To respond to the thread seriously since it seems like a surprising amount of people do want this. If firearms get added to the game then I believe there should be an overhaul to how ranged weapons work in general, regarding hits to begin with and where they hit. Not to mention classification of weapon, and pros and cons to each type. Crossbows sort of are aids because everyone treats it like a siege crossbow that gets cranked with a windlass device, as an example. People have been really dumb about them, sorry crossbow bois. Muskets are actually kind of advanced as far as the technology goes for firearms, the trigger mechanism is what makes it unique. Cannons functioned the same as an arquebus, and the matchlock was the father of the musket. People, fundamentally, don’t perform maintenance to their weapons. I don’t think people even go to a blacksmith to repair their swords anymore when the durability falls into orange. Bows remain strung, crossbows never malfunction or wear out, and regarding firearms... Well, odds are it will always be loaded and at the ready at the beginning of every encounter. If there was a flaw in the application of gunpowder during the loading process, a flaw in the metallurgy for the barrel, the ball wasn’t packed in against the gunpowder, etc. It would explode in your hands. Best case scenario the barrel would get blown out. So bearing that in mind it might be nice if, rather than saying yes or no to firearms existing in lotc, the story team considers the functionality of ranged weapons as a whole. This can be done with rolling, with respective downsides to each one. Mainly involving functionality such as loading time, accuracy, and weapons malfunction downsides. You’re basically five google searches away from making something feasible so I’d leave that up to you. But I would encourage matchlocks being the highest form of technology present if firearms do exist because it’s honestly more interesting, considering wet equals death, and it’s probably the most effective form of balancing since I doubt anyone would consider a lead ball to be anything short of lethal.
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If this gets passed it’ll be entertaining to see all the deadshots that can’t get a good grouping at 50 yards with modern firearms at the range. “Sights must be off.”
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After reading this guide I can say I honestly love this color scheme. twitches and scratches nose while rubbing neck and looking off to the side
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https://streamable.com/8j4yp
The Gorgons GalMap Ref: Eos Fraae FR-N e6-4 Like their ancient namesake, this triplet series of landable planets display very similar visual features with orbits near enough to each other that normally both the other two are visible from the surface of any of the three sisters. What makes them interesting is not only the surface view but the progressive difficulty at landing on them ranging 2.73g, 2.05g, and 1.52g. A good challenge for any rim-bound explorer to test their mettle. -
You realize that’s not going to happen though right? It’ll come down to the information the LT releases for public consumption and how much certain people decide to metagame. With divine rp everyone wants to be the one who’s closest to the god, because that’s equivalent to power. If you want things to be mysterious then don’t hand feed something like five pre-established pantheons in the first place. I fail to see how this will solve anything or produce the desired outcome because you’re essentially exchanging names. Supervision on this lore might be adequate the first few months but you wouldn’t really be solving anything because like with Aeriel the issues stemming from divine magics is the players themselves. It would be far more feasible to have players enter into those conflicts themselves, propaganda and ignorance being the main source of differences between types of worship and to which gods, no side being inherently good nor inherently bad. Some religions that develop perhaps going to an extreme and taking on cultist characteristics but because there’s no present gods for the time you have no definitive answer as to what’s good or bad generally speaking. If you create lore for something that has no presence in the current game world and players aren’t able to figure things out, that’s on you. That’s boring. If you leave things open ended and expect people to fill in the blanks so long as it conforms to the five houses, that leads to the current mess you’re trying to address. You’re even allowing for things to filter outside these five houses before the concept even launches which really only indicates the flaws in the concept already. I’d really recommend approaching this differently. Players will never go along with a plan that you have for them, ever, it’s a law of roleplay. You guys are essentially DMing so you have to account for this. You can make a lot less work for yourself if you go ahead with the original plan and have the players fill in the blanks from scratch. Not trying to find solutions in a ‘mysterious’ new set of religious rules that quite literally came from no where in the currently played game world.
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The pantheons being hamfisted into five five factions seems kind of clunky. Kind of reminds me of the four nations in Avatar or something. For the purposes of organic RP I think it could make things really bland if reasons for conflict become ‘for muh house’. You’ll end up having folks make characters to conform to the house rather than having any personal motivation, which will lead to lack of variety in backstories and lack of depth in decisions made in game. In an effort to simplify the lore and clean up loose ends you’d essentially be making things black and white, which would be my main concern. They’re interesting ideas of course and there’s always an opportunity for good stories to be had, from anything, but I’m skeptical in the general application for this concept. Perhabs, this could be a good opportunity to turn things towards a low fantasy/exceptional magic direction instead. Where rather than having these pantheons and creating a replacement immediately after the vacuum occurs, you let the players figure it out for themselves in RP and in lore suggestions and posts while they live in a world without gods for a while. You can maintain the plan for putting to rest who you want to put to rest and simply have the explanation be there was an astral war that for once didn’t intersect with the mortal plane. The established gods needed all of their power to fight and consequently it became absent in the player world. The victors of this conflict eventually reveal themselves again after recovering from the conflict. Magic has taken a front seat and has made a lot of things bland in RP for a while, mainly due to its abundance, in almost every respect. Rather than expanding upon a storyline or being the catalyst to something it instead shuts everything down on small scale player to player interactions normally. While I understand you guys need to keep folks happy, and you need to do things one step at a time, I personally see the benefit in working towards a less magical player world so that other appealing avenues of RP can have their time in the sun more frequently. Encouraging creativity, making more personal conflicts, and to that extent making people feel less safe when they are in a conflict. Because they’re normal. They can die, they don’t have any trump cards unless they made the necessary preparations by interacting with other players to make their odds more favorable. It’ll be a lonelier world without gods or magic that’s as abundant, but expanding from an actual foundation rather than remodeling would be more ideal in general if the objective is to clean up stuff. Do it, dooooo it. Destroy all magic. Let the players make their own pantheons, see what they do, and perhaps consider rewarding players who ‘have faith’ in the future, the far future, for contributing to the game world by having this faith in their absent deities and providing that atmosphere without any immediate or direct reward. Not because they’ll get something, but because they want to rp that stuff. It’ll make whatever lore that does come into existence later much more grounded, possibly sensible, but more important alive. Not five random houses.
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Banditry would be a lot cooler in my opinion if there was an actual source location for the bandits, a camp or a fort site. This would open up RP avenues and would make the classical hubbub that results from retaliations and metagaming a bit more cushioned. Banditry as it stands now is rather lame. You have dumb **** like [disguised voice] or people with bandanas, arguments that they sourced the armor from different locales – did you actually RP getting this done? I doubt it. It’s openly disruptive and there is zero risk on part of the bandits themselves save having to deal with a decent number on the defense. That’s silly. Having the requirement to have a site would be far better imo. You cannot bandit, if you do not have a site. Sites can be raided at any time, on account of the fact bandits can bandit at any time, and you do not require a warclaim to destroy them. This will encourage making a site both adequate and well hidden, like actual bandits. But muh proxies and mercenaries. Ok, cool, if you want to RP with zero consequences as a nation or a nation leader go on massivecraft. You shouldn’t be endorsing pvp and ‘organic rp’ like raids and banditry if you do not accept the risks that SHOULD be associated with it. Bearing that in mind I also think this would address the issue of ‘caps’ for players. This would open up a lot more fluid pvp interaction between groups potentially and be a lot more inclusive for a larger number of players, giving that feeling of both accomplishment and being in a battle that actually matters versus a large lagfest in a warclaim that starts two hours late. Bandits, for once, also actually have to work for banditry rather than just having a chest in their other character’s home that they store loot in. Could be neat. Random banditry cannot truly prevail if there is unenforced pking, part of the reason a lot of people don’t like roadside bandits is because there’s next to zero legitimate ways to retaliate save killing them there and then. It won’t ever stop, because that player will either just have another shitty alt or just not pk and continue on their ventures with loot and supplies they either acquired on a different character or was distributed to them on behalf of a nation in which case... Again, rather frustrating for the reasons stated above. If you’re a lone wolf, you should be RPing imo, rather than resorting to pvp. Large group situations are a different story, thus, making that large group (let’s say 3+ since an RP fight with that number and beyond is cancer) actually do something and create something they stand to lose might answer a number of the complaints and feedback over the years.
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i want my flintlocks and i want them now
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