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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Qijdi" data-source="post: 3389175" data-attributes="member: 50430">Well Well Well.... Someone finally had the Hudspah to say it...WE have maintained for many years of the necessity for scenery generation and proper personality placements/endowments..  It adds to the flavour of play... real life to an otherwise almost blank medium...  The reason Qijdi had and has been so successful over the years is due to a solidly based personality, set ways of doing things, and never forgetting to make the presence well founded and thoroughly played to the hilt and exclusion of all else...  One of the reasons we have not been in of any reason for recent months is due to the excessive lack of anyone FOLLOWING ANY KIND OF STRUCTURE... The stories of Olde were not jsut based on flim-flam and dry rot that is guilded with lies, deception, poor acting and no planning...  The efforts of others to impose structure have been inneffectual at best save to empty the halls even more of those players who wish to have real game..  Arbitrary and capricious action and decision has been definitely an incindiary toards demolition...as has continued laxity of forme...  Veteran or not.. it is up to the players to generate the " Atmosphere " as well as the story or neither exist with any sincerity... This has long been one of the founding factors of FFRPing...  Indeed... free form has the benefit of allowing more freedom to play about with characters and styles, but that also takes knowledge of said types... there is nothing wrong in getting together with other players and hashing out what is to be done... Questions lead most often to answers..when sought eagerly..For example... Q never really hides his heritage... not really, as is the nature of his clan type, but it is not mentioned unless someone else brings it up..still.... to him it is olde news and unimportant... Furthermore... He has not changed his ways even after all these years just as I have not... for one comes out of the other.  It is a matter of letting go and really delving into the roll...  Come to think of it.. the <a href="http://www.answers.com" target="_blank">www.answers.com</a> toolbar has a copious list of answers for almost any question and has helped me when I've been in tight scrapes for those obscure details which were ultimately needed to handle such a complex and long lived character as Goldy..  We have been successful in these ways since his creation on May 19th of 1996 when Rama blessed me with him...   An essential part of any good RP session is the mystery of events that are unfolding before us... the thing is... if we do not follow the mode of play to the hilt??? then we have no play at all...  and what's the point??  We most definitely enjoy a good round or three when folks actually bother to participate instead of being absorbed in various trysts which are often nonsensical or applicable to the character type they are portraying...  Folks who play in such a fashion often get dismissed from Our sight without another look or even manage to go unnoticed entirely... I mean it's all well and good to play something different like a mindflayer or beholder or the like, but they do not just generally come up to say, " Hi!... * grins blink-blink *   How are you, you pretty thing... " unless they plan to do something about it in line with their roll...  As it stands... there are still a few of us out here who actually know enough of proper method acting to assist those of you who don't... We aren't slamming you for being idiots or anything, just that we prefer to actually have a story and shoudl someone need info.. then for heaven's sake!  Ask!... secondly... Constructive criticism is never remiss when it is properly founded... It may sometimes be harsh, but this serves to help us to be better players in the end of all beginnings...  There is nothing wrong with putting a character on the chopping block unless one is not willing to sacrifice the character..  So have the good sense to create some characters one can handle to do just that... Folks will work with each other if there is a plan ( on a general basis that is )  Silver played one of the most believable Trolls on the site ever by the name of Brutal Bone Grinder..  Right down to the grosse nature of the beasts... Frankly... he even had my food rising one night, along with everyone else in the room when he came in after thrashing White Rose....  Now That's~!!!! Acting...  FFRP is not just about stats and figures and so on.. it is about the True Arte Of The Theatre...  It has been a honor to play Qijdi and the few others We've chosen as parts of the wheel...  One more mention... If one does not know what to do in a fight... then it is best not to get into one unless necessary... then.. frankly.... seek out those who know and have them help coach so that the next time said battle will be more pleasurable and realistic for we all... especially the combatants... Anyhoo and Anyway////of hoo'ness... That's my thoughts for the night..Rama Bless,Au.</blockquote>

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