Fenrir

Bump as I've been neglecting this.

Well thank you And thanks to everyone who attended our play this weekend. We hoped you enjoyed yourselves, and be sure to look out for our next production.

Gotta house. Things are coming together.

We didn't reject you for being a combat RPer. We heard you out. We were willing to work with you. Everything seemed hunky-dory, we told you we'd prefer if we could avoid any combat because otherwise it's just six pissed off criminals against your lone character. You argued that because your character is a special serpent soldier they could fend off six people and walk it off. I stopped you there. I didn't do it in a good way. I apologized for calling you a mary sue, and then explained that one of our friends had just gotten done dealing with a dragoon doing this sort of stuff, and that we've personally dealt with it before in the past (another dragoon..) so we'd rather just call it off. I thought we ended on pretty amicable terms. I guess not. Next time, however, feel free to contact me and we can talk it out, because I assure you we did not pull out because you're a combat RPer. We obviously did it because you're a dragoon.

We currently have a new play and a gambling den event in the works. Don't change that channel.

Right, I'm bloody back, and this idea is still interesting to me -- especially with Frontlines just having come out. Sadly, there's no /duel function in this game, and one vs one arenas aren't even a thing -- nor should they be, with how badly balanced PvP is in this game (and if you want to call me on that point, check the FL standings for Balmung this week and then shut up), so while I have fantasies of actually getting people to play the gladiators and the like, they'll have to do it in an RP fighting way. Now I'm not big on RP fighting, but the only alternative I can see has a major problem -- if we did make 8 man premade teams to break up and go into wolves den for battles, no one would be able to see the fights, which takes away a lot of the spectator business on this whole deal, and what good is that? What, are we meant to believe that fatcat investor from Ul'dah just sits around and eats grapes and waits for someone to walk out and tell him who won? No. So RP fighting it is. Now, great, there should be fighters, but what else can people do around this? Well, we'll need investors, cooks, bookkeepers, waiters/waitresses to see to the spectators, we'll need security and other heavy types, healers, and hell, we could also use some hippie types who want to get the whole thing disbanded. Also entertainment for when there's lulls in the gladiators beating the hell out of each other. So if you could see your character playing any of these roles, don 't be shy. A system for fights will need to be worked out, as well as a prize pool and any betting rules, but that's for later. Earn your glory in the ring. Earn a beating for trying to fix the fights. Take the apple of your eye on a date to see two people beat each other senseless. The possibilities are endless.

Yes. Yes it does.

After concluding some business in the East, Lansquenet's leadership has returned, and the doors have been thrown back open.

Many thanks to those who participated tonight. We hope you enjoyed Raindrops' lovely adaptation of IX.

/say actually has a pathetically short range, and the Beds are big enough that dates can space out without overlapping too much.

Sadly, we do not regularly hold plays. However, we are planning for an event next month for Valentine's.

She's PINK. Or so she claims.

Nebbs specifically said she didn't think it should be applied. You, however, didn't say that. I think this might better be brought up (for the sake of clarity and also because it doesn't exactly fit in with the conversation in this thread, which was about recruiting for specific RP, not labeling threads) in a separate thread. What do you think? So? And you're probably right.

I think his argument was more that there's no graphic content in this thread, so why would it need a label? The people you'd want to "label" their posts are unlikely to read this thread anyway. But if the forum owners decide that it's needed, I'm sure people will do it. But this isn't fanfiction, and it isn't RP. This was a setup for RP in the game world, not on the forums. There's no graphic content in this thread at all. I don't understand why you would feel it needs to be labeled. Nebbs' post never said it should be applied to this thread. I never said it, either. But the tagging idea was brought up, and that's simply what I was arguing for.

WoD roleplaying communities tag shit. That argument doesn't hold any water. So since someone else does it, then we must as well? I'm afraid your "argument" (airquotes mandatory, as you don't really have one) is the one that doesn't hold any water, my good sir. What I said isn't that hard to understand. Much the same as adding emoticons to your post doesn't make your response any less passive aggressive or annoying. I'll spell it out for you. Your argument is that because there's sexual themes in XIV, there's no call for us, as a community, to tag posts that contain graphic sexual or violent content that might upset someone. I'm telling you that there's plenty of other settings out there that dive much deeper into these themes, yet the people who play in them have the good grace to tag their stuff so they don't upset anyone. It's a very common thing these days. People usually call them trigger warnings. Being considerate of others isn't hard. They do? I admit that it's been a while since I've LARP'd or TT'd VtM or it's associated games (though I certainly miss WtA and MtA), but I don't recall anyone tagging shit. The setting itself is incredibly dark and violent and, quite frankly, vile, if you read the source material. What communities are you talking about anyway? Forum roleplays are what I'm referring to. There's other examples, such as fanfiction archives and the like.