Category Role-Playing (4)
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By NAFTOLIZ from PLAY.NET (Reallia)
On Jul 16, 2002 at 19:37
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22278)
I jumped in without reading any documentation first. My first incarnation was a ranger, who used two weapons. I trained in random things. I had no idea what I was doing. RP'ng wise, well... I once sang the verses of 'Heard it through the Grapevine' on the amunet. I thought I was hilarous. And, I was upset that no one responded! And, believe it or not, I thought I was a great roleplayer. If you can use me as an example, the newbie snerts (like me!) are just naive (like me!).
Reallia
Category Role-Playing (4)
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By LEIAMY from PLAY.NET
On Jul 17, 2002 at 01:08
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22292)
I had no idea what an empath was, how to play , nothing. It took me a month to get my first level. The first 5 levels that I so called trained, I checked into the inn and right out.. I didnt know you had to pick things to train in. Hence this is how I came to be the southern blond elf with the motto dont expect much. It took me years to title... I can't even believe someone didnt just put me outta my misery I was so slow at catching on. But I had the greatest times then.
Leiamy~
Category Role-Playing (4)
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By PEAM from PLAY.NET
On Jul 17, 2002 at 01:33
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22295)
I pretty much jumped right into the game. It was about two months before AOL went unlimited and I was right around 12-13. I'm wanting to say that I had found the link through one of my friends telling me about how fun roleplaying was. The only thing I did to prepare was to read Thalior's sorcerer guide. I made a dark elven sorcerer named Omoa Scottsman. (doh?) Within ten minutes of making level one I was in the catacombs repeatedly casting blood burst on fellow adventurers.
After serving the 30 day lockout I put some more research into the subject. I guess I turned out alright.
-Jason
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By LADYBEARD from PLAY.NET
On Jul 17, 2002 at 01:38
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22296)
Oh God, the memories..
This thread is making me laugh way too much. The very first night I saw Gemstone, I was 15 and babysitting. The girl I was babysitting yelled at me to come see this game she was playing..lo and behold, GemStone. I thought there were four rooms, North South East West. Then..THEN..she kissed someone. There was the clicker for me. "OooOoOo you can KISS! That is SO cute!"
So, she let me sign on my account and I promptly rolled up Bardess. I met someone and that night we decided to run away and get married. (He liked the KISS verb, too!)
Oh, and then..Mistytwilight's character and I discovered the Tree Fort outside of Darkstone..and we collected aprons and bricks and table legs because we were *convinced* we were going to build a tree house and make men run around in aprons and be our servants. We were SO MAD when we'd leave our chipped bricks there and we came back to nothing. We swore we'd find those theives!
Or the time we stayed up as long as we could on the Juggernaut because we thought maybe, just maybe, the ship would sail away and we'd be trapped on a pirate ship with long-haired pirates!
Or the first time I went hunting, walked into the sewers, and promptly left because a rat drooled on me. Ewww.
I even remember my first outfit. A threadbare lilac gown and a dented medallion. I was SO proud.
Or the first Lady I ever saw. I can't remember her name, but she was beautiful. I had such respect for Lord's and Ladies. Still do, but ah..they're not as mystical and magical now.
At highschool, we'd have 'Gemstone Story Hour' and I'd tell my friends a little ten minute update on my adventures. One even signed my yearbook 'I bet you're going to marry one of those GemStone computer dorks..'
Here I am, 23, married to a GemStone computer dork..and still playing.
Sar~
Category Quests, Sagas, and Events (6)
Topic Hot Summer Nights 2002 (31)
By DAYSEE from PLAY.NET (Elven Warbride)
On Mar 18, 2002 at 11:18
Subject Re: Incoming Newcomer Equipment (a suggestion) (327)
I remember very distinctly, from my first quick-gen ranger, walking around town for the first time. I found the armor, quickly bought the most expensive armor I could afford (chain mail, maybe?) and then picked up a drake greatsword in TSC and wandered out to kobolds.
What did all of this teach me? A lot. How would I have learned it otherwise? Eventually, but probably not first hand. Many people, even today, don't realize what determines your round time. Put on some armor you can't wear, amble out to a place with a weapon you can't swing... you'll learn pretty quickly.
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By DALIMAR from PLAY.NET (Thats MISTRESS to you...)
On Jul 17, 2002 at 12:57
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22320)
Wheres the graphics?
OMIGOD! Don't LAUGH!
Okay I was 25 when I started playing GemStone...AOL had this contest going, I think the prize was 10,000 free hours! Anyway, they would give you a new link each day to some part of AOL that you never tried before, and to enter, you had to click on the link. One fateful day, the link took me to GSIII...
I started reading on the AOL boards to see what it was all about, although I admit I was mostly interested in the character portraits.
So when I finally did log in, of course no Wizard, white screen, TINY black text scrolling by at roughly the speed of light, and me not knowing squat about roleplaying except that it was something like Dungeons and Dragons, and that was what the geeky kids in high school who watched Dr Who and called themselves "Trekkies" did for fun. ::coughs::
So anyway.
When all I saw was that mass of text scrolling way too fast to read, I was pretty sure I had loaded the game wrong. (g) Or that my computer was just too much of a piece of crap to handle the graphics end of it. I was so sure I was disadvantaged, and I remember trying to explain to the FRIENDLY VOICE..."You don't understand! I don't think I see what you see..."
Well, I was half right, anyhow. 'Cause I played for six months before Criket showed me where I could download the WIZARD and talked me through it. (I *had* heard some whisperings about how a wizard would make hunting so much easier for me, but I was like, "I'm a ROGUE, dammit! I don't need no stinkin' wizard, I can figure this out on my own!")
Wow. I was so dumb back then. But ya know, it was 20 times more fun then, than it is now. Maybe ignorance really IS bliss...
~Gina
Category Role-Playing (4)
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By POTC from PLAY.NET
On Jul 17, 2002 at 17:11
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22332)
I had been Roleplaying with pen and paper games since I was about 12 and two of my older brother's needed me to fill in for a friend that had gotten sick or grounded, I forget what. It was mostly WOD and D and D. I think I might have read about gemstone around 94 or 95, however, that was when you had to pay by the hour, and I was so poor I split my account with two of my roomates. We used one of those times your mother baked with to keep us truthful.
My first ever charater I played was a human wizard. I didn't read anything, and wondered why I couldn't choose wizard shield as my first level spell. I walked around town for a bit, and saw, right before me, the most wonderful thing in the world. A dented *Gold* box. Who would leave such a thing just lying on the ground for anyone to take? I picked it up, then I grabbed every box I could see, until my backpack was full. The pawnshop didn't want them, but heck, somebody had to. I had gold and silver and mithril, that one was a keeper for sure. Then somehow, I found an augmented breastplate. Since I couldn't cast my wizard shield yet, being only 0 level, I figured I'd wear it. I don't think I read anything until my third charater, after I had a warrior who trained in ranged weapons, MO, thrown weapons and I think two weapon combat. I got a little upset when I was killed by three rats. I had multi-opponents combat! I should be able to fight the little things. Also, I started looking for the guides to see where I could buy a bow. in 96 I didn't like the answer.
I didn't find out about the front end until about a week before the move to the web. Silly me.
Between that, my 15 boxes, my 54 strength stat(I'm a wizard, I'll learn strenght as my second spell!) I swung a rapier at a rat in a quick 17 seconds. Numbers would fly by, all I would worry about was Hit or miss.
I remember having my second charater healing in the healer's tent with about three or four other people.
I remember punching another charater in hopes that they would kill me so I could start over again. Well, I think I kicked them too.
Of course, after getting a new job, moving and the switch to the web, I kinda forgot about Gemstone until I broke my leg and couldn't do anything for a while. Since I haven't been able to find a pen and paper game since I moved, Gemstone became a substitue for it. And a great one. I think the only thing that pen and paper can do that gemstone can't is the look on a person's face when they found out a "Girl" was the storyteller.
Shejala's Player
Category Role-Playing (4)
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By SUBTERRANIA from PLAY.NET (the Firebird)
On Jul 17, 2002 at 17:32
Subject Playing a roleplaying game (22334)
Memory lane: my very first character....
First, I went and read all the documents except for the history document and deity documents (at least partially because, at the time, the "deity documents" were a bunch of posts by Stump hidden wayyyy back on the AOL message boards... though I did look them up later. I honestly can't remember whether the history document existed at all. If it did, I never read it anyway.)
I rolled up a sylvan empath. Why? Because I thought sylvans were kind of rare (since the documents said they were) and because empaths were supposed to be the hardest profession to play. Ha! said I, I can do anything!
I hadn't ever played a roleplaying game before, but I'd read fantasy novels and I figured that was good enough. When a certain mystic wanted to speak to me, I thought it was GM-run and lorded it horribly over my little brother because *I'd* been chosen to be part of this quest for *Good Roleplaying* and helpfulness, WOO! (The results of that caught me as a horrible surprise, I had no clue whatsoever...)
Trying to speak about roleplaying Arienrhod would be hard. Arienrhod was me in my most cheerful, upbeat, helpful, happy, pleased-to-meet people mode (which my current character is not, notably.) In short-- she wasn't roleplayed. She just sort of existed. And she rooted for Imaera like rooting for a football team: Imaera Makes Herbs. Imaera Is Good. Yay, Imaera! All you Luukosers are BAD!
I think your first character and your first introduction to somewhere like Elanthia always hold a bit of extra mystique and wonder that you'll never be able to recapture again. I know Arienrhod held that wonder for me. I also know I never would have been able to advance if I hadn't been an empath, because my understanding of mechanics was pretty close to nil. I believe my first round rolled up to a 540 or so. When I asked someone for help and advice, they took me off to a table, asked about my stats, and made me reroll (meanie!) They told me not to stop short of the magic 600, but, after an hour adding and rolling, I stopped with a 590 or so. (Weirdly, I miss that little pop-up screen for the character manager.) I put the stats wherever I wanted them, which, if I recall, means my strength was about 45 and my intelligence was about 80 and my charisma was about 60, among other things.
My computer couldn't cope with the TSC scroll. Every time I went there, I had to exit and restart GemStone in order to leave again, because I was totally frozen by the area.
In my first hunt, I got horribly weighed down because my hunting partner had me picking up javelins (kobold village) to sell for coin. In my second hunt, my companions handed me a rapier and had me hunt two-weapon against gnomes. I didn't figure out for a long time after how to do the math-- I just knew that sometimes I hit them and sometimes I didn't... because I *hadn't* read up on combat mechanics at all. I wasn't dying, and that meant I was spiffy keen.... I dimly recall that Arienrhod's AS was -4, and I wonder how I ever hunted my way to level 2, because hunt on through I did.
Then, I never understood why you should stop healing and go rest when you were fried. Why would I? People needed me! (This was before empaths came a dime a dozen.) So I worked for hours upon hours upon hours while fried... just like I hunted for hours upon hours upon hours and never paused to wonder why I never left "fresh and clear"... and never paused to wonder why I levelled only about once every three weeks....
At the same time, I was permanently broke. My idea of "big money" was scavenging for leather and swords in hill trolls and getting tipped with boxes from the same. 25k to join House Aspis was a huge investment that I hemmed and hawed over for hours, to say nothing of the 60k I finally spent on a deep azure vultite broadsword.
Speaking of azure draws me into thinking of Arienrhod's dress sense. Arienrhod's color was azure. She wore a lot of azure: an azure silk backpack, an azure silk pouch, some azure silk slippers, an azure Imaera ring... (You're getting the idea.) When the dyer came around for the first time, I thought dyed flowers were the neatest things ever, especially since it only cost me a crystal amulet, so I scavenged up all the amulets I could, foraged up all the flowers I could, and wore about 20 dyed flowers along with my azure-- though the flowers weren't dyed azure; they were dyed every rainbow color except for green. It made my description long, just like the old players. This made me happy.
More reminiscing another time, perhaps...
--the wind beneath Tanager's wings
Category Role-Playing (4)
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By SUBTERRANIA from PLAY.NET (the Firebird)
On Jul 17, 2002 at 17:55
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22336)
Or the first time I went hunting, walked into the sewers, and promptly left because a rat drooled on me. Ewww.
Ooh, one more memory.
Here is little empath Arienrhod, and she is going down to the catacombs to try out her First Spell.
Short sword in right hand-- check. Rapier in left hand-- check. (Someone told me to use two-weapon because I'd hit more often. I hadn't trained in it, but I didn't know any better.)
Find rat-- check.
prep 201-- check.
Wait for the spell to be read-- check.
Then, just when I tried to cast my spell at the rat... the rat cast a spell at me. I was calm! I couldn't do anything! It was an EVIL SPELLCASTING RAT!
So I ran away, screaming bloody murder about spellcasting rats, and I started a huge invasion panic.
Later, someone explained to me that you had to cast AT things.
--the wind beneath Tanager's wings
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Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By ZILAL from PLAY.NET (Roguebot 2000)
On Jul 18, 2002 at 05:36
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22354)
I think my favorite eary-adventurer-cluelessness story is when Lylia spoke of how when she messed up delivering messages and the clerk wouldn't give her a new one, she thought she'd screwed her chances for ever learning again and rerolled.
Z
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By OBSESSION from PLAY.NET (Danay)
On Jul 18, 2002 at 07:58
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22356)
A dented *Gold* box. Who would leave such a thing just lying on the ground for anyone to take?
(grin) I hadn't done a lot of gameplaying before GS, but enough to know that whatever you find on the ground is important and you should pick it up because it might come in handy later. I figured I could keep my coins in that trunk at the least, to protect them from thieves. I never could figure out how to do that though.
I wasn't using the wizard for the first couple months, so have no logs. But I'm sure I was always wandering around with all kinds of extra crud in my backpack for quite a while, because you just never know when you will NEED that spent silver wand, empty strongbox or tattered cloth!
I also used a lot of the "common sense" approach to things when first playing. I started carrying a dagger right away because no sensible weapon swinger would ever want to be caught without a backup. (It hadn't sunk in yet that nothing could actually happen to my precious 50 silver broadsword from Tykel's.)
I would get very worried when hunting rats to see that my mind was becoming progressively more and more fuzzy as I fought. I didn't realize that was a good thing. I was like, oh no! My mind is muddled! I better go lay off for a while or I won't be able to think clearly in battle and then something bad will happen.
I didn't know that it was possible to swing my precious 50 silver Tykel broadsword at rats in under 8 seconds. It took an older cleric laughing at me in my light leather, full greaves and helm and telling me to ditch all that stuff to realize 8 wasn't the fastest. (At the time I was hunting sometimes with another young character who swung even slower than that, so I was really smug about how fast I was.)
Then there was the time, which Leslie just loves to remind me about, where I had hunted a treasure carrying creature for the first time so posted on the boards asking what blue coral was good for. (blush) Hey, for all I knew it had some fantastical magical properties! Until that point I don't think I even understood people sold things at the gemshop.
One day I heard that silk backpacks weighed less than normal backpacks. Oh what a discovery! So off I went with some of my few hard earned rat pelt silvers and special ordered a lavender silk backpack from the general store. To my dismay it weighed the same as my old heavy backpack, though looked better. (It was quite a while later that I learned it was spidersilk that was light.)
Robin
Category Role-Playing (4)
Topic Thoughts on Role-Playing (4)
By PARFYON from PLAY.NET (Yes I care, and very deeply.)
On Jul 18, 2002 at 12:31
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22367)
My first day in GS3 was a real treat.
I wanted to hunt the undead, so after begging in TSC for half an hour, someone spared me the 4 mana necessary. I was set for life, I figured.
I was hunting underneath the temple against the ghosts. I think they're ghosts, it's been forever since I've even looked. I made my first friend down there, his name was Drdre. He seemed in control and had the answers to just about everything. He also told me about clearing my mind, and I paniced because my mind was muddled. No problem, he assured me, because "No dude muddled is weak."
He went missing after that day. I suppose Drdre moved on to other adventures, OR THE LCI. Hmm... think think think
Then I met some guy while hunting salamanders. His named was Madrith or something like that. My character's name at the time was Mordschlager. Yuck, huh? At least my names are better than that these days... So then Madrith rerolled and named himself Mordspal. I made myself scarce for a few days. What kind of weirdos play this game?
I lost a brand new imflass broadsword to a backpack on the ground. I bought the same ora (short) sword twice in two days (and cursed a lot, and told Aephir to kiss my #@%, and got banned), lost all my belongings to the legal system, dropped & tapped coins in the gnome caves, and in general, was a complete idiot.
Boy am I glad those days are over! Right?
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By THORBURNN from PLAY.NET
On Jul 18, 2002 at 13:10
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22371)
Ah, another memory: I ordered an obsidian broadsword at level three, thinking it sounded really cool and dark elven. I used it for the next two levels and never realised the AS drop.
Kevralynn - Obsidian over Rolaren any day
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By ALENA from PLAY.NET (Trouble)
On Jul 18, 2002 at 15:22
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22381)
I remember finding the Simu games on AOL, back in... hrmm.. '95.
I really had nothing to do with my time, I was around 18 or 19, and generally poked around the different areas on AOL when I was bored. I'd try the games, and I found some Simu starship game first. I plugged at that for about 15-30 minutes, but could NOT figure it out, and promptly gave up. I then poked around the Simu game area some more and found the Gemstone III area. I saw that little graphic of the four adventurers around a signpost (remember that?), liked that it looked medieval, and basically jumped right in.
Not only did I not read any documentation, I was absolutely clueless. I picked the name Lorel because I knew a girl named Laurel that I liked a lot.. when I couldn't have 'Laurel', 'Lorel' was accepted.. and yes, I thought I was exceedingly clever by picking the last name 'Leiff' (after 'Leaf' and 'Leaffe' weren't available). Oh, if only I could change that now..
The first incarnation of Lorel was a Sylvan ranger. I thought, hey, I like trees and the woods, I'll make her a wood-elf.. and ooo! rangers are 'masters of the forest' (so it said the CM), so I'll pick that, too.
Now, you all are free to laugh, because I honestly expected something cool to happen because she was a Sylvan ranger. I quickly ran outside the gates (although I have no clue how I even found the gates), and waited, fully expecting the trees to talk to me. Yes, I expected the trees to talk to me. I have absolutely no idea why I assumed that would happen.
I waited about five minutes, and nothing happened, other than people passing me by. Somehow, in the half an hour or so I played that first Lorel, I observed a little bit, and must have seen people raising, because I decided that that was what I wanted to do. Hence, she was quickly rerolled and became a cleric.
I played on a Mac, and not only was there no autoroller I knew of, I didn't know what were acceptable rolls, nor did I have the patience to sit and try to get one. Knowing me, I probably looked at the first set of rolls and then hit 'g' a few times until I found one that wasn't terribly horrendous (in my uninformed view), and went with that.
I based Lorel's looks off of myself.. Short, sandy blonde hair, green eyes, fair skin.. and at first, she was honestly just an extension of myself, I had no clue what roleplaying was. The second incarnation of Lorel... Well, no other way to say it but that she sucked. I have no idea even how crappy her stats must have been, but it took me SO long to make level 6 that I was incredibly frustrated. At level 6, she had a hell of a time killing even lesser ghouls, and goblins beat the heck out of her all the time.
She was hunting with some fellow one day in the graveyard, and she was complaining about how hard it was to fight and train. Her AS was spectacularly low, I remember that much. The nice guy finally pulled me aside and said, 'Look, I know this sucks, but you'd be much better off if you rerolled.' I whined a lot because it had taken me SO long just to get to level 6 and I didn't want to do it again! But he told me I'd be glad for it, and to trust him. So he helped me find some documentation, a guide, and somehow I found the Blizzard Mac Autoroller.. Sometime in the spring or summer of '96, I'd wager.
This time, I was determined to get the best roll I could. And man, I rolled for a LONG time. I can't remember what the roll I picked added up to, it was probably around 650 (decidedly higher than Lorel's first rolls). I rolled her up, placed the stats in the right place, and started training in the things I ought to train in.
Voila, the third Lorel is born, and still exists today. Six years later, she's 71.. which, for me, is pretty impressive. Took her two years to title, mostly because I didn't understand repelling and how clerics hunted, so she'd swing and die a lot and I just gave up and decided to hang out in TSC and the north gate, because I could chat and gossip with people all day (and yes, still not having a clue what RP was and that being borderline OOC was a bad thing). I don't think I learned the actual trick to repelling (I used to think you had to cast 301 at the critter first, and was appalled at how much mana I had to spend) until Lorel was 25-30.. but it's been a lot easier since then. ;)
I will never forget the magic of the beginning. The smooth stones, thinking I had to lie down to absorb more experience, the rare nobility walking by and making me freeze in awe.. Down to dropping your things when you died, or everything when you decayed, and having to make a mad dash back from the altar in hopes your precious light leathers and short sword were still there. I almost think it was better having NOT read the docs first, and jumping right in. I like to get my hands dirty and learn as I go.. although when I try new games now, I tend to read pretty much whatever I can get my hands on, so I'm prepared when I start.
-- Alena
Category Role-Playing (4)
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By DALIMAR from PLAY.NET (Thats MISTRESS to you...)
On Jul 18, 2002 at 21:15
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22399)
Oh, in my sappy post I forgot to mention how floored I was the first time I died and someone fogged to me.
Heh. I had died and decayed a few times, never been raised though. I didn't know about raising, I figured you had a certain amount of deaths allowable each level (deaths this level?) before GAME OVER.
So the first time a lady fogged to me dead in rats, fogged me out and THEN brought me back to life...I thought she was a goddess. And I told everyone I could get to listen, too. I couldn't remember her name, but I was pretty sure Lorminstra herownself fogged me out of the tunnels, and that's pretty much how I related the story. I felt really special for an inordinate amount of time. ::cough:: ::blush::
~G
Category Role-Playing (4)
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By DALIMAR from PLAY.NET (Thats MISTRESS to you...)
On Jul 19, 2002 at 15:45
Subject Re: Playing a Roleplaying Game (22445)
Your first character in the game -- Anyone end up naming them something really stupid?
Lynxarra.
This was like three years before there were lynxes. I don't think alot of people read it as Lynx Arra though, because people were constantly calling me "Lyn" for short, rather than "Lynx"
I TRIED to name her Princess Buttercup, but that didn't work. Nor did Buttercup. So I wanted something I thought sounded cool and rogueish and also vaguely like "Laranna"...because for some reason when I read the messages I was in total awe and wanted to be just like her.
~G
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By KOCHT from PLAY.NET (Whiners of Elanthia, UNITE!)
On Jul 19, 2002 at 17:59
Subject Re: Playing a Roleplaying Game (22450)
Well this is no fun if only a few people answer with names that really were not -that- bad. Hmph.
Okay, Leslie, lemme hook ya up ;)
Although I think I've told this story before somewhere, heh.
Anyway. When I decided I wanted to play, my friend was showing me the ropes and how to roll up a good sorcerer, etc. We spent hours looking through Da Farmer's guide, hitting that "G" button (this was before auto-rollers), and trying to get a decent roll that was at least over 600 and preferably with a 100 in it because that was awesome! Who knew anything about stat growth and good rolls back then? Heh!
So finally, after like two hours of this, we get a *really fantastic roll* of ::cough:: 617. We'd pretty much worked out where the stats were gonna go, so we did that, pick my characteristics, and the last thing to pick was a name. She says, "Okay, we're done! All you have to do is pick a name and then when you get in type DIR bank and follow the directions. I'll meet you there and show you around."
Did I mention we were doing all of this over the phone? Before we hang up, I ask her what I should pick as a name. Her parting words of wisdom were, "Pick something that means something to you and then modify it a little bit so it turns into a name."
I thought about it for a while and thought well, my dog means a lot to me. Maybe I'll do something with her name. Which is Goober. And, for a nickname when I'm playing with her, I call her Goober Snoocher.
::cough::
Yes, my first character's name was Goobahsnoocha.
I DIR my way to the bank, see my friend there, and she GASPs, FLAILs, and logs. A second later my IMs are going off. "Are you NUTS?? Goobahsnoocha???? After TWO HOURS trying to get a roll for this character you name her THAT??"
The next two hours, I was on my own rolling someone new up. Heh, that was a fun night that I don't think either of us will ever forget :)
GG
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By VALTHRAE from PLAY.NET (Just a slip of a sorceress)
On Jul 19, 2002 at 18:24
Subject Re: Playing a Roleplaying Game (22455)
Your first character in the game -- Anyone end up naming them something really stupid?
Not a first character, but yeah. I named a PC something really stupid...
Bhunny de'Hellion
Not that Somebody's Wheels... really.
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By ZILAL from PLAY.NET (Roguebot 2000)
On Jul 20, 2002 at 08:45
Subject Re: Playing a roleplaying game (22475)
Ooh, yes! The first courtesy guide I ever read said that you should bow or curtsy to every Lord or Lady you met because sometimes they would give you money.
The funny thing is, that sounds like something that the rank and file might have actually told each other in medieval times.
Disks really perplexed me too at first. I thought they were items in certain rooms that had been named after people, I pictured them like circular pedestals. Then one day I rubbed a black crystal and this thing kept following me from room to room!
I also used to try to kill myself as an alternative to checking into an inn... several times by licking my sword to death. I just thought that was the neatest thing, that a game would be that realistic. (A realism I of course destroyed by indulging in it willy-nilly.)
I don't recall the first time I saw an NPC or special GM messaging, but I remember the first time an NPC interacted with me directly... when the tree in TSC said I was smart, for saying Setzier should stay married to it.
My first GM interaction was when I was cluelessly abusing the SMILE command, doing "Juspera smiles Coconuts rain from the sky!" just to see if the formatting would make it look like coconuts were really raining from the sky, or whatever it was I had. (Thankfully I was alone at the time.) I got a send telling me not to do that, so I used the same trick to ask why not. I don't remember what the response was but it wasn't very happy. I was terrified I'd gotten in big trouble.
Z
8/2/03 GSIV Folders Discussing Armor
I think we should go back to the way it was pre-deICEing!
Those of you who have heard this story, hush.
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a little bard. He was very new. He heard of a wonderous armor called heavy hide that required no armor training! He accumulated some silvers. He went to the armor shop and noticed on the list of available goods: plate armor! "Hmmm," he thinks to himself, "I'll bet that's heavy!" And then he notices that not only can he buy plate armor. He can have it made from fur! Wow! This is the fabled heavy hide! So he buys some fur plate armor. Yes he did. When ready (I can't recall how long it took for the armor to be ready), he proudly donned his new fur plate (yes, it actually was called fur plate) and wandered out of town to display his armored prowess. Now, back then armor training affected your DB (what is now DS). If you weren't trained at all in armor - and in the case of plate you needed lots of armor training, then you suffered a mighty whallop to your defense. So the mighty, somewhat pimpish-looking bard met a torkaan right outside the gate, near what used to be a hole in the town wall and is now a gate. The torkaan saw the pimped up bard. The torkaan attacked the pimped up bard. The poor soon to be ex-bard wearing fur plate and with no armor training had a wonderful DB of -117. Yes, that's a negative sign. The torkaan did what we used to call a spatula on the poor bard in one bite. So here's my vote for going back to having armor affect AS and DS! Woohoo!
Gerald
9/25/03
I used to also believe that dropping and tapping coins would attract cave gnomes.
Hehe! I remember getting into arguments about that, someone would walk in an pick up your coin(s):
"Hey, thats my coin!"
"You stole my money!"
"Ahh screw this, im gettin some cheese and goin to rats!"
.............. ahh, the simple bliss of our ignorance.....................
Dyridian Darrmor
11/12/03
When I first began playing (when AOL went unlimited) the lands weren't nearly as expansive as they are now. There were many new players joining weekly and accurate information was at a premium. I'm sure most of the long termed players can assossiate with this. What to do, how to do it, and where to do it were questions often asked. I thought that when my mind reached a state of MUST REST, some unknown dreadful consequence would ensue if I didn't plop myself down right then and there. It didn't matter if I was on the North Ring Rd. or in the catacombs. I would stop, sit and rest until my mind was clear as a bell. Not only didn't I know what a node was, I didn't have any idea where one was located or that it made a difference to experience absorbtion.
Anyway just some ramblings and reminiscences from an old dotterel.
Mark
11/13/03
When I was young, one time I typed EXP and saw that my mind was numbed. I knew there were some spelly types in the room, and I got so scared that they were manipulating my mind, as I wasn't sure of all the magical powers in the realms at the time (warrior), that I ran all over town trying to hide and dodge them.
Eventually I ran to a table and finally felt safe. Hah!
Spendel Fretgin, Giantman Warrior
11/13/03
I thought that when my mind reached a state of MUST REST, some unknown dreadful consequence would ensue
Don't remind me. I adventured for many years under the assumption that this was the case. All began at level 0 when I got diseased by a giant rat and didn't know it. I just died mysteriously on my way out of the catacombs with my head full. I thought, wow, I must have blown my brain up! hehehe
Ranshai
Re: Like a turtle in trouble. (Long!) · on 2/24/2006 12:24:48 PM
Haha, that was great! And I want you to know you do not stand alone in this endeavor. Sadly my experience did not turn out as well as yours, and I no longer have the log to prove it, but I will go into it alittle.
Baby rogue, don't think I'd even trained once yet, and guy takes me around buying me new stuff and just in general being nice, (KUDOS to him) anyway he buys some plate armor for his training, and doesn't bother to mention it's not for me....said guy hands me armor.... Remember now, this was my first couple experiences in Elanthia..... Graciously thank said guy slip easily into armor..... OH NO! Said guy chuckles and explains that was for him, he just need me to hold it for a second....No problem! Just give it back right? OH! boy was I in for a suprise.....fall as you did into turtle position.....and there's no getting me up, no getting the armor off! Said "nice" guy drags me to tsc. Surely someone there's got an idea to get it off he reassures me. Said guy ask for help (right there in public explains my delema, mind you) BAM flurry of action as spells are cast at me, stripped down to my humble beginnings and still armor is NOT budging. Three hours later, and LOTS of trying to get armor off....no avail I'm stuck fast in the armor being drug all over the landings with a HUGE crowd of interested folk with interesting options! And then the BIG one hit! GO TO JAIL someone yells the guard takes all your stuff that will free you! WHAT! JAIL! I just got here what do you mean JAIL...jail...(sigh) no other options prevails and no one bothers to tell me I could get above ordinary help... SOOOOOO drug around untill we find the poor unsuspecting flower girl, poor girl don't know whats about to hit her. Suprise suprise it was me... barehanded and laying trapped in armor on my back. Go directly to jail... you know the kind where you can't collect $200.00 VOILA! ARMOR FREE!..... suspiciously large fine.... but the armor is gone! Halleujah! Large crowd claps me on the back and congratualtions all around. Yay!
Whoo Welcome ME to Gemstone III and what a welcome it was. For those that are curious The armor remains mine to this day, and I've never put on plate again!
and now that I've fully embarrassed myself (again)
..... Phelicidea
Re: Like a turtle in trouble. (Long!) · on 2/27/2006 12:44:21 PM
Years ago we used to have a problem with newbies begging for coins in TSC. At a certain point, some elder would get tired of it, sleep them and hand them a large sum of coins. Why is this funny you may ask? Well this was before crawl and in those days you couldn't give anyone coins or drop them if you were young and owed a debt in town, which of course they always did. In fact some even said that was what they were begging to pay off.
So they couldn't get up, couldn't get rid of the coins, and since this was before crawl, they couldn't crawl to the bank either. They were stuck. Lesson learned.
Kerl