@O'louth:
Enjoy the lovely weather, meet -real- people, develop -real- relationships, go to Thailand and get a real sex change so you can live out that lesbian dream…
I dont play nwn, and dnd to get laid, have relationship problems, fall in love, have sex in an inn room. I do all of those when I dont play.
I do play it to blow shit up, save the damsel in distress, be Senator Palpatine for a day, eat people as a werewolf, or crawl into dungeons filled with zombies and 20 feet long snakes.
Because those things, I cannot do without this game.I want to be an adventurer and a badass, I dont want to play a 40 year old man with grey hair whos wife just got pregant for the 15th time. I can imagine I will end up in that situation eventually, and I have no intention of getting ready for it.
Exactly! The really odd thing is that so many people want to do rebuilding/volunteer activity but want to do it in a game. There are plenty of real world opportunities that will give you real satisfaction.
On the other hand, I think there is some fault with the DMs. My number one problem over the years I've played on this server (I don't do forum posts typically and even forgot my names) is that exploration=death without reward 90% of the time. All of the ideas for self-generated quests that the DMs have mentioned are great but, really, why would anyone risk losing levels when there is 0% there will be a reward. That is against the very spirit of DnD that we are trying to promote. The way to fix this would be to create some unique items and place them in interesting places that adventurers wouldn't otherwise go to. The key would be that the DM will have to hand place these items and they can't be part of any static loot…but really, it would only take a few minutes to do so, wouldn't it?
You can create legends and rumors and outright lies about the potency. location, etc of said items. And, you know what, that +1 battleaxe will have alot more meaning behind it if it is unique, has a history, looks really cool, and you had to fight a horde of trolls in some cave in the Stormhorns to get it. No DM required beyond setup.
But right now, exploration typically means I end up grinding scripted quests to get my gold/levels back that I lost for no reason.
So, before stepping off my soapbox, please throw us a bone or two. There are alot of us wanting to play DnD on Arabel.