It's older than that, going back to the 4th C. (the Council of Elvira appears to have been the first time laws requiring celibacy and continence were published). I'm on Corylea's side on this: these laws and oaths, and the reasons given at the time to justify them, are kinda creepy.Morgora said:
The Order always reminded me of the Teutonic Knights, which led the Northern Crusades and ended up controlling much of Poland, Prussia, and Lithuania in the 13th and 14th Centuries. Its members were also under vows of celibacy.
I'll leave a little post. I'm a guy, I'm 20 years old and live in the united states. I met my girlfriend playing World of Warcraft about two years ago. We got together at the beginning of 2011 officially you could say. Just a week or two ago I finally got on a plane to go visit her in the next state over. I left on August 7th and came back on August 13th. That was one of the best experiences of my life and I love her to bits ((and bytes!); thank the gods for girls who play video games!
Oh my... I just saw this post... so...
I'm here 'cause I'm madly in love with the witcher world and the game got me into this. Right now I'm hunting possibly all the witcher gadget I can get my hands on. I just started reading books... or trying to 'cause I'm very bad with text...Anything with too much letters scares me off and of all my life I've only finish reading 2 books, less than 200 pages and took me 2 months to do so... I prefer pictures and sounds.
The female characters are great, specially some of the smart ones like Philippa but some do annoyed me like Shani. May be I'm the type of person who dislike woman who demand too much 'cause I got annoyed when she ordered Geralt to do this and that in the first game alot just for what she saw was right. I kinda feel sorry for Triss... she did so much for Geralt but she will always be the second...I'm still looking forward to anything would change that in TW3 though.
For Male... I'm a crazy obsessed fangirl of Vernon Roche... that I have to admit...He's the manliest man I've ever met... not like he's so bad ass or tough and stuffs but there's some tiny bit of him that says he has solfty side although he failed most of the time to show it which I find very cute. Specially when he sarcastically called Geralt a prick, yes he was upset but not to the point to punch our witcher. I also find many other characters adorable, such as Siegfreid for sounding so naive in the begining of TW1.
I saw many people talked about internet that started their relationship. Gotta say they are very lucky and I'm happy for them 'cause it just never worked out for me. Heh... so I'm here.. playing games all by my self...x_x\
For gaming history in my 24 years of living... I was born in a family full of geeks... ever since I remembered, I started with Pacman, Doom, and ...that dungeon crawler game on PC, then Rockman on Famicom then Sonic on sega... something...then 3DOs and then bunch of JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, Arc the Lad, Star Ocean, Tales of blah blah, Legend of Dragoons, Chrono series, etc bunch of SquareSoft, Atlus stuffs and mostly stuck in JRPG, MMORPG and Diablo2 until I was introduced to Dragon age a couple years ago and never again have I been able to get back in to JRPG.(Although DA2 FAILED me BADLY.) However, I started feeding on Western RPG like crack until my friend told me about The Witcher (just when I started to get bored of DA2 after cleared it 7 times even though I hated it but I got nothing else to play...) So, I wish I knew about The Witcher sooner 'cause it's the first game I actually like everything about it! The taste of Medieval and the roughness it should be. The bad thing is, I CAN'T really FIND anyone else in Thailand who's also madly into Witcher like me...
I also play table top RPG, boardgames and LARP (can't help it... I'm a...geek...OTL) Pathfinder(#1), Dungeons and Dragon 3.5,4.0, Call of Cthulhu, World of Darkness(,VTM,VTR,Promethian,Mage,Werewolf) and Warhammer40k. Those dice... I'm addicted to them pretty sparkling colors...
That's all... Hope I didn't bore you with my story ._.a
I'm here 'cause I'm madly in love with the witcher world and the game got me into this. Right now I'm hunting possibly all the witcher gadget I can get my hands on. I just started reading books... or trying to 'cause I'm very bad with text...Anything with too much letters scares me off and of all my life I've only finish reading 2 books, less than 200 pages and took me 2 months to do so... I prefer pictures and sounds.
The female characters are great, specially some of the smart ones like Philippa but some do annoyed me like Shani. May be I'm the type of person who dislike woman who demand too much 'cause I got annoyed when she ordered Geralt to do this and that in the first game alot just for what she saw was right. I kinda feel sorry for Triss... she did so much for Geralt but she will always be the second...I'm still looking forward to anything would change that in TW3 though.
For Male... I'm a crazy obsessed fangirl of Vernon Roche... that I have to admit...He's the manliest man I've ever met... not like he's so bad ass or tough and stuffs but there's some tiny bit of him that says he has solfty side although he failed most of the time to show it which I find very cute. Specially when he sarcastically called Geralt a prick, yes he was upset but not to the point to punch our witcher. I also find many other characters adorable, such as Siegfreid for sounding so naive in the begining of TW1.
I saw many people talked about internet that started their relationship. Gotta say they are very lucky and I'm happy for them 'cause it just never worked out for me. Heh... so I'm here.. playing games all by my self...x_x\
For gaming history in my 24 years of living... I was born in a family full of geeks... ever since I remembered, I started with Pacman, Doom, and ...that dungeon crawler game on PC, then Rockman on Famicom then Sonic on sega... something...then 3DOs and then bunch of JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, Arc the Lad, Star Ocean, Tales of blah blah, Legend of Dragoons, Chrono series, etc bunch of SquareSoft, Atlus stuffs and mostly stuck in JRPG, MMORPG and Diablo2 until I was introduced to Dragon age a couple years ago and never again have I been able to get back in to JRPG.(Although DA2 FAILED me BADLY.) However, I started feeding on Western RPG like crack until my friend told me about The Witcher (just when I started to get bored of DA2 after cleared it 7 times even though I hated it but I got nothing else to play...) So, I wish I knew about The Witcher sooner 'cause it's the first game I actually like everything about it! The taste of Medieval and the roughness it should be. The bad thing is, I CAN'T really FIND anyone else in Thailand who's also madly into Witcher like me...
I also play table top RPG, boardgames and LARP (can't help it... I'm a...geek...OTL) Pathfinder(#1), Dungeons and Dragon 3.5,4.0, Call of Cthulhu, World of Darkness(,VTM,VTR,Promethian,Mage,Werewolf) and Warhammer40k. Those dice... I'm addicted to them pretty sparkling colors...
That's all... Hope I didn't bore you with my story ._.a
I'll admit to doing pretty much all of that in my teenage years as well. If it wasn't for all the D&D I played in high school I probably wouldn't be a writer now. And we used to have an amazing LARP village in my home county, out in the countryside, miles from anything else, where huge larp festivals were held, staying in character all weekend. I remember my Malkavian character was easy to get into and difficult to get out of. Once you get acting crazy down to an art, it's difficult to stop.yuikami said:
RPG really helped alot in solving problems and writing, that if the player really sticks to the story, but it's very hard to find players nowadays that can really do that and I hate to spend hours in the game listening to mechanic players argue about the rule with the DM... T3T/sniffSlateUK said:
Indeed, Malkavian is very fun to played! I also played as Nosferatu in VTR. I kind of enjoy the Requiem more though 'cause the system is easier to understand for me. I wish there are festival like that here! I wish I can enroll in more LARP games but there were no more than 5 LARPs I know in total that ever happened in my whole country, however, there is no more and only a handful of RPGers...T-T (That's sad)
Me so jelly of you DX
Nosferatu was always difficult to LARP effectively, especially if kept needing to slip away to reapply makeup every few hours. As a Malkavian I wore different coloured contact lenses with alternately dilated pupils, teased my hair out all over the place, and wore lots of old silk shirts. My character was an artist. I used to enjoy getting others to pose for their portrait, and then just cover the canvas is colours and shapes and nonsense then wander off halfway through. Great fun being mad. I also put every discipline I had into Dementation, so when used, everyone in the room would have to act utterly insane for a few moments. Fantastic.
I didn't like Requiem as much as Masquerade, because I was never keen on the overall World of Darkness setting. It was too modern, too stylistic. Wheras the old masquerade campaign setting had a lot of classic vampire charm. I also loved all the different clans and bloodlines, they wrote too many of the best ones out in Requiem, like the Daughters of Cacophony and the Harbingers of Skulls.
I didn't like Requiem as much as Masquerade, because I was never keen on the overall World of Darkness setting. It was too modern, too stylistic. Wheras the old masquerade campaign setting had a lot of classic vampire charm. I also loved all the different clans and bloodlines, they wrote too many of the best ones out in Requiem, like the Daughters of Cacophony and the Harbingers of Skulls.
There are no Malkavian in VTR 
they're called MalkOvian and they're just a bloodline of Ventrue. Insane!
they're called MalkOvian and they're just a bloodline of Ventrue. Insane!
Yeah it's so sad they didn't carry Malkavian to VTR D:
My Malkavian was a girl who has a friend knife, his name was Mr Chop Chop.
Sadly I don't have any photos of my Malkavian outfits
but my Carthian Nosferatu dressed way better than her... which is ironic lolz
It was my first LARP and a failure 'cause I dressed nothing like Nosferatu. (except my ugly face lol)Basically some Invictus rat basterd bit her and she still wanted to look pretty even she had to turn uglier night by night. Finding no place among the beautiful people of high society vampires, she decided to be rebellious against them and joined the Carthian.
I joined for 10 games and never wore the same costumes xD
PS... I just realized... finally there are only girls talking in this thread now lolz
My Malkavian was a girl who has a friend knife, his name was Mr Chop Chop.
Sadly I don't have any photos of my Malkavian outfits
but my Carthian Nosferatu dressed way better than her... which is ironic lolz
It was my first LARP and a failure 'cause I dressed nothing like Nosferatu. (except my ugly face lol)Basically some Invictus rat basterd bit her and she still wanted to look pretty even she had to turn uglier night by night. Finding no place among the beautiful people of high society vampires, she decided to be rebellious against them and joined the Carthian.
I joined for 10 games and never wore the same costumes xD
PS... I just realized... finally there are only girls talking in this thread now lolz
That dress is amazingggg!
I've never tried LARP, but I know it's fun, I have a friend who's into it and he always tells me about their adventures. : ) The only time when I get to see beautiful, richly adorned costumes is when I'm at animecon.
Vampire, huh? I played both Vampire CRPG games, but I prefer the first one with Christof & co. (Bloodlines has awesome mods though)
I've never tried LARP, but I know it's fun, I have a friend who's into it and he always tells me about their adventures. : ) The only time when I get to see beautiful, richly adorned costumes is when I'm at animecon.
Vampire, huh? I played both Vampire CRPG games, but I prefer the first one with Christof & co. (Bloodlines has awesome mods though)
Really?siklara said:That dress is amazingggg!
I've never tried LARP, but I know it's fun, I have a friend who's into it and he always tells me about their adventures. : ) The only time when I get to see beautiful, richly adorned costumes is when I'm at animecon.
Vampire, huh? I played both Vampire CRPG games, but I prefer the first one with Christof & co. (Bloodlines has awesome mods though)
I thought the same at the biginning but after playing Bloodlines I think that there's more darkness and gothic, more rp-ing, and a more interesting plot. And it is closer to the RPG (pen and paper) than Redemption. I like that dark, dirty atmosphere, typical of US downtown... you know... gangstars, drug dealers, junkies, prostitutes, bums, wackos... kinda of Tarantino's horror movie
Want ot know more. What are they about?wisielec said:All of U should try Fading Suns and Earthdawn. Those settings are just...just...well, you know...
And Earthdawn has the most rewarding machanics...when you take all those dices (from K4 to K20) to roll for a score - pure magic!
I loved Bloodlines too, but as someone who's majoring in history I found Christof's adventure spanning through centuries irresistible. Ah, those medieval parts of the game in Prague and Vienna... arrgh, I want to play it now.secondchildren said:
I just listened to this and nostalgia'd hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOFwYVy37_c
Well afaik, the soundtrack is included into game folders. So you won't miss them any more.
Oh... I can feel you so well
Oh... I can feel you so well