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Siteri Kidachi

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« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2007, 08:13:59 pm »
Yes, but the word still comes from the religious word.

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« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2007, 09:24:37 pm »
no, it has just been adopted by religion, and besides if were going to get this picky over a word why not just ban all the words, because all the words in this post are also in the bible, used more than the i believe 2 or 3 times in it

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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2007, 09:30:55 pm »
i agree this is starting to get silly, it's a word for ... whatevers sake :P


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Re: Old Guild Name
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2007, 10:55:14 am »
i agree this is starting to get silly, it's a word for ... whatevers sake :P

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siteri is right... but so is elvi, it's evolving to the point of getting ridicilous
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Re: Old Guild Name
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2007, 06:27:34 pm »
In a non biblican context, wouldn't hell be considered a "bad word" and against the rules anyways?
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Re: Old Guild Name
« Reply #20 on: January 22, 2007, 06:50:04 pm »
Am I mistaken here that there is already a ruling saying hell isn't allowed?

If there is such a ruling this discusion is pointless. If there isn't I think the GMs should give a ruling and get it over with.

In my eyes hell isn't religious but it represents a picture. A picture that doesn't exist in PS. Yes spoon is also just a word but if noone would have ever used a spoon in PS would anyone in PS know what the word spoon would mean? Computer is also just a word. So is machine gun and atomic bom and concreet and so many things where you don't have a discusion about if people should be using them or not.

And personally I have no problem if someone say something like "you can all go to hell" becuase that really has a meaning of it's own. But is Hells Dwarf such an expression? Is it something that would sounds artificial not to use it? No and I think that is where the line should lie. The only reason to use it is becuase of the direct link to the picture we have in our heads (that doesn't exist in Yliakum) and the therefor "coolness" of the word.
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« Reply #21 on: January 22, 2007, 07:06:31 pm »
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siteri is right... but so is elvi, it's evolving to the point of getting ridicilous

It is only becoming ridicilous because the players keep arguing if it is right or not to use the word. Thing is there has already been numerous times that the commuity has been told that hell does NOT exist in Yliakum. My suggestion is, deal with it already and respect the settings that have been laid out for you to play with. Don't fight about keeping the word hell in the settings, it will never be accpeted no matter how much you want to be right.
 

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Re: Old Guild Name
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2007, 04:07:20 am »
Well, as we all know the name wasn't good. So now you have changed your name to "Dwarven Mercenaries"? And you you are a Chaotic Neutral guild so your members say. Sorry to gravedig, but really, why make a copycat guild? Apparently, no good original ideas. We all know who the original mercenary guild was, you aren't fooling anyone.

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« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2007, 08:27:46 am »
It's quite normal to have more than one mercenary guild around. The Mercenaries Guild was the first mercenary guild ever, but it has died. So there. Your mercenary guild isn't original either.

I disagree with the name though. Dwarven Mercenaries? That's a dry name. Far from being creative or interesting.

Also, there are no alignments in PlaneShift. So these dudes aren't Chaotic Neutral. And neither is your guild, or any other guild that currently finds itself playing in PlaneShift's setting.
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« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2007, 03:31:15 pm »
Of course, Sangwa. I actually belong to a crafting guild, the CotC. However, there is a mercenary guild on the system that has been active for about a year now, and maybe longer. And they do not allow their members to act in a overtly rude or aggressive manner towards other players, which seems to be condoned in this guild.

Of course the alignments don't count in Planeshift. However, the players continue to describe themselves using the traditional alignment system. As long as players continue to describe themselves and their guilds in this manner, it will be apropos to discussion about these issues. I don't agree with using alignments either, however, I would not copy an existing guild were I to make one myself, as there is a rich field for interpretation and ideas within the system and settings. As you yourself well know.

They might as well have called themselves the 'Dragon Mercenaries'. As far as I am concerned we can have as many mercenary guilds as the players wish to create. You are correct, outside of the settings work on the game, there is really nothing original. But there is especially nothing original about racist guilds, and griefers really bother me. Peace.

[I should mention that it was my experience since I started that lead me to say about a year for the other mercenary guild. Honestly, their founder was around for quite a while, possibly since A.B. and may have had it secret, it could be older... But this was my assumption, no one in that guild told me this. Thank you]
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« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2007, 03:46:22 pm »
CotC? Is that the Crafters of the Cliff? If you don't mind me going terribly off topic and all that, where did you think up that name?
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Re: Old Guild Name
« Reply #26 on: February 23, 2007, 04:31:26 pm »
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Of course the alignments don't count in Planeshift.
Great, you agree with me. You also sound very reasonable, so wouldn't you help me making everyone agree?


Adding competition in the Mercenary field brings some fun into the whole thing. There's plenty of young guild leaders out there that will take care of all the originality things in time.
Of course, I'm far from thinking these dudes have what it takes to come up with good competition though.

1 year isn't too much. The Mercenary Guild I spoke of was settled even before there was fighting.
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