The Templar

Consider me a volunteer, then! ?

I'd love to watch that, not gonna lie. It could either be so horrifying it'd be a disaster, or an amazing experience.

Here's a crazy idea.. Everyone says raids make RP, yeah? Why not let the defenders pick 100% the combat style and see how long that claim lasts?

I don't particularly see how taking heads or NPCs without consent helps anything, to be honest. All that does is play into the pixel hunting, except it's grisly trophies.

I'll be sending screenshots directly to you when these things happen, then.

Grr OOC grudges grr. Really though, pay them off with pixels? None even give me a chance to RP before demanding PVP, so please try again.

I'd like to learn your secret, @Narthok. Everyone's always gone after I'm popped during a raid, and I can't figure out how to create a "better narrative" without people around.

I am not against my experience being affected by other players, please do not put words in my mouth. I am against a return to the period of PVP dominance of Anthos/Fringe/Thales/Athera/Vailor where the RP was as low effort as could be. Where your only value to a nation was in how good your PC was for clickyclickylookmomimwinning. I interact with people outside of my clique quite a bit, and even go into the opposing side to understand why they RP the way they do. My problem is with people whose idea of a good time is running in and ruining mine with a random raid, stealing what i have on me that may have taken months to obtain, in 5 minutes or less. Now you want them to be able to rip open the chests I've purposefully left my valuables in to steal and sell on the auction for vastly inflated sums of petty cash? You talk of concessions, but you're not making any that matter. You're giving all power to the folks who are here specifically for the pvp combat once again. Belated edit: The "Raids make RP" argument doesn't hold water considering they kill everyone to begin with. The losing side has everything effectively voided, plus a loss of what they had on their personage with no explanation. Nice.

Alright so.. After reading through this? I'm left speechless. @Gladuos has already said it far more eloquently, and far less abusively, than I ever could. I'm here for RP. I have always been here for RP. These proposed rules do nothing but encourage PVP factions, and I'm honestly disappointed that we're going back to the bad old days of minimal RP.

Hrmmmnnn.." James strokes his GLORIOUS beard, "Perhaps I should make a blanket from these exalted pelts, then.."

I'm still going to Deus Vult the first corporeal mani I see. Death is irrelevant! FAME IS EVERYTHING!

Do any of them manifest for reasons of "f*ck it. PIZZAAAAA!?" Memes aside.. Do any of these just appear,without being summoned by druids or whatever, to just wreck things? Do their own agenda unbidden? Hunting these would be fun! >:D

"Holeh fock! Tae legion's back?! Tis is a ting tae wotch, but first? BAHTENDEH! ANOTHA' MEAD!" An excitable and quite drunk Doomforged cheers to the news.

I had an Ascended? Holy hell when was that!? I think you've mixed me up with someone else, I've never liked them. ?

Oh, so this is what my mats were for. Noice.

Aila Avern, though briefly horrified by the verdict she requested.. Is at peace. Justice has been meted out upon Mystery Uialben, neutralizing the maleficar. "Thilln'sae Sul'ehya. Let this be a warning that Sutica welcomes the depraved no longer." She'd quietly sip an adult beverage responsibly in her palatial home for several moments, a malicious smile playing upon the corner of her lips. "Ay'Tahariae."

No. Just. NO! This server has already shown it /cannot/ handle ferals. They were nigh exclusively controlled by druids the last time, going from a curse to a combat shapeshifting magic. NO!

Druids have enough "event" hooks. If you want something "cool" to RP for events, use a meldamiriel. Use an ent. Use a spriggan. This is just another blatant attempt to empower the aspectist religion to get a leg up on everyone else. Hard no from me. Use what you already have instead of summoning literal demigods to force your will on other players.

"Huh.. Is this why I saw so many Dominion Virarim fighting to defend San'kala?" The high elven cleric begins giggling like mad, unable to take it seriously any further.

"Serehsleh!" A foul-mouthed dark dwarf screams, "WOT IN TAE FOCK HAVE AH MISSED!? Now ah've gotta visit t'is place n' see wot koind of drink t'ey have!"

A young Dural Doomforged gets his hand on the proclamation, and briefly murmurs, "Wot in tae actual fock? Did someone poison me mead?! Wo' in tae FOCK have ah been missin'!?" He'd drunkenly head home to get himself ready to go for a walk in dwarven lands.

Beyond the mortal plane, deep within the realm of Xan, the deceased Ianril chafes at his mortality, or lack thereof. "I should be there! Damned be the curses, this is bound to be the best fight since the retaking of Dragon's Peak!" The long-dead highlord continues to vent and fume, cursing Iblees quite colorfully in Flexio, capable of nothing but watching with the other deceased soldiers of the Aengul of War.

James watches with growing horror during the procession. "The debaucherous and hedonistic elves sought to deny us the Conduit of GOD!? Let them rue this day! DEUS LO VULT!"

Don't we already have gnomes..? Or were they shelved when I wasn't looking?

A week is fine for PKs, but unless it's bound by an enforced PK clause (suicide, CA clause), what does it matter? They're going to find a way to bring their character back if they're truly wanting to. See: Recent plugin abuse to go from undead to living.