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Old 03-16-2005, 06:44 AM
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You're failing to see a very basic fact here.

The purpose of having regulations in a role playing community is so that role playing can actually take place. If everyone comes to a role playing session with an elaborate backstory, a custom race, and a custom class, so much time would be spent on explainations, no actual roleplaying would take place. Imagine if 10 role players got together, and each had a backstory that required 10 minutes of explaination.

Then, every time a situation comes up which would require abilities from that race to be brought into play, MORE time would be used on explainations.

So now imagine a Kingdom on Graal with 20 members in it, each having their own custom race. It would be chaotic.

My point is, if you're allowed to make a custom race, what is stopping everyone else? If everyone has a custom race, the whole RPing community would be too chaotic to work.

I don't understand how you don't see this logic.
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