on my character creation i met Drahlian within two days of it and she was doing a nice roleplay with some dwarves, that dwarf however was really to weak for her as it was a newly created character aswell. So i ended up participating in that roleplay and taking out the dwarf in a duell. The second dwarf i duelled came back for a rematch but fled and hid behind Isra who killed me as
the result of a roleplay where he protected that dwarf. The first thing i did upon deciding to join Dwarvesbane ( far before it actually became a guild i might add ) was write up a life story explaining me "hate" for dwarves. The second thing was looking up Kerol and having an ooc conversation about this, Proglin was present there too. It was decided by the three of us ( and Kerol is a Game Master ) that
A racism referrs to ooc racism, eg a dutchman hating germans, and not in game racism
B Following my description there was a good ground to have a character "hating" dwarves.
C Thirdly us being carefull not to take it to far ( eg giving a warning about our background to dwarves ) and accepting players not willing to participate in the roleplay. It really takes just a tell to have Sardit back up out of your life, i will only make a few insults upon the honour of that dwarf and leave disgusted by the sight of such a dishonour. ( and that is only to finish the roleplay somewhat decent, )
When Drahlian talked about a guild for the first time we discussed rules that should be followed, Currently we are working on a set of those for this guild.
So far the two of us have come up with at least the following weightpoints,
- firstly racism should not be a motive to joining Dwarvesbane,
- secondly the character must be willing to roleplay as that is really the reason for this guild to be created. We are here to encourage roleplaying and duelling between players because in our opinion that doesnt happen near enough in game.
- thirdly any members of our guild must step out of our way to refrain from "newbie bashing" If a character is by far to weak to face us in combat then we will only accept a challenge if the roleplay of that character really forces us. ( or if in private messages we agreed to have a duel )
If you keep a track of my duels you see that i have lost near a third, most of those have been against stronger opponents following a roleplay, If i have to die to end it fittingly, then heck, i go to the deathrealm.
The character Sardit has a few dwarf friends, and some of those are hostile enough in roleplay, There really is no racist motive on my part in this roleplay.
Here is a link to the background story of Sardit
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=23195.0I hope to have shone some light on my motives and my goals in joining this guild, i also hope that you will understand that there is a reason for this guild and that we really arent that bad
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To be honest though, I feel any information gained through the \"description\" is really OOC - unless it is truly a description of a specific item that s/he has on their person, ie. wears a long, dark, weather worn cloak. I would like to see all the additional information removed. One should only figure out \"this guy is a dwarf slayer\" through character interactions and when it is discovered, should be accepted as part of an in character role play as should EVERYTHING that occurs in game. Sure their will be violators, but they need to be pulled to the side and gently corrected through tells.
i completely agree Araye, however if i try to act out my character there tend to be players, and some not even dwarves themself, that perhaps lack the skill to distinguish between roleplay and real life. They just challenge me ooc before i have the chance to act out even remotely my background story, after that things get messy with me declining and trying to play out my character while they begin cursing and screaming that i need to accept their challenge. Now if that challenge was based upon a roleplay or at least their in character behaviour then id be accepting gladly, but since they just go that direction without taking the time to perform at least some semblance of roleplay before they challenge i am forced to put up a description like this to avoid these unpleasantries. And strangely after they have read the description they tend to change their attitude a lot some will still challenge me ofcourse, but now at least it is somewhat based upon roleplay. WIch suits me far better then not having the chance to perform my roleplay at all.
Please avoid posting two or more successive posts before others have replied. Just edit your last post to add new information :) Thanks! --Karyuu