[No] Lobo /Dextar Jes'tar/ Applying Lycanthropy To Dextar Jes'tar

Prof. Misclick

He sent this to me but am unsure where this is even coming from.

It is an interesting idea but not one I am confident the player would enjoy. As previously discussed, subraces are going to start facing greater IC challenges and this possibly will leave a poor taste in some players mouths.

"We forced this on him"
"It's unfair to have a character treated this way"

Voting NO.

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[4:25 PM] Professor Misclick: I'll check this out later.
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[4:25 PM] only lobo republic: righto. just bear in mind i will understand if it is rejected. Just thought this may be a cool challenge for me
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StrawMan

Ah, this must have been as a result of a brief one-off encounter in the cited glade, with an NPC of mine that accosted him and was subsequently defeated.
He may have suffered some scratches during the scuffle, but I wouldn't say he was infected with anything.

Puffy

@StrawMan said in Lobo /Dextar Jes'tar/ Applying Lycanthropy To Dextar Jes'tar:

He may have suffered some scratches during the scuffle, but I wouldn't say he was infected with anything.

Maybe let him RP the concern for a while, leave him hanging but eventually he finds out he is in the clear. So whilst his app is rejected, we don't tell the player so they can sweat about it for a few days and enjoy the story.

Lord_Acererak

Voted yes.

I'm curious to see what Lobo can bring to the table if given the tools to tell this story.

And from what I understand, Mortui is putting in a Malarite Werewolf app. I bet these two develop some interesting roleplay as one tries to persuade/dominate/control/destroy the other.

Zool

They talked to me about applying for a lycan as a new character, and we chatted about how applications work, I gave them a few tips.

They then said their was another avenue they could take as they got bitten by a lycan in game with Dextar.

I said that would still need an application with all the same caveats, and advice. Also told them that applications for Lycans are -hard- and don't get hopes up too much.

I'm not sure they fully took in or understood what I was trying to get across about applications (not hugely surprising as they are supposedly a new player) After making various suggestions and emphasising the kind of things that would get DM interest and make a good app, they tended to give those suggestions and advice lip service, but not really go down that road and instead write a lot of blurb about what their character would BE, rather than what they would DO in game to make things cool and fun.

Didn't expect them to write a lycan worthy app first time, probably good to be honest.

holding off on voting until we know for sure.

Matriarch

Perhaps someone can talk with the player about how hard a lycan is to play to make sure he can handle it.

As for the app, its interesting. it wont be a natural born, for once. it will be someone struggling to stay hidden, to cure it, fighting against it. He's afraid he'll lose himself and lose his place in the cycle.

I'd say the Redwoods would accept him as is and would even push him (subtly) to embrace the spirit of the wolf. Causing him probably even more conflict. Cure? Embrace? He would struggle probably between the two great paths of lycans, Selûne's (less common but has goody lycans) or Malar (te savage, ebol hunters). Or find his own path. He can go for the tragic way and get corrupted by Mortui's wolf, or fight him.

Depends if the player is up for handling the subrace and understands the difficulties.

Lord_Acererak

@Matriarch

There is certainly a good amount of internal conflict with a turned, not born Lycan. I would argue they are more difficult to RP than a natural born one since they have less control over turning. Would involve a lot of players as he tries to learn self control.

But you're all making really good points regarding the heart of this, its a difficult to play concept that allows one PC lots of mechanical power, and Lobo/Dextar is a bit unproven in that regard.

Zool

@Lord_Acererak

I mean... I'm not so bothered about his "unproven-ness" more that, there isn't very much in there besides how they are going to roleplay things, which is what we ask for, for ECL 1 subraces, we'd need to see cool ideas for what they will DO in game, to make things awesome for other players (aside from how they will roleplay, everyone roleplays things, ECL2 subraces should be kinda like mini DM's, dming with the player client - we give them a POWERFUL subrace to play, in return, they make the server super cool fun to play on while there are no DM's to run events.)

By the way, this is also why I'm not too interested in Mortui's app. It';s pretty meh.

Prof. Misclick

What Zool said

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@Puffy said in Lobo /Dextar Jes'tar/ Applying Lycanthropy To Dextar Jes'tar:

@StrawMan said in Lobo /Dextar Jes'tar/ Applying Lycanthropy To Dextar Jes'tar:

He may have suffered some scratches during the scuffle, but I wouldn't say he was infected with anything.

Maybe let him RP the concern for a while, leave him hanging but eventually he finds out he is in the clear. So whilst his app is rejected, we don't tell the player so they can sweat about it for a few days and enjoy the story.

I can support this.
But a few scratches wont infect him.
Voting no.

Lord_Acererak

@Zool said in Lobo /Dextar Jes'tar/ Applying Lycanthropy To Dextar Jes'tar:

@Lord_Acererak
ECL2 subraces should be kinda like mini DM's, dming with the player client - we give them a POWERFUL subrace to play, in return, they make the server super cool fun to play on while there are no DM's to run events.)

By the way, this is also why I'm not too interested in Mortui's app. It';s pretty meh.

You're definitely right there. Neither concept really screams "I'll paint the walls with my plots."

edit - I can reach out to them to extrapolate a bit more on their concepts, see if they have anything to say regarding what they will actually DO?

Prof. Misclick

For now I'd think this app is a no regardless of the quailty or goals etc.

StrawMan about 22 hours ago
Ah, this must have been as a result of a brief one-off encounter in the cited glade, with an NPC of mine that accosted him and was subsequently defeated.
He may have suffered some scratches during the scuffle, but I wouldn't say he was infected with anything.

He's not infected.

If the player wants to try their hand at a Lycan then can certainly app for one and L.A can do the reach out thing to help.

Puffy

@Prof-Misclick said in Lobo /Dextar Jes'tar/ Applying Lycanthropy To Dextar Jes'tar:

He's not infected.

Has he been informed?

Lord_Acererak

I can tonight