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Navi

GameLover — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:49:42 +0000

How cool would it be to role play a Navi, I mean like on a serious role play server. Developing a real distain for humans with an aloof fearlessness. I would watch some other movies like Dances with Wolves, and The Last Mohican to get a real feel for the Indian type tribe in nature too.

Hobbits

GameLover — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:00:09 +0000

With the upcoming Peter Jackson, Del Toro movie the ‘Hobbit’ now in production, I can see a resurgence of of these rosy cheeked hardy folk as a role play favourite. I predict the Hobbit will an incredible movie, far outstretching The Lord of the Rings in its visual granduer and effects. Why? Because in the interveneing years both Jackson and his effects house Weta FX have come along way. Their facilities have expanded tenfold and the amount of in house effects software has grown, they have also had much more experince on major motion pictures and visual effects such as for the movie Avatar.

Anyway… as for roleplaying a Hobbit. If you wish to try your hand their is of course LoTRO (Lord of the Rings online), but for something differnt try RoME, The Return of Middle Earth, a persistant world for the gam Neverwinter Nights Storm of Zehir. Here you can even play a corrupted evil hobbit race known as Angmaran hobbits, which are Gollum like. The game is set far in the future in the sixth age, well after the reign of Aragorn, this is good because it means whilst you are in Middle Earth.. you are not polluting your view of the world as found in the books. As a role playing PC game this is one of the best.

Hobbits or ‘halflings’ as they are sometimes known are always great because they are sneaky and small and very full of personality. Tell us about your favourite hobbits!

Humans

GameLover — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:50:05 +0000

Dwarf much maligned!

GameLover — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:15:39 +0000

Yes it’s true, players today have really bought the poor Dwarf into a dire predicament. Rescue the Dwarf from the predictable personality hole he has fallen into I say! Yes you know what I am talking about, ever since Peter Jackson popularized the condition in his portrayal of Gimli in his film version of Lord of the Rings all Dwarves in PC role playing games are comic axe wielders who run everywhere! I believe PJ did his research well, he realized that there was a culture of fat warrior dwarves that made ‘one line jokes’ and always disparaged elves amongst the generation then grew up with Warhammer and World of Warcraft.

How about some variety, calling all serious role players, what of the stoic venerable statesman dwarf like Thorin Oakenshield, or the meak mocked by more martial dwarves inventor artificer dwarf? The old veteran who disapproves of the young blood who have no sense of decorum, who wouldn’t be seen dead running anywhere – what of dignity and auctoritas?

If you play Neverwinter Nights I highly recommend roleplaying a dwarf who is hugely fat, always comments on being hungry, has an Obelisk type attitude to food, and as a result has maximum constitution. Tip: if you maximize constitution and get the toughness feat then the damage you can take is almost better than high armor class (AC). Sure you need a good stack of potions because your fight style is to take the hits, but this is a roleplay opportunity where potions of ‘heal’ become ‘munches down another beef sandwich’, a dwarf who wouldn’t waste his breath to comment on elves, and who NEVER says ‘bah’.

Dark Elves Rule!

GameLover — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:46:02 +0000

I have played many Role Play games over two decades and I have to say of all the races I have played, the Dark Elf is a real favorite. I started playing the old and mysterious PnP rule set ‘Chivalry and Sorcery‘ a game which still holds a magical power over me. There were not even Dark Elves as an option but the Dungeon Master let me make one up anyhow, a character whose elvish name I forget but who went by the common tongue translation ‘Windfallen‘.

Nowadays the Dark Elf has become synonymous with evil and the Underdark. In Neverwinter Nights, where these Elves are known as Drow, and in many other role playing games the Dark Elf lives underground and has penalties applied in game when in daylight. While this makes them formidable foes who have a revulsion for weaker races like the humans I still miss the Tolkien type of ‘dark’ Elf upon which my early character was based upon. In Middle Earth lore, the dark Elf describes those lesser Elves who never traveled to the lands of the Gods, the races of Elves who preferred the light of the stars to that of the moon or sun. They hid away from men remaining in the woods and vales, were secretive and of the ‘dark’ unlike their brethren, but were not evil. They contrasted rather with the ‘high’ Elves whom followed the ways of light, learning, trade, civilization and empire building.

In this vein Windfallen who formed my first experiences of role playing was a grey-green clad master-ranger of the deep forests, expert with his yew longbow, a worshiper in an almost pagan or native American Indian way of Stag’s and Eagles, and had a reputation for stalking and murdering those who preyed on the forest creatures. Defender of the forest creatures to other ‘dark’ Elves, murderous waif to the humans who lived at the forests edges. I totally recommend playing a good/neutral alignment Dark Elf in any role playing PC game, focusing on detesting ‘weaker’ Elves for their soft habits and human-like behaviors, playing a superior aloof Elf of ascetic habits who looks down upon the Light or High Elves. this makes a fun variance to the definition of Dark Elf.