Open Challenge Thread

It will work as I have put it.

The two of you will make your posts, and I'll make one, and so on.

 

Getting my post put together. This character requires a lot of thought.

 

I've essentially voiced this to Zerieth, but I feel as though the judging system for this arena needs to be reworked, and redefined.

 

Adding onto that, I think that the OOC portion battle system in general should be revamped.

EDIT
On a lighter note, I'd be willing to take on Zerieth's character with the one I've just posted up onto the Divine Magic thread.

 

My issue, is that while that does make sense, sometimes typos occur (which is what happened in my case).

I just feel as though you're wrapping yourself too much around the grammar, and technical stuff, and not enough around the roleplaying that's happening. I;ve read through the other battles, and noticed that you didn't really comment on how well any of the played their characters. Nor did you seem to make any comments about any of their methods in the battles.

Basically, I'm saying that I think that you're looking at the battles through a VERY narrow window of judgment, that doesn't take the entire spectrum of what roleplaying is into account.

 

Yes, but you can't just make decisions of who should win the battle from the RPing perspective based upon prior knowledge of the peoples' skills. You have to look at the situation by the individual battles, and really pick apart their writing and their roleplaying, because when it comes down to it, a roleplayer is a writer, but a writer is not a roleplayer, a truth that I have fallen into defeats for on multiple occasions.

Being that these are battles, it is necessary to look more deeply into the roleplaying aspect of it, and determine who was utilizing their character to a higher degree, and who was putting forth a greater amount of effort into their techniques.

I guess it really comes down to this:

Is a per son who is a good writer, but a not so good RPer >, or <, or = someone who is a decent writer, but a skilled RPer?

Now, in my own defense, which I will do only to prove my point, and nothing else, as your decision is still the law, and I respect what you're trying to do, I feel that your judgment is somewhat moot in this case. After seeing your reason for docking my point, I looked up the term that I used, which was a mere order of words mix up by your analysis, and found that what I had written in made as much sense as what you said should have been put in. And as it stood, moogle had been able to understand what had happened despite what you had pointed out.

I don't mind losing, I've spent most of my time RPing losing, or sometimes, not even concluding battles. But I've only ever lost on the basis of my roleplaying ability, not my writing ability. What I do mind, is when my loss comes down to things that are minuscule, and in the long run of the battle, inconsequential, as the flow of things was not disrupted. And when you look at it, I also put out more upon the page than both of my opponents did in this first wave of posting, and subtly, provided a healthy amount of insight into my character's personal dynamics. Yet as it stands, under your current judging method, a person who has posted such as myself, could lose the battle on the whole on the basis of a small, perceived error, which the roleplayer in me feels is not 100%. (Over 400 words, and someone gets grilled for two of them being "mixed up". A longer post is more likely to have mistakes than a shorter one).

As I've said, what your doing is something that is respectable at its core, but in method, it is being just a bit too overblown. All I'm saying, is that you need to evaluate the net value of each post, considering all factors, not just what grammatical mistakes exist within them.