Okay, so the idea to have armbands was established to give everyone who is wanting to role-play out the event an opp to really get immersed, while anyone who doesn't merely wear a strip of neon colored plastic (yeah, I know, it's cheap and inexpensive but it get's the job done.)
It was never meant to make one group better than another, never meant to degrade the event or a person’s experience.
I can see where the 'what's so hard about having the players wear an armband' side to it. But what's so hard about asking people who won't be role-playing wear one? Non-participants don't want to feel subjugated for wearing one and maybe they feel it's a sort of punishment for not playing along. The true intent is, why make someone in garb, playing along wear an armband. It will make for cheesy pics for the newsletter.
I don't work well with cheese. Sharp cheddar yes, bad publicity pics, no. (And yes, I'm sure I beat you to the wife and mom jokes, so ha!)
It is NOT a personal attack on anyone. It was an idea that was originally designed to identify who is and isn't in char. Since I felt that much of the populace would want to jump into char, the armband issue would not be that big of a deal.
It's not like we're asking you to wear a Corsair bird or the Justicar pyramid!
I know a few people have chimed in saying they won't wear one just cause.
Is it a defiant stand?
Do they feel that it is a personal attack on uniqueness?
Is it really asking too much?
It's just for a 24hr period. Hell, it's not like you gotta wear it to bed, if you even sleep that is. It's for the sake of something ambitious and seemingly beneficial to the atmosphere of the game.
And all I started out was asking the populace to help and support the idea, not for it to turn into personal flame wars on why the armbands can cause cancer in lab rats.
When will we help each other make this game a little better, more interesting, instead of ripping each other to shreds over semantics and personal grudges.
Falamar, I felt you and I reached a possible agreement on the armband. I would be honoured to customize one with your title, no prob. It'd be funny, just your kinda humour even. I think. I hope it still stands.
Hell I'll even make Sir Nevrons though he won't be wearing one since he volunteered to NPC. But it'll still be fun to see it at court.
So yeah, that's my stance. Sometimes we gotta do something we 'hate' for the improvement and well being of the game.
I hope I didn't come off as an arse about the armbands, I just didn't think it would cause such a cluster is all. Shame really. All that energy spent instead of it being focused on creative role-play.
And no, creatively concocting insults doesn't cut it this time.
So I will still run with the armband idea and the guidelines. If you swear up and down that you will not wear one and won't play, fine, just post your name under this, no questions asked, and I'll make sure a list of non-participating non-armband Amtgarders gets distributed along with the items at gate.
And to establish and give folks a mental picture of the kind of resolve I have for seeing the game steam roll into the future, here's a quick vid for you to enjoy. It is not work safe so handle with caution. Warning: Nudity and gratuitous violence.
I'm the guy in the orange jumpsuit. The blue guy goes by the handle of 'Biatch_@ss_Criticism'. Hell, watch the last 5 seconds, that's me in my first amt-garb ever.
http://www.zipped.org/index2.php?&file= ... p=7&show=1
Shaking off the hate
S-The Keyboard Punk of Shaolin