Thanx Sanxx for informing us of this sad news. I wish you well in dealing with the loss of your ex. Go well.

Very nice one Boeven. Keep them coming. 

  Your last 3 portraits are lovely.

Continue the good work Teshia.

Wow!

Very good artwork there. Keep up the good work.

Need to added an plaque object somewhere in Amdeneir, mentioning those that built Amdeneir for everyone to enjoy.

Seems like the moaners are still in strong force here. No surprise Raikana is not coming back.

Raikana, we will miss your fun filled RPing you created for the rest of us, even though the moaners helped destroy the much needed RPing on a dying RP server.

From when I came to PS, RPing has been on a decline. Most are just focussing on upping their stats in the quickest possible time. It was nice having another RPer in my timezone when I was in game.

This is not to be Master. This is to be a ROBOT. (i'm master of classic roleplay games, like D&D, since a long time. I can ensure that a Master must be WAY MORE then a simple RULEBOOK)

Have been playing RPGs for decades and being the GM for most of the time for many campaigns in a number of genres I have come to learn what is good and bad game management, along with good and bad RPing. I can definitely say slam down the rule book on game mechanics and enforce it (well in a PC application game, very simple, it is enforced no matter what), though throw away the damn rule book when it comes to fleshing out for social interactions between the all characters of the game after simple game mechanics have been applied. If one ever bothered to look at hundreds of RPGs, source books, you find very few rules relating to social interactions, only to provide basic actions depending on circumstances of the encounter. The bulk of the social encounters comes from the players imagination to develop a full body conversion to the a rule or two that was applied for the encounter. In the PC game, this is not possible with NPCs, as there is no living breathing GM to take up the role for the NPC. Thus conversations with NPCs is largely governed by game mechanics. PC to PC interactions is very different to that involving NPCs. PC interactions still follow the RPing style as found in the traditional RPGs sessions.

Now for the newspaper, if IC information is available and known by some, then it definitely can be published. OOC information can't be published, unless the owner of the OOC information gives permission to make the OOC permission to be IC information. This would be typically be done as a journalist interviewing a character about the character itself.

People here are bitching at the decrease of RPing on the server, and the decrease of RPing players. They bitch so much about lack of RPing, and silly stupid IC stuff, that they stupidly end up chasing away good RPers from the server then wonder why RPing sucks even more afterwards.

The times I had the opportunity to RP in IC with Raikana, I had good enjoyable times, for she is a good RPer. It is disgusting and shameful that others bitch and moan pathetically to the GMs about IC information, and the GMs lacking common sense to do a proper investigation on whether the information published is IC or OOC. IC can be information obtained from any other character in game, that has obtained the "generally" OOC information via IC encounters. Simply declaring that the information is OOC is not enough, proof needs to be provided to show that the OOC information has not become IC information along the way with other characters.

Remember the old saying: A secret is only a secret, if no one else knows of the secret. As soon as another knows the secret, you relying on that persons trust and integrity to keep the secret. No one can guarantee that secret will remain only with the person, for circumstances can change over times, relationships can change, resulting in the secret being let out into the open.

The paragraph above applies to IC in game too. So if you consider something OOC, and spoken to someone in IC, it effectively not OOC any more even though the desire for the information still to be OOC.

So all I have to say, think before bitching about OOC and IC information when published or spoken of. Is OOC information really OOC information. Is IC information well known by others, if so definitely can be published.

I am sad that again another RPer has left due to stupid behaviour of players and GMs.

Terrain definitely needs water, or an old mine (4th mine) filled with water could do for a klyros swimming pool.

Amdeneir really looks beautiful.