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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dontella" data-source="post: 2559896" data-attributes="member: 34727">So, time for a ramble.. When I first came on site, too long ago, I barely recall it.  I signed in, under those AOL days, and was soon lost so fast I couldn't keep up.  I signed out, and not long after, lost the password to the first character I had dared venture on site. But, not to be thwarted, I came back not so much later.  I picked, for this, an old favorite of mine from tabletop days, a soft spoken elven maid who at the time, had never dared venture too far from home. I didn't know the setting was on Oerth at the time, after all, I was still lost by the whole situation.  I was playing a Cleric of Paladine, a servant of Krynn's (Dragonlance's) pantheon. You know what, it didn't matter. Despite the setting being some tavern on Oerth, The masses seemed mostly based from Krynn. We had Clerics of Paladine by the handful, and a few darker Clerics of Takhisis about to keep us on our toes.. We had wizards of High Sorcery, in White, Red, and Black..We had kender.. We had assasins devoted to Takhisis, and bards true to Branchala..We had the Irda, the Half-elves, the minotaur children of Sargonnas.. The setting, was dominated by Krynnish based persons.. I really did enjoy that.And yet, not once, did we ever seek to change the setting with posts and rambles on the Message Boards.. For a while, we didn't have message boards.. So what is my point, besides a reminisce, and the showing of age? The point is, the popular settings come and go, they change and flow with the tide of minds and conciousness.  Once Krynn, now Faerun, and someday in the future perhaps everyone will be from Oerth itself, or be 'Jammers.. Yet even as things continue to change and grow, the 'Roads of Oerth, is still in existence.  It is still a haven to the restless wanderers who seek shelter, or a place to sit and chat among friends.I find all suggestions of moving the tavern's locale, in truth, simply ridiculous.  The 'Roads, has existed on Oerth, for more years than most on site can recall.. and not once, has it ever been a problem for persons playing characters from other realms.There are some arguments put forth, that say changing the locale will help enforce the setting or rules, and make it more playable.. No it won't. People, will always play in their own styles, and believe their own ideas.  People will forever ignore any and all setting rules they dislike or find not to their interests.. If they are doing so now, they will continue to do so in the future, no matter where the tavern is located.  Some persons, just want to play their own way, and will always! do so.  They don't care for the rules, or the setting, and no change of setting or environment will ever correct it.  Moving the tavern, won't help.  But I do suggest, that it will cause some harm, or at least unrest.. When the tavern was on Juxta, for a time, the entire situation was frowned upon by many of the oldies on the site. The Tavern blowing up in the first place, was viewed with distrust.. Moving the tavern means we toss aside all the things that have already been established about the tavern.. the owner, her house rules, the town of Ford's Keep, the usual places people settle in at.. Therefore, finally, enough rambling.. Do not move the tavern.. do not punish all of those persons who enjoy the environment, for the disrespectful actions of the few.</blockquote>

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