Originally posted by Kickinbama@Apr 14 2006, 07:41 PM
in Dragonrealms the mud you got a roleplaying award. the award was bonus experience for two hours.
i got one for fighting in a large group in an area that was pretty common. our group was fighting kind of a boss. we were in an area where you couldn't stay there long unless you had skills high enough to thwart the hostile environment. (i.e. we were in a gassy pit with rock troll guardians. gasses would come out of the ground and knock you unconscious) although we were having a hard time with the boss, we kept going at it. several players were incapacitated. we had to save those players (drag them to a safe area) and then go back and gaurd their tombstone so no one would steal their stuff as it popped out; with all of that going on, we still had to fight. little did we know, a gamemaster was watching us the whole time and we were all rewarded with an experience bonus. (which in DR was a huge bonus)
i loved that aspect of the game. it meant that if you put time and effort into making the game wholesome, you were rewarded. it felt really good to have the roleplaying award. there were much higher level characters that had put hundreds of hours more into the game that didn't have a RP award. so it kinda made you feel good about what you could do being 30 levels below another character.
KickinBama