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It's set for January 2007.

Though work prevented my attendence, I just wanted to extend congratulations to the players and characters who've reached a milestone in their RP. *sigh* Always the bridesmaid... :wink: Congrats, Raona and Jaenoic, And many thanks to Kelemvor, Feinn, the IMMs, and Brian Boitano, without whose shinin...

Trust me, a 5% representation does not remove the exotic factor. Heck, I grew up in a place with a 30% hispanic population, but the 'common folk' still had no empathy, understanding, or relation with the 'different' group. Whether someone is accepted is largely a social construct. I'm all for playin...

Later, and go with great hope into new horizons!

Evil in Waterdeep is fine. Tieflings, however, are easy pariahs. And such cultures are suckers for the easy pariah. A powerful and vested priest of an evil god will not be touched (because he brings cash and an angry, evil god). The game goes for lesser priests to a lesser extent, and some evils are...

Fascinating, rousing, and entirely an appeal to emotion. The fact stands that concepts of 'passing' non-humans are difficult to manage and are cumbersome. In a large room or a time-sensitive RP, reading every description entirely for context can be a pain. While I agree that it's good to a create or...

In regard to Mele's post, it is noted in your own quote that the features are distinguishing. They stand out. Now, in an ideal setting with DMs and stuff, these could be easily hidden. But, frankly, we don't have those options available with code. I'd love it if we had 'race-concealing' items, but u...

And yet, in FK, tieflings ALL have at least blatantly obvious trait. Because FK says so. Just like FK gives additional rules to paladins, hasn't raised Bane yet, etc. FK has some distinct, important house rules, and tiefling traits happen to be one of them. If you want to play a human-looking tiefli...

Which...armour in general runs a bit on the heavy end, once you account everything. If I remember correctly, "modern" medieval full plate, circa 1400s ran at about 85lbs in total, as low as 45 if well-tempered. With dwarven craftsmen and magical smelting or minor enchantments, it would be ...

Lukon will likely not be attending lessons today. Real life intervenes with a nice three-mile walk I need to take.

Is there going to be a muster this week? The last two weeks, I've showed up, but nothing has happened.

My knee-jerk response would be: "Why do they need a special honor?" RP is its own reward, and their impact on the game is something tangible and its own testament. From what I've read here, bios could be a useful RP tool for everyone. It just seems a waste of a command to toss it up to the...

My apologies. I meant no offense. The pregnancy should be a serious and timely roleplay. I just don't want it to overly stretch IC timeless beyond credulity. That's the only real problem I see with the current setup.

I would just like to point out that it's a logical fallacy that a change in how things are done cheapens how they WERE done. I see benefits to both shortening IC pregnancy lengths and keeping them the same. But even if a change were put forth, no one can magically go back in time and alter previous ...

Lathlain said what I meant to say. I DO believe that for a fantasy story to be enjoyable, good has to ULTIMATELY win. If I want evil to win, I'll turn off my gaming experience and turn on CNN. Evil can make huge strides in fantasy, and usually SEEMS to win, or be winning at every turn. But evil is a...

Regarding your point about anti-evil Imm persecution... Evils should eventually lose. That's all I really have to say. A setting where evil wins, or is expected to win as the end result, gets bleak, dreary, and unfun to play in unless you're evil or so min-maxed that you need fear no reprisals or pe...

With the slowdown to level training, and the difficulty to master skills without a truly grand time investment, I'm starting to wonder about something. This is an RP MUD, and roleplay is the key, but I'm starting to worry that with the recent changes of mechanics, while all good things, fail to take...

Some half-elves are raised by an elven parent, and it would only make sense for these proficiencies to exist. If you made it function like mind over body, etc, I don't see how this would be too imbalancing.

I would just like to digress slightly and beg; Please don't destroy the Shadowlands! The ability to train up a character has already been seriously retarded of late, and as far as I can tell, there's not all THAT much else available to lowbies around Tangled Trees. But on the orc/human RP issue...fr...

I know that it's a well-ingrained facet of FK that paladins are chaste and celibate within the game. The question I have, though, is why? It isn't the case in standard D&D or the Forgotten Realms setting. It actually contradicts some established facts in the FR universe. (Lord Piergeron Paladins...