What's wrong with RP-PvP and how can it be improved?

[Aerilen-argent-dawn (Aerilen)]

@Telaryn-argent-dawn

I don’t understand what Aerilen is saying right now

i’m absolutely nithered right now

[Perroy-argent-dawn (Perroy)]

@Lóras-argent-dawn

I’d be interested to see the citation for this, since it isn’t something I’ve ever heard of before. As far as I can tell, in your case, it is a series of individual sentences lumped together with commas, making it very difficult to separate/read.

Source: 300 (1998) by Frank Miller

[Takkihira-argent-dawn]

@Aerilen-argent-dawn

nithered

do you want to tell him about breadcakes or shall i

[Aerilen-argent-dawn (Aerilen)]

@Takkihira-argent-dawn

do you want to tell him about breadcakes or shall i

when yer get a croggy down tenfoot

[Brigante-argent-dawn (Brigante)]

Don’t understand what ‘Gnomish’ means, can anyone source me a reliable link backed by fact please?

[Pullo-argent-dawn (Pullo)]

@Chíeun-argent-dawn

While I otherwise don’t want to interfere in the argument between you and Brigante, I would just like to mention that real classical age/medieval battlefields were gigantic slugfests - people did die, quite a lot, but if anything the melees were more about pushing and shoving the battleline. They were really a lot more grindy than movies suggest, especially if you have something like two shieldwalls pushing against each other.

(Also why is this directed at Perroy? Weird, ignore that)

Most medieval battles were spent chasing down routing soldiers, actual time spent engaging was a lot quicker. Causalities from fleeing soldiers rather actual fighting were the highest cause of deaths. What made battles long were the marches, standing and waiting for the other army to make a move, reforming and just standing around i.e – the dancing.

What I should emphasis is battles lasted hours / days, but actually getting bloody and smacking each other with weapons was often short and quick. Lot’s of reforming, rotation, chasing, skirmishing and running in and out over and over, and when they did boil down to bitter skirmishes these fights were over quickly.

Classical world warfare is a different subject however.

[Prussian-argent-dawn (Prussian)]

@Brigante-argent-dawn

Gnomish

something of gnomish origin, invention or culturally associated with

i mean jfc

[Brigante-argent-dawn (Brigante)]

Classic tactics, what were you hoping to establish there Pullo?

[Ábél-argent-dawn]

Glad to see this thread is staying on track.

[Brigante-argent-dawn (Brigante)]

@Prussian-argent-dawn

something of gnomish origin, invention or culturally associated with

i mean jfc

Well that’s…weird…So…they mean technologically advanced?

[Elyrius-argent-dawn]

A civil response probably

[Robbs-argent-dawn]

@Brigante-argent-dawn

It is pretty crazy to tell some guys who are saying “I find this kind of RP engaging and I like to do it with consent with some players on the opposite faction” and saying “No - See, Actually - Azeroth? Is a continent and My Ruleset is the Only one”

Not even going to say ‘Unironic’ because not only is the phrase a bad use of English language, and incorrect, but it is actually an Incorrect statement. It is in fact…Ironic. I know, don’t run, don’t hide, Ironic is a word, despite what the memes say. Ironic is a word. It exists. Its OK

Weird dodge

[Korghan-argent-dawn]

Inhale
I AM GOOD AT YELLING TWO!!

[Moody-argent-dawn (Moody)]

@Korghan-argent-dawn

TWO

Two is such an inauspicious number

[Chíeun-argent-dawn (Chíeun)]

@Pullo-argent-dawn

What made battles long were the marches, standing and waiting for the other army to make a move, reforming and just standing around i.e – the dancing.

The only reasonable solution is to make 90% of rp-pvp events be about waiting.

[Yue-argent-dawn (Yue)]

I feel like I’m facing down a Bloodborne boss atm.

[Brigante-argent-dawn (Brigante)]

How else will people know they are important!

[Flamecog-argent-dawn (Flamecog)]

Can’t believe we lost 500 good Alliance men to this

[Prussian-argent-dawn (Prussian)]

@Ábél-argent-dawn

Glad to see this thread is staying on track.

To be fair, the thread was very much on track until Brigante decided a big part of the general rp-pvp community is, gasp, in fact not roleplaying at all.

A great day for roleplaying science

[Ixirar-argent-dawn (Ixirar)]

90% of restricted battles already are about waiting

waiting for them to end

ayyyyy