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General => Code Discussion => Topic started by: musashi on April 26, 2008, 04:26:42 AM

Title: Playing instruments ...
Post by: musashi on April 26, 2008, 04:26:42 AM
This a coded skill or up to a person to emote?
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Nyr on April 26, 2008, 11:20:29 AM
This is a roleplayed skill.
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: musashi on April 26, 2008, 12:38:25 PM
I am so buying a guitar in game   8)
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Malken on April 26, 2008, 01:54:54 PM
Quote from: musashi on April 26, 2008, 12:38:25 PM
I am so buying a guitar in game   8)

Works better if you take one length of sinew and jab it in the eye of an Elkros magicker and stick the other end of it to your wooden guitar.
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: FuSoYa on April 26, 2008, 01:56:06 PM
All this time I've been trying to twink out my mandolin skills.... shit.

Brandon
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: musashi on April 26, 2008, 01:58:06 PM
I just have to say ... one of the key points that puts Armageddon above any other mud is the presence of guitars. Not just frickin lutes.
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Qzzrbl on April 26, 2008, 06:58:15 PM
We should have bagpipes...
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Xio on April 26, 2008, 09:46:22 PM
Quote from: Qzzrbl on April 26, 2008, 06:58:15 PM
We should have bagpipes...
QFT
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: musashi on April 26, 2008, 10:23:24 PM
Quote from: Qzzrbl on April 26, 2008, 06:58:15 PM
We should have bagpipes...

Your avatar frightens me ...
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Yam on April 26, 2008, 10:24:02 PM
TECHNO VIKING
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: RogueGunslinger on April 26, 2008, 11:36:56 PM
Quote from: Yam on April 26, 2008, 10:24:02 PM
TECHNO VIKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to app this character.

The muscle-bound, goatee-braided man dances jerkily down the street to a funky house beat, an entourage of commoners follows him, some dancing as well.
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Qzzrbl on April 27, 2008, 06:05:23 PM
 ;D

I would follow you over even the Shield Wall if you did this.
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Tisiphone on April 27, 2008, 06:08:12 PM
IG Techno Viking cult. GO!
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: Xio on April 27, 2008, 06:59:43 PM
Quote from: RogueGunslinger on April 26, 2008, 11:36:56 PM
Quote from: Yam on April 26, 2008, 10:24:02 PM
TECHNO VIKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to app this character.

The muscle-bound, goatee-braided man dances jerkily down the street to a funky house beat, an entourage of commoners follows him, some dancing as well.

Sonofagun beat me to it!
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: spawnloser on April 28, 2008, 03:54:01 AM
(eyeing the derailers with disdain) Ahem... returning to the question at hand...
Quote from: musashi on April 26, 2008, 04:26:42 AM
This a coded skill or up to a person to emote?
Many instruments have a way to make them do something without you emoting it, but I never use such a function so I am not sure if it is the 'use' command... however, I think it is.

Now, normally, this is up to the person to emote.  However, unless your character has a DAMNED good reason to start off as a virtuoso, don't emote them playing perfectly.  It isn't a coded skill, but you and I both know that it is a skill... and to use mud terms, would be called a 'virtual skill.'  Good roleplaying would have your character not be perfect at all instruments straight out of the gate.  Maybe good at one, but still not perfect, while being tolerable at best with the rest... so you roleplay practicing with these other instruments, etc etc ad nauseum pork chops.  Eventually the character can become a master bard.  Yay!  Yeah, just don't start with the perfection of a master bard, like most people do... please, just don't do it.

Oh, and another thing... please don't make your character the epitome of grace and beauty either, just because you're a bard.  Most bard characters are, to use a term I do really dislike using, F-me's... male or female.  They are nearly all beautiful, graceful and put on more airs than nobles.

Seriously, play a bard that makes mistakes when singing/playing/dancing.  Play a bard that makes judgment errors, playing the wrong song for the crowd... get boo'd off stage once.  It's fun.

I once played a bard that was so much fun... a mutant, magicker bard in Allanak.  I intentionally made errors, playing songs that people wouldn't like because this character thought people should like the song whether they actually did or not.  It was terribly fun, really.
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: musashi on April 28, 2008, 04:50:15 AM
I don't play a bard, I just want to play cowboy songs when I'm camping in the grasslands  ::)
Title: Re: Playing instruments ...
Post by: spawnloser on April 29, 2008, 05:20:33 AM
Even better.  You're not a bard, so don't play your guitar perfect.