Turbine Official Roleplaying Rules and Policy

[Mirhaen]

Vanaala, there is neither the law nor the rule to stop you playing a woman warrior or woman anything else, just some people thinking they have the right to decide what is acceptable. Remember LOTRO gave to both males and females a weapon of choice to deal with the evil in the Middle Earth. It is up to you if you gonna swing a sword or a flower, or why not both as you see it fit!

Just a reminder:

13. You may not form or participate in groups whose ideology is based upon or resembles anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-sexual orientation, nationalistic, racist or sexist philosophies.

22. Although the Game is a role-playing game, you may not claim “role-playing” in defense of any violation of the Code of Conduct.

[Oelle]

Today, I saw someone with a name that didnt fit to an RP-Server on Belegear and wanted to submit a ticket... Then I found this:



Does this tell me these rules are no longer intact? Or is it just the same mask for all servers?

(Text says, there wont be any changes to names due to lore or because of unfitting to middle earth or fantasy)

[Macroscian]

Today, I saw someone with a name that didnt fit to an RP-Server on Belegear and wanted to submit a ticket... Then I found this:



Does this tell me these rules are no longer intact? Or is it just the same mask for all servers?

(Text says, there wont be any changes to names due to lore or because of unfitting to middle earth or fantasy)

There is no real problem in you asking.
If their name is some obvious name filter dodge (Boromlr, Gandalph) or unfitting as in TheDonald or just plain rude, no harm in you poking a GM about it in f7.

[Oelle]

There is no real problem in you asking.
If their name is some obvious name filter dodge (Boromlr, Gandalph) or unfitting as in TheDonald or just plain rude, no harm in you poking a GM about it in f7.

It was actually an animal. Which would be okay as title or nickname, but imo just not as a name. And as its no name, imo it wasnt applying to RP-Servers naming rules. I mean, I dont know all fauna and flora of middle earth, but think its quite weird to have apes or tigers running around, especially if its characters that use those as names.
So yea, ticket done anyway, in the end its the gms that decide. I just wondered why there was a text telling me that there wont be name changes for people whose names dont fit to middle earth or fantasy at all when looking for naming tickets on RP servers. Either that text is just the same on any servers (on nonRP-servers obviously there wont be changes as the rules never existed there that force names that fit to the world) or the text just told me the rules are dead.

[Valakircka]

all characters with a -1 or other numbers after their name coz of the server merging,
MUST be forced to change their name!
n that should be forced to be done in all servers!

[Macroscian]

all characters with a -1 or other numbers after their name coz of the server merging,
MUST be forced to change their name!
n that should be forced to be done in all servers!

Ha yes. I had a Masked on some tiny server, on server closures moved her and she's now Masked-1 and sounds like a bad rapper or something
However, she's storage until I can come up with a proper name (and that's not even on a role-playing encouraged server, it just sounds too silly).
Masked isn't a name I'd enjoy seeing on an RP server either but after server closures, I care a little less. That bit of immersion is long gone.

[Valakircka]

Ha yes. I had a Masked on some tiny server, on server closures moved her and she's now Masked-1 and sounds like a bad rapper or something
However, she's storage until I can come up with a proper name (and that's not even on a role-playing encouraged server, it just sounds too silly).
Masked isn't a name I'd enjoy seeing on an RP server either but after server closures, I care a little less. That bit of immersion is long gone.

if you want i can help you with finding a name
just tell me what you like
2-3 things your name has to have or to show
for example the name i use means, plough of the vala,
the asterism of the great arctos
the toon i m using it, is a captain in evernight n other servers
i always use names with a meaning in lotro n not just letters in a row with a nice sound for my ears,
or stupid names in native languages that other peole cant understand
examples..... sokolatenios(made of chokolate), kryfitsoutsou(hiden male genetical organs)
n many others

[ChildOfDreams]

What are these tomatoes? They sound very tasty. Sadly, we hobbits have no tomatoes so no tomato soup.

Tomatoes came from the Americas and so wouldn't be considered part of what was available in Middle-earth (unless specifically added in somewhere to the 'lore' , like taters/potatoes were). Also don't have yummy stuff like bell peppers and sweet corn, but for some reason we do have pumpkins.

But what about Bilbo's prize-winning tomatoes?

[auximenes]

There are more than one American plants mentioned in the books, I would say most notably potatoes.

[auximenes]

There are more than one American plants mentioned in the books, I would say most notably potatoes.

[Talttos]

And yes, this is the thread we are talking about...