Hello from Aelred
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:12 pm
*Aelred, after spending his life's savings on a resurrect scroll, crosses his fingers and begins to recite*
Hello to ALFAns new and old,
After a very long hiatus from ALFA I'm finally returning to ask permission to continue building 014 Cormanthor.
First off thanks to all you die-hards for keeping the RP flame going with all your hard work. It is exciting that the ALFA community is still alive and well.
The past two years I've been playing LOTRO and loving the beauty of the graphics and animations as well as their great attention to Tolkien's details. But time and time again I would think back on my amazing RP sessions in Shadowdale NWN1 and how incredibly immersive it was. I'd also find myself missing all the creativity that went into NWN2 server building. But I'd hold myself from the temptation of coming back with thoughts of all the bad points the NWN2 engine has. For me these mainly fall under the graphics, models and animations. It kept surprising me how the NWN1 group still was so active. I mean how in the world could they stand those outdated clunky square models! Perhaps now I've finally gotten it.....it just isn't about the game engine at all, it is all about the RP. With Pen&Paper we don't even have a game engine and God knows that works. The game engine becomes alot less important when you keep RP as the main priority.
Anyway the last three months I've gotten more and more burnt out on LOTRO and have found myself returning to brainstorming mode for building 014 Cormanthor. I think for me alot of the joy is in the building process itself. Sure you want your end result to someday be used as a beautiful RP sandbox but often the process of creativity becomes your focus.
Is it is possible to pick up the project where I left off? If so who would I contact? I'm more than happy to also write up a fresh server proposal if need be.
Sincerely,
Aelred
Hello to ALFAns new and old,
After a very long hiatus from ALFA I'm finally returning to ask permission to continue building 014 Cormanthor.
First off thanks to all you die-hards for keeping the RP flame going with all your hard work. It is exciting that the ALFA community is still alive and well.
The past two years I've been playing LOTRO and loving the beauty of the graphics and animations as well as their great attention to Tolkien's details. But time and time again I would think back on my amazing RP sessions in Shadowdale NWN1 and how incredibly immersive it was. I'd also find myself missing all the creativity that went into NWN2 server building. But I'd hold myself from the temptation of coming back with thoughts of all the bad points the NWN2 engine has. For me these mainly fall under the graphics, models and animations. It kept surprising me how the NWN1 group still was so active. I mean how in the world could they stand those outdated clunky square models! Perhaps now I've finally gotten it.....it just isn't about the game engine at all, it is all about the RP. With Pen&Paper we don't even have a game engine and God knows that works. The game engine becomes alot less important when you keep RP as the main priority.
Anyway the last three months I've gotten more and more burnt out on LOTRO and have found myself returning to brainstorming mode for building 014 Cormanthor. I think for me alot of the joy is in the building process itself. Sure you want your end result to someday be used as a beautiful RP sandbox but often the process of creativity becomes your focus.
Is it is possible to pick up the project where I left off? If so who would I contact? I'm more than happy to also write up a fresh server proposal if need be.
Sincerely,
Aelred
