Posted by Graatch(VIP) on December 20, 1999 at 21:33:18:
In Reply to: Re: Your Three: posted by Knight at the Time on December 20, 1999 at 19:43:49:
> Take Matriaen. Or Palan. Too obvious?
> Or Golmagus, who you seem to have respect for as a player, who abused being an Arbiter in two ways I can name off the top of my head:
> 1. attacked me with his cityguards when I wasn't wanted, and managed to talk his way out of it by saying I "threatened him by hanging around outside of a town where he'd seen a criminal five minutes earlier."
> 2. Attacked me outside of town with his zombies, fled, called his guards, returned to where I was fighting, still, and flagged me for "standing in the way of his hunting criminals" after he auto-ass'd.
> It's hard for me to see any difference between Golmagus's silly rationalizations and Ihlrath's silly rationalizations to explain their wanton pking and abuse of cabal powers. Or Matriaen's rationalizations, or .. etc down the list of the "big time pkers" that people mentioned. So, I imagine that high placement as a big-time PKer is necessarily balanced by crappy roleplaying that is sacraficed in the lust to kill as many people as possible, perhaps because it is difficult to find 269 people that you can legitimately kill for Roleplaying reasons --
> and, thankfully, in conclusion, Ihlrath's crappy roleplaying doesn't detract from his wanton destruction and he deserves his place among the "big time PKers." A list that necessarily corresponds with another list titled "big time cheesy roleplayers who added little to nothing to thera for their presence."
Golmagus was a *Lich*, the epitome of evil, and is *supposed* to act in a selfish, and evil way. If he could get away with abusing his powers, he should.
Ihlrath was a knight, and not just any knight either, but tattooed by Andaren, and given the distinction of being blooded. He was *supposed* to be above such things, supposed to set the standard of proper behaviour. He didn't.