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Would you allow this paladin in your game? (new fiction added 11/11/08)
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<blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1961854" data-attributes="member: 12706"><p>DUDE! You sure do like to use big words! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> I promise I don't mean to harsh you with this, I have a great deal of respect for your educated opinion, and would like to help you have it more easily understood. "Hermetic seal" = "separation" and "postulated" = "suggested" in normal-people-speak. And please tell me you didn't just use the word "patois"! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Write for your audience. Which is not to say anyone here can't understand you, but the goal of writing is to effectively communicate, not to make your readers <em>work</em> for it.</p><p></p><p>That said, I will restate what I read in your post in two statements, then respond to them:</p><p></p><p>1. You feel that some posters are acting like there are several different isolated types of prostitution, and you would suggest that it is more of a single scale.</p><p></p><p>Fair enough. But I know, at least in my case, I didn't mean to suggest they are different things, but rather that there are points on the scale that are less immoral. And saying that you can't pick one of those to write about because it fails to impress upon the reader the terrible things at other points in the scale is the same as saying I can't write about a man saving his wife from rape by shooting her attacker with a gun, because that would fail to convey all of the horrible things that <em>can</em> be done with guns. This point on the scale is the one Shilsen picked, because it makes Cedric possible.</p><p></p><p>2. You feel that, for a Paladin, appearance matters about as much as actions. A disreputable appearance says bad things about his associates, and promotes bad behavior in others.</p><p></p><p>I mostly agree. BUT: Who does the most good - the person who shows already relatively moral people a bright shiny path, or the person who stoops to meet people in the gutter half-way to show them something that, while maybe still not up to polite society's standards, is still better than what they've known?</p><p></p><p>Not to get religious, but even Jesus went amongst the Samaritans. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Also, if this is what Cedric already was when he "got the call", his deity knows what he asked for, and to try to "keep up appearances" as something he isn't would be a LIE.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Torm, post: 1961854, member: 12706"] DUDE! You sure do like to use big words! :p I promise I don't mean to harsh you with this, I have a great deal of respect for your educated opinion, and would like to help you have it more easily understood. "Hermetic seal" = "separation" and "postulated" = "suggested" in normal-people-speak. And please tell me you didn't just use the word "patois"! :D Write for your audience. Which is not to say anyone here can't understand you, but the goal of writing is to effectively communicate, not to make your readers [I]work[/I] for it. That said, I will restate what I read in your post in two statements, then respond to them: 1. You feel that some posters are acting like there are several different isolated types of prostitution, and you would suggest that it is more of a single scale. Fair enough. But I know, at least in my case, I didn't mean to suggest they are different things, but rather that there are points on the scale that are less immoral. And saying that you can't pick one of those to write about because it fails to impress upon the reader the terrible things at other points in the scale is the same as saying I can't write about a man saving his wife from rape by shooting her attacker with a gun, because that would fail to convey all of the horrible things that [I]can[/I] be done with guns. This point on the scale is the one Shilsen picked, because it makes Cedric possible. 2. You feel that, for a Paladin, appearance matters about as much as actions. A disreputable appearance says bad things about his associates, and promotes bad behavior in others. I mostly agree. BUT: Who does the most good - the person who shows already relatively moral people a bright shiny path, or the person who stoops to meet people in the gutter half-way to show them something that, while maybe still not up to polite society's standards, is still better than what they've known? Not to get religious, but even Jesus went amongst the Samaritans. ;) Also, if this is what Cedric already was when he "got the call", his deity knows what he asked for, and to try to "keep up appearances" as something he isn't would be a LIE. [/QUOTE]
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