Vae Soli

[Grymli]

In line with the ‘miniskirt rule to posting’, I’ll try to make this just long enough to cover what’s important while keeping it short enough to remain interesting.

Does Turbine want us in guilds? Of course they do. Social connectedness is vital to the process of building a player base. If you think airship buffs and minimum-guild-level gear isn’t designed to encourage you to join, you're kidding yourself.

Vae Soli ("Woe to him who is alone") is a guild for people who don't want to be in one… but are tired of recruitment spam and seeing gear they can't use. We won't use guild chat (please don’t even say hello), we will not plan guild quests or raids, and there will be no site on which to socialize and get to 'know one another'. I have enough RL friends… and, besides, I'm here to play DDO… not meet blokes pretending they're lonely fifteen-year-old girls.

Because we offer no help or advice, and to make membership even less attractive, you'll need a 13th-level-or-higher toon to join... by way of proving you're at least somewhat experienced.

Vae Soli is not just for soloists. I enjoy a good PUG as much as any bloke. It’s for anyone ready to find their own answers. It’s for everyone striving to be the best they can be and proud they did it without hand-outs. We’re not building a social network… just a tag that declares our independence and style of play.

Anyone interested? Anyone at all? Post below or mail Grymace with a list of all names that need an invitation.

Cheers to anyone still reading!

Grym

P.S. I get this sinking feeling this is going to be a very exclusive guild... and by exclusive I mean I'll be the only member. What the heck. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[transtemporal]

lol

[Cardtrick]

Heh, I know you're going to get mocked for this, but I totally understand. I enjoy PUGing, but the idea of being in a real guild rubs me the wrong way; I don't like the idea of having long-term responsibilities to a group of people in a game I play in my spare time. If I were on Argo I might join. (I've leveled my private guild on Cannith up to 20 so I can use the guild vendors and an airship without having to be in a "real" guild.)

[Grymli]

Thanks for the kind words.

I'm not worried about mockery. This post is sufficiently tongue-in-cheek that anyone taking it too seriously will say more about themselves than me. Besides, I think there is room for a "tag guild" declaring nonsupport for the guild system. Some of the best players I've met are pretty much soloists. I'd rather be associated with them.

Cheers from Argo!

[transtemporal]

That was more of a "shaking my head at the idea lol" rather than a "laughing at you lol" btw.

[Grymli]

I try to assume the best... so took no insult from your post. As far as I could tell you were amused by one of my many very funny jokes

Cheers.