LFG

I think this topic actually involves gameplay, so I'm posting it here.

Anyway, I'm tooling around the Internet checking out other EQ2 sites. I like to read the site rules of other sites, because that gives me ideas of what other people do on their sites, and how they run them.

So I come across this one, thinking it's a long dead EQ2 server site, because the 'net is littered with them:

http://www.kithicor.net/

It may have been at one point, but now it appears to be an infrequently used site by a nub role play guild on Kith.

So I check out the rules, which include this:

I really have two questions here.

First, WTF is a "power poser?" Is that like roleplay geek speak?

Second, and more importantly, does the next paragraph say what I think it does? The way I read it, it says you can write a sexually explicit story about you or your toon doing someone else or their toon, complete with all the nitty gritty, and publish it there *if* your cyb0r story does not involve minors, and if you give notice that there will be people, gnomes, elves, whatever getting nekkid and doing the wild thang, in extreme detail.

In this case, I was intrigued to discover that the links on this forum lead to secret password protected sections. A guy can't help but wonder what's going on in there.

Do people REALLY play EQ2 this way? I mean, not trying to level, advance their toon, or actually playing the game, but just cyb0ring under the guise of "roleplay"?

Do a lot of people do this?

And finally, how is this different from the "articles" in Penthouse Forum and Hustler? Because some of those involve short people and role play situations also.

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Ryikaan

Lol, I don't "roleplay" either way. Seems like it would be a less than satisfying experience. I don't know anyone (who admits to it) who does it either. And I don't want to see their RL pics.

Calthine

If you ever surf the pr0n story sites you see the same kind of rule, and I'll bet (I hope) that rule is there for legal CYA. But yeah, looks like explicit permission to publish written erotica to me.

BTW, I personally differentiate between Cyb0r and written erotica. Mostly in that cyb0r occurs in real time with two (or more, I suppose) participants.

Do people really play that way? Well, no one I know, lol.

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Pinski

Yes.

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LFG

I'd like to see some links to sexually explicit TEXT stories, as down and dirty as possible, from the website of an EQ2 roleplay guild. I really need to understand this phenominon.

Anyone?

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Iryssinia

Not at all, although there is a sizeable population that add that part to romantic roleplay.

A lot more don't get involved in romance roleplay at all, or if they do, just "fade to black" and mutually assume the characters had sex for storyline purposes.

A power poser seems to be their term for what others call a godmoder -- namely, each player has the right to determine what happens to their character. It's freeform roleplay canon since the genre started on IRC way back when...if your character is making an attack on another...don't say that it hits.

Examples:
XXX hits YYY over the head with a chair! <-- Godmoding/power posing
XXX swings the chair at YYY, aiming for YYY's head! <-- acceptable action

So when they ask that on that site to not be a power poser, they're asking to make sure that you have the permission of the player of a character you want to use in a story to use them and have them do actions. Think of it as "licencing".

LFG, you read the second part right. It happens, people write about it, Flowers of Happiness made fun of a few such stories/board threads back in the EQ1 days like Palou the Lounge Lizard (NSFW, most likely).

There are a lot of people that play EQ2 for the roleplay factor, especially on the two roleplay servers. I'd venture to say a majority of them don't cyber, and of some that do, do it for the simple fact that it clearly advances a storyline and not for erotic purposes. But there are roleplayers out there that do cyber for erotic purposes.

Freeform RP (the style most use in EQ2 and other MMOs) started on IRC and AOL chat rooms. Some of the channels, like The Silver Blade Tavern on Dalnet and The Black Dragon Inn on wherever the hell they are now (started on EFnet) are still going, and have some pretty creative people playing out interactive stories that read better than your average fantasy-themed novel.

Some, like myself (I admit it, I roleplay -and- raid, *gasp!*) moved to EQ and later EQ2 because hey, we have a game to play and pretty graphics as well as people that have some interest in the fantasy genre and might want to roleplay.

Anyways, that was a ramble, but to answer the questions...

Power posers are roleplayers that even other roleplayers think are dumb.
Yes, some roleplayers cyber.
The majority of roleplaying is not cyber, even when involving roleplayers that do cyber.

LFG

Thank you very much for the good info.

That Flowers of Happiness link is great lol.

Thanks again

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clint

Dear kithicor.nub_guild01,

I never thought this would happen to me...

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Naie

I think if people want to roleplay romance or w/e good for them do it in your private chats, but dear god, i've seen it in " : " also known as "Emoted".

I guess this is my plea, to keep the vulgar roleplay porn set elf-halfling interbreeding session crap IN PRIVATE.

I do know of a few people who casually "roleplay" their cybering though and if they enjoy it I guess im not one to judge. Brings me back to the old days of Bloodninja stories [which became overused of course].

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