So I happen to be in the market for a role at the current moment and I am drawing a utter blank for myself. I thought I would throw this up and see if I get something!
If you'd like to add in your random odd urge, or amusing roles to the thread. Post them! Family roles? Post them to!
Some fun tid bits of information:
I like elves.. they got pointy ears and shit.
I dislike playing a dwarf or half giant (though if its a interesting enough concept, perhaps).
I loath mages- will not even under threat of death play one any more.
I've got karma up to half giant (3).
I can special app if needed.
I've got pretty random play times: Central time zone. Though it changes up from mornings, to late-late night, to afternoons. On average its late afternoons to midnight central.
Yup! Post them up! :-*
Since you don't like playing dwarves or half-giants but are willing to try, let me give you a role I thought about but never got a chance to play.
Two half-giants gave birth to a third. That baby is you. Since your mother's skirt got all messed up giving birth to you, she traded you to some dwarven family for a new skirt. The dwarfs mainly kept you around to reach the high shelves in their apartment and carry heavy things, but you caught on to their ways. You speak mirukkim better than sirihish and you shout random foci when doing the simplest of tasks (My focus is to mine 'sid! Now my focus is to carry this sid back! and so on), much to the chagrin of the dwarves around you. App a half-giant with linguist subguild and ask the staff to take away your allundean, and knock down your sirihish a bit. Can be based anywhere.
City elf warrior-archer who's fascinated with desert elves and wants to get back "to his roots." Hunt a lot.
Tuluki c-elven bard. You visit d-elf tribes, learn of their exploits, and then turn them into song.
Survival expected for the last two, very short.
Just play a delf, I believe all the tribes are reasonably active at the moment.
Playing an actual delf is too easymode for any serious player.
I'd suggest looking into the Akai Sjir for those final two concepts. Very viable, and you'd have clan support!
If you like elves, try the Jaxa Pah.
Quote from: jstorrie on November 27, 2010, 06:25:53 PMPlaying an actual delf is too easymode for any serious player.
I call BS. Getting real shit done is hard. Individual survival isn't as hard.
Quote from: jstorrie on November 27, 2010, 06:25:53 PM
Playing an actual delf is too easymode for any serious player.
I quote this for truth. As someone who's played an intense desert-hunting city elf for several real life years, playing a d-elf in the desert is easy mode by comparison. Whether it's getting shit done, or survival over the long haul. As X-D said, life expectancy there is small unless you know exactly what you're doing and have a little luck. On the flip side, I have massive respect for anyone who can pull it off.
That said city-elves and half-breeds could always use some more love. Play something with pointy ears -> ?? -> Profit.
I figured Staff would flip if anyone made an outdoorsy C-elf - Hence the reason they removed Ranger as an option for them.
Quote from: Gunnerblaster on November 28, 2010, 12:40:40 AM
I figured Staff would flip if anyone made an outdoorsy C-elf - Hence the reason they removed Ranger as an option for them.
There are plenty of quasi-outdoorsy c-elves. Though I think any c-elf who shirks city life completely (and isn't forced to because of rogue mage status or exile) would be kind of off their rocker.
I played a c-elf warrior who hunted for the tribe by going outside the walls to get materials, etc. With a reasonable amount of caution, I found it to be very easy. At six or seven days played, I was taking out carru without getting scratched and tembo were no sweat. That's not a huge achievement, but I'm just saying my char wasn't half-killed every time I ran into a nasty critter. I did have good stats. After about 8 days played, I apped for a sponsored role and got it. So while I don't want to put words into the mouths of staff, I'd say that playing a c-elf who goes beyond the walls for the good of the tribe doesn't automatically earn their ire. Just do it ICly. Same way you should do anything.
Outdoorsy city-elves really only work around Tuluk, for a variety of reasons, and I'd probably do assassin/hunter instead of warrior/whatever...although really, you'll get more coded food simply by picking subclass scavenger.
Play a 'rinther elven assassin. Straight up. Don't complicate it. "Legolas the elf lived a shitty life in a shithole until he one day scraped enough 'sid together to buy a dagger from the local pawnshop. He likes booze, spice and whores and seeks to get booze, spice and whores as soon as possible, likely by some means of illicit thuggery."
Quote from: Synthesis on November 27, 2010, 08:50:55 PM
If you like elves, try the Jaxa Pah.
Havn't played in 'nak for a while. But is the Jaxa Pah exclusively for labyrinth PC's?
I'd consider it if it weren't.
Quote from: jstorrie on November 27, 2010, 06:25:53 PM
Playing an actual delf is too easymode for any serious player.
I actually agree with this. Even though it's one of the funnest roles available.
Quote from: BlackMagic0 on November 27, 2010, 06:18:42 AM
I like elves.. they got pointy ears and shit.
Look no further than a city elf! He's got pointy ears and his stats are shit.
seriously, play one, they rock and have a nice clan support (!!!) right now.
Quote from: jstorrie on November 27, 2010, 06:25:53 PM
Playing an actual delf is too easymode for any serious player.
A well-played delf is few and far between. And a long-lived one. Easymode, my ass.
Maybe you're just not doing it right.
Quote from: jstorrie on November 27, 2010, 06:25:53 PM
Playing an actual delf is too easymode for any serious player.
I would think that any role in arm
should be hard and challenging regardless of how 'serious' the player is...
So maybe she's doing it right?
That is a pretty good point!
I wish I had more brother roles to give away. You were awesome. :'(