@Jennkryst said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
Learning is a big part of it, and there… is actually a maybe in-setting explanation for people getting amnesia here and there to explain different players picking up the character and playing them different. I COULD BE WRONG, but that feels like an IC reason why they have journals - so if amnesia happens, the character can read about things they thought were important and forgot about.
You are right that there is a metaplot reason why the game’s society has forgotten certain aspects of their history and world (specifically magical/supernatural things), plus the more concrete/mundane reason that the original big archive of knowledge was destroyed a few hundred years back. However, the practice of writing journals is, as far as I know, not related to that and almost surely predates it, as much as there’s just thematic intertwining between matters of knowledge vs ignorance. Journaling as a practice is part of the overall domain of Vellichor, the God of Knowledge, as part of the religious mandate to preserve knowledge in general.
@Mourne said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
That’s another thing, I generally dislike Rosters because I find it hard to get invested in a character that isn’t ‘mine’. The character is going to be played differently, the previous players may have enjoyed RP types that I do not, there may very well be a huge sense of just disconnect and inconsistency it worries me.
I am not saying that this is what is going to happen, just that it is a concern, and a worry, and why I would prefer to make my own character or… at least be a character that grabs me as interesting straight off rather than just being ‘This is the scraps of what we have, good luck.’
I hope I have not offended.
I for one am not offended! It’s a common concern shared by a lot of players, being a bit nervous about rosters and such. There are a lot of really good rosters that have been written over the years, and the ones on the roster audit list are by no means all there because they’re uninteresting characters. There are a lot of characters in there with a lot of meat, so my hope would be that, if you were to pop on the game and share some of the overall hopes you have in mind for a character, that someone might be able to pull some options up that would grab your interest.