Annoying Players

Annoying players are something that have been plauging our little gaming group more and more lately. We've been getting bombarded with "invite's", why in the heck do players with low level characters feel the need to invite everyone on the server into some gigantic MEGA-party? When I'm playing my higher level characters I only want to be in a party with players in the same level range so we can communicate normally and grind out some levels. It's a pain the rear when you're trying to kill Insane Druids while the lowbies are talking about that rat that took 47 hits to kill down in the tombs.

Which leads me to my next complaint, babysitting players with crappy characters, nothing is more annoying to a party than that one person that has like a straight 40th level fighter that only used the "reccomended" Button to build his chacater, and doesnt have any gear. Just the other day there was some idiot that needed us to escort him from Northbound to the north face of Sheelo mountain because his AC was 27....27! Come on! what the heck, go buy some frigging upgrades, when we asked him if he was going to upgrade his gear he said "no". Seriously, what the heck is wrong with people like that? If you're going to gain enough levels to go to Sheelo Mountain you probably have enough money to at the least add +5 AC to all of your gear.

Another problem is gaming with players that speak a different language, and when the player pretends that he doesn't understand english so he can steal your boss drops. Jim Brannick speaks of a time when he, Darian The Bold, and some non english speaking player, killed the shark, and when Jim went to pick up the boss drop it was gone. Darian told Jim that he could have it so it was wasnt him, the only other person that was in the party was the non english speaking player (nesp) who convienatly played dumb when asked to please hand over the shark skin to Jim (who was the one that killed the shark in the first place). So if you run into any NESP's beware.

I really hate it when people abuse 'shout'. The worst one is when this certain player we all know just sits there and repeats "I'm bored" over and over again. Well, why the hell did you log in then? If you're that bored why not try to gain some levels or go exploring, but oh wait, you have a crappy character that has to be babysat by every player on the entire server so your only option is to cry and whine when nobody will party with you. Oh thats a good one, players who cry and whine when you don't want to join their party. This has happened to me more than once. Sometimes I just feel like playing alone, or don't have alot of time to make joining a party worth while, so when people ask me to join or send an invite I politly decline the offer. Thats when the whining & begging starts, sometimes its so bad I just log out so I dont have to deal with it. Next time this happenes thats when the PK'ing starts.

I think the worst are players who are just plain lazy. When my friends and I started on BadLands we explored as much as we could, read all the rules and descriptions before we'd so much as ask anything. I hate when people log in and ask for a Dozo Stone. I mean come on, just look around for 30 seconds and you'll find it. Or my favorite, "where's the armory?" Are you kidding me!? You practically run into it when you enter Dozo for the first time, idiot. I wish they'd just slow down and do some exploring and reading first before they start 'shouting' or sending 'tells' with their stupid questions.

These are only a few of the annoyances that happen to us on a weekly basis, if your're one of these people please use some common courtesy when gaming on BadLands, it's not difficult and it makes the place more fun for everyone.

Blast Bucket Triumphs!

Blasty yurfaceface kicked Sheelo's ass, then went to the underdark and mopped the floor with the drow weapon master AND killed the queen. What a fight, it was truly epic.

BK (Boss Killing, not Burger King)

This screen shot represents a personal best for me. My little unarmed monk managed to land the fatal blow that brought Sheelo to her demise, never before have I been so lucky while playing on BadLands.

It all started last night when Vic Vega handed over a pile of gold to Hellie Facebreaker the likes of which would make Donald Trump drool. After spending every last red cent on equipment upgrades Hellie headed up the mountain to obtain the snowpipes (thanks again to some pre-planning on Vic's part), once the snowpipes were aquired Hellie single handedly punched polar bears and frost giants in the face with great success at only level 24-25.

Vic, Hellie and a few others later in the evening continued to battle ants and ice spiders while quickly growing in strength, the groups confidence was overflowing when they decided to take on the Frost Giant Badass, many were lost but a few strong souls prevailed! Once the group revived it's dead and licked it's wounds they continued to climb the mountian growing ever stronger. Finally they reached the crest where the dragon Sheelo awaited them. The battle was fierce and seemed almost never ending, but the determined party hacked, slashed, and punched their way to victory! What awaits these tried and true adventurers fate only knows.

Sweet Moo-la with Uncle Rico

Frost Giants are awesome if you're looking to score some cash. The hammers that the male Frost giants drop are worth at least 250,000 gold! If you start at the Mt. Shelter, you can run up to the Frosty cave and find 4 males up there. Slice and dice them, then sell those hammers to Guz to earn yourself over 1 million gold!

Polar Bears

Tuesday night Badlands Drenfest summary:

Logged on about 9pm eastern to find McMinn and Simon partied up and leveling on the Mountain Slide (insane druids and black bears). Hilarity ensued- comprised of McMinn and Simon's Sophomoric humor that incessantly bombarded everyone in the "chat" area. Particularly funny were their interpretations of what "R.P.G." stood for. Not sure if they noted the irony of the situation considering they are the ones that usually bitch about "high school" kids acting immature in the Badlands.
Since they were several levels below me, I proceeded to the North Face of Sheelo mountain where he was able to "knockdown" polar bears. Now, I usually don't complain about the liberties that RPG games take with the laws of physics and reality in general, but can someone explain to me how a normal sized human with a strength of "18" can knockdown an 11 ft tall, 1,500lb bear???

Nubbie

Last nights game was fun and hilarious, everyone had a good character to play and the “dings” were plentiful. Of course the best part was the trash-talking over ‘shout’ with the PC Nubbie. The whole thing started when I created a brand new character so I could level-up with Garble & ColdCut who also made new characters that night.

Being strapped for time I whipped up a female elven /monk, and typed in the first thing that came to mind when it was time to give her a name (since I didn’t PLAN on playing this character for more than one night)…I typed in “Smackie Yur-Faceface”! Perfect name for an unarmed female monk build I thought, wrong!

Everything was going great, Garble was launching fire and acid spray everywhere with his mage, ColdCut was punching enemies in the face with his monk, as was I. Then I get this private message from Nubbie saying that my characters name was offensive in some manner. I couldn’t understand why, and that’s when the stuff hit the fan, I had a few captains and cokes in me by that time and thought it was a good idea to antagonize Nubbie (He’s the one who messaged me first.) After a few remarkes back and fourth through private chat, things moved to ‘shout’ so EVERYONE could read the exchange.

By this point Nubbie wanted to PK poor level 9 Smackie Yur-Faceface, Nubbie is like level 36 just so you know. My party and I were bashing Tyrant Fog Zombies when all of a sudden Nubbie appears and spawns like 15 enemies, I managed to run down a hall and port back to Dozo but all the ‘Nubbie spawns’ killed my teammates since there were just too many of them.

Finally another high level player private messaged me and said to lead Nubbie to the Crystal Coast so that he could kill him, so I did, plus he battled Nubbie in the arena and killed him twice there, it was great. My party and I watched from the bleachers while we used our “Laugh” emotes repeatedly adding to the hilarity. I think the guys name was Anuvein the Wanderer or something like that I’m not completely sure. Once Nubbie was defeated he kept challenging Smackie Yur-Faceface to a duel, but she wasn’t enough close to being powerful enough to fight the Nubbster, so I brought in the big guns. Shayla Ellow, a 35th level greatsword fighter unfortunately for her, her AC is only 51 and she lost to Nubbie (That’s why I never fight monks, I don’t know why I even tried, must’ve been the rum talking).

Finally I got bored with trash talking with Nubbie, but he continued to stir up the other players on the server. Going on and on about starting Guilds and having Guild Wars, I’m sorry but none of us have time for that, I don’t even think I’ve ever built a character past level 40 on BadLands. Anyways, it was all super funny and we all had a good time (I think) playing last night hopefully the fun will continue. At least the DM will have an entertaining chat-log if he keeps that sort of thing.

BadLandsRPG website.

It's been awhile so here's the first post of 2008 which has been long overdue anyways.

Here's a link the the website for the BadLandsRPG server. It's got some downloads and links to the last ever NwN update patch 1.69. Also there has been mention of "Q" adding a jousting area to Badlands.

Enjoy

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