>7) The amazing halting role.
>
>Sometimes I spot a level 1 character with just the most
>amazing role, with unique RP hooks or an enthralling
>backstory. Five hundred hours and fifty levels later, I look
>at the role again and nothing has changed. Granted, I'm
>thrilled that you wrote such a cool thing to begin with, but
>would it kill you to add on to it or update it periodically?
>It's tough for me to know how I should deal with a character
>with this elaborate role about abuse at the hand of mages, who
>I then see raiding the village and butchering Battle. Did he
>abandon his role entirely? Have a series of events gradually
>changed the character's viewpoint? I have no idea.

In your example, you point out someone that was acting differently than what their role stated. Would you like to see people update their role even if nothing dramatic has happened?



>9) Players who don't think very hard about the implications
>of their character's beliefs/roleplay, especially when it
>comes to choices in who to kill or what gear to wear.
>
>There sure are a lot of paladins running around murdering
>sentient neutral mobs for gear without a second thought.
>Think about that for a minute.
>
>If you're a Sylvan, and your character believes that
>conjurers/necromancers/etc. are bad mojo, what are you doing
>conjuring elementals with certain objects, or wearing the
>gauntlets of living flesh? How is conjuring demons bad, but
>wearing artifacts obviously containing entrapped demons all
>right? I don't care how many hit points or damroll
>they give you, that's weak.

Ok, here's where I've got major problems. A long, long time ago I played a dwarf. One of my favorite things to do was to kill dwarves in Mortorn and get horned helmets and dwarven arm guards and the like. Even the crappy dwarven axe. Call me crazy, but I get a lot of enjoyment from playing a dwarf running around in dwarven armor.

Some time later, I'm playing another dwarf. I say, "Hey, my guy thinks dwarves rock, he's not going to kill any." No killing dwarven guards, no killing Pwent = no dwarven gear on my dwarf other than the one or two pieces he could buy from the arms-dealer. It sucked. There are many examples like this: Is killing gnomes the only way for a gnome to wield Goblin Render? Or, by turning a blind eye to friends and cabal mates killing people you don't want to kill yourself?

It would be really fun and great if there was some way to get eq from similarly-minded people without having to kill them. I challenge you Imms to whip out the fun-stick and go to town; to look out for the non-evils that are trying to stick to their roles yet want to wear fashion fitting their character.

Thanks for listening to the ranting of this mad man.

Hutto, with sleepy nitpickings