Bartle created on 23rd of September 2020, and is dead and gone (27 years old, 29 hours, 2 years lifetime)
Title: the Battlemaster Gender: Male Level: 50 Class: humanwarrior
Background history:
Description:
Standing before you at a height of roughly four and a half feet is a
curiosity of a man. He appears to be neither dwarf, human, nor halfling,
though he possesses many features of the latter two. He has shoulder
length, wavy black hair that is parted in the middle. His face is well
rounded, with a short, wide, nose. Black, bushy eyebrows twitch above clear
blue eyes that dart about as he examines his surroundings. Above his thick
pink lips lays a long, thin black moustache that is meticulously oiled and
curled at both ends. He boasts not one, nor two, but three ample chins. As
he moves about, they jiggle and dance. He has fair skin and all that is
visible is completely unblemished. He appears to have no neck, or if he
were to have a neck, it has been wholly swallowed by his voluminous jowls.
His head sits directly in line with his narrow shoulders, as it were. His
thick chest and healthy paunch stretch the seams of his garmnets to their
very limits. While his appendages appear thick, it is unlikely that they
are well muscled. The backs of his hands are covered in a thick mass of
curly black hair. It is more than likely that the tops of his feet are as
well. He would appear quite absurd on a battlefield. What an oddity of a
man.
Ode to Vhrael. 0 prac level 50. Hope you're doing well bro.
It turned out to actually be a doable strategy to lvl up to 50 and then 1 prac everything btw. With a few more hours he woulda been combat ready. Planned to die to anyone that attacked but nobody did so no deaths.
Your description is:
Standing before you at a height of roughly four and a half feet is a
curiosity of a man. He appears to be neither dwarf, human, nor halfling,
though he possesses many features of the latter two. He has shoulder
length, wavy black hair that is parted in the middle. His face is well
rounded, with a short, wide, nose. Black, bushy eyebrows twitch above clear
blue eyes that dart about as he examines his surroundings. Above his thick
pink lips lays a long, thin black moustache that is meticulously oiled and
curled at both ends. He boasts not one, nor two, but three ample chins. As
he moves about, they jiggle and dance. He has fair skin and all that is
visible is completely unblemished. He appears to have no neck, or if he
were to have a neck, it has been wholly swallowed by his voluminous jowls.
His head sits directly in line with his narrow shoulders, as it were. His
thick chest and healthy paunch stretch the seams of his garmnets to their
very limits. While his appendages appear thick, it is unlikely that they
are well muscled. The backs of his hands are covered in a thick mass of
curly black hair. It is more than likely that the tops of his feet are as
well. He would appear quite absurd on a battlefield. What an oddity of a
man.
/@============================================================-
| \
| Bartle the Battlemaster, follower of Odoacer |
| Acolyte of Law |
| You are 27 years old (29 hours, 0h:00m of bloodshed) |
| |
| Race: Human Hometown: Seringale Health: 992/992 |
| Sex: Male Class: Warrior Mana: 480/480 |
| Size: medium Alignment: Neutral Move: 414/414 |
| Age: prime Ethos: Lawful Shield: 0/0 |
\ -------------------------------------------/
| |
| Streng: 21 (21+0) Rating: Good Weight: 326/425 |
| Intell: 20 (20+0) Level: 50 Pracs: 5 |
| Wisdom: 20 (20+0) Exp tnl: 15497 Trains: 0 |
| Dexter: 20 (20+0) Guildpoint: 1/3 :29m Items: 34/36 |
| Consti: 20 (20+0) Gold: 30 Wimpy: 50 hp |
| Luck: Fortuitous Hunger: [****-] Thirst: [****-] |
| |
| Condition: In prime health |
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/ |
| Armor Vs Pierce: 85 Saving Throws |
| Hitroll: 21 Vs Bash: 85 Afflictive: 47 |
| Damroll: 20 Vs Slash: 82 Maledictive: 61 |
| Vs Magic: 55 Mental: 69 |
\==========================================================-/
You are affected by the following:
Skill: warcry : modifies hitroll by 6 for 4 hours
: modifies save vs afflictive by 6 for 4 hours
Skill: devote : lasts for 10 hours
992hp 480m 414mv inside (indoors) 5pm (day) no opponent no opponent
sk
Level 1: axe 95% dagger 95%
flail 97% mace 81%
polearm 100% bow 72%
shield block 100% spear 100%
sword 95% whip 76%
enhanced damage 100% hand to hand 100%
kick 62% parry 100%
rescue 75% staff 100%
Level 3: dirt kicking 66%
Level 4: sideswipe 75%
Level 5: second attack 100%
Level 6: fast healing 87%
Level 7: lore 50%
Level 8: volley 50%
Level 10: disarm 100% blind fighting 100%
Level 12: third attack 93% dual wield 100%
charge 50%
Level 14: haggle 51%
Level 15: trip 58% shield disarm 80%
Level 16: bash 77%
Level 17: concentrate 97% dodge 100%
Level 18: berserk 79% meditation 91%
Level 20: warcry 76%
Level 22: barrage 96%
Level 23: dual parry 100%
Level 24: overhead crush 89%
Level 25: counter 75%
Level 26: windmill cleave 75%
Level 27: overpower 75%
Level 28: point blank 100%
Level 30: hobble 89%
Level 33: offhand disarm 1%
Level 35: fourth attack 83%
Level 37: riposte 100%
Level 40: double grip 100%
Level 47: athleticism 61%
992hp 480m 414mv inside (indoors) 7pm (dusk) no opponent no opponent
wo
You are carrying 30 gold, with 36961 gold in the bank.
You have 0 chips of <HERALD>.
You have 1159 medals of [WARLORD].
You have 200 relics of <MYSTIC>.
Your heart suddenly stops beating and you fall over ... DEAD.
Your lifeless body drops to the ground.
Kills: 0, Deaths: 0.
This is from the log showing he was actually a zero prac char. The above portion is after putting 1 prac in most things and training for a bit.
Sep 23/20 in discord Vhrael said he'd love to see somebody make a char and level it up to 50 without practicing a single thing. Challenge accepted and completed! No practicing, no OOC (I did group with one friend for a little bit around level 20-30 but he definitely didn't plan to help me with this project). Just a little love and elbow grease - and a LOT of help from everyone I ever grouped with.... Sorry for being a bit of dead weight but the conversation was fun and it was great to make so many friends!
941hp and nothing else matters
sc
/@============================================================-
| \
| Bartle the Battlemaster, follower of Odoacer |
| Acolyte of Law |
| You are 18 years old (19 hours, 5h:12m of bloodshed) |
| |
| Race: Human Hometown: Seringale Health: 941/941 |
| Sex: Male Alignment: Neutral Mana: 480/480 |
| Class: Warrior Ethos: Lawful Move: 413/414 |
\ -------------------------------------------/
| |
| Streng: 21 (21+0) Rating: Good Weight: 242/425 |
| Intell: 20 (20+0) Level: 50 Pracs: 82 |
| Wisdom: 20 (20+0) Exp tnl: 15497 Trains: 0 |
| Dexter: 20 (20+0) Guildpoint: 1/3 Items: 31/36 |
| Consti: 20 (20+0) Gold: 27524 Wimpy: 0 hp |
| Luck: Changing Hunger: [**---] Thirst: [*****] |
| |
| Condition: In prime health |
------------------------------------------ \
/ |
| Armor Vs Pierce: -50 Saving Throws |
| Hitroll: 11 Vs Bash: -50 Afflictive: 40 |
| Damroll: 11 Vs Slash: -50 Maledictive: 40 |
| Vs Magic: -50 Mental: 40 |
\==========================================================-/
You are affected by the following:
Skill: devote : lasts for 23 hours
Favor: Odoacer's Favor: lasts for 3 hours
941hp and nothing else matters
eq
You are using:
<used as light> Nothing.
<worn on finger> Nothing.
<worn on finger> Nothing.
<worn around neck> Nothing.
<worn around neck> Nothing.
<worn on head> Nothing.
<worn on torso> Nothing.
<worn on arms> Nothing.
<worn on hands> Nothing.
<worn on legs> Nothing.
<worn on feet> Nothing.
<worn about body> Nothing.
<worn about waist> Nothing.
<worn around wrist> Nothing.
<worn around wrist> Nothing.
<wielded> Nothing.
<floating nearby> Nothing.
Nothing.
This is an awesome feat. Well done. Now do it with a fire giant! 😆
Davairus
0 , 0 , 3 .
Just to confirm, you are referring to him deleting it, right? Coz if it was for anything else, that'd be fucking embarrassing.
Davairus
0 , 0 , 3 .
huh weird its been 30 min and resatimm hasnt popped out of the woodwork to tell me I'm punching down
Kalist19
3 , 0 , 0 .
Maybe people are just ignoring your asshole comments. Oops I just failed at that I guess
Mogu
2 , 0 , 0 .
@Dav your toxicity is embarrassing.
Davairus
0 , 0 , 0 .
Getting to level 50 is supposed to be an achievement, a lot of hard work. You are back-slapping each other for being a parasite upon players who are trying to do just that. Levelling AFK with no skills trained and naked. Anyone who points this out is an asshole though.
Mogu
1 , 0 , 0 .
That's fair. This comment is a significantly better way to articulate that sentiment than your comment above.
Kalist19
2 , 0 , 0 .
Actually, I wasn’t naked and I didn’t afk. I participated with RP (camaraderie), dirt kicking, and always had my hired man Jenkins by my side helping out too (human merc).
If you look at the initial log I posted about this char you’d see there were exactly zero complaints about him “being a parasite”. He provided damage, RP and an exp boost for anyone he was grouped with. He also never tried to claim any of the gambled gear that fell. He even joined a circle jerk with a scarecrow one time just for a giggle.
Idk why you are so upset about this when none of the mortals that interacted with him were.
Davairus
0 , 0 , 0 .
First, I wouldn't have bothered to post if you guys weren't gladhanding over throwaway trash. It is in my interests, and really in the big picture, everybody's better off for it, if I post dissent.
I am not going to nitpick your whole posts, I will respond to your last sentence, and thats the last time I want to reply to any of this
point:
You said I shouldn't care what you do. Players who don't care don't complain. Nobody complained so therefore nobody cares. And if nobody else cares then why should I care?
rebuttal:
Richard Bartle is the original inventor of muds which is a fact everybody who plays muds should be acquainted with. He is the one who wrote the paper on the four player types that make a mud. Without him, there wouldnt BE muds, and there certainly wouldn't be the style of MUD that he prescribed available to play. This MUD closely follows his prescription for what a MUD should be like. The fact there isn't another Imm or player on this game who knows or even gives a shit about this, is disappointing. Of course I will care about that, because I walk in his footsteps. If nobody gives a shit about Rich Bartle, whose inspiration birthed AR, then what is the point? It makes the whole exercise feel like a waste of time. Furthermore, your character name was a constant running reminder that AR and muds are all hopelessly obscure because the population of the world largely choose to be ignoramuses, even the few players who somehow get here. THAT is the fact that absolutely pisses me off. So go ahead, play the ignorance card about it. Either it is ignorance, which I just described is a pet peeve of mine, or you have an undeniable and weird compulsion to lowkey name trolling with almost every character you think up. I don't think its so easy to keep buying it that you are really that dim
Kalist19
0 , 0 , 0 .
Absolutely had no idea about the name. Bartle Buntsworth just sounded like a mix human/halfling guy. If anyone anywhere ever would have pointed out the name li k (or if I somehow would have stumbled upon it) I would have happily changed it or never used it in the first place.
Ok so you weren’t mad about the parasite thing it was the name thing. Sorry that was definitely not intentional. I’ve actually used name generators or the built in generator at char creation for my last several chars in order to avoid my “terrible names affliction”.
Davairus
0 , 0 , 0 .
I just said how i feel about ignorance, and its not over just one stupid name, its a whole world going down the tubes
Kalist19
0 , 0 , 0 .
Oh yeah I know ignorance isn’t great but I just wanted to let you know it wasn’t intentionally trolling. I’d rather be an idiot than a malicious dick (ie trolling that name on purpose).
Mogu
0 , 0 , 0 .
TIL about Richard Bartle as well. I've played (somewhat seriously) exactly one other mud in my life, Dragon's Gate on AOL, and it was before I found AR. Once I got to AR, I never looked back. You've got a fuckin' beauty of a mud in AR so you're doing your part. And we're doing our part playing it. Cheers.
Vanisse
4 , 0 , 0 .
dav - just because people do not go out of their way to research the historical origins of something they enjoy, doesn't mean they do not appreciate or care about it in its present form, or that they are willfully ignorant. there is no "MUD history" course commonly taught or mention of Richard Bartle on our website. so how would you expect players to know? in general, if you wish knowledge to be more widely known and you have it, it is better to be generous and share it, teach what you know, rather than simply be frustrated by the rarity of its existence. you clearly have a great deal of passion on this subject (among others) and could be a good teacher.
Davairus
0 , 0 , 0 .
how would I expect people to know? well, that'd be because of looking at things in their historical context.
Most recently (and not the first time), there is this thread from june 2020, which ran through to 31 aug 2020
https://abandonedrealms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12937
to save you the trouble of trying to click a link which is broke there somehow, it was the personality quiz
https://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/bartle/index.php <------ links prominently to this https://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm which is not really going out of the way to find at all. neither is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types
this character created 3 weeks after that thread runs its course. Forgetting all about it after two years, sure, but I am sure generally the "socializer killer achiever explorer" part was retained because of the personal impact. Forgetting the test name after three weeks, its a bit more of a stretch to get there? And its not expecting anyone to recall some obscure character from a video game in 2003 they never played or something. Its still the 3rd thread down in the roleplaying section of the AR forum
also, the AR name generator is incapable of making names ending in -rtle , -tle, -le or even -e, so that rules out the AR name generator as a source of inspiration.
Bartle is an issue, but we let a guy named Zyrtec(popular allergy medication that blasts TV commercials all day) roll around for 84 hours.
Mogu
0 , 0 , 0 .
It's very hard to take you seriously with this conspiracy theory garbage. Just make a mob in the Academy named Bartle to teach ignorant pricks like me who play your game about your idol. How hard is that?
Vanisse
2 , 0 , 0 .
that's assuming people engage to the extent that you do with off-topic content, and have good memory to boot. i barely remember what i ate for breakfast yesterday and am not at all invested in clicking other links on a quiz i get linked to on a forum... maybe he had the name seeded in his mind from taking the quiz and just didn't realize. and anyway if it bothered you (like kali) you could easily have just sent him to get renamed instead of stewing about it and suppressing it until you randomly explode
Davairus
0 , 0 , 0 .
Do we want good RP on this game or not? Because if we want people to stay in character, then that begins with honoring an agreement to have an original name. It is in the rules. "if you knew why didnt you stop me" is overlooking the influx of bad names that are power levelled quickly apologists start up their arguments like "well hes too high level to rename now" or one of my old favorites "nobody has filed a complaint about this" neglecting that literally Czerbek's comment above shows that people give a shit enough to remember this idiocy a year later even after we DID rename the character.
and neglecting that you guys would make a game out of trying to get a stupid name to 50 if we tried to crackdown on it. I do nothing but bitch in the logboard now, because this situation is miserable and unsolveable and I have pretty much given up
Kalist19
0 , 0 , 0 .
Dav you are creating connections where they don't really exist. I know you're super logical so I looked at the forum and logboard to find some data to help show that I didn't intentionally make this char to troll.
Exhibit A: I searched the forum for "Bartle" - the only hit was in the forum post you referenced. This post was made June 29/20.
Exhibit B: I was playing avidly at this time, as shown by the numerous Hirendan logs around this exact time period (see June 14/20 for example. When I am playing avidly, I check the logboard and forum at least daily, so I would have seen that bartle thing as soon as it was posted.
Exhibit C: I didn't post anything in that thread. I feel like I did 'the bartle test' but I don't think it had as much of an impact on me that you think it should have. I don't remember it in any specific way and didn't post it, didn't comment on anything in that thread and don't specifically recall following that thread or reading anything in there other than to make the yellow go away (to indicate a new post there).
Exhibit D: Bartle was created Sep 23/20 - basically 3 months after that forum thread was first made. If I was trolling it for some specific reason (I didn't) don't you think I would have made that char closer to the time it was initially posted?
The only link I can think of between that thread and the character would be because the name 'Bartle' was still in my brain from either this thread or some other mentioning, and I just spontaneously put it together with Buntsworth when I pictured this char in my head (if you read his desc that's exactly what I pictured before even rolling).
Aelaldric is one of my most recently created main characters and his name was picked directly from the in game name generator (i.e. now when rolling a char i type the name bob so the generator comes up).
I know I'm not great with names and I don't want to troll by accident so I've been using the name generator.
What is the command to hug Davairus? â—(â‘…•á´—•â‘…)â—œ
@Dav, I appreciate the name drop and knowledge as we should probably have a holiday to Virgil, but I have been guilty of picking random names that turn out to be something, now I google my jumble.
We love the game and like already stated, even if someone seems like dead weight, still helps the exp. We need players, I will take what we can get.
Davairus
3 , 0 , 0 .
I appreciate you Grayden.
Mogu
0 , 0 , 0 .
^^^ please more of this. Love seeing positivity from you Dav.
It turned out to actually be a doable strategy to lvl up to 50 and then 1 prac everything btw. With a few more hours he woulda been combat ready. Planned to die to anyone that attacked but nobody did so no deaths.
Your description is:
Standing before you at a height of roughly four and a half feet is a
curiosity of a man. He appears to be neither dwarf, human, nor halfling,
though he possesses many features of the latter two. He has shoulder
length, wavy black hair that is parted in the middle. His face is well
rounded, with a short, wide, nose. Black, bushy eyebrows twitch above clear
blue eyes that dart about as he examines his surroundings. Above his thick
pink lips lays a long, thin black moustache that is meticulously oiled and
curled at both ends. He boasts not one, nor two, but three ample chins. As
he moves about, they jiggle and dance. He has fair skin and all that is
visible is completely unblemished. He appears to have no neck, or if he
were to have a neck, it has been wholly swallowed by his voluminous jowls.
His head sits directly in line with his narrow shoulders, as it were. His
thick chest and healthy paunch stretch the seams of his garmnets to their
very limits. While his appendages appear thick, it is unlikely that they
are well muscled. The backs of his hands are covered in a thick mass of
curly black hair. It is more than likely that the tops of his feet are as
well. He would appear quite absurd on a battlefield. What an oddity of a
man.
/@============================================================-
| \
| Bartle the Battlemaster, follower of Odoacer |
| Acolyte of Law |
| You are 27 years old (29 hours, 0h:00m of bloodshed) |
| |
| Race: Human Hometown: Seringale Health: 992/992 |
| Sex: Male Class: Warrior Mana: 480/480 |
| Size: medium Alignment: Neutral Move: 414/414 |
| Age: prime Ethos: Lawful Shield: 0/0 |
\ -------------------------------------------/
| |
| Streng: 21 (21+0) Rating: Good Weight: 326/425 |
| Intell: 20 (20+0) Level: 50 Pracs: 5 |
| Wisdom: 20 (20+0) Exp tnl: 15497 Trains: 0 |
| Dexter: 20 (20+0) Guildpoint: 1/3 :29m Items: 34/36 |
| Consti: 20 (20+0) Gold: 30 Wimpy: 50 hp |
| Luck: Fortuitous Hunger: [****-] Thirst: [****-] |
| |
| Condition: In prime health |
------------------------------------------ \
/ |
| Armor Vs Pierce: 85 Saving Throws |
| Hitroll: 21 Vs Bash: 85 Afflictive: 47 |
| Damroll: 20 Vs Slash: 82 Maledictive: 61 |
| Vs Magic: 55 Mental: 69 |
\==========================================================-/
You are affected by the following:
Skill: warcry : modifies hitroll by 6 for 4 hours
: modifies save vs afflictive by 6 for 4 hours
Skill: devote : lasts for 10 hours
992hp 480m 414mv inside (indoors) 5pm (day) no opponent no opponent
sk
Level 1: axe 95% dagger 95%
flail 97% mace 81%
polearm 100% bow 72%
shield block 100% spear 100%
sword 95% whip 76%
enhanced damage 100% hand to hand 100%
kick 62% parry 100%
rescue 75% staff 100%
Level 3: dirt kicking 66%
Level 4: sideswipe 75%
Level 5: second attack 100%
Level 6: fast healing 87%
Level 7: lore 50%
Level 8: volley 50%
Level 10: disarm 100% blind fighting 100%
Level 12: third attack 93% dual wield 100%
charge 50%
Level 14: haggle 51%
Level 15: trip 58% shield disarm 80%
Level 16: bash 77%
Level 17: concentrate 97% dodge 100%
Level 18: berserk 79% meditation 91%
Level 20: warcry 76%
Level 22: barrage 96%
Level 23: dual parry 100%
Level 24: overhead crush 89%
Level 25: counter 75%
Level 26: windmill cleave 75%
Level 27: overpower 75%
Level 28: point blank 100%
Level 30: hobble 89%
Level 33: offhand disarm 1%
Level 35: fourth attack 83%
Level 37: riposte 100%
Level 40: double grip 100%
Level 47: athleticism 61%
992hp 480m 414mv inside (indoors) 7pm (dusk) no opponent no opponent
wo
You are carrying 30 gold, with 36961 gold in the bank.
You have 0 chips of <HERALD>.
You have 1159 medals of [WARLORD].
You have 200 relics of <MYSTIC>.
Your heart suddenly stops beating and you fall over ... DEAD.
Your lifeless body drops to the ground.
Kills: 0, Deaths: 0.
[reply to Kalist19]
Sep 23/20 in discord Vhrael said he'd love to see somebody make a char and level it up to 50 without practicing a single thing. Challenge accepted and completed! No practicing, no OOC (I did group with one friend for a little bit around level 20-30 but he definitely didn't plan to help me with this project). Just a little love and elbow grease - and a LOT of help from everyone I ever grouped with.... Sorry for being a bit of dead weight but the conversation was fun and it was great to make so many friends!
941hp and nothing else matters
sc
/@============================================================-
| \
| Bartle the Battlemaster, follower of Odoacer |
| Acolyte of Law |
| You are 18 years old (19 hours, 5h:12m of bloodshed) |
| |
| Race: Human Hometown: Seringale Health: 941/941 |
| Sex: Male Alignment: Neutral Mana: 480/480 |
| Class: Warrior Ethos: Lawful Move: 413/414 |
\ -------------------------------------------/
| |
| Streng: 21 (21+0) Rating: Good Weight: 242/425 |
| Intell: 20 (20+0) Level: 50 Pracs: 82 |
| Wisdom: 20 (20+0) Exp tnl: 15497 Trains: 0 |
| Dexter: 20 (20+0) Guildpoint: 1/3 Items: 31/36 |
| Consti: 20 (20+0) Gold: 27524 Wimpy: 0 hp |
| Luck: Changing Hunger: [**---] Thirst: [*****] |
| |
| Condition: In prime health |
------------------------------------------ \
/ |
| Armor Vs Pierce: -50 Saving Throws |
| Hitroll: 11 Vs Bash: -50 Afflictive: 40 |
| Damroll: 11 Vs Slash: -50 Maledictive: 40 |
| Vs Magic: -50 Mental: 40 |
\==========================================================-/
You are affected by the following:
Skill: devote : lasts for 23 hours
Favor: Odoacer's Favor: lasts for 3 hours
941hp and nothing else matters
eq
You are using:
<used as light> Nothing.
<worn on finger> Nothing.
<worn on finger> Nothing.
<worn around neck> Nothing.
<worn around neck> Nothing.
<worn on head> Nothing.
<worn on torso> Nothing.
<worn on arms> Nothing.
<worn on hands> Nothing.
<worn on legs> Nothing.
<worn on feet> Nothing.
<worn about body> Nothing.
<worn about waist> Nothing.
<worn around wrist> Nothing.
<worn around wrist> Nothing.
<wielded> Nothing.
<floating nearby> Nothing.
Nothing.
941hp and nothing else matters
sk
Level 1: axe 1% dagger 1%
flail 1% mace 1%
polearm 98% bow 1%
shield block 1% spear 1%
sword 1% whip 1%
enhanced damage 1% hand to hand 1%
kick 1% parry 1%
rescue 1% staff 1%
Level 3: dirt kicking 1%
Level 4: sideswipe 1%
Level 5: second attack 1%
Level 6: fast healing 1%
Level 7: lore 1%
Level 8: volley 1%
Level 10: disarm 1% blind fighting 1%
Level 12: third attack 1% dual wield 1%
charge 1%
Level 14: haggle 1%
Level 15: trip 1% shield disarm 1%
Level 16: bash 1%
Level 17: concentrate 1% dodge 1%
Level 18: berserk 1% meditation 1%
Level 20: warcry 1%
Level 22: barrage 1%
Level 23: dual parry 1%
Level 24: overhead crush 1%
Level 25: counter 1%
Level 26: windmill cleave 1%
Level 27: overpower 1%
Level 28: point blank 1%
Level 30: hobble 1%
Level 33: offhand disarm 1%
Level 35: fourth attack 1%
Level 37: riposte 1%
Level 40: double grip 1%
Level 47: athleticism 1%
Vanisse 
3 , 0 , 0 . i love your prompt haha
[reply to Kalist19]Davairus 0 , 0 , 3 . Just to confirm, you are referring to him deleting it, right? Coz if it was for anything else, that'd be fucking embarrassing. Davairus 0 , 0 , 3 . huh weird its been 30 min and resatimm hasnt popped out of the woodwork to tell me I'm punching down Kalist19 
3 , 0 , 0 . Maybe people are just ignoring your asshole comments. Oops I just failed at that I guess Mogu 
2 , 0 , 0 . @Dav your toxicity is embarrassing. Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . Getting to level 50 is supposed to be an achievement, a lot of hard work. You are back-slapping each other for being a parasite upon players who are trying to do just that. Levelling AFK with no skills trained and naked. Anyone who points this out is an asshole though. Mogu 
1 , 0 , 0 . That's fair. This comment is a significantly better way to articulate that sentiment than your comment above. Kalist19 
2 , 0 , 0 . Actually, I wasn’t naked and I didn’t afk. I participated with RP (camaraderie), dirt kicking, and always had my hired man Jenkins by my side helping out too (human merc).
Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . First, I wouldn't have bothered to post if you guys weren't gladhanding over throwaway trash. It is in my interests, and really in the big picture, everybody's better off for it, if I post dissent.
Kalist19 
0 , 0 , 0 . Absolutely had no idea about the name. Bartle Buntsworth just sounded like a mix human/halfling guy. If anyone anywhere ever would have pointed out the name li k (or if I somehow would have stumbled upon it) I would have happily changed it or never used it in the first place.
Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . I just said how i feel about ignorance, and its not over just one stupid name, its a whole world going down the tubes Kalist19 
0 , 0 , 0 . Oh yeah I know ignorance isn’t great but I just wanted to let you know it wasn’t intentionally trolling. I’d rather be an idiot than a malicious dick (ie trolling that name on purpose). Mogu 
0 , 0 , 0 . TIL about Richard Bartle as well. I've played (somewhat seriously) exactly one other mud in my life, Dragon's Gate on AOL, and it was before I found AR. Once I got to AR, I never looked back. You've got a fuckin' beauty of a mud in AR so you're doing your part. And we're doing our part playing it. Cheers. Vanisse 
4 , 0 , 0 . dav - just because people do not go out of their way to research the historical origins of something they enjoy, doesn't mean they do not appreciate or care about it in its present form, or that they are willfully ignorant. there is no "MUD history" course commonly taught or mention of Richard Bartle on our website. so how would you expect players to know? in general, if you wish knowledge to be more widely known and you have it, it is better to be generous and share it, teach what you know, rather than simply be frustrated by the rarity of its existence. you clearly have a great deal of passion on this subject (among others) and could be a good teacher. Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . how would I expect people to know? well, that'd be because of looking at things in their historical context.
Czerbek 0 , 0 , 0 . Bartle is an issue, but we let a guy named Zyrtec(popular allergy medication that blasts TV commercials all day) roll around for 84 hours. Mogu 
0 , 0 , 0 . It's very hard to take you seriously with this conspiracy theory garbage. Just make a mob in the Academy named Bartle to teach ignorant pricks like me who play your game about your idol. How hard is that? Vanisse 
2 , 0 , 0 . that's assuming people engage to the extent that you do with off-topic content, and have good memory to boot. i barely remember what i ate for breakfast yesterday and am not at all invested in clicking other links on a quiz i get linked to on a forum... maybe he had the name seeded in his mind from taking the quiz and just didn't realize. and anyway if it bothered you (like kali) you could easily have just sent him to get renamed instead of stewing about it and suppressing it until you randomly explode Davairus 0 , 0 , 0 . Do we want good RP on this game or not? Because if we want people to stay in character, then that begins with honoring an agreement to have an original name. It is in the rules. "if you knew why didnt you stop me" is overlooking the influx of bad names that are power levelled quickly apologists start up their arguments like "well hes too high level to rename now" or one of my old favorites "nobody has filed a complaint about this" neglecting that literally Czerbek's comment above shows that people give a shit enough to remember this idiocy a year later even after we DID rename the character. Kalist19 
0 , 0 , 0 . Dav you are creating connections where they don't really exist. I know you're super logical so I looked at the forum and logboard to find some data to help show that I didn't intentionally make this char to troll.
[reply to Mogu]If you look at the initial log I posted about this char you’d see there were exactly zero complaints about him “being a parasite”. He provided damage, RP and an exp boost for anyone he was grouped with. He also never tried to claim any of the gambled gear that fell. He even joined a circle jerk with a scarecrow one time just for a giggle.
Idk why you are so upset about this when none of the mortals that interacted with him were.
I am not going to nitpick your whole posts, I will respond to your last sentence, and thats the last time I want to reply to any of this
point:
You said I shouldn't care what you do. Players who don't care don't complain. Nobody complained so therefore nobody cares. And if nobody else cares then why should I care?
rebuttal:
Richard Bartle is the original inventor of muds which is a fact everybody who plays muds should be acquainted with. He is the one who wrote the paper on the four player types that make a mud. Without him, there wouldnt BE muds, and there certainly wouldn't be the style of MUD that he prescribed available to play. This MUD closely follows his prescription for what a MUD should be like. The fact there isn't another Imm or player on this game who knows or even gives a shit about this, is disappointing. Of course I will care about that, because I walk in his footsteps. If nobody gives a shit about Rich Bartle, whose inspiration birthed AR, then what is the point? It makes the whole exercise feel like a waste of time. Furthermore, your character name was a constant running reminder that AR and muds are all hopelessly obscure because the population of the world largely choose to be ignoramuses, even the few players who somehow get here. THAT is the fact that absolutely pisses me off. So go ahead, play the ignorance card about it. Either it is ignorance, which I just described is a pet peeve of mine, or you have an undeniable and weird compulsion to lowkey name trolling with almost every character you think up. I don't think its so easy to keep buying it that you are really that dim
Ok so you weren’t mad about the parasite thing it was the name thing. Sorry that was definitely not intentional. I’ve actually used name generators or the built in generator at char creation for my last several chars in order to avoid my “terrible names affliction”.
Most recently (and not the first time), there is this thread from june 2020, which ran through to 31 aug 2020
https://abandonedrealms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12937
to save you the trouble of trying to click a link which is broke there somehow, it was the personality quiz
https://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/bartle/index.php <------ links prominently to this https://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm which is not really going out of the way to find at all. neither is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types
this character created 3 weeks after that thread runs its course. Forgetting all about it after two years, sure, but I am sure generally the "socializer killer achiever explorer" part was retained because of the personal impact. Forgetting the test name after three weeks, its a bit more of a stretch to get there? And its not expecting anyone to recall some obscure character from a video game in 2003 they never played or something. Its still the 3rd thread down in the roleplaying section of the AR forum
also, the AR name generator is incapable of making names ending in -rtle , -tle, -le or even -e, so that rules out the AR name generator as a source of inspiration.
and neglecting that you guys would make a game out of trying to get a stupid name to 50 if we tried to crackdown on it. I do nothing but bitch in the logboard now, because this situation is miserable and unsolveable and I have pretty much given up
Exhibit A: I searched the forum for "Bartle" - the only hit was in the forum post you referenced. This post was made June 29/20.
Exhibit B: I was playing avidly at this time, as shown by the numerous Hirendan logs around this exact time period (see June 14/20 for example. When I am playing avidly, I check the logboard and forum at least daily, so I would have seen that bartle thing as soon as it was posted.
Exhibit C: I didn't post anything in that thread. I feel like I did 'the bartle test' but I don't think it had as much of an impact on me that you think it should have. I don't remember it in any specific way and didn't post it, didn't comment on anything in that thread and don't specifically recall following that thread or reading anything in there other than to make the yellow go away (to indicate a new post there).
Exhibit D: Bartle was created Sep 23/20 - basically 3 months after that forum thread was first made. If I was trolling it for some specific reason (I didn't) don't you think I would have made that char closer to the time it was initially posted?
The only link I can think of between that thread and the character would be because the name 'Bartle' was still in my brain from either this thread or some other mentioning, and I just spontaneously put it together with Buntsworth when I pictured this char in my head (if you read his desc that's exactly what I pictured before even rolling).
Aelaldric is one of my most recently created main characters and his name was picked directly from the in game name generator (i.e. now when rolling a char i type the name bob so the generator comes up).
I know I'm not great with names and I don't want to troll by accident so I've been using the name generator.
Dogran 
0 , 0 , 0 . In the end, just having the extra person in the group was probably worth it, due to group xp bonus Kalist19 
0 , 0 , 0 . Hey I wasn’t naked! Red dragon and a ranseur ftw. Yes I needed help killing the dragon…
Bladefury BANNED 0 , 0 , 0 . Fun fact you also land kick at 1% and any skill that you yourself can enter it just doesn't go up above 1%
[reply to Bladefury]Also fun fact, sometimes you land dirt kick if it’s 1%!
@Dav, I appreciate the name drop and knowledge as we should probably have a holiday to Virgil, but I have been guilty of picking random names that turn out to be something, now I google my jumble.
We love the game and like already stated, even if someone seems like dead weight, still helps the exp. We need players, I will take what we can get.
Davairus 3 , 0 , 0 . I appreciate you Grayden. Mogu 
0 , 0 , 0 . ^^^ please more of this. Love seeing positivity from you Dav.
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