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Greetings, everyone. I'm obviously quite new to Sundren and definitely looking forward to some solid role-play in a solid PW. I suppose I'm nowhere near old enough to rank myself as a veteran but neither am I new to RP! I began first with pure text RP on forums what seems like an eternity ago, for lack of people with common interest in my area (which, at that time, was Vancouver - I mean, you'd figure you could find at least 3 tabletop mates in a city of 2 million!).
A couple of years ago I spent some time on a NWN PW, but left the community for various reasons. I suppose the main issue was what I felt to be the authoritative air of the staff (I know some measure of hierarchy is necessary with online communities, but there are boundaries), as well as the absolute resistance to change. Credibility worked only on a timed basis, so it felt as though you were always but a peon with no merit unless you had already been a member for 2 years or so. There were also basically two groups that received all the RP and DM attention, and if you didn't get in with them, well... you spent a lot of time bumping into people who'd never heard of punctuation.
Now, I realize starting a greeting with a heap of criticism (RP baggage?) is going to put me in a certain light, but I guess I have to take the dive because I have had bad experiences in the past and I am looking for a couple of things from a community. I wonder if I could perhaps enumerate them and get some feedback, or is it best to just jump right into the world and find out first-hand?
If you're still reading by this point.. I have a question! I am unable to find character application threads, so, barring the blocked races/classes, do I require approval before I make a char and grab my sword and start lobbing off rat-heads?
Thanks for your time and (hopefully) input!
A couple of years ago I spent some time on a NWN PW, but left the community for various reasons. I suppose the main issue was what I felt to be the authoritative air of the staff (I know some measure of hierarchy is necessary with online communities, but there are boundaries), as well as the absolute resistance to change. Credibility worked only on a timed basis, so it felt as though you were always but a peon with no merit unless you had already been a member for 2 years or so. There were also basically two groups that received all the RP and DM attention, and if you didn't get in with them, well... you spent a lot of time bumping into people who'd never heard of punctuation.
Now, I realize starting a greeting with a heap of criticism (RP baggage?) is going to put me in a certain light, but I guess I have to take the dive because I have had bad experiences in the past and I am looking for a couple of things from a community. I wonder if I could perhaps enumerate them and get some feedback, or is it best to just jump right into the world and find out first-hand?
If you're still reading by this point.. I have a question! I am unable to find character application threads, so, barring the blocked races/classes, do I require approval before I make a char and grab my sword and start lobbing off rat-heads?
Thanks for your time and (hopefully) input!
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The community certainly feels warm and promising. @ Gevaudan, yes, indeed, stereotypes are, well, stereotypes, and not too much credit to creativity. But then, the opposite of stereotypes are quite the same! Makes me think of NWN1, the NPCs before the expansions were: a ladies' man chaotic good rogue halfling, a female elven cleric, a sexy human female bard with an attitude, and a half-orc barbarian (albeit, a well-spoken one), an obsessive gnome spellcaster.. Then, with the expasion, I suppose they decided to be "original," and we got a female dwarven rogue (no one EVER plays female dwarves, right? ..Right?), a half-orc sorcerer, and a shrunken Jar Jar Binks bard with a throat-scraping... probably some others there, I didn't really get past the original campaign (I think it's clear why)... my point being! The stark opposite of stereotype is, in a way, also stereotype, so I do agree with you Gevaudan, creativity is integral to roleplay. Not to say there's anything uncreative about being a human male fighter! It's all up to us.
Anyways i mention my little group because we have begun to call ourselves the jinxed adventuring company because sometimes we're rolling through places clearing dungeons with impunity, and then some random thing happens to change our luck and then one of us dies...and then the next follows suit until we have only one or two of us left and they're almost dead, trapped in a corner, and out of ways to heal themselves..... this happens more than we might like to admit...and even sometime with ememies that should be effortless for us. Anyways i would recomend some Rping . You'll be gaining the time xp anyways, and this community is just great.
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