Happy Armageddon Thoughts

[Lizzie]

There's a lot of talk about karma, and magickers, and criticisms and complaints, and how this or that is unbalanced and twinks do this or the other thing and all kinds of stuff like that.

So in the midst of it all, I just want to say, I have learned recently I have karma for magick selection, and I'm very proud and happy for that. On the other hand, I've been playing my current PC so long, and she's an ordinary, mundane, non-leader, normal grebber-type with no sekrit skillz and not even all that much uberness in the skills she does have, and I am having an amazing time with her especially lately. As giddy as I am knowing that next time around I can pick a magicker class, I am SO having fun with the one I have now, that I might just decide to play another mundane as the end of the world as we know it draws close. When the time comes, that is. Assuming it comes, heh. With my luck, I'll have this character until the day Arm v.1 closes shop and Arm v.2 opens. But that would be fine too. If I never get a chance to play any of the karma classes I have (which aren't all -that- many really), I think I'll still be very glad I came to Armageddon and have played with such wonderful RPers.

So thanks to all of you for everything so far, and looking forward to more more more!

L. Stanson

[Hymwen]

That's great! I'm not too good at sticking with my characters, I get bored easily and if two weeks go by where I feel like my character has no purpose, I move on. I've had magicker karma for quite a while and only recently made one that I never intended to play fully, it just doesn't appeal to me and you should never feel that you have to play a role just because you have the karma for it. The most interesting roles are gained through direct staff trust, the kind of roles you don't find on a list in your account data, and I think that's the real achievement. Nothing beats playing a race that many players don't even know exists.

[Marauder Moe]

Characters that survive using only Sirihish make me happy.

[LauraMars]

I love my pathetic mundane character and hope she makes it to the end.

[palomar]

I loved mine too, but that somehow jinxed it and I died to my own stupidity.

[bloodfromstone]

Mine was cool, too. I blame you, palomar.

[Voular]

I survived hahah!
...
Yeah, mundane characters are fun!

[Dalmeth]

I don't know if I'd really have much fun playing something other than a dirty, stinking grebber.

[WarriorPoet]

I have a sizeable pile of karma, but I've definately enjoyed my generic warrior/mercenery combo far, far, far more than all the magickers I've ever played combined, go ahead and add halfling, HG, and krazy delf to that list as well.

Generic human warrior or ranger ftfw.

-WP hopes to survive to the end, very much, but would enjoy a knife in the eye just as much.

[Bebop]

I fookin' <3 you Liz.  :wink:

[Seeker]

I fookin' <3 you Liz.  :wink:

I'm pretty glad to know that you are somewhere out there, too.


Seeker

[Lizzie]

You ain't so fookin' bad yaself, Bebop the Great!
/inside joke

[seriously]

I loved mine too, but that somehow jinxed it and I died to my own stupidity.

Mine was cool, too. I blame you, palomar.

You're both idiots. I miss you guys.

[Dresan]

Once upon a time it used to be you had to play for at least an entire year before you got a single point of karma.

[LauraMars]

The most interesting roles are gained through direct staff trust, the kind of roles you don't find on a list in your account data, and I think that's the real achievement.

The most interesting roles are the ones you find most interesting.

[LoD]

The most interesting roles are the ones you find most interesting.

Truth.  

Interesting roles have nothing to do with staff approval, trust, or karma.  They have everything to do with you and what you find interesting.

The most powerful character I've ever had, by far, had 5 class skills which were haggle, value, scan, listen, and pilot.  Halfway through the character some Imm decided to give me bandage because of all the time I'd spent RP'ing bandaging my employees up on trips through the desert.

Good times.

-LoD

[Forest Junkie]

rofl

[Halaster]

I concur with LoD and LauraMars.  Interesting is a very relavant and subjective term.  What's interesting to one person may not be the other.  If I stop and think about ArmageddonMUD and some characters, two of the first few who come to mind were merchants who didn't have any skill to speak of - but they created their own little empires around them.  They were very interesting to me, because of that.  Even though I love playing mages, my favorite character has always been "Human Ranger".

[Forest Junkie]

D.elf ranger in Akei'ta Var will always be my first love.

That tribe is amazing, and I attempt to totally immerse myself into its rich culture whenever I make a hunt/er/ress with them.

[Krath]

Even though I have magicker Karma, I will say this, and only once...


MUNDANE FOR LIFE!

[LauraMars]

I don't think I have a favorite guild or class.  I usually end up loving whatever character I have until they die.  And making everyone else love me too.  Or hate me.

[Gimfalisette]

For me it's all about who the character is, personality-wise, and how deeply I can get them involved in plots and with other characters. Give me a complex character, plenty of plot twists, and plenty of interaction and the rest just doesn't matter.

I've been very fortunate in meeting those criteria on most of my long-lived characters thus far. And I have a lot of other players to thank for that, because without them my characters would have no reason to develop, no companions for adventure, and no plots to get twisted up in.

<3 to all y'all players

[manonfire]

I'll always have a soft spot for Drovians.

[jstorrie]

I've been happily running a human warrior since last July, and he's my definite favourite. Mundane up the wazoo, too. Dude doesn't even know any magickers.

[Manhattan]

I think my most interesting roles are indie assassins/hunters. They have so much freedom and can do whatever they want, whereas karma roles are bounded by restrictions.

D.elves are bounded by a tribe. Mages are bounded by their gems. Half-giants are bounded by their stupidity. And so on...

If you want absolute freedom in Zalanthas, my suggestion is simple.  Make an indie.