Ok, here I am again. First a little bit about myself, as Solmyr has already mentioned I’m german (23 years old), those that have read my first AAR “Haus Wettin – Before the Storm (1187)” already know that. When I registered on the forum I did it just because of CK, having been a longtime lurker the game idea really motivated me to overcome my idleness and register, being able to contribute as member of the community to improve it. The mixture of medieval flair and the dynastical RPG like aspect of the game had fascinated me and so it shouldn’t be surprising that I write my AARs with CK. My real name is Lutz, a short form of the german Ludwig btw., but in the forum most know me as “DoS”, which isn’t related to “MS DOS”, but is a short form of my old name “Duke of Saxony” that I registered with. As some might know I have a weakness for red wine, I don’t drink much, but enough that it has an effect. This was also the case when I registered and chose my name, so take redwine, enthusiasm for CK and a little local patriotism (yes, I’m a saxon
) and you get Duke of Saxony
. Since I didn’t plan to stay it didn’t matter, but the longer I stayed the more I noticed that it wasn’t realy suiting especially in OT area where I’m also to be found quite regularly. The most important reason though is, that it made adressing me difficult, some said “Duke” which was Ok, but some said “Saxony” which was strange or would you want to be named “Georgia” or “New York” in an interaction? Addressing someone is important though, because it creates at least a little more personal relationship especially in a normaly impersonal environment as a forum can be. Since the day I have asked Havard to change it, adressing me is much more simple and is also used quite regularly now (admittedly the time I have spend here also has something to do with it certainly) and has helped me quite a lot to feel more comfortable around here. So that’s the answer to the question.
I have several reasons to write AAR’s. First, I have always loved to create stories, when I was still a child I often couldn’t sleep because I had lost myself in some wild adventure in my own mind. Now that I have found a game in a medieval timeframe with so much RPG character and possibilities its an ideal field to productively use this phantasy. As a 7th soon 8th semester Psychology student thinking myself into characters is also probably a part of the fun when writing, but don’t think I consider my AARs as some scientific work they are not, but they do sometimes have a hint of what I do in “real” life. A main reason is also that an AAR allows me to have a direct feedback on my work. I like the interaction between reader and writer, without it I would probably give it up even when seeing that I have many views and if its just one reader who says: “Good work, keep it up.” that is everything I need to keep on going. On a sidenote I want to say something about my english and language in general, since I have received quite positive feedback over the last months, maybe to give those hope that think theirs is not that well or struggle still in school. The first three years I had english in school I had just a mark “4” which in fact means, miserable, but not miserable enough to repeat class. I never till this day understood the explicit rules of grammar, neither in german nor in english so my marks were bad till the day we didn’t have to explain anymore, for implicitly I have learned to use them automaticaly quite well with practice and some talent, but I never could and can explain why I use grammatic rules. Ok, thats it, if there is still a question I will try to answer it, if not its also OK!
I will use this week to search also in the other AAR areas for good writers, we’ll see…