1) I've had a few -est characters, and I've tried to get away from that now. I think people just do it to feel like they have a distinctive character. Also of course with the player base being predominantly male, they'll lean towards "strongest, biggest, meanest". heh. Actually with my current character I've tried to avoid much of any distinctive features in the description. Clothes in your description can be dubious. If I include anything in it clothing wise I try to keep it vague, or something that could be draped over what I'm already "really" wearing.

2) I think the enemy interaction is more of a enemy vs nemesis thing. If someone just kills you over and over, and never rp's with you I consider them an enemy. If they bother to communicate with you, it brings it to a whole new personal level. This leads to a more dramatic conflict, and therefore "nemesis" status. Plus it always adds flavor to the conflict to know hidden agendas, or motivations. Jasmin talked with her foes on a regular basis and actually got most of them to speak with her on a regular basis. If you want to talk to your foe, don't just spout the typical good/evil/forrest dogma, say something to get their attention.

3) This peeve I can agree with, but I would like to point something out from a player stand point also. From my experience some cabals, and immortals, want to hear some very specific things before they'll empower/tatto/induct. Honestly I try to very it, but you can only stray so far from the formula before it's not the answer any more. I would love to throw some more hefty variation into my answers, but when imms and mortal leaders like to philosophically banter, the less you stray the easier the interview. This way you don't get your words twisted on you, and get less frustration.

4) I completely agree with this, mortal leaders/authorities are too afraid of stepping on mortal toes.

5)This has no excuse ic, just sounds like a whiner problem

6) This I have a little bit to say about. For some reason, I seem to only do well at team goodie. I've tried neutral, and evil, and I don't do near as well role play/pk/ or even rank wise. So when you make this statement, are you including people that play only good? I have done pretty well with several different classes, and have pretty different role play for each. I change races, classes, and religions. However I will admit that I'm guilty of playing maran after maran. I will have to keep my word and role up the rager I've been meaning to play. However that's the one where my other decent characters have come from heh. All I can say is "familiar is comfortable".

7) I'm guilty of the halting role with most characters, and I will freely admit that the ones I continue on were the ones that went somewhere. Sometimes it's hard to add when things have been dull, or all you have been doing is ranking. People think of huge roles so maybe take one or two times during the characters life to add to your role. throw in a twist, a short run down of what you've been doing, what you plan to accomplish before you die.

8) It's hard to role play with others in the younger ranks, because more often than not your either fighting or ranking. Many of the younger characters will rebuff role play during ranking. I find that role playing is something easier to do when it is reciprocated. My last character Torellios had a really neat falconry thing going on, and he talked to his falcon a lot. When no one joins in, it gets old talking to your phantom falcon.

9) This is definitely a problem, and not just from the paladin's side I'm thinking. The way I see it, and have encountered in game, is that until proven other wise, neutrals are just as likely to kill goodies as evil. They aren't necessarily the direct enemy, but I don't see a paladin as having an over amount of love for one. Not to mention the nexan encounters that can leave a bad taste in a goodie/paladin's mouth about neutrals. I've had characters that were so bitter towards anyone not good, that they took them out if they saw them.

10) The completely different language can be annoying, but I have to point out that the information is available in the Lyceum for some of it. I find it much more approachable if one word is used on a regular basis, so you at least have some idea of what it means. If not the character should explain it to people he has just met. After all we play using words, a form of communication, and if the communication breaks down then we might as well just type gibberish.

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