Our guild chugs a +6 Pack of Awesomesauce!

[William_the_Bat]

the Awesomesauce is flowing lately.

Lots of fun guild groups going lately.. I think we'll start to see more guild raids real soon as we get more members past the level 10-12 range and into more interesting territory.

[Drudenfusz]

Looks like the two friends I play DDO most with have joined this guild, so I have to follow.
Will send my application tomorrow, have to play pen & paper D&D today...

[William_the_Bat]

Mmmmmm, awesomesauce!

[williamsond]

At the rate we're getting new members the awesomesauce may have to be rationed to one six pack perweek! If your looking for a guild, apply now before we start running low.

After Dragon slaying in VoN last week, we're moving on to new pastures and will be running The DQ raid in the Desert this saturday. Apply now get yourself flagged and come join in the Unrepentant fun.

check us out at www.unrepentantgaming.org

[William_the_Bat]

Guild renown is fun, and is a visible indication of our awesomesauce.

But we'll never load up with any old annoying playground reject (Student does not work and play well with others) just to up our numbers.

If you are looking for a casual gaming guild that brings the awesomesauce without turning members into numbers you might check out http://www.unrepentantgaming.org/

We do have an application process. We don't care what kind of character you play, or what kind of equipment you have, or how many hours you can raid. All we care about is that our guild members are fun to hang out with. That and your zombie plan. The zombie plan can be a deal-breaker.

[williamsond]

If you are looking for a casual social gaming guild that brings the awesome check us out at http://www.unrepentantgaming.org/

join us.....

[TitanIapetus]

I have no idea what these guys are talking bout. Here in the Unrepentant we're all about zerging quests getting sweet loot/renown and using this to impress the ladies. So if you're not down with that then we ain't down wit you!

[Internetisrsbsn]

Are you going to be around for 2 more years? I'm just wondering because I will be 18 in about 2 years. Lol.

[William_the_Bat]

The awesomesauce is about to take flight! (guild level 19 so far)

[Romak]

I just received my complimentary case of Awesomesauce, and I can tell you this stuff is great!
I put it on hamburgers, scrambled eggs, steak, my wife, chicken and even in my soup. You just can't beat that taste!

[Menethenes]

Just thought Id stop by and say hello.

Im a returning player to DDO. I played briefly back in 2007, and have just decided to give it a whirl again. My GF and I have just made newb characters and are getting a feel for the game. I have a few old characters such as a level 8 cleric and a 3/2 ranger/thief, GF is fresh out of the gate.

I was wondering if you nutcases have room for a couple of experienced mmo players? Ive pretty much forgotten most about this game and my GF has never played it, but we're excited and enthusiastic to play again, like a pair of eager puppies (potty trained, dont worry).

Sound like a fit to you? Wed like to know more about you too. I'll do the forum thing as well and post there at some point, just wanted to get a feel for your current needs.

[mrdexter]

Are you going to be around for 2 more years? I

Of course, we'll save you some awesomesauce :-)

Just thought Id stop by and say hello.

I was wondering if you nutcases have room for a couple of experienced mmo players? Ive pretty much forgotten most about this game and my GF has never played it, but we're excited and enthusiastic to play again, like a pair of eager puppies (potty trained, dont worry).

Sound like a fit to you? Wed like to know more about you too. I'll do the forum thing as well and post there at some point, just wanted to get a feel for your current needs.

I had massed about 20 hours play time when I joined and I fit in well, they only rib my noobness on Wednesdays, and they always save me some awesomesauce.

I went from a very casual player once per week to playing several times a week, and even if not grouping with guildies there is always someone on vent to ask questions of, abuse and make fun of in that order.

[William_the_Bat]

We're pretty casual as far as it goes.. we do require you to put in an application our our website at

http://www.unrepentantgaming.org/

Why do you have to put in an application to join an online guild?

We really don't care about what type of character you play, or how powerful they are, or how many hours you can play, or how much you know about DDO (or any other game, it's a multi-gaming community)

We just want people that are going to be fun to hang out with, and who can commit to the grueling and demanding task of filling out an application online.

And make sure you don't skimp on the part about your zombie plan. We take that very seriously.

Also, look us up on the "who" tab of the social panel (the O button). The guild name is "The Unrepentant". If you see someone with "bat" in their name, it's me.

[William_the_Bat]

Oh yeah, and

WE GOT AN AIRSHIP!!!!

Now I can hang out on the Trapfinder and enjoy a glowing blue vial while beating on a training dummy!

[DaoJones]

Of course, the first things we put in the Trapfinder (our airship) were a designated driver (Navigator), a bar, and a priest.

[Menethenes]

Well... My GF and I spent some time checking out your forums, especially the "rejected apps" section. Wow.. for a guild that spends so much time saying how laid back, casual and fun you are, you guys sure are picky!

We saw a lot of really positive comments about your guild on the DDO forums, and our initial thought was.. COOL. A really relaxed cool guild!

We were going to spend some time posting some great apps ourselves, but after reading your forums for a while and seeing how hard folks worked to get invited, we just thought, why bother? My girlfriend and I are, I believe, mature, smart, funny, skilled mmo players, loyal and great fun to hang out with. But we dont feel like we should have to entertain or amuse you just to get a chance to join, and frankly we have no desire to post a bunch of personal information about lurid, crazy events in our lives just to scratch some jaded itch of yours.

Yeah, your application process, especially the way you dug for really personal information, rubbed us the wrong way.

I feel a little dirty now, and not in a good way.

[William_the_Bat]

Sorry to hear you don't like the application process.

For us, the application process helps in several ways.

First, if a person can't articulate well enough to make it through the process, they are probably painful to play with.

Second, if they go all flaming internet rage on us, they probably aren't people we want to hang out with either.

Third, it breaks the ice. After surviving the app process, the new members are more likely to be open and friendly with everyone else who has also survived the process, and vice-versa.

Fourth, after going through all that, we're all just that much more invested in our community.

Fifth, some of the questions make clear some of our expectations, such as asking if you are willing and able to install and use vent for communications.

Generally the people who's apps fail are those who don't try, are unwilling to fix their apps, go flaming internet rage on us, or (rarely) people who's apps are fine but we get in game with them and they are completely obnoxious.

Really, we don't care how embarrassing your embarrassing story is, or even what it revolves around, but we do care that you are willing to share something personal.

It's not about being cool enough to hang out with us, (I assure you, we're just as big of nerds as everyone else playing MMOs) it's about being open and friendly.

It's true that we miss out on some great people who get turned off by the app process... but the end result is a closely-knit group that is friendly, open, and trusting, as well as remarkably low on drama.

These are people I'd love to hang out with over a beer or three and just BS... and the app process gets the ball rolling.

[HuntGod]

I find it questionable that you were "going" to write these stellar apps and were turned off, it seems far more likely you submitted a mediocre app and did not appreciate the peer review that followed.

That said, our app process works and works well, we don't want people that are unwilling to make an effort to be part of our community, skill and gear don't mean much to us, commitment to the community does.

I do want to thank you for posting, it helps to clearly define for anyone reading the thread what we are looking for an what we aren't.

If you perused the rejected apps and were truly aghast at the harsh treatment of those poor innocent folk, then your sensibilities are not what we are looking for. If you instead recognized a community feeling out and then rejecting someone who was obviously unmotivated to take the effort to join, then maybe you are.

Either way, this is another example of our app process functioning as intended, it prevented you from wasting either our time or yours by pledging to a community that obviously does not share your perspectives.

Have a good life...see you in game.

[DaoJones]

Wow.. for a guild that spends so much time saying how laid back, casual and fun you are, you guys sure are picky!

Yeah. Letting in any knucklehead that wants to be in is a great way to ruin the awesome atmosphere we maintain in The U. As we like to say: the only thing we're *not* casual about is our application process. Keeping the bar high ensures we only get interesting, articulate people, which is exactly what we want.

[We were going to spend some time posting some great apps ourselves, but after reading your forums for a while and seeing how hard folks worked to get invited, we just thought, why bother?

Translation: we probably aren't capable of making ourselves sound interesting.

My girlfriend and I are, I believe, mature, smart, funny, skilled mmo players, loyal and great fun to hang out with.

Translation: we probably aren't capable of making ourselves sound interesting.

But we dont feel like we should have to entertain or amuse you just to get a chance to join, and frankly we have no desire to post a bunch of personal information about lurid, crazy events in our lives just to scratch some jaded itch of yours.

Translation: we probably aren't capable of making ourselves sound interesting.

Yeah, your application process, especially the way you dug for really personal information, rubbed us the wrong way.

You'd be surprised how little "personal information" we actually care about, had you really bothered looking.

I feel a little dirty now, and not in a good way.

And that's *exactly* how we like to leave people feeling. Thanks for stopping by!

As I like to say: "those who get it, get in." You didn't get it. No worries. We aren't for everyone*.




*Example: we are not for "not-awesome" people.

[DaoJones]

Sorry for the double post, but I just had to add: how big of a toolbag do you have to be to come in to our recruitment thread and post how much you didn't approve of our application process? Do you go to people's houses and tell them how much you don't like their rugs or wall hangings?

I mean, my god. You have to be just about the most trite, petty, narcissistic person on the planet to feel obligated to come all the way back here to the DDO forums and **** in our thread just because YOU, anonymous internet guy, were most likely rejected by our process.

But thank you all the same, because you serve as an excellent learning experience for other potential members.

New members, heed this well: if you are the kind of pathetic drama-twinkie that would take the time and effort to post a diss of a guild's recruitment process just because YOU personally didn't approve, then you are seriously not the kind of person we are interested in running with.