[MUD-Dev] \"An essay on d00dism and the MMORPG\"

[Lars Duening]

Travis wrote:
> Lars wrote:

>> Therefore, if a Mud doesn't provide a linguistical/cultural 
>> background for their races in the first place, not to mention 
>> languages, then talking about the racial appropriateness of names in 
>> such an environment is a joke.
>
>Yes, it is.  I've never said otherwise.  That's why I spoke of strong
>RP muds -- those are the ones most likely to bother with such things
>as linguistic consistency.  I probably should have been more explicit.

Maybe. I stressed it because quite a lot of the 'strong RP'ers I have met in 
my live did not really think about the background they were RPing against.

As for the rest, I think we are in almost violent agreement :-)

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Lars Duening; lars at bearnip.com
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