I can attest to the fact that material quality has less impact on end product quality. Great quality steel in the hands of a novice is just as bad as poor quality steel. Sub-par steel should never be worked with, no matter what your skill level, so material qualities really only serve to add a level...

I love player generated items as a massive part of the economy in most games. However, I have two crafters in game that never craft because of all the reasons above and some of my own. So here's my offer of a fair-handed crafting system that gives us something to work on, something to RP about, and ...

I like the idea entirely. I think that we have soo many items meant for RP flavor most typically discard those first few items they get in favor of the new magical stuff. It might make it neat to have something like a Waterdhavian Signet Ring mean something in the form of +3 to haggle. Nothing crazy...

I have all nerds as friends, so they pretty much got it when I told them it was a text based online game focusing on group creative writing. I play more than one type though, so MUDs are faster paced line by line screen writing challenges while MUSHes are paragraph by paragraph story building challe...

Personally I would nix the ECL system entirely and drop in racial bonus feats instead. It makes more code sense for a MUD in my eyes and would likely give more room for character development. Drow might get 3 racial bonus feats that can be used for spell resistance and faerie fire, or any other feat...

I'm in the same class but we just started our term. 1) Persuasive: Humans are actually living plants because of scientific reasons involving such things as how our muscles are related to certain plant fibers that move on their own, we reproduce through male/female interactions, etc. Basically convin...

If I remember right, it isn't magic that removes it but that's something to learn ICly. Besky hasn't suffered from a crippling strike like the one he suffered way back when, but even still he's also gotten smarter about taking on areas. I can agree that getting groups together can be difficult for s...

Or, as I noted, bettering your character's skills through more RP and more grouping. Besky's not perfect at spot, but for a while he was practicing it through RP with a master thief. The same thief who also crippled him during a spar. I will also posit the concept that full limb regrowth as a deific...

I'm actually against this suggestion, even though Besky has suffered far worse at the hands of a master thief. At the time it hit him many, many times. He was stranded for a very long period of time and yet it was actually a good way to work on his RP. I get that it's frustrating to be locked up lik...

I would have to say my favorite deity from any D&D setting pantheon is likely Heironeous. He's the more knightly version of Tempus if he were good aligned instead of basically neutral, and he's got his own archenemy to boot. If I could, I would totally play a crossover paladin of Heironeous (or ...

I've run into this problem before and I can agree that it is annoying to deal with. However, I have discovered the best way to avoid this... Move slower through the game world. It is supposed to take quite some time to get from city to city. Take the time travel and avoid movement lag entirely. It m...

Nearing the end of the second page of replies to this thread, I feel like a general recap is in order. So here I go: The general theme to the thread has been to be more careful with your spelling and grammar mistakes which plague a lot of RP out there. Oft we see people who're too hasty with replyin...

Besky currently dual-wields cesti and doesn't seem to do that badly against hill giants or the drow from Holyhead. Even with them not being masterwork or magical and without improved brawling. I agree that unarmed strikes should be brought up to all five attacks but perhaps there's an interim fix th...

I can agree with Zorinar on pretty much all of what he says to a point. I still suggest developing deeper personality to a character because it helps add depth to your role play in general. Not because you have to RP that your character has all this background but because it helps you RP your charac...

Heading to sunny CA to go to Disneyland for the weekend, PM me if you need me! Good luck and have fun! We're supposed to be getting more hot weather this weekend out here in Anaheim so be prepared with sun screen. I'm also fairly sure I saw signs for an event going on at the Convention Center so be...

Perhaps the blanket rule for PvP should simply be that it cannot go beyond stunning for any reason. If a PC is left bleeding out, aid must be applied to prevent death but the situation is considered handled. This same rule applies to minions with the exception of undead as they cannot be stunned. Pv...

Regarding a pvp flag, I like the idea, but not sure how well it would work out with the multiple modes of pvp used, such as stun and spar. Would the flag mean that they are up for going to such extremes as PK, or just that they are ok with pvp combat in rounds or to stun? These details would still ...

I had a thought about PvP and OOC, and the things involved with it that surround PvP consent along with other sorts of consent. This doesn't fully coincide with the original question about spells cast being hostile, but in the long run it might ultimately save us large discussions like this one. I'm...

Going back to the main point of the thread, I feel like a bard should be able to app for the skill. I don't know that all bards should have it, but I agree that some bards should because of their RP. At some point, the options shouldn't be limited simply because there's a book that says they are. Th...

I'll pipe in on the thing about smotes and emotes being too long in some situations... This can be very true, and it's something I've had to relearn not to do after returning from MUSHing for so long. For the most part, MUDs are designed to be line by line action. Smotes are great for having actions...