A good comparison for Magnagora is ancient Rome. Both put alot of emphasis into military and politics. Both have very bloodthirsty people who love to go see fights in collsiums and criminals being executed. Both have large mobs of serfs and some nobles pandering to the people for votes. Both have rich living in palaces and poor in cramped crumbling city blocks. The population of both generaly expect religious events to have a lot of killing and sacrficing things. Both want to have the best military equipment and tatics they can get. Both had alot of beggars and officals trying to get rid of them.



Magnagora thinks of the taint as a very powerful tool that only they are willing to use. Most Magnagorians are pretty comfortable with undeath, mutations and people suffering as they grew up with it. Part of it is due to the fact that they can become undead so dieing isn't such a big deal, part of it to the aforementioned bloodthirsty culture. The coldness between people is a side effect of the culture.

Eh, sort of. There's still some... how do I say this?... emotion in some relationships in Mag. It can be cold and impersonal, especially if someone's pushing rank on you, but I remember having an alt a long time ago that witnessed an event that involved Ixion and Athana and almost having sex at the Megalith. Kinky, no? The point being friendships and relationships exist in Mag - twisted to some degree - but, relatively, as 'normal' as those in Glom or Celest

I like Mush with Lua a lot. And it's free too! If you ever decide to make your own system in Lua, I know at least three other people that are writing their system in Lua, so I am sure you will find help. As for monk races, I think Loboshigaru could be a good choice too, good str, dex, con and awesome regeneration.

There's a lot of people that help with coding if you're trying to make your own system as well or even if you want to give it a shot.

By the way, Nexus is the most popular client here.

First line, true.

Second line, self-serving lie.

I think the problem with demion is that its too similar to demigod which is a game term.

unless by not being allowed you mean a guide told you to change the name.

Each guild in magnagora has their own roleplay, so it's hard to generalise. The Ur'Guard are probably the ones that best fit your description. The Nihilists look more like a highly politic cult, the Geomancers are a looser cabal of mages with varying degrees of insanity, the Cacophony never got to develop a roleplay due to faulty leadership early on, although they might have had while I was away. The Ninjakari seem to be in the process of developing an unusually warm and welcoming feel to them.

Inspired by Denust's post, I googled up 'Wuylinfe' and got 10 Lusternian links Including one that was on daganev.com ... O_o

Oh but not to hijack too much, hello there Deion, I look forward to killi... er, meeting you IG one day.

Apparently my name stands for Arabian Sport Horse Association, Inc.

Also, according to google: HUM-MOLGEN: registry of biomedical companies - ASHAI DRUGS ...

I feel like helping with the Mag RP question and the idea of coldness. There is a lot of Emotion in Magnagora, friendships, love, and all those happy things. However the culture does effect that in the senst that you are not going to see those things from someone who is a higher rank then you, there is more of a chance that they will act cold and indifferent to you. I also think that Magnagora promotes the idea of adding things to a relationship, you are not friends with someone -just- because you like them, there is a benifit to it.

And the RP is a lot of fun, definitly makes you think.

I use Mush and I know Ethelon sells a relativly cheap system. I don't use it and I'm not really a fighter so I could not tell you how good it is. As he is your guilds champion you should be able to go to him for combat questions.

The guild is very new so if you plan on fighting then you do get the benifit of having a lot of room to play with skills and find the combos that work.

So many replies that are very informative. Must admit I didn't expect quite so many. Was figuring people probably already asked the questions I did and I would be sent to another thread or something. I really appreciate each one of them from all you. Thank you.

On a plus note...9 hours and 20 minutes in the realm and I have graduated the Collegium with honours and just got off novicehood in the Ninjakari. *dance*

I am really enjoying this realm a lot. Thanks to everyone who is helping to make it a fun place to hang out and get involved in some very interesting RP.

The few times Aasteri interacts with Deion, which usually are limited to a few signs here and there and mostly the guild aether, he sorta seems like a RAWR Mag. Strikes me as being very Ashtorath-esque, but maybe I'm not seeing all of his character. Just a suggestion, but you may want to talk to a Nihilist and see which of the Demon Lord's (or Lady's) teachings he might like most. Good place to start with Mag RP - identify with a Demon Lord. ( No <3 for Gorgulu?)

What do you mean by Ashtorath-esque? I know that name from somewhere...oh wait that is one of the Demon Lords right? Hmmm very interesting. Didn't even notice that I was building my RP up in a way that would even begin to involve the Demon Lords just yet. And I shall take your advice about learning more of the Demon Lords and which one's teachings I feel best fit Deion. Also, if you have any other tips on how to improve my RP please let me know. I am all ears.

Don't forget agility.

I only made the reference just because of the way you were playing your character. He seems very hateful of the Light (sounded like he came close to insulting Lady Terentia on the college channel) and very angry in general, particularly when he stated on the city channel that he was pissed that he was running out of hunting grounds, was angry about navigating the Mountains of Madness, etc.; reminded me of Ashtorath and his teachings from a while ago when I had a Nihi alt. Now, personally, I've never tried to play that kind of evil because it was really taxing on me... usually my characters were adherent to Baalphegar. Subtle, insidious... that's more my style. But good luck with developing Deion, no matter what road he takes.



I don't have it yet. And if it's weighed, it doesn't matter since Limber is +2 and if Agility is +1, I'll still end up with +2 overall.

Wow awesome, did you read the link on Daganev.com?

Amazing that it found you.

Thats from the begining of Glomdoring.

http://www.daganev.com/Programs/Zmud7/Lust...adowdancers.txt

A must read...


I'll put it in the RP section.

Hmm...that is the way I played Demion too and it did get taxing. For some reason I keep RPing my characters as angry about everything except that they are always calm and relaxed when in the middle of a fight. Pissed when they lose, but during it, they are at ease and completely happy. Was hoping to stay away from the whole anger part of the RP but seems it might be harder then I thought. Thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it a lot.

You might want to make a .txt file or something else that you can keep open while you play. Make a few bullet points of what personality traits you want Deion to have and whenever you're faced with an RP situation, take a peek and try to conform to that. If you do that often enough, you should be able to slide into Deion's mindset without deviating any because of your past experience with other characters. But, again, just a suggestion.

I remember this primarily from a long time ago when I was just breaking into the RP world and I used forums like this for it. I had to go back and look at my sign-up sheet to keep in-character consistently enough until I got it internalized.

Hmm...interesting suggestion. Will definately have to try that out. Just so everyone knows...I might be away from the realm for a long period of time now and then. I've been using my lil' brother's laptop to access the internet since I just moved back to Cali from MT and don't have a computer of my own yet. Lately he has been a pain in the butt and giving everyone attitudes and not wanting to let me use his computer. So getting on is rather difficult right now. I appreciate all the support though. Been really getting into Lusternia and the Ninjakari. Already got everything done that I need to in order to reach GR2 hehe. Anyways, see you all when I can.

Okay so here is an idea that occured to me. Monk damage is based upon dex. Strength does play a role but dex is the main factor. Aslarans have 16 dex plus a racial advantage on how quickly they recover balance. So if you were to take an Aslaran add on ninimi modifier which increases the speed of your forms a bit and then throw in their racial bonuses to speed and the 16 dex...can you imagine the monk that would be?!?! In my opinion, that would be scary. Though I am willing to bet there is something wrong with this theory of mine. *shrug* I went ithilliod for the RP anyways so hey just thought others might find it interesting too.