So You Want to RP at the Cathedral of Light

''Page creator's warning! This article contains swearing, indirect personal attacks, accusations, partial elitism, and rage. Also, this is an ever-increasing work in progress.''

Or, "An Open Letter to Dipshits, Death Knights, Dufuses, Dorks, and Dumbasses: The Cathedral isn't Fight Club"
 * By Devinicus

Let's Be Honest
The Cathedral's turned into a massive pile of shit, there's not a lot of denying that. Personally, I blame death knights, and I'll tell you why. Death knights are inherently fucking awful for the vast majority of the roleplaying population, you are no exception to this rule of likelihood; you probably have a leg up in being a non-tard because you're reading this, but I wouldn't call it a free pass. Let's face it, Klous has a flag here, this wiki does attract people who are less than "winners". Now why, you may have rattling around in that pathetic nugget of fat you call all a brain, ''are death knights such natural atrocities to all things logic and roleplay? Aren't you just being your usual, impossibly judgemental self, Dev?'' Here's the thing, a person who would go through the experiences of a death knight would likely a complex, troubled, yet exceptionally motivated individual. I am by no means saying that every knight would be the same, I am saying, however, that the complexities these characters would possess are beyond the ability of most roleplayers to portray.

Why? Let's face it, the "skill" of roleplaying is built upon the skill of writing, what do most people the age of the average World of Warcraft player have to draw upon as inspiration? Well, ask yourself what the two most popular current literary "works" of that generations time are and you'll likely have your answer. If you thought Harry Potter and Twilight, you're on the same track I am. Both of these series present one-dimensional characters in very one-dimensional environments undergoing very one-dimensional events, one of them is portrayed with some technical ability, the other isn't (I'll let you guess which is which).

There's no reason to expect the average schlub roleplayer to have any comprehension of how to portray complexity, much less more advanced concepts that actually mitigate the inherent power over others that a death knight has (particularly Hamartia. In effect, you have this colossal influx of inherently complex, difficult-to-portray characters being played by, well, people who are either ignorant or wholly stupid (you know who they are).  This is why the death knight is the bane of roleplay right now.