people sereously underrate child chars..

[amorax_kaka]

it wasn't my fault, I'm schizophrenic!

[Kevin Lightdot]

Aww, there there.
Its ok

[Ullyatth Leader]

Yep. I'm not naming names but someone plays a 10 year old who can't talk properly and plays demons. I'm 14 and I've seen people play characters who are 16 and much more immature than me. Also I'd like to add that they do have a slight point that the children would be uneducated and the average age of death was 17 in medieval times in the towns so yeah. But anyway. See, I've seen 14 year olds rp d so they don't the majority of words. But then words like antidisestablishmentarianism, transubstantiation ect. I understand and have used in context quite frequently. (Unfortunately most of the time the context is: antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the dictionary) but who cares, I'm just making a point!!!!!

[Ullyatth Leader]

Actually I've found something hilarious about this. Kevin although I'm on your side, you've put people seriously underrate child chars but you've spelt seriously as sereously; therefore in its self that proves a point for the other side that you may have to be underrated.

[Devrah Windslasher ~]

Nobody said Illarion was Earth's middle ages.

Maybe their immature 16-year-old is mentally ill. Or maybe they have a ten-year-old genius. However, I do not find the idea of a ten year old ogre hunter believable in the slightest.

And if you're going to play a child that is amazing in one form or another, be it intelligence or whatever, SET YOUR STATS that way.

[Quinasa]

Nobody said Illarion was Earth's middle ages.

Devrah gets the biggest cookie in the world.

[Fooser]

Actually, many overrate child chars

there are so many uber children running around

[Bei Tian Kensai]

I'm schizophrenic!

yaayy! your my friend now

I always figured the halflings were children really..they always got up to incoccent child like antics..like that Athin guy who tried to burn down the library. I think he was arrested for attempted murder and then got put in jail for life.

[Liles]

This is really pointless...

You are looking at children chars as a whole group that have been educated by the same people and there for some wont be a little stupid and more open to play 'demons' and some might be reading novels or even training.

You really need to stop complaining about this most people have a good Rp reason behind what their char does, like Taylor.

Although saying Antidisestablishmentarism isn't too good Rp as I hardly think that word could be known by a young child and I hardly think it is used in Illarion.

[Rand Kalhan Al'Vega]

Knowing a word like antidisestablishmentarism does not mean you are mature... knowing what it means is better but still not... being mature means to say and do things right that are right and to know when to be serious and when not... immature people lack that knowledge in some way or another

[Ullyatth Leader]

It's spelt antidisestablishmentarianism and I didn't say I used it in Illarion. just real life. And that was an example. -.-

[Devrah Windslasher ~]

OK, define "antidisestablishmentarianism" in your own words.

And then I will pretend that the meaning can't be guessed simply by breaking the word apart

EDIT: Why isn't the word just establishmentarianism?

[Ullyatth Leader]

Antidisestablishmentarianism=against not denoting the church. establishmentarianism=denoting the church

[Dónal Mason]

Because someone wanted to make up the longest english word ever. Duh.

And let's not bring up the topic of child characters again. It's been talked to death in the past.

[Liles]

Quote time?

Alrighty

William Elderberry: I'll be back before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism

William Elderberry: have you said antidisestablishmentarianism yet?

William Elderberry: How do you spell antidisestablishmentarianism

Need I copy and paste more?

Edit edited out for new post to argue too!

[Ullyatth Leader]

aah but i didn't use it in a proper sense. I just said it like: I'll be back before you can say hotcakes and testing liles's spelling ability

[Liles]

But the word doesn't exist the definition is of the church of england there for making it not suitible for adults chars or childs...Asking somebody to spell a made up word is like drawing blood from a stone.

Spell Chesifimacation

Not it has two silent ks and a silent m at the end!

[Ullyatth Leader]

actually i use it as a roman catholic ((gotta go))

[Liles]

Still doesn't belong ingame.

[Deinarious]

how about ehm somewhere in the middle between night and early morning?

Well ill have vacation in a bit longer then a week so then i'll be playing at nights and in the early mornings if i wake up early enough.

BTW by europe you mean GTM+1 yes?

That sounds good. And I have no idea what the GMT is in Europe. All I know is I live in Gridley, California, and the GMT is -8... If the server was up I'd be on right now, but it's not. Maybe the programmers are implementing something like magic. I just hope it's not the new client yet. 30 MB would take 2-3 hours to download on my connection, which is about 50 kb.

But anyways, Emily would be really happy if Kevin married her. One of her goals in life is to be a beautiful bride. Just don't ask her to cook; she doesn't know how!

And, on another topic, I updated the Faellodion post yesterday, with more pictures. I'll do the same tomorrow, as I'm going to a dessert banquet at the church I go to. Strangely enough, the Pastor, a friend of mine, doesn't care that I'm a pagan that believes in Jesus. He's really open minded.

Finally, Amorax, I am a dude in real life, but I prefer playing female characters. I find myself to be more knowledgeable about certain things having to do with the fairer sex than many other guys. Plus, I relate better to females than males, as I have no father, only a mother, as a positive role model (My "father" was a drunk, an abuser, and a total asshole. Plus, he beat me with a belt. I hope he's dead...), and I have had a few female friends when I was in Special Education that I related to on many levels. They made a major impression on me.

[Devrah Windslasher ~]

Jikken, your post is very touching and all, and I can relate to how you feel about your dad :S

But..

Well, I think it would perhaps demonstrate your respect for females a little better if you weren't so sure to describe the breasts of your characters at every opportunity

[Deinarious]

Too much detail, huh? I'll stop.

[Olivia_Gales]

I decided since I have three child characters i'll throw in my say My characters do tend to act a little young I know, but truth is that if you look at what we think is "mature" now, and what would have been thought of as mature a long time ago are probably very different. We do have to respect the fact that children have small bodies, and are not easy to see in adult positions though as Devrah mentioned. Making a child ogre hunter is well...just not realistic. I didn't really understand this in the beginning when I started, and ended up making a mess of Emily. The truth is, that I was still not very much in the understanding. Although it seems like the people are making their characters immature, and "insulting our age" XD it's just that kids would have acted much differently in that time. For instance, Rhiannon still plays games, or at least she did a while ago in game That doesn't make her immature, it simply means she has a wild imagination, and likes to cling onto the childhood still left in her. I don't quite remember who said the people older than that age were portraying the age better than the people that ager, and it could be true, but it could also be that adults see children from a completely different view than children see themselves Most true It could also be that better roleplaying is being confused with better age portrayal. I think i've said alot that wasn't even neccessary, but whatever Children are all different just like adults, and trying to stick them into one little stereotype is immpossible, how else would children have people they like and don't like. There will be the serious kids, the lively kids, the quiet kids, the kids who seem to not know what they're doing, but never assume that what they are doing is bad age portrayal. The children of illarion go through things in life that most of us do not, and it causes them to be very different. Maybe they would close themselves up, stutter, play with toys Magnus, yes I know who you were speaking of Kevin, was a young child with a past that had affected him tremendously. Imagine if you were in your position. You played demon because it made you feel powerful, it was your shield around yourself, and it made you think you could protect yourself. You couldn't talk quite right because everytime you tried to speak you got nervous. Would they judge what you said? Would they hate you? These were just guesses, because I really don't know what the PO was trying to so here, but it does not make him stupid, it simply makes him an individual, and that's what we need in illarion. Individuals

Hope I didn't knock you out with the length of this thing XD it prolly doesn't even make sense, but I know what it's like to be a kid, and I know other kids, so I see every day how they react to things. ^^

[Kevin Lightdot]

I read the entire post and i'm verry confused now.
But yes, i found a good background story to fit with my char being so mature.
Although i dint write it down when i started cause i dint even know that these kind of games realy existed and cold be as big as Illarion.

IF that was what you where talking about.

IF not , well sorry but i dint understand anything

EDIT: now i read it again and i'm even more confused

[Devrah Windslasher ~]

I think Lime's post made lots of sense. Many good points, especially about kids in Illarion having to deal with issues kids today don't have to (I seriously doubt any of us, for example, have been carried off by a dragon, or attacked by a demon skeleton )

[Rand Kalhan Al'Vega]

you have never met me then... sheesh! what planet are you from?

[Ullyatth Leader]

My dad comitted suicide after being on drugs and my sister died of spinabifida. Good enough problems for you?

[Devrah Windslasher ~]

My dad comitted suicide after being on drugs and my sister died of spinabifida. Good enough problems for you?

Err, nowhere did I say "Kids in Illarion deal with bigger issues". I said, "different issues". No need to become defensive, sheesh