Post by Joliette Thorne on Jun 14, 2006 20:36:57 GMT -5
Deadly Sin #1: Importing
The game is called “The World Called Hollow Free”. Not “The Place-where-you-can make-up-any-shit-you-like Called Hollow Free.” Nor is it connected to any other game, TV series, comic book or movie. Or religions and cultures from Earth’s past, present or future. While I think it’s marvellous to want to give your character depth and realism through owning a history and to be as creative as possible with the game’s features, I also think there’s gotta be a line drawn somewhere, or it just becomes stupid.
Hollow is a planet, a world unto itself, with clearly defined countries on its map. Unless your char owns a space ship, it is poor form to have them originating from somewhere that isn’t on that map. Every Hollow race has a place of origin. It’s where you ressurect when you ‘stat-die’ and is listed on your stat page. Thus it is that Lady Bumwiggle, refugee aristocrat from the land of Ferbuggity, should at least have the decency to make this fabulous Ferbuggity-land a province of Vailkrin or Kelay or someplace Hollow-related.
Importing game characters, chars directly ripped off from movies and TV shows and the like is extremely poor role-playing. There are many places you can role-play your favourite anime characters or TV-series stars on the net. Try Google. Just don’t bring them to Hollow and expect to be taken seriously.
Importing races, classes and mythologies that aren’t on the char creation page, or are entirely ‘Earthly’ in origin is also poor form. There are no bloody Avians, Demons, Angels or Golems in Hollow. Don’t agree? Go to the char creation page and point one out to me. They just … don’t exist. Nor do half-dryads. This said, within the scope of the Hollow races is a huge range of creative opportunities. Your feline might be a were-tiger. Your lycan a hybrid wolf/human type, pure wolf or a shape-shifter. Your vampire could be a vampiric human, elf or even dwarf (but not dragon, dragon’s blood kills vampires, dontcha know… though I’ve often wondered why there’s not such a weapon against other races… But anyway…). Pixies might branch off to Faeries. But sheesh, people, keep it within reason.
The place for my rant on “Why Dragon-Drow-Pixie-Avian-Lycan-Demon-Fecking-Pokemon Hybrids Shouldn’t Exist” isn’t here. But sooner or later be sure I’m gonna make one.
Your char is not a Wiccan, Christian, Moslem or Buddhist. Because none of these religions exist in Hollow. The lore of Hollow as it stands is that all the Gods are dead except for Sven, who has reclused himself. ((Here, I allow myself to digress, in wondering HOW, if all the gods are dead, there are still folk tootling about with items of supposedly divine origin and power, since you’d think that power would die with the god themselves. But anyway…)).
So there it is, the first of Tene’s Deadly Sins. Feel free to share your thoughts about it here. Healthy debate is a good thing… however, do be reasonable about it. Festering and abusive rants or attacks on individual players/chars can and will be subject to the wrath of my Grammar-bat.
The game is called “The World Called Hollow Free”. Not “The Place-where-you-can make-up-any-shit-you-like Called Hollow Free.” Nor is it connected to any other game, TV series, comic book or movie. Or religions and cultures from Earth’s past, present or future. While I think it’s marvellous to want to give your character depth and realism through owning a history and to be as creative as possible with the game’s features, I also think there’s gotta be a line drawn somewhere, or it just becomes stupid.
Hollow is a planet, a world unto itself, with clearly defined countries on its map. Unless your char owns a space ship, it is poor form to have them originating from somewhere that isn’t on that map. Every Hollow race has a place of origin. It’s where you ressurect when you ‘stat-die’ and is listed on your stat page. Thus it is that Lady Bumwiggle, refugee aristocrat from the land of Ferbuggity, should at least have the decency to make this fabulous Ferbuggity-land a province of Vailkrin or Kelay or someplace Hollow-related.
Importing game characters, chars directly ripped off from movies and TV shows and the like is extremely poor role-playing. There are many places you can role-play your favourite anime characters or TV-series stars on the net. Try Google. Just don’t bring them to Hollow and expect to be taken seriously.
Importing races, classes and mythologies that aren’t on the char creation page, or are entirely ‘Earthly’ in origin is also poor form. There are no bloody Avians, Demons, Angels or Golems in Hollow. Don’t agree? Go to the char creation page and point one out to me. They just … don’t exist. Nor do half-dryads. This said, within the scope of the Hollow races is a huge range of creative opportunities. Your feline might be a were-tiger. Your lycan a hybrid wolf/human type, pure wolf or a shape-shifter. Your vampire could be a vampiric human, elf or even dwarf (but not dragon, dragon’s blood kills vampires, dontcha know… though I’ve often wondered why there’s not such a weapon against other races… But anyway…). Pixies might branch off to Faeries. But sheesh, people, keep it within reason.
The place for my rant on “Why Dragon-Drow-Pixie-Avian-Lycan-Demon-Fecking-Pokemon Hybrids Shouldn’t Exist” isn’t here. But sooner or later be sure I’m gonna make one.
Your char is not a Wiccan, Christian, Moslem or Buddhist. Because none of these religions exist in Hollow. The lore of Hollow as it stands is that all the Gods are dead except for Sven, who has reclused himself. ((Here, I allow myself to digress, in wondering HOW, if all the gods are dead, there are still folk tootling about with items of supposedly divine origin and power, since you’d think that power would die with the god themselves. But anyway…)).
So there it is, the first of Tene’s Deadly Sins. Feel free to share your thoughts about it here. Healthy debate is a good thing… however, do be reasonable about it. Festering and abusive rants or attacks on individual players/chars can and will be subject to the wrath of my Grammar-bat.