Post by SlothfulCat on Mar 4, 2008 1:10:35 GMT -5
Stop, try it some time.
I understand wanting to get those first 3-6 levels, I do. Infact, far as I can tell you're suppose to get them quick (means the DMs have soem wiggle room, you wont die in one hit.. unless they want you to).
I've been watching on accident... while just looking to see what PC I want to play because of who is on. If I want to play at all.
And I've noticed something.... those levels are zooming by! People are missing the savor! Learning that little trick of sliding your wrist when you recover to shave a second off your backswing... (getting +6 BAB), puzzling out that bugger spell... any of it... i'm concerned folks are starting to get hung up on the levels and forgetting that the RP is what the server is there for.
Not RP in the social sense, but in the character development sense. And levels just dont amount to character development alone, its the development of the persona; discovering quirks finding things that define a character... Like Adelius always getting beaten up... Aria and Kyrion's "If you dont stay behind the dwarf, you get tied to teh dwarf. An' if ye ain never been tied ta a dwarf.... Its never pretty." Ranan's womanizing. Torian's response to being reffered to as vertically challenged. Lucius's obsession with showing off his nipples. Torgeir's Terminator routine.
You make teh character, but the character can (and usually does) evolve. Thats usually what keeps them interesting. This sort of thing takes time, and if you don't give yourself the time you'll find you're level 30 with a PC no one really cares about as long as they're not rampaging through the town in a pink tutu and bloodsoaked axe.
So really, message is to slow down... take a breath, take your time. Linger that extra 10 minutes before leaving town, might meet a PC that changes your world. Don't view the levels as the cake with teh RP as the frosting, but the RP as the whole package and the levels the plate its sitting on. Don't worry about being ruthlessly PvPed because you're a lower level than someone else. If you /do/ get abused, the DMs and IC means are there to end it. Trust me, that monster rears its head indescrimnately of level but the clout you have from RP might keep you floating level 3 or level 30.
Just feel people are loosing out on the experience of the server outside of the dungeons. And its not the people in the dungeons loosing out, its the ones that don't get to meet or interact with them too. And while DnD is , not Dramaqueens and Drugaddicts, what keeps a PW as entertaining as a PnP campaign is the interaction, story, and characters.
I understand wanting to get those first 3-6 levels, I do. Infact, far as I can tell you're suppose to get them quick (means the DMs have soem wiggle room, you wont die in one hit.. unless they want you to).
I've been watching on accident... while just looking to see what PC I want to play because of who is on. If I want to play at all.
And I've noticed something.... those levels are zooming by! People are missing the savor! Learning that little trick of sliding your wrist when you recover to shave a second off your backswing... (getting +6 BAB), puzzling out that bugger spell... any of it... i'm concerned folks are starting to get hung up on the levels and forgetting that the RP is what the server is there for.
Not RP in the social sense, but in the character development sense. And levels just dont amount to character development alone, its the development of the persona; discovering quirks finding things that define a character... Like Adelius always getting beaten up... Aria and Kyrion's "If you dont stay behind the dwarf, you get tied to teh dwarf. An' if ye ain never been tied ta a dwarf.... Its never pretty." Ranan's womanizing. Torian's response to being reffered to as vertically challenged. Lucius's obsession with showing off his nipples. Torgeir's Terminator routine.
You make teh character, but the character can (and usually does) evolve. Thats usually what keeps them interesting. This sort of thing takes time, and if you don't give yourself the time you'll find you're level 30 with a PC no one really cares about as long as they're not rampaging through the town in a pink tutu and bloodsoaked axe.
So really, message is to slow down... take a breath, take your time. Linger that extra 10 minutes before leaving town, might meet a PC that changes your world. Don't view the levels as the cake with teh RP as the frosting, but the RP as the whole package and the levels the plate its sitting on. Don't worry about being ruthlessly PvPed because you're a lower level than someone else. If you /do/ get abused, the DMs and IC means are there to end it. Trust me, that monster rears its head indescrimnately of level but the clout you have from RP might keep you floating level 3 or level 30.
Just feel people are loosing out on the experience of the server outside of the dungeons. And its not the people in the dungeons loosing out, its the ones that don't get to meet or interact with them too. And while DnD is , not Dramaqueens and Drugaddicts, what keeps a PW as entertaining as a PnP campaign is the interaction, story, and characters.