[MUD-Dev] Maintaining fiction.

[Travis Casey]

Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com wrote:
 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Hook [mailto:bwh at wksoftware.com]
>> Sent: 06 June 2001 23:53
>> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
>> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Maintaining fiction.

>> At 12:14 PM 6/6/01 -0700, trump at vividvideo.com wrote:

>>> talk to you.  But after a while you find yourself wanting to
>>> dress up, because you can see how much fun they are having with
>>> it and it looks appealing.

>> Or, in many cases, you're irritated because people won't give you
>> a straight answer about where to find an ATM and you storm off
>> aggravated with the idiots around you.

> /sarcasm on
>   What do you mean? Surely EVERYONE loves inept attempts at 'ye
>   olde English'?
> /sarcasm off

> I'm fairly pragmatic, and language for me is about communication.
> Obfuscation through half-arsed attempts at Arthurian dialog is a
> real turn off. Especially as my experience of people trying to use
> it, seems to involve them typing really slowly leading to the most
> halting of conversations.

Well, personally, I'm strongly pro-roleplaying, but I hate people
attempting to use "Old English" as well.  First off, in most games
it makes no sense at all, since the language used in the game world
is not supposed to be English anyways.  Second, a pseudo-Old English
might make sense for something that's supposed to be archaic speech
-- but the language the PCs speak normally is not an archaic form of
speech for *them*.  To them, it's modern.

> Before anyone flames me, its just my opinion and just serves to
> show that there are people into this genre that have a different
> perspective on role play. Personally I have no problem role
> playing the mighty wizard, I just don't see any value in adopting
> a contrived vocabulary.

Same here.  The only reason I can see for it is to indicate that
your character speaks an archaic form of the language that's in
common use in the game... but that's not what most of the people
using it are trying to do.

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